I got my flu shot today. What about you?
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I was in graduate school in 1989 and came down with a flu during mid-term week. Not too good for me trying to study for exams with a fever and headache and cough. The Doc at the school clinic asked me if I had gotten a flu shot that year. When I said no his stern reply was "Why the hell not!":explode: and then something else inferring that attending University was the equivalent of living in a germ factory. I felt like hell for more than 2 weeks. I've been 100% flu shot coverage since then (even the SARS year when supply was short and I could not get it until almost February). I've never had a bad reaction in those 23 years but once in a while I will feel a little off for a few days following the shot. I think it depends on what strain is in the shot that year and how long it has been since I was last exposed to that strain. FWIW.
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Ever since I had the choice not to get the flu shot, I haven't.
I will never get the flu shot ever again in my life.0 -
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Scheduled for Thursday, 12:35, at work for free!0
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Nope and probably won't... as long as I have a choice that is.
And I had the opposite experience you did... lived in the dorms and didn't get the flu... work with the public and haven't gotten the flu (knock on wood of course)... I figure if my husband can get the flu, me sleep next to him or be in his general vacinity, breathing his germy air while he is contagious (but before he has the symptoms) and I still come away unscathed, then it's just an unnecessary shot (for me, mind you). Once I believe it is necessary for me, then I will think about it.0 -
Nope.. and never have either. As a nurse... I have formed my own opinion on the flu shot . Even when my school and places I have worked "forced" me to, I refuse. But cheers :drinker:0
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Nope. And none of the kids or the husband will either.
We just don't get sick and I don't feel it is necessary for us.0 -
Ever since I had the choice not to get the flu shot, I haven't.
I will never get the flu shot ever again in my life.
^^Exactly this. I don't trust it. Pretty much everyone I know who gets it gets the flu anyway because the strains are different. My kids don't get them either....for the same reason.0 -
I got my first and only flu shot in 2010. I say only, because two weeks later I had my first case of the flu. Lesson learned. No more flu shots for me.0
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No, even though my doctor keeps pushing me to have it as I've a compromised immune system. I got swine 'flu two years ago and survived that so I don't believe I need it.0
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Never had one, never had the flu. I'll stick with what works for me.0
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I'm not anti-vaccine by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't believe in flu shots and won't get one as long as I have a choice.0
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Lung disease & compromisied immune system.. pnemonia & flu shots tomorrow at 11:30 am!0
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absolutely getting it next week, they're offering it free here at the office. I always try to remember to get it. The one year I didn't got sick for a week and wanted to die from the flu. didn't know that many body parts could hurt that much!!0
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Got mine last Friday......I feel great!
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Got mines this past Friday, it's mandatory cause I work at a hospital! The 1st time I got my shot was the last time I had the flu.0
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Lung disease & compromisied immune system.. pnemonia & flu shots tomorrow at 11:30 am!
Edited to say that the kids & hubby WILL NOT get them. However, If i get the flu, with the flu shot, it wont be as bad as without it. I got the flu 5 years ago & it almost killed me (literally).. been getting the shot ever since.0 -
The one and only time I got a flu shot I got so friggin' sick I vowed NEVER AGAIN!!!
I work with kids now and still have never been THAT sick!0 -
It's been a godsend in my family - we're getting ours as soon as the vac clinic opens up for the fall season.0
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No way...never get one and I work in a hospital.0
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Never have, never will.0
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