This is what I’ve been saying for years. Flu shots are not the end all be all.
Every year I’ve gotten one, I’ve been sick, dead sick, with no change in lifestyle.
I don’t get them for me, I don’t get them for my kids nor does my hubby get them and we do just fine,
It’s the flu for heaven’s sake, I had it once a year as a child, Bad cough or throwing up, so what? Ya get over it.
However I must add, we are all healthy with nothing chronic.
The chance of death for the elderly is 100%. Accept it and move on.
I can’t say the flu shot has ever been beneficial for me. However, last year I got the pneumonia vaccine after I got the flu shot, and this morning is the first stuffy nose I have had. (And I always have had sinus problems in the spring!)
I have a chronic illness (MS) but I don't get the flu vaccine. Everytime I've gotten one I've had an exacerbation. Granted if I get the flu, I'll probably have an exacerbation, but I have rarely had the flu in the years I haven't taken one, and the years I take it, I guarantee myself a flare up because of the after effects of the vaccine.
I took the pneumonia vaccine last year at my GP's request...sure enough flare up of my MS. I'm steering clear of vaccines.
I went 26 years between bouts of flu and I last had a mild case of it back in 1992 or '93.
When my late father was in the Army he had to have special orders cut for him not to get flu shots cause he would get the flu when he did. He didn't get a flu shot he didn't get the flu and I'm the same way.
Add Vit D and lots of Vit C.