[AlaskaAngel]

I just had my flu and Pneumovax injections too and wondered whether I should or not. I worry about whether or not the inflammation response that occurs with vaccination is a problem of any significance. I don't understand well enough whether it is more important for a person who has had cancer to avoid the inflammation that comes with vaccines, or if the vaccine is more important. My thought was to take an anti-inflammatory (especially since my arm hurt from getting both shots in the same arm quite a lot). But then I wondered whether the inflammation response is necessary for some length of time for the vaccine to be fully effective?

Obviously what I don't know about this is greater than what I do know!

So.... I let the vaccine work its stuff until my arm felt so painful that I was awake at 2 AM unable to sleep before caving in and taking an 81-mg aspirin.... and then 2 hours later, another one.

Do any of those who are in the vaccine programs for HER2 know whether taking an anti-inflammatory is a better or worse thing to do when getting vaccinated for someone who has had cancer?

AlaskaAngel

P.S. Isn't it sad that something so universally important as the question that is being asked here about whether the immune system is permanently damaged by treatment is not clearly explained to us prior to treatment, after so many years of masses of humans going through the treatments?