I got a flu shot for the 1st time about 10 days ago and since then I've been feeling sort of achy, with a little pain while swallowing. Nothing major, I still go to work each day, but I wondered if anyone else had these symptoms.

This is fairly common

it can happen. keep in mind that they are injecting a small amount of the virus into your system, although it is either dead (flu shot) or somehow paralyzed (flu nasal spray). and, as you said, symptoms are usually milder than the full-blown flu. don't worry, it is a common occurrence

no they can't actually cos it's a killed vaccine.

What you've probably done is caught a cold virus in the waiting room

Oh yes, but it is more mild. Nothing is lovely about the flu any which way you can say it but the flu shot helps not to get it in the worst way. We get the flu shots every year and sometimes it feels achy or ishy feeling but that's about it and it'll go away soon.

Not usually.

Mild flu like symptoms are really the side effects of your body's virus fighting strategies, so itis possible.

yea just like tylenol gives u headaches

No. you probably picked up another strain of flu, or a cold virus while you in the waiting room or Drs office. This is very common.