Flu Shots

WildEd

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After spending 6 days flat of my back and trying to stay out of the hospital I may reconsider taking flu shots. I just wondered how many of you take the shots? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
I've had one in the last 20 years and I didn't get the flu,,, but then I didn't get the flu the other 18...only had it once.

I just try to stay away from other people during the flu season....especially anyone that is sneezing or coughing.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I have had the flu a few times in the past. Felt like I was gonna die. Then, about 12 years ago I started getting the shots. Haven't had worse than a 2-3 day cold since then. Flu shots are definitely worth the $15, if you don't have insurance that'll cover it.
 
i have a flu shot every year, cause i work in an ambulance, and don't have much choice over who i meet, or what kind of crap weather I go out into.

still doesn't help with your basic cold, which is most of what's out there. I'm just getting over a cold that lasted about 2 weeks. still 2 others i work with had it a LOT worse then me, and were laid up in bed for 3 - 4 days with it.
 
no flu shot for me!! i"ve had two . the first one put me in bed for 24 hr. the second put me in a deep depression . i sat in my work truck in front of my house for 5 hrs. the wife and kids would come out and try to get me to come in and i would tell them to leave me alone!!!!! i was close to suicide!! never felt like that before or since. doc. asked if i was allergic to eggs? i'm not! will not try another shot. and havn't had the flu.
 
i've had the Flu Mist a couple times. They just put it in your nose. It is different as a live virus. Young and old and weak can't get it. Seemed like colds & flu have been gone since.
 
I got both the flu and pneumonia shot this Fall, no side effects at all. This is my first year to get them. Last winter I had a terrible case of the flu and pneumonia and pleurisy. I don't want to go through that again.

Of course, the shots are no guarantee you won't get it. they only protect you from the expected strain.

Jack
 
I never used to get them, and would usually have some sort of nagging cold or respiratory congestion during the winter. I walked by the flu shot room at work when they had them this year, and no waiting. I went in and got it, and have been perfectly healthy this winter despite having two young children passing several illnesses around the house.

I know colds and flu should have different causes, so maybe it's a coincidence. But, I'll keep getting them until I have a reason not to, that's for sure.
 
We get them free at work and I've been getting one for years. I would way sooner risk the shot than have the real full blown flu. Like Jack said, they try to give you the shot for the expected strain and sometimes they guess wrong.
 
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In 61 years I have had one flu shot, and a few weeks later I got the flu. Not for me!



Greg, it wasn't the vaccine's fault. You got the shot too late. The vaccine doesn't protect you as soon as you get it. It takes a few weeks for your body to use it to build up enough antibodies to give you immunity.

The same is true with the flu virus. It takes about 10 days after exposure before you start to show symptoms.

In all likelyhood, you were exposed to the virus before you got the shot. In that case the shot couldn't help you at all.

That is the reason to get the flu shot as soon as they become available each year. Get the shot before the flu season strikes your town. Get it early enough to build up your immunity. The shot won't help if you already have the flu.
 
Never had the shot, but I've had the flu a number of times. I almost died in the early 70's from a particularly bad strain that was going around. My fever got so high it discolored my teeth.
 
Weas, were you at the time taking high doses of Tetracycline? That antibiotic has a history of staining teeth. My next to the youngest had to have all her teeth crowned because it was all the way through the porcelain.
 
Flu shots are a big pharma scam.

There are 100 variations of the flu out there and the shots are only made to counter 2-4 of them. They base which ones to counter on some guess work by big brains back at that shop. Most years the variation of the flu that is going around isn't even the one the shot is designed to tackle.

Translation: flu shot does absolutely nothing but put $$ into the pocket of big pharma.

When I was in the military, they used to require us to get the shot. Every time I got it I got sick as a dog and couldn't even function. I went on sick call and complained and was told flatly "this is a dead virus shot, it cannot make you sick". To which I replied "well maybe the virus isn't making me sick but something in that [beeep] shot is".

Once I was done with the military I was also done with the shot. A wouldn't you know it, I didn't end up laid out with some make believe illness ever again.

If big pharma says I need it, I avoid it like the plaque.
 


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