Swine Flu Vaccine

FORKDOWN
FORKDOWN Posts: 1,754
edited September 20 in Chit-Chat
Is it a good idea or a bad idea for myself or my kids. Leaning towards getting the kids the shot and not myself?

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  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    Are you sure you will qualify for it? I was under the impression that when it is released, it will be in limited quantities and therefore limited to the sick, elderly, young, or pregnant. I could easily be mistaken. When is it supposed to come out?
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    I get a flu shot each year and think it has been what saved me for 5 yrs of going into strangers homes!!

    I would say talk it over with you Pedo....does it have the same side effects as a regular flu shot?
    Is it like past years where they take the top 5 or so viruses and innoculate for them?

    Hard to decide........especially when it is your family.

    I will email my friend who's girls spent the past 6 wks with the Swine Flu to see if SHE wished she had done it.

    Let you know later.

    Oh BTW....are you new here??00020167.gif
  • pcbta
    pcbta Posts: 227
    I live in Canada and am going to do it for my family. i know there are lots of conspirators out there that think it's going to do more harm than good...and maybe it will, I dont' know...but healthy young people have died from this...and that scares me...considering I have healthy children in school...

    Cindy
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    Oh BTW....are you new here??00020167.gif

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I just pop in, refuse to read what has been said, and lay out some fluff comment :laugh:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    Oh BTW....are you new here??00020167.gif

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I just pop in, refuse to read what has been said, and lay out some fluff comment :laugh:

    Thanks for the honesty:tongue:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    Oh BTW....are you new here??00020167.gif

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I just pop in, refuse to read what has been said, and lay out some fluff comment :laugh:

    Goofball......I noes who you iz:laugh:
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    Oh BTW....are you new here??00020167.gif

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I just pop in, refuse to read what has been said, and lay out some fluff comment :laugh:

    Goofball......I noes who you iz:laugh:

    Time for a name change. New me, new name (and hopefully, no more ex tracking me!!)
  • chrissyh
    chrissyh Posts: 8,235 Member
    My daughter is at high risk due to asthma and heart defect(nothing serious but puts her in the high risk category) so we all get them....last year they got the flu mist at school...free....otherwise we find a clinic and get them - I figure it can't hurt for her risk and I have so little contact with the outside world my immune system has to be less aware of what's out there - I work from home.

    edit - my son got flu mist at school - asthma patients cannot get the mist they have to have the shot.
  • nursegirl79
    nursegirl79 Posts: 146 Member
    The H1N1(swine) flu vaccine is going to be available on case by case basis starting in November. The vaccines are regulated by the government. Also, this is a new vaccine and not much testing has been performed. Supposedly there will be more shots available in Janurary. I'm somewhat hesitant on getting the vaccine. The first people to get it will be guinea pigs. Little scary if you ask me. I will wait to see how they do.

    You know. Alot of people became very sick(Guillain-Barré Syndrome) with the H5N1(avian) flu vaccine when it was first developed which also had very little testing before they were administered.
  • chrissyh
    chrissyh Posts: 8,235 Member
    The H1N1(swine) flu vaccine is going to be available on case by case basis starting in November. The vaccines are regulated by the government. Also, this is a new vaccine and not much testing has been performed. Supposedly there will be more shots available in Janurary. I'm somewhat hesitant on getting the vaccine. The first people to get it will be guinea pigs. Little scary if you ask me. I will wait to see how they do.

    You know. Alot of people became very sick(Guillain-Barré Syndrome) with the H5N1(avian) flu vaccine when it was first developed which also had very little testing before they were administered.

    Excellent point----my father in law had GBS which ended up contributing to his death in December....I had forgotten about the link there....although his GBS wasn't from flu shot - he never got one.
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    The H1N1(swine) flu vaccine is going to be available on case by case basis starting in November. The vaccines are regulated by the government. Also, this is a new vaccine and not much testing has been performed. Supposedly there will be more shots available in Janurary. I'm somewhat hesitant on getting the vaccine. The first people to get it will be guinea pigs. Little scary if you ask me. I will wait to see how they do.

    You know. Alot of people became very sick(Guillain-Barré Syndrome) with the H5N1(avian) flu vaccine when it was first developed which also had very little testing before they were administered.

    My husband was in the Army when they started rolling out mandatory Anthrax vaccinations.
    Scary stuff, being first to receive a drug (in my opinion). I also try not to buy brand new electronic items though. I wait for 2nd or 3rd generation. I'm pragmatic ( = boring :laugh: ).
  • nursegirl79
    nursegirl79 Posts: 146 Member
    The H1N1(swine) flu vaccine is going to be available on case by case basis starting in November. The vaccines are regulated by the government. Also, this is a new vaccine and not much testing has been performed. Supposedly there will be more shots available in Janurary. I'm somewhat hesitant on getting the vaccine. The first people to get it will be guinea pigs. Little scary if you ask me. I will wait to see how they do.

    You know. Alot of people became very sick(Guillain-Barré Syndrome) with the H5N1(avian) flu vaccine when it was first developed which also had very little testing before they were administered.

    My husband was in the Army when they started rolling out mandatory Anthrax vaccinations.
    Scary stuff, being first to receive a drug (in my opinion). I also try not to buy brand new electronic items though. I wait for 2nd or 3rd generation. I'm pragmatic ( = boring :laugh: ).

    Yeah, I was in the army and received the first 2 doses of that stupid anthrax shot too. I just hope when I have children they don't come out with an extra thumb.:frown: (birth defects from the anthrax vaccine were reported)
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