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“Received the 2020/2021 flu vaccine yesterday morning, and by approximately 3 PM I experienced some mild fatigue, other than thinking that I was kicked in the left arm by a mule.
Then, by 7:30 PM I had a nice headache, body aches, and pretty sure a slight fever that went on through last night’s VP Debate (yep, watched it), and all through the night.”
Sounds like me after my second Shingles shot last mid November. My FP and RN wife wondered months later, if I was one of the early CV19 victims. I was impacted from Thanksgiving week to Christmas week. I, also, had blood in my urine the first few days.
We belong to the big West Coast HMO, and I ended with basically every test known from an MRI to other electronic tests to basically every lab test. All the tests were normal or in the normal range with zippo/nada answers. When a basically healthy 80 year guy has the above symptoms, they go full bore to try and find out why.
I get the flu vaccine ( high dose old folks version) every year and other than some soreness at the injection site no problems. My 6 month old grandson had influenza B and despite close contact I did not contract the flu. Influenza B was rampant in the area last fall..again I avoided the flu. However, I may have had COVID in late December. I tested negative for influenza, but had all symptoms of COVID including respiratory problems that had me in the ER one evening. Other early COVID cases were confirmed in the area in December. Needless to say I fully recovered from my likely COVID
To all those posting...how many of you keep your vit D levels about 50-80?
Never had much reaction with any Flu shots - I probably didn’t develop much in way of antibodies. I had the Flu once when I was in my early teens and never had it again despite many years w/o taking the vaccine - I turn 68 on election day (Same as Jim Rob’s Birthday - don’t forget to wish him well and to vote to ensure he has a good shot at a very happy Birthday).
The years I took the Flu shot, I had more, longer lasting colds than when i leave my immune system alone - I’m probably in that group where the Flu shot makes me more likely to get other respiratory diseases.
The wife, on the other hand, gets the Flu shot religiously because the couple years she didn’t get it, she got the Flu.
Getting Flublok quadrivalent this year. Triple the strength of regular flu shot and made using recombinant DNA instead of being egg-based.
Flu vaccination recommendations for 2020:
Optimally, vaccination should occur before onset of influenza activity in the community. Because the timing of the onset, peak, and decline of influenza activity varies, the ideal time to start vaccinating cannot be predicted each season. Local outbreaks can begin as early as October, but CDC reports that 75% of influenza seasons peak in January or later.
CDC recommends that vaccination should be offered by the end of October. Children age 6 months to 8 years without two prior doses of flu vaccine need 2 doses and should get their first influenza vaccination as soon as vaccine becomes available to ensure they are fully vaccinated before the onset of community outbreaks.
Several studies have reported decreases in vaccine effectiveness over the influenza season.
However, waning effects have not been observed consistently across age groups, virus subtypes, and seasons. While delaying vaccination might permit greater immunity later in the season, deferral could result in missed opportunities to vaccinate, as well as difficulties in vaccinating a large number of people within a more limited time period.
For people who need only 1 dose, early vaccination (i.e., July and August) can result in reduced immune protection towards the end of the influenza season, particularly for older adults.
Should our practice consider revaccinating our high risk and older patients a second time during the year due to concerns with waning immunity?
For people who have already been fully vaccinated, revaccination later in the season is not recommended.
https://www.immunize.org/askexperts/experts_inf.asp
Good info. Thank you for posting,
Received a flu shot at the VA a week ago. Two days later I had a full throat and stabbing pains in my right lung with each breath. All gone a day later but it had me wondering if I finally got hit with the Big One.
Been taking these shots yearly and this is the only time I have had any kind of reaction. Age 87.
My husband and I, our daughter, and her kids all had flu shots and had no reaction other than a sore arm for a day.
Most likely you had an immune response to the vaccine, meaning that your body is building antibodies to the flu virus’s in the vaccine (just bits and pieces of the flu virus’s, not Live Attenuated virus’s)
Normal reaction.
Even the mule kick to the shoulder. :)
“And I’d think it was worth it; haven’t had the flu even once since I started getting the shot back in the 80s.
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Nor have I since I stopped getting the shot.
If I do, the Vitamin D hammer knocks it out in less than 3 days.
Do you understand that flu viruses mutate hundreds of times a year? Thus, the flu vaccine producers have to guess the correct flu strain. ***NEWS FLASH*** They never get the right strain. Thus, it does not work.
Let me give you an analogy. Imagine if you were bit by a Cobra snake and you go to the hospital to get anti-venom. Imagine if they only had Rattle snake venom. Do you think that is going to do you any good? Answer: No
Do not wast your time with a flu vaccine. It does nothing.
Take vitamin D3, vitamin C and Zinc. That will help your immune system more than a flu vaccine.
“haven’t had the flu even once since I started getting the shot back in the 80s.
Me either, although I’ve never had a flu shot, nor will I EVER get one.