So at Desmond’s 12 month well baby check up we went ahead and let him get his DTaP, he is on a delayed vaccination schedule, because we really don’t want to be putting a ton of toxin’s in his body every time he is due for shots so we don’t do more then 2 shots a visit, 1 if it is a combo shot like the DTaP. So he got his 6 month DTaP at 12 months (the third on in the series). It had a hard bump and swelled up the next day, which we didn’t worry too much about, since it is a listed side effect of the shot, and when I get my DTP I get the same reaction. However, we were a bit concerned when after a month we noticed the hard spot in his thigh was still there. Anyways yesterday 2 months after the shot we noticed it had a raised bump at the injection site again.

Okay that just doesn’t seem right, we’ll call the doctor’s office on Monday. So Dan called today, apparently nope it is still just a minor side effect of the shot, the lump can linger in the leg for months and up to a year even. Okay call me crazy, but a hard lump in my son’s thigh as a reaction to a shot for over 2 months and that can potentially linger for a year just doesn’t seem like a “minor side effect” to me.

I am not sure I really want to get him the next shot in the series after this, we probably will because it was one of the shots on our original list of important shots, but you know the whole 2 months to a year before the lump goes away thing really makes me kind of leery of giving him the next shot in the series, since what happens if he has a more severe reaction, because a lump in the leg for 2+ months just doesn’t seem minor to me. On the plus side I don’t have to worry about it for his July appointment since we are doing the Polio and Prevnar shots then which will catch him up to 12 months, but I will need to decide what I want to do by October when he has his 18 month check up since that would be when he would get the 15 month DTaP since we would be basically caught up then with the shots we are getting him and not delaying or refusing.

I am not really happy with the whole minor reaction is a lump in his thigh that can linger for months.

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