Now, I recently read a report that old people who get flu shots have less incidents of heart attacks and strokes.
No thanks. I’ll stick with D3 and probiotics.
It’s the 2012 Mayan Flu.
My Dad was a paramedic. After his stroke, he came to live with me. He absolutely refused to have a flu shot. I started taking vitamin D3 supplements, and haven’t had the flu since I started that.
Which reminds me, I need to start taking them again, now that summer is over.
Seems like we hear stories like this about every year. Part of the panic mode society we have become.
I had my flu shot, and take D3, but I still got a weird flu on Thanksgiving. It hit suddenly, and I spent the day laying down with a waste basket handy.
My wife an I (in our 60s) get a flu shot every year. This year we both had mild flu like symptoms for about two days afterwards. First time that ever happened. Hope it was just some sort of reaction to the shot.
And, you BELIEVED that!!!????
Our doctor doesn’t recommend them and we don’t take flu shots anymore. I’m an old guy and have had a heart attack also.
Whatever it was, I'm just getting over it after eight or nine days. I got a flu shot about three months ago.
Whatever I'm just getting over had the symptoms of flu (respiratory congestion; nasal congestion/post-nasal drip; persistent and frequent dry coughing; muscle aches; exhaustion -- as in 10 hours of sleep a night; chills; loss of appetite), except for one: no fever -- in fact, sub-normal body temp, about 97.8.
So -- did I have the flu, or not? Is there a feverless strain of flu?
It’s working.......................whispers in dark corridors of the World health organization
The annual advertising campaign for flu shot manufacturers.
Well, for the first time, I went to get a flu shot this year (I may have had one a few years back as part of treatment for something else), because I was just recovering from the worst bronchial infection of my life which had lasted for about 3 months and I believe wound up with some pneumonia, although I ultimately beat all this without seeing a doctor. At my age (57 1/2), I was concerned that I might wind up with COPD or somethimg similar because I grew up in a smoking (Lefty) family.
IAC, I’ll have to check out the D3, probiotics that are discussed in this thread in the future.
Every night, Joe would go down to the liquor store, get a six pack, bring it home, and drink it while he watched TV. One night, as he finished his last beer, the doorbell rank. He stumbled to the door and found a six-foot cockroach standing there. The bug grabbed him by the collar and threw him across the room, then left.
The next night, after he finished his 4th beer, the doorbell rang. He walked slowly to the door and found the same six-foot cockroach standing there. The big bug punched him in the stomach, then left.
The next night, after he finished his 1st beer, the doorbell rang again. The same six-foot cockroach was standing there. This time, he was kneed in the groin and hit behind the ear as he doubled over in pain. Then the big bug left. The fourth night Joe didn’t drink at all.
The doorbell rang. The cockroach was standing there. The bug beat the snot out of Joe and left him in a heap on the living room floor. The following day, Joe went to see his doctor. He explained the events of the preceding four nights. “What can I do?” he pleaded. “Not much” the doctor replied. “There’s just a nasty bug going around.”
Shot? Never.
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I caught it almost 3 weeks ago and I’m still not 100%.
Thanks for the thread. I’ll get my flu shot in 18 hours.
As you can see, any mention of the word ‘vaccine’ starts a controversy.
What about 2009 swine flu? It was going strong in the late summer; I got it at the end of Oct 2009 and it was an illness from hell, not like any flu I’ve ever had before. And I was really trying hard to not get it.
I haven’t read the main flu site lately that I used to, regularly. Maybe I should take a look.
GRANDMA’S WARNING: Flu shots inject you with the flu viruses!