Hi Sue. I don't know where you live but we live outside Houston in what used to be a small town. We have several Kroger grocery stores, several HEB grocery stores and other stores like Aldi's. Kroger and HEB have pharmacies and we routinely go to Kroger for our vaccine injections. When we lived in PA we went to the pharmacy in the Giant grocery stores in the nearby really small town. We have always been impressed that the pharmacists who gave the injections were so good at it and that we had minimal pain, really hardly felt it at all. Perhaps your pharmacist hasn't had the proper training, doesn't use the correct size needles (they have gotten finer and finer). It is so convenient to not have to make an appointment with the doctor's office and not have to sit there waiting in a room with people who are sick. If you have any chain grocery stores I would recommend you try their pharmacists.