Posted on 11/21/2018 2:28:52 PM PST by Az Joe
There’s a balance too, and common sense. Don’t be a bubble boy, but you should also stay as germ-free as possible. If I followed your advice to its extreme, I’d sleep in excrement just to immunize myself. I wouldn’t be alive very long.
Never go to extremes
Moderation is the key.
No further symptoms at present, seven hours after taking the vaccine.
Similar experience for me. 5000 IU vitamin D per day, in addition to a One-A-Day pill. No colds in three years, since I started taking them.
Normally I got at least one cold per year, sometimes two.
I had a flu shot last year and only felt some mild flu-like symptoms for about a day. Will probably be getting another one soon.
Had the flu very early this year, before anyone was talking about the flu or flu shots. The symptoms were like swine flu (airways felt scorched at onset), went on for a week or two and invited a nasty case of bronchitis.
Getting the flu shot can prevent the flu or prevent it from being as severe. But the best benefit is from herd immunity. So it’s best, if many people in your community also get the shots.
Same happened to me 2 years ago. Flut shot. Two months later, flu.
I see the advice in comments for monster doses of vitamin D. After studying about the issue off and on, it seems wise to limit intake to moderate doses in winter for sun-deprived people as advised by more doctors. For example, very large doses appear to have aggravated some kinds of skin cancer cases, while smaller doses appear to have helped (only correlations so far, further studies required).
Hang in there. You are only five days into the flu.
A month or so from now you’ll never know you had it.
Good luck.....
Whenever you hear the works “public health” that means bad for you, good for the government.
...As I did.
Not “Like I did.”
Does no one remember the Winston ad jingle?
I’m 66. I’ve never gotten a flu shot and I’ve never had the flu. I wonder if there is a connection...
With all of those shots you probably have most of the strains covered. You are probably covered for decades.
Don't want to cause you any alarm but a good friend of mine had his flu shot around the same time then has been sick for the past two weeks with something. He died yesterday.........
The thing is, most people think they have the flu. And what they have is a standard rhinovirus.
The flu is not a head cold. The flu literally lays you out. Your lungs fill up with gunk, you feel washed out to the point of being immobile.
You do not “work with the flu.”
If you did not go to the hospital and get a culture, chances are you did not have the flu.
I am not Pooh Pooh’ing a bad cold. But often on these threads I see people talk about a bad cold and say they had a flu.
If you have a confirmed flu, two weeks is about right. You should start feeling better soon.
I have gotten the flu shot twice in my life, 20 years ago. Both times I got the flu two to three days later. I had been perfectly healthy before and anybody and everybody can say it was a coincidence, the shot didn’t cause it, there’s only dead viruses in it, I don’t care. All I know is I don’t get sick but I got sick immediately after getting those shots. Never again.
Haven’t read all comments...but I will say my husband has neuropathy in hands for 12 years since an innoculation...and his father has been suffering from peripheral neuropathy for 20 since. We didn’t make the connection until later..but we would be hardpressed to get a “bogus” shot since then. Just a big ol NOPE.
I think Claude Bernard and Antoine Bechamp were more correct than Louis Pasteur. According to some, Pasteur himself thought so on his dying bed:
“The microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything.”
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