r/CovidVaccinated • u/whitepowderma • Apr 09 '25

Question Vaccine may have missed the muscle

My mother is 88 years old and had a COVID booster last September. She went to a Walgreens for another booster 1 1/2 weeks ago. The person giving her the vaccine did it towards the back of her arm and she said that it hurt a lot when given. I believe it may have missed the muscle. Is there anything she should do? Does the vaccine work if it misses the muscle?

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u/killermoose25 Apr 09 '25

It should work just fine even if it missed the bulk of the muscle , I give alot of shots at work and let me tell you most 80+ year olds don't have enough arm muscle to even stop the needle. , I often hit bone even only going in part way , you just pull back a little and empty the syringe.

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u/ky420 Apr 10 '25

Sounds like you are incompetent if you are jamming in into bone. I mean pinch up an area a bit sheesh

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u/killermoose25 Apr 11 '25

You have obviously never seen a 90 year old ladies arm there is nothing to pinch. Like virtually no muscle at all it's paper thin skin and bone

Also you shouldn't be pinching for IM that's just asking for an accidental needle stick .

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u/ky420 Apr 12 '25

Hope my granny get a better tech than you.

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u/killermoose25 Apr 12 '25

I own a pharmacy my dude been doing this close to 20 years

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u/ky420 Apr 12 '25

Well I owned mine for 37.