I’m sorry you’re feeling sick. But don’t forget that having a reaction to a shot (a) doesn’t mean that you’re *getting* the illness you got the vaccine for — it just means you are having a reaction; and (b) also does not invalidate the vaccine. You should still be protected. Of course, it does mean you feel kind of crummy during the time you are having the reaction. So you have to decide if it was worth it.
I once got a tetanus shot in one arm and yellow fever in the other all in one day (I was getting ready to travel overseas), and that night I passed out cold on the bathroom floor. Very unpleasant. OTOH, at least I was protected against both of those things. It probably would have been best to space the shots out.
I know the flu would be 10X worse and I haven’t had it since 1996 and that was when I was on interferon.
Excellent info. A small number of people do react to vaccine, but it does NOT mean they got the flu from the shot. It just doesn’t work that way.
And, while H1N1 was not as dangerous as first reported to be (Mexico), a large part of the reason it was not as prevalent as it could have been is BECAUSE of the effort to vaccinate against it.
This stuff drives me nuts because the same people who say the government overreacted are the same people who would scream “the government is incompetent” if they had not reacted and H1N1 had been allowed to sweep the planet.