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[NuclearDem]

1. I got mine five years ago and I can still see it.

Just a little ways down my left arm from my shoulder.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Five years ago?

Huh?

[NuclearDem]

6. Military. It was required for deployment.

[Cali_Democrat]

9. Oh wow...I didn't know that

learn something new every day...

[Quackers]

42. Same here. Got it in 2009

They kept poking you with that little needle, over and over again. I have a half sleeve tattoo covering mine now.

[gopiscrap]

2. I got mine in 1961

and can still see it.

[Go Vols]

3. mine is gone too.

Seems last I remember it was 20-30 years ago.

[Yo_Mama]

5. Mine's gone. Had it for many decades.

Is this a trick to get fools like me to concede how old they are?

[KMOD]

36. If it is, I outed myself as well.

[Yo_Mama]

39. The shame, the shame!!! We be such old farts that our smallpox vax scars have faded!

I know I had it for at least 30 years. I'm somewhat certain that I had it for almost 40.

I had started taking Vitamin E and eating a lot of peppers for other reasons, including the fact that I love peppers. However I noticed that a side effect is that old scars just fade out and disappear.

[Thor_MN]

7. I can no longer find mine.

Don't know if that is due to my eyes or fading of the scar, maybe both.

[uppityperson]

8. Most my old scars are now hidden in my wrinkles.

[KMOD]

37. ....

snort.

[ChosenUnWisely]

10. I have gotten a few of them never left a scar

Some people are just luckier then others when it comes to that.

Don't know why I am not a Dr but have been know to impersonate one on occasion.

Do people really care that much about it?

Is it a way to now discriminate or something?

Perhaps it is a way to identify those who are good to eat when the aliens return?

OK perhaps you are stoned or something or am I?

[madamvlb]

11. Mine has never faded...wear it proudly on upper left arm.

[Skittles]

12. I can still see mine

but it has definitely faded over the decades

[Glassunion]

13. Yes

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

14. Never really got one.

I think there was a point in time where most states switched how it was administered, and the newer way doesn't leave a scar to begin with. My sister is 6 or 7 years older, and got the scarring version.

[11 Bravo]

15. Hadn't thought about it for years, but I just checked. Mine's gone.

[OKNancy]

16. Got mine in the early 1950s and I have no idea if it can be seen or not

I guess I could look. My doctor put it on my upper left shoulder. He told mom that since I was a girl, he put it there so it wouldn't show when I word short sleeves.

[Demit]

26. My mom got the doc to put it on my thigh, same thought process.

[KMOD]

17. I'm actually relieved that I'm not the only one, for some strange reason.

I actually kind of miss having it.

I just thought it was weird that it disappeared.

[winter is coming]

18. Never really had much of one.

I have faint indentations, but not the central white scarred-looking area.

[seveneyes]

19. Scar

He left a card, a bar of soap and a scrubbing brush next to a note
That said "use these down to your bones"
And before I knew I had shiny skin and it felt easy being clean like him
I thought "this one knows better than I do"

[Hell Hath No Fury]

20. Just barely there.

I only found it because I knew where to look. Mom 82 Mom's scar is still very visible.

[Arkansas Granny]

21. I still have the scar from mine in 1956.

It wasn't actually a shot. The nurse used something sharp to scratch the skin and then put a couple drops of something on the scratch and covered it with a bandwidth.

[MineralMan]

22. Left arm, about half an inch around.

Don't scratch that, my mom said. I scratched at it. It itched. So I got a good scar.

[Aristus]

23. Mine is very faint.

But it's still there.

[Cleita]

24. I never got one yet I was vaccinated five times because the countries

I was entering insisted on it, because I didn't have a scar, and wouldn't accept certificates from previous vaccinations. Go figure.

[spin]

32. I also have had a number of smallpox vaccinations but I have no scar. ...

Perhaps we are naturally immune to cowpox and therefore smallpox.

[Cleita]

49. Maybe genetic?

I don't remember my dad having a scar either and I know he was vaccinated because he went to all the same places as me.

[spin]

56. I would imagine that may well be the case. ...

I never thought about that at the time when I was being vaccinated and unfortunately both my parents are now dead.

[alphafemale]

25. Very hard to see on some skin types, But I'll bet you can still feel it if you try.

Skin will be noticeably thinner and it will be more sensitive.

Now imagine having those all over you body.

Edit Skin not Skim

[malaise]

27. Mine disappeared completely

We used to swim a lot and spend loads of time in the sun.

[City Lights]

28. I still have mine. nt

[F4lconF16]

29. I had no idea vaccines cause scars...

Tells you how old I am. None of mine ever gave me a scar as far as I know. I'll check on that later

Should really get a copy of my immunization record now that I live on my own, too... Thanks for the unintentional reminder!

[KMOD]

35. As far as I know, the smallpox vaccine was the only one that caused a scar.

It's a very good idea to get your immunization records for your own safe keeping now. Also your birth certificate, and your social security card.

Keep them someplace secure though.

Our 4th bedroom was used as an office until I had my third child. I made the mistake of leaving the filing cabinet in the closet. When my youngest was 2 or 3, she managed to open the filing cabinet and took out my husband's original birth certificate from the vital records file, and scribbled in purple crayon all over the thing.

[3catwoman3]

52. The technique of the smallpox innoculation was/is different from all the rest.

Some nasty looking green stuff would be smeared on your upper arm, and then a needle was poked into it several times to push the thick liquid into the skin surface. It would scab, about a half an inch in diameterand the scab would eventually slough off. You were constantly told, "Don't touch it. Don't scratch it!!!" That was really hard because they itched like hell.

[Old Codger]

30. Mine

had the vaccination twice now and no scar from either one

[spin]

31. I was vaccinated several times in elementary school ...

as I never developed a scar. The school insisted I get another shot and that too did nothing, As I remember I had at least 3 vaccinations, possibly four. I also was probably vaccinated against small pox when I enter the service but I never developed a fever or got a scar.

I once asked a doctor about this and he said I might have a natural immunity against smallpox.

[TwilightGardener]

33. I'm 45--can still see mine clearly.

[2naSalit]

34. Have one on each arm, both quite visible...

got them both prior to 1960.

[GeorgeGist]

38. Got mine in 1970 ...

it's long gone.

[Blue_In_AK]

40. I can't see mine.

My doctor put it on my back, roughly where my bra strap goes.

[Staph]

41. I suspect mine is more than 50 years old.

It is still visible. Barely. In good light. With my glasses on.

[Tom_Foolery]

43. Over 50 years ago...

Still very visible. About 20 years ago, I was working with a young man who kept looking at my left arm. He finally asked me how I got the scar. I had to explain the whole thing to him. He'd never heard about it.

[snpsmom]

44. Both of mine

are still visible.

[hunter]

45. I've got a pretty deep smallpox vaccine scar.

One of my great grandmothers survived smallpox, a sibling of hers did not.

My chickenpox scars, a few in my mouth, and on my genitals, they pale in comparison. The rest don't matter.

My mom had the sort of shingles, a recurrence of chickenpox, that doctors automatically prescribe powerful opiates for.

My own kids suffered chicken pox just a few months before the vaccine was released. Fortunately, not as bad as I did. Pox on your eyelids, dick, or asshole hurt like bloody hell, let me tell you.

My mumps story is even worse.

[demosincebirth]

46. I was looking for mine, yesterday, and I couldn't find it. I got mine in the fifties.

[REP]

47. Mine faded; I heal well

[gladium et scutum]

48. Got the small pox shot

in the late fifties. Still have the scar on my left arm

[MohRokTah]

50. I have two.

One from childhood and a second from the army.

I've covered them up with tattoos. Neither is noticeable, but I can still find them.

[dflprincess]

51. I had mine on my thigh

it isn't so much that it's faded as much as it's been stretched beyond recognition. I can still see a couple pock marks from it but only because I know where to look. <sigh>

[onecaliberal]

53. I can still see mine.

[cwydro]

54. I can't see mine anymore.

But my eyes aren't so good either lol.

But I know exactly where it was. Never will I forget that ugly scab.

I also remember my mother explaining the purpose of the vaccine.

[Greybnk48]

55. I have always had trouble locating mine.

A nurse would always find it during physicals, but it is very faint. My dad's was a quarter sized scar; really obvious.

[pipi_k]

57. Still there since

About 1957

Also, I nearly poked my eye out with a sharp pencil at the age of 3 or so (1955). That scar is still on my right eyelid

Lots of scars gotten over the years

[KMOD]

61. Ouch!!! I can sympathize

I was hit full swing with a golf club at age 5ish or so, and it made a direct hit to the bone on the left side of my left eye. We were 50 miles or so from the nearest hospital, but my mom's friend was a nurse and did a helluva job with a butterfly.

I just checked the mirror, and I think I might see a very tiny white speck where the scar should be, but I'm not sure.

It seems most of my many scars I have acquired through the years have either faded or disappeared completely.

No such luck with the pregnancy stretch marks, however.

[mcar]

58. Mine is long gone

Born in 1958.

[ladyVet]

69. Same here. Still have other scars, though. And stretch marks. :( nt

[area51]

59. Still got mine. n/t

[cyberswede]

60. My older siblings received their vaccinations on their thighs...

my little sister and I received ours on our upper arm/shoulder. I'll look for my scar later when I put on my jammies .

[jberryhill]

62. Happened to my first wife

She disappeared with the scar.

[Kalidurga]

63. Mine disappeared, I miss it.

I don't know why, but it was somewhat of a comfort seeing that old scar. I wish there was a way to get it back.

[truebrit71]

64. Mine is very faint....

... but then again I had the shot s very long time ago....

[leanforward]

65. Smallpox scars do go away

Mine did. In the very early 70s, the pediatricians stopped vaccinating because more died from the vaccination than from smallpox. I can sympathize with parents who opt out of a vaccine or a vaccination, but you've got to think of the greater good. What if your child catches it from someone else? Do you want your child infecting someone else's child? I'm for vaccines and vaccinations. Sorry. As a military brat, I've had them all.

[In_The_Wind]

67. Mine seems to be missing also.

[Ron Obvious]

68. I can still find mine but it's very small

It's on my thigh, and it's just a tiny asterisk now. My father's, on the other hand, grew bigger and bigger on his left arm. Odd, that.

[GreyGhost47]

70. Still have mine!

I can still see mine on my upper left arm about the size of a dime and I wear it with pride!
I got my first one in 1953 right before I entered school. I remember at times the school nurse checking our arms
to make sure we had the scar. According to my records, I got a booster in 1959. If I remember correctly
the doctor used a lancet like thing to scratch my arm. I know the 'bifurcated' needle didn't come out 'til 1961. Most of
us got our vax on our left arm but a friend of mine got hers on her back and my Mom's was on her thigh.

In 1956, we got the Salk polio vaccine shots. By junior high, the Sabin oral vaccine had come out - the 'new
and improved" vaccine - so in 1962 we lined up at different schools across town on Sundays to get our
vaccine on sugar cubes.

In 2003 I volunteered for a research clinical trial testing the new smallpox vaccine. They used the bifurcated
needle and poked my left arm beside where my other scar is. It didn't really hurt so much as it itched like
crazy for about a week or two. I have another scar to show for that.