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.
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.
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
All flu injections use a dead virus that the body detects and increases your immune system to prevent three of the five flu viruses of the strains anticipated by the producers. That leaves two that are not anticipated to be active this season. So you can get the flu even when receiving an immunization. Plus it takes up to six weeks for your body to build up sufficient anti-bodies to ward off an exposure. To avoid contamination some vaccines contain preservatives for use in low volume applications such as your doctor’s office or rural areas. I get my injections at high volume locations that use vaccine without the objectionable preservatives and always confirm this before consent. Then I take standard hygiene precautions and avoid confined areas with other people. Works for me!
THE HISTORY OF FLU VACCINATION suggests other reasons to doubt claims that it dramatically reduces mortality. In
2004, for example, vaccine production fell behind, causing a 40 percent drop in immunization rates. Yet mortality did not
rise. In addition, vaccine “mismatches” occurred in 1968 and 1997: in both years, the vaccine that had been produced in the
summer protected against one set of viruses, but come winter, a different set was circulating. In effect, nobody was
vaccinated. Yet death rates from all causes, including flu and the various illnesses it can exacerbate, did not budge. Sumit
Majumdar, a physician and researcher at the University of Alberta, in Canada, offers another historical observation: rising
rates of vaccination of the elderly over the past two decades have not coincided with a lower overall mortality rate. In 1989,
only 15 percent of people over age 65 in the U.S. and Canada were vaccinated against flu. Today, more than 65 percent are
immunized. Yet death rates among the elderly during flu season have increased rather than decreased.
The preceding excerpted from Theatlantic.com
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/does-the-vaccine-matter/307723/
I don’t do flu shots.
I feel that if you get enough vitamin D3 plus vitamin k2 in your system, you will most likely not get the flu if exposed, or get very mildly ill. You also need a good immune system (plenty of sleep, exercise, and pro- and pre-biotics, not much sugar in the diet). If you can manage that, you probably won’t get the flu and you won’t die from it.
If your blood vitamin D levels are below 50 and you won’t get them above thst with supplementation, you’d better get that shot, or you could get really sick. Though getting the shot is a risk each year - they don’t always nail it.
The lower your D, the more chance you will get a bad case. I learned that with double pneumonia in 3 days with the H1N1 flu before I learned about the magic of enough vitamin D. The D takes a few weeks to build up so start now. Average sized adult, 5000 IU a day - until late spring (unless you live in the tropics and get a ton of sun exposure). You might need more if you are very large or have some chronic conditions. Get tested and adjust your supplementation until it’s over 60.
I often get exposed to the flu but I haven’t gotten it again since thst H1N1 and since I started supplementing. Still soemtimes get a bad virus though. Mostly from not getting enough sleep.