Posted on 10/18/2018 9:22:03 PM PDT by Reno89519
Following last year’s flu season — the worst in decades, killing an estimated 80,000 Americans — health professionals have a strong warning for citizens as this year’s flu season arrives: get your flu shot.
“The flu shot is incredibly important because it reduces your risk of contracting the flu,” Michelle Lin, an emergency room doctor, and professor of emergency medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, told Fox News on Thursday.
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Get the flu shot or not? Me, I usually don't. In 2010 I got it and within weeks was in the hospital with H1N1 and have had years of sinus and chest infections since.
Last year no shot and barely a sniffle. True for most years.
End result is I am not in a rush to get one. Nor recommend one. What about you?
Get a flu shot every year. Can’t remember when I last had the flu.
“A colleague of mine and I have introduced vitamin D at doses that have achieved greater than 100 nmol/L in most of our patients for the past number of years, and we now see very few patients in our clinics with the flu or influenzalike illness. In those patients who do have influenza, we have treated them with the vitamin D hammer, as coined by my colleague. This is a 1-time 50,000 IU dose of vitamin D3 or 10,000 IU 3 times daily for 2 to 3 days. The results are dramatic, with complete resolution of symptoms in 48 to 72 hours. One-time doses of vitamin D at this level have been used safely and have never been shown to be toxic. We urgently need a study of this intervention. The cost of vitamin D is about a penny for 1000 IU, so this treatment costs less than a dollar.”
It’s kind of a lottery system. Don’t get the shot, get the flu, maybe die. Get the shot, maybe get the flu, maybe die. I get one because I take care of my disabled old Mum and don’t want to give it to her. Then read the articles about how the flu shot is a crap shoot because they missed the ‘real’ bug or it’s mutating. Good luck!
Got one last year. Got one this year. So far so good.
Same here, though I did forget one year and didn’t get the flu that year either. If I had my druthers, I’d get the shot.
I get the flu shot every year on the advice of my doctor. Last year, he cancelled an appointment I had with him to get my shot and told me to go to the drug store to get it. I did, and immediately after getting the shot, I had a burning sensation in my ears and across my face. I had to sit there over an hour to make sure I would be OK. Fortunately, I was able to get hold of my allergist, who told me to buy some antihistamine at the drug store and take it immediately. That cleared up the bad symptoms. Wonder what was IN that shot!
"...flu shot..."
Many thousands of people die from influenza in the US every year. Many were old or ill before getting the flu, but many were perfectly healthy. The flu vaccine reduces one’s chances of getting the flu, but it is impossible to really know how much. There are many strains of influenza viruses, and flu vaccines involve guesswork. Anecdotes like “I have not had the flu in years” don’t prove much.
Get the shot! Influenza is no joke. Throughout history that type of virus has killed tens of millions in the 20th century alone. Treatment is usually ineffective as soon as one day after symptoms develop. There is no way to know just how bad it will be this year but even if the vaccine offers only partial protection it may save your life. Don’t listen to gossip that rises to the level of consensus. Consult your physician.
http://www.sanofiflu.com/flublok-quadrivalent-influenza-vaccine.html
It doesn’t use eggs or preservatives, as well. My wife got it at Albertson’s and BCBS covered it 100%.
If you can tolerate the Flu Shot w/o becoming sick, yes, you should tell your doctor like Pat Benatar used to do:
“Hit Me With Your Best Shot!”
She could never use that song title today tho.
Nope. Dont get the flu.
Surprised anyone these days is asking “should I” or not..... Thought everyone knew the answer to that question is NO. Let’s see, Big Pharma injecting me with who knows what cocktail, and changing it up every year? Why no thank you.
Have not had a flu shot in 30 years.
You need to research all the ingredients in a flu shot.
i never got the flu for the 10 years i took flu shots.
I never got the flu for the 10 years I didn’t take flu shots.
Conclusion: ????
Last winter I got the flu. It was exhausting for 2 weeks but I preferred the flu to the shot.
Got mine yesterday at the doctor’s. I would have gotten it in early September, but came down with a cold/sorethroat after visiting my son in Indiana. Because I hadn’t had a cold/sorethroat in over 30 years, I went to the doctor’s to make sure I didn’t have strep throat. Had I not been sick, he would have given me the shot then.
Coming up on 67 years old and have never had a flu shot. Other than colds, I’ve probably only had the real flu just a few times. Every year I think about getting one. Maybe this year.
Got the shot in 99 or 2000 and got sick as hell that year
Never had the shot before or after and never got the flu either and I am out and about and travel quite a lot
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