Posted on 12/15/2014 5:02:16 AM PST by 1raider1
This year the shot really didn’t work. I dont’ have reaction to the shot though. So it’s not a big deal to me, but the shot missed one of the flu variants this year.
I work in a hospital, and from my standpoint,
The reason I’m getting the shot is to
prevent patients from catching the flu from me
I’ve had a flu shot every year for fifteen years. I had a day long reaction once that didn’t compare in intensity or duration to the flu. My advice, get the shot. Or don’t, but I did.
Most vaccinations for the flu take up to two weeks to be effective. As reported above, they missed with their guess on the dominant strain this year, so even if she'd had it in time, she may very well have gotten sick anyway. However, the fact that she became ill within a week of getting the shot means that she was exposed before the vaccination could take effect.
I felt sort of tired for a day and a half and the site hurt more than in past years. I’m surrounded by people now who have the flu, some of whom got the shot. I have an event on Wednesday that I dread. I found myself wishing that one of the five people involved would get the flu although not me. Bad Mercat. My doc wants me to take another one. sigh.
I’ve never had the flu shot & will never get one.
Research what is in the shots & decide for yourself. Fetal cells, mercury, etc - no thanks.
There are far more effective & natural ways to support your immunity and not to rely on the flu shots.
There was an apology issued for this year’s shot because it wasn’t the right mix.
When you get the flu, and you probably will at some point, you will never skip the shot again. And by flu I don’t mean some “flu bug” blah blah - I mean the full blown flu of the year flu. Especially for those over half century old, it SUX!!!
....speaking from experience here......
The doctor replied, “Well, after you get the shot, you can’t get the flu, but you might FEEL like you have the flu because of the reaction to the shot by your immune system”.
This reminds me of General Westmoreland’s battle philosophy in Viet Nam, i.e., “we have to destroy this village in order to save it”.
Absolutely, part of a healthy lifestyle.
Me too.
I use Silver Sol and have not had the flu.
Also, be compulsive about washing your hands and limit drugs and alcohol .
These common sense procedures will do far more to keep you healthy than injecting foreign drug cocktails into your body.
+1 and let me add:
Do not touch your face. Do not rub your eyes or nose and do not pick your teeth. Ick on your hands will generally not make you ill unless you transfer it internally.
I spent many a day working in restaurants and probably dealt with more germs in one night than your average GP sees in a week of office visits.
I just pinch really hard on the arms and call it the flu pinch. The placebo effect is the same as the shot and less expensive.
Yes, but if you get sick in a pandemic, you may need to go to a hospital or it may be very difficult to avoid coming into contact with infected people. This is perhaps an outlier risk, but I don’t think the probability is insignificant.
The risk of getting complications from an infection rise dramatically as we age. Our immune systems can become compromised by other diseases (e.g. type II diabetes, COPD).
You have to judge the risks. If you are in good health, get good nutrition, and are physically active, then you may be able to get by fine without the vaccination.
It seems to me that it must depend on the person.
I got the shot this year, and though the assured me that the shot wouldn’t give me the flu,
but I might experience “flu-like symptoms”,
my “flu-like symptoms” were indistinguishable from full-on flu.
I’m so GLAD I didn’t actually have the flu though! /sarc
>I think it’s a farce, as they get the strain wrong 75% of the time.
Actually, they get the strain wrong 30-40% of the time.
Take vitamin D-3 supplements(I take 10k units a day) through the winter months when you don’t get sun shine on your skin. My wife, a primary school teacher, my daughters, and I have been doing that for 9 years and have had no flu or colds in that time. We do NOT get flu shots. Wife has to go through some contortions to avoid it because it is “mandatory” for teachers but she has skipped those shots, same as I had to do in the Air Force 35 years ago. The very worst flu I ever had followed the only flu shot I ever got in my first year in the AF when the recruits were lined up and marched through the dispensary.
Each flu vaccine addresses 3 serotypes (”strains”) of the flu.
In the single-dose versions of the vaccine, there is no thimerosal.
Vitamin D-3. Get it cheap at WalMart. No flu. No colds. No more, ever.
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