Did you get a flu shot?

[James48843]

Center for Disease Control says Influenza outbreak is starting.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluactivitysurv.htm

Did you get a flu shot this year?

 

[Buster]

I get the Flu Shot every year and the Pneumonia shot every 5 years.

The year H1N1 became a pandemic..I had just got the flu Shot but it wasn't prepared for this H1N1...two days after the symptoms appeared, I looked like this;

 

[MrBowl]

Already lots of deaths in the SF Bay Area, including a formerly healthy 23 year old male. Me and my 6 year old got the flu shot, but that doesn't give me full confidence that we'll avoid the flu.

 

[nnuut]

I stopped taking Flu shots when I got out of the military in 1969. Too much stuff on the internet that tells me I have no reason to start again.

 

[nnuut]

 

[DreamboatAnnie]

I get the Flu Shot every year and the Pneumonia shot every 5 years.

The year H1N1 became a pandemic..I had just got the flu Shot but it wasn't prepared for this H1N1...two days after the symptoms appeared, I looked like this;

OMGosh..that is absolutely horrid! please don't breathe on me!! :cheesy:

 

[Frixxxx]

I got the flu shot - Still in the military......Still got a strain this year.

 

[sillbeer]

I'll still get it as long as I'm in a drilling status. At least 4 more years of fun for this guy.

 

[Buster]

Getting a Flu shot and then getting the Flu from the shot is bogus and totally impossible......Maybe getting another strain like Frixxx mentioned or I mentioned, because that particular strain is not in the current serum is always a possibility, or a weaker form of what's in the serum vaccine later in the season...There is a lot of bogus myths about the Flu shot vaccine and people are chancing getting the really bad case of the Flu and spreading it without the the shot...Because the Vaccine is what it is, a VACCINE and helps your body build natural antibodies to fight off the Virus...Smallpox, Tetanus, Rabies, Polio, etc., would have wiped out the human race had it not been for vaccines...

 

[Cactus]

I got the flu shot - Still in the military......Still got a strain this year.

Do they still only give the shots on Fridays? I always wondered about that -- why not have it spread out through the week? It's like they want you to get sick on the weekend. But the most I ever saw were slight fevers.

 

[PLANO]

I got it a couple months ago and my whole family gets it every year with no problems, and no flu in years. We've already had over 20 deaths this year from the flu just in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area.

 

[Frixxxx]

Do they still only give the shots on Fridays? I always wondered about that -- why not have it spread out through the week? It's like they want you to get sick on the weekend. But the most I ever saw were slight fevers.

As an Air Force Reservist, I'm at the mercy of availablity. Since the Air Force (Active Duty) had an issue with supply, I was at the mercy of getting it through my civilian employer (Navy) when they offered shots on the base.

I never felt ill after the shot back in October. I did this weekend, get a pain in my lungs, started coughing and felt miserable all day yesterday. I'm on Dayquil today and my coughing has stopped. I might be worse off if I had no vaccination.

However, I did get notice of an ulcer this past week and am waiting for an appointment with a gastroenterologist to see if I will need surgery. Maybe my weakened state caused my reaction to whatever got into my system? I probably will always get the vaccination even when it isn't required.

 

[Buster]

I never felt ill after the shot back in October. I did this weekend, get a pain in my lungs, started coughing and felt miserable all day yesterday. I'm on Dayquil today and my coughing has stopped. I might be worse off if I had no vaccination.

However, I did get notice of an ulcer this past week and am waiting for an appointment with a gastroenterologist to see if I will need surgery. Maybe my weakened state caused my reaction to whatever got into my system? I probably will always get the vaccination even when it isn't required.

Hope your belly problems will go away.......are you stressed about anything?

 

[Frixxxx]

Hope your belly problems will go away.......are you stressed about anything?

Not anymore than normal......but, I may have to stop drinking wine on a constant basis.

 

[nasa1974]

The wife and I have never gotten the flu shot and I can't recall the last time we were really sick. But we have been discussing it since our older daughter is due any day now with our first grandchild.

 

[Cactus]

Ouch, hope you don't need surgery. Here's hoping you can get by with diet and medication.

 

[Cactus]

nasa, my wife got really sick for three weeks in 1999-2000. Since then I heed her advice to diligently wash my hands after certain activities, like reading library books for example. That has made the largest difference for us in not getting sick that often or that bad since. Some people think we are wierd having bottles of waterless hand sanitizer in the car for shopping trips, but it works for us.

 

[wavecoder]

 

[nnuut]

The Flu shot is the only one I avoid, I take the rest just don't trust it.

 

[Khotso]

The Flu shot is the only one I avoid, I take the rest just don't trust it.

Me either.

BE AWARE: My oldest son came down with something called Guillanne-Barre Syndrome(GBS) in 1993 following a very mild flu. He ended up basically paralyzed for about 2 months and it took him a year plus to recover. I also personally know 2 adults who got GBS within days of getting a flu shot. GBS is very life threatening. At the time my son came down with it the only things modern medicine new about causation was that there was a significantly higher occurrence among people who had just had the flu or had just given childbirth.

Having experienced GBS, my family and I religiously opts out of flu shots.