Flu Vaccine This Year

pirate_girl · Nov 10, 2011

I have always been adamant that when one gets the flu shot, it doesn't cause the flu.
(well, it doesn't)..
However.. I got mine recently (3 days ago) and since have been slowly going down.. down.. down.. :hammer:

Last year, I had what I consider to have been some sort of reaction.. but whatever..
grrrrrrr
Time to hop under the covers and get warm and see how I feel tomorrow.
:neutral:

muleman · Nov 10, 2011

I got the first one I ever had a few weeks ago and it knocked me down for almost a week. I ended up going to the doc's and she gave me an script for something to finally get over it.

300 H and H · Nov 10, 2011

You two aren't doing much for the rest of us yet to have taken the shot. I have taken them before and I intended to again this year, but.......

Regards, Kirk

Enceladus · Nov 10, 2011

I have always been adamant that when one gets the flu shot, it doesn't cause the flu.
(well, it doesn't)..
However.. I got mine recently (3 days ago) and since have been slowly going down.. down.. down..
Last year, I had what I consider to have been some sort of reaction.. but whatever..
grrrrrrr
Time to hop under the covers and get warm and see how I feel tomorrow.

I have been getting flu shots for at least ten years and this year was the first one that got me down some, but I got the Pneumonia at the same time. Have not had the flu in ten years either.

Too bad they still do not have one for colds.

Hope you feel better soon.

NorthernRedneck · Nov 10, 2011

I got mine at work a few weeks ago.(we have a nurse at the office) It was alright. No adverse reactions. No real side effects. Got my son done as well. He was ok with it too.

EastTexFrank · Nov 11, 2011

Sorry to hear that you feel poorly.

I got mine about 3 weeks ago.

I ran into the wife of a friend the other day and I asked her how the ol' man was doing because I hadn't seen him in a while. She said that he was in rehab. He gets a flue shot every year but it seems that this year he had a reaction to it. I can't remember what she called it but he started suffering from loss of balance and paralysis in his legs. He spent 10 days in the hospital and now has to rehab to learn how to walk again. I'd never heard of such a thing.

SShepherd · Nov 11, 2011

I or my wife have ever had the shot..

I had the flu about 2 years ago, 3 days and I was better.

fogtender · Nov 11, 2011

Last flu shot I got in about 2001, was eating lunch and the Base PA came in and gave us all the shots. Within a few min's my whole right side of my face drooped like I was having a stroke. It was Bells Palsy, last shot for the flu I will ever have!

Never seem to stop me from getting the flu, take Vit. C now and flu has been short and mild!

Big Dog · Nov 11, 2011

Got mine a few weeks ago and I got a 3 day cold; sore throat, congestion, and sniffles.

JEV · Nov 11, 2011

Fuck that establishment poison. I was forced to get them in the Air Force, and got sick each and every time. I get the flu about once every two to three years, and withing 3-5 days it's over.
If the gubmit promotes it, I don't want anything to do with it. They're tring to kill the old people off with their poison so they don't have to pay so much unsociable security.

pirate_girl · Nov 11, 2011

Last night my temp spiked to 102.1.
Throat felt like I was inhaling fire, dry cough. inner ears very painful, swollen gland on left side, upset stomach, aching lower back, slight nasal drip, dull headache.
NO appetite at all.
Been drinking copious amounts of water and hot tea, taking Aleve for discomfort.
The worst part of today has been the headache and fatigue.
The way I feel about it right now, I seriously doubt I'll get the flu vaccine again.
This thing officially whipped my ass 12 ways.

jwstewar · Nov 11, 2011

This thread isn't making me feel very comfortable. Monica and I both had our shots yesterday at my work.....so far we are both feeling OK. :whistling:

pirate_girl · Nov 11, 2011

jwstewar said:
This thread isn't making me feel very comfortable. Monica and I both had our shots yesterday at my work.....so far we are both feeling OK.

Well I hope you continue to Jim.
I felt fine too for a couple of days, then thought a simple cold was coming on until, wham.

Enceladus · Nov 11, 2011

I only got sick the one time and it was all that bad. and have been getting them ten years, and never have gotten the flu since!

NorthernRedneck · Nov 13, 2011

Ok...I had the shot a few weeks ago now. Woke up this morning with a fever, sore, stomach, and the runs...WTF Gives???

muleman · Nov 13, 2011

It takes longer for the germs they inject into you to work in the cold Canadian air! :clap:

pirate_girl · Nov 13, 2011

Awww Brian!
Sorry to hear that.
If it's been 2 weeks, I don't know..

rlk · Nov 13, 2011

Wife and I had the flu shot about 3 weeks ago. No problems for us so far.

Bob

luvs · Nov 13, 2011

i wouldn't get them for years- i despise being ill & was scared of getting ill from the vaccine.
now i get 'em & haven't gotten symptoms before, thank goodness) though the doctors/nurses that administer them usually say u can have mild flu-like symptoms fer a few days. yinz ails nary fit into the 'mild' category!!
i'm gonna keep getting my shots, tho.

JIK, i use sanitizer & disinfectant wipes chronically, & leave one on my screen-door so people enteing my place take the hint to use the stuff, too.

get well soon, guys-

pirate_girl · Nov 13, 2011

In your current condition, Aubs, I think any medical person would advise you to get the jab.
Love you.

RoadKing · Nov 13, 2011

No flu shots in my house. Never was never will ( I hope ).

sunlover · Nov 13, 2011

I've gotten the flu shot and others with no side effects. Much ado about nothing to me. Me thinks we get paranoid about too many things especially as we get older. Just sayin... :whistling:

pirate_girl · Nov 13, 2011

sunlover said:
I've gotten the flu shot and others with no side effects. Much ado about nothing to me. Me thinks we get paranoid about too many things especially as we get older. Just sayin...

luvs · Nov 13, 2011

pirate_girl said:
In your current condition, Aubs, I think any medical person would advise you to get the jab.
Love you.

yeah, my PCP is an excellnt doctor & i trust her judjement so when she says jump i say how high. & i luv u too, lollie! is your flu easing its :hammer:

on you yet..... poor thing

pirate_girl · Nov 13, 2011

As of today.. just a slight cough.. the appetite has been here and there all day, I did eat though.. some..
Napping helps.
Sleep- the cure all for anything that ails ya with the seasonal nasties.

Cowboy · Nov 14, 2011

RoadKing said:
No flu shots in my house. Never was never will ( I hope ).

Same here, I take after my Dad and dont care to be anyones lab rat. :doh:

rugerman · Nov 14, 2011

The flu shot that they are giving this year is the same one that was given last year. The CDC couldn't figure out what was coming so they just reran the one from last year. The government line is that they don't know how much immunity the shot last year gave people so they want you to get it again. But if you remember a few years ago when the flu that they thought was comming was similar to the 1912 epidemic they said that it would be worse on younger folks because the older guys had been exposed long ago. Guess you can have it both ways if the government says so.

pirate_girl · Nov 14, 2011

rugerman said:
The flu shot that they are giving this year is the same one that was given last year. The CDC couldn't figure out what was coming so they just reran the one from last year. The government line is that they don't know how much immunity the shot last year gave people so they want you to get it again. But if you remember a few years ago when the flu that they thought was comming was similar to the 1912 epidemic they said that it would be worse on younger folks because the older guys had been exposed long ago. Guess you can have it both ways if the government says so.

an A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)-like virus
an A/Perth/16/2009 (H3N2)-like virus
a B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus.

The H1N1 virus recommended for inclusion in the 2010-2011 seasonal influenza vaccine is a pandemic 2009 H1N1 virus and is the same vaccine virus as was used in the 2009 H1N1 monovalent vaccine.
This recommended composition of the seasonal vaccine for the Northern Hemisphere, including the United States, is the same composition that was recommended for the Southern Hemisphere’s 2010 influenza vaccines.

SShepherd · Nov 14, 2011

I can say this.

everyone I knew that got the flu got the shot, they were sick for 14 days.

i got no shot, I was sick for 5

tiredretired · Nov 14, 2011

If everybody gets a flu shot, there will be no need for me to get mine. Right? :yum:

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