I’ll take any edge I can get. At my age and with physical lung damage, if the shot can minimize a virus i’ll take it. I did get a respiratory virus, did not test as the flu after 2 weeks. Was a bad one, but managed to shake it after 3 weeks. If the ineffective flu shot only worked partway, that’s fine.
There’s also an influenza shot which can be taken 20 days after the common flu shot. Maybe check into it.
Sounds like what I got. Sinuses into top of chest followed by a constant fever for a week. I finally had to do a round of steroids and that broke the fever and drained my sinuses. Been on a Cipro derivative too that was doing nothing before the steroid round.
I’m a Remicade user and have to really watch what I get doesn’t get out of control.