I got my flu shot today. What about you?
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Hence why I said "symptoms" implying that it may not have been the flu... but I'm pretty sure my dad has been out for at least a week after getting the flu shot (like clockwork) again with flu like symptoms... until he stopped getting the actual flu shot... then he stopped experiences "flu like symptoms"... again, that was HIS experience... and I still don't feel it is necessary for ME... as my husband has had the flu (that first bad year of H1N1) and I didn't get it from him either...
Get the flu shot or don't get the flu shot... like most other vaccines it doesn't guarantee that you won't get the flu... it just lessens the likelihood and lessens the symptomes if you do... but if I don't get the flu.... ever (except for once when I was like 9), why would I want to put something in my body that my body doesn't need... I am 30 years old and only had the flu all of one time in my life... I think the chances are pretty darn good at my body being able to fight off the flu during any given flu season. Now again, if I end up having my immune system compromised by something (You know like WNV that's been plaguing the US this year or like I did when I was pregnant (which by the way I did get the vaccine then)), then I will consider it as I do see a benefit sometimes...
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I am so with you on this. I've been around people with the flu and never contracted it. I've had the flu and the unvaccinated people around me never got it. I just am not convinced that the flu shot is necessary for me or for those around me.
I dunno... I suppose if life experience were to teach me something different I would change my mind but the majority of the people I know just don't get the shot and I've never seen the need to get it either.0 -
Public clinics open on the 15th and will be taking the whole family either that evening or the next. As an RN it is my professional responsibility to get one and help protect those who can't be immunized or those that don't develop adequate immunity and as a health care worker I have to be a role model to my family as well. My husband is a Paramedic and is exposed to everything so we try to prevent what we can. We have the nasal vaccine this year being offered at our clinics, kids are excited that they don't have to get a needle!0
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n I'm 2/2 getting very ill and the only times in 10 years having anything more than a 2 day chest cold. So I and many other people disagree that you can't get sick as a direct result. I mean the CDC never lies right?
Who knows or even gives a crap if I got the flu or something else. I got very ill both times I got the shot. Three months I was bed ridden with "flulike" symptoms. I have not gotten sick since and had not gotten that ill before them.0 -
Or maybe there's something in the flu shot that's making them sick. To me, there's just way too big of a concidence that people who never had the flu or gotten that sick before all of a sudden get the flu or get really sick after getting the flu shot. Just seems really fishy to me.
Conspiracy theories, I love it. What would be the possible benefit of a manufacturer making people sick with a flu shot? None.
Ahh so by implying something in the shot makes some people violently ill automatically means it is a aluminum foil hat conspiracy to inconvenience the public. OK!0 -
No shot for me. Got it once because my doc pushed me into it, but haven't since then. I have never had the flu in my life, not even as a kid. Don't really have any reason not to get it, but don't have a reason to get it either. We push vaccines waaaayyyyy too much, imo.0
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i wish there was a vaccine for stubbing your toes..lol..0
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Hell to the NO will I ever get the flu shot. //end story0
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Nope, no plans for it. Free at job, not mandatory thankfully but we have to sign a form to refuse it. Never had one and don't think I've ever had the flu. There are so many different strains out there too, my luck I'll get the shot and catch some foreign strain. Nope, I'll pass again this year0
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NO THANKS0
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Sure did, last week. I used to go to the ER every year because I would get so sick I couldn't breathe. Then I had to get one when I became a foster parent and I have never been sick since. I am a huge believer in getting the shot.0
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The b/f gets us both flu shots every year. Insurance pays for his and he pays for mine. Never had any reaction or side effects.0
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Or maybe there's something in the flu shot that's making them sick. To me, there's just way too big of a concidence that people who never had the flu or gotten that sick before all of a sudden get the flu or get really sick after getting the flu shot. Just seems really fishy to me.
Conspiracy theories, I love it. What would be the possible benefit of a manufacturer making people sick with a flu shot? None.
Ahh so by implying something in the shot makes some people violently ill automatically means it is a aluminum foil hat conspiracy to inconvenience the public. OK!
Get the shot, or don't - I don't care. But I hate 'bad science' (in the public's perception, that is) and there is SO MUCH bad science perception surrounding flu vaccines. Yes, there is a very small minority of people who have allergic or other reactions to vaccines and cannot (and should not) get them - all the more reason for people who CAN to do so (i.e. herd immunity). There is nothing "fishy" to be deduced that the vaccine manufacturers or the CDC (as someone in another post wrote) benefit from making the public sick via lying about a vaccine. You can NOT get influenza from an influenza vaccine shot. Period.0 -
I got the flu shot for the past two years and have done fine, and this year I got it and got pretty durn sick. Don't know if I was already coming down with something or it was the shot. But I will get it again next year. I wonder how much worse I would have been if it was the flu the shot was for. ?0
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Getting mine on Monday when they're available for staff at my hospital.0
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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.
This is me also. Just my opinion. But my children and myself do not get the shot.0 -
As a registered nurse, I hear this often. You cannot get the flu from the flu shot, it is impossible. But it is possible from the nasal spray. You were probably already exposed. I wrote an article on this subject just this past week. You can find it here: www.familyfunandyum.com/flu0
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has it already been discussed in sufficient detail in this thread, how long it takes for the body to actually start producing the flu antibodies after a shot? if the flu is already around, it's too late ))0
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Afriad to get one. Vaccine is egg based. Used to be allergic to eggs.0
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I'm in the Army. So, I have no choice. Will be getting my shot this weekend, like it or not.0
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I don't believe in getting flu shots. Our bodies are meant to fight off diseases on it's own, not to have some chemical put inside us to do the job. Sure, I hate being sick, but I'm sure the old timers did too and they never got a flu shot! Just my own personal belief.0
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Me and hubby are booked in at 5.50pm this evening LOL0
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NEVER. I'm not anti-vax, but the flu shot is definitely one my family and I skip.0
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Yes sir, I got mine a month ago. And i'll give one to anyone who wants to come and see me at the Pharmacy!0
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The only time in my adult life I got a flu shot was the only time in my adult life I got the flu (three weeks later).
A doctor tried to scare me that healthy people my age (29) die from the flu every year and so I need to get one. She's not my doctor anymore.0 -
has it already been discussed in sufficient detail in this thread, how long it takes for the body to actually start producing the flu antibodies after a shot? if the flu is already around, it's too late ))
2 weeks. Good point.0 -
Nope very allergic to it! Start with bright pink rash all over my cheeks and then it goes down onto my torso. And itches like no other. That's not the worst. Can't breathe right either! So no flu shots for me.0
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Vaccines are the absolute worst thing you could do to your body...EVER!
Dr. Sherry Tenpenny has done AMAZING research and has exposed the entire industry. I recommend that everybody who is considering getting this dose of poison injected into their bodies give due diligence to becoming informed...please.0 -
I've had the flu shot in the past few years and then had it last year--around this time. Several hours after the shot, I felt sick..I had a fever, I had body aches all over..It took like 2-4 hours for me to feel better after taking over the counter pain killers and 2 hot baths. It was painful, and at this time I don't feel like I need another one. I hardly ever get the flu..maybe once every 10 years. I get more colds and bronchitis. I have take the phemonia shot, that one was more in my favor when my doctor suggested it.0
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I'll be getting mine as soon as this cold clears up...I have a compromised immune system and over the past 12 years it's really helped.0
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Nope...I never get sick...really I BS you not.0
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