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Stood on rusty thumb tack - would you get a tetanus injection?
Hi All,
I was cleaning my house and I stood on a rusty thumb tack, it was inside but rusty. I haven’t had a booster since I’ve been immunised as a child. I’ve had all 5 tetanus injections. I have a huge fear of vaccines. So I’m curious would you get a booster? It didn’t go very far in and left a small dent in my foot, it didn’t bleed but I then scraped it open with a sterile needle to get anything out that might have been in it , that made it bleed. I’ve had many cuts and scrapes outside in the garden and never thought about tetanus, no idea why this is such a big deal to me but I guess it’s because it was rusty. I’ve got twitches all over my body but I’ve had them forever, so assuming it’s not Tetanus, need to go to Dr tomorrow for injection or not. I’d rather not but I want to know what others would do. Inside, rusty thumb tack – very small wound. Not asking for medical advise, just… would you even think about tetanus or just continue on as normal?
Two of my friends are Dr’s they have said ‘very low possibility’ don’t worry about it -but my Dr has said ‘oh yes of course you need one!’ – again I don’t want the vaccine!
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