[toddst]

Mr. Claman had a most unfortunate reaction to the flu shot. Was he informed it might happen?

Prior to giving me a flu shot my physician had me sign an information sheet asking about various aspects of my medical history and referring to whether I've ever had Guillain Barré. I asked what this was and the nurse said "oh, if you've ever had it you would know what that is." I thought that was a curious comment. Now I know why.

[Ditter]

The mother of a friend of mine died of some complication after a flu shot. I wonder if it was GBS. I have been so sick with the flu so many times when I *didn't* take the flu shot that the fear of this is not going to stop me.

[VeritatisSplendor]

while the risk of contracting influenza and dying if a person is not vaccinated is about one in 1,000

This number cannot posibly be right. There are over 100 million people in the US who will not get flu shots this year, no way are over 100 thousand of them going to die from flu. This is just a lie.

[krodriguesdc]

boy - some people think it is just a matter of probabilities and what are the odds of this and the odds of that etc etc...

this is not a gambling game!

[spodefly]

Let's see, flu or paralysed for 8 months ... flu or paralysed for 8 months ... ok, I'll take the flu.

[twigs]

My teen-age daughter began getting the shots about five years ago because she is an asthmatic and even a cold can become life-threatening for her. She took the shot for two years and each time, got sick and had to miss several days of school, although her symptoms were different each time. Several yars ago, she absolutely refused to take the shot. For the first time in a number of years, she has recovered from a cold without needing steroids. While I do not think this is a cause-and-effect situation, it did point out to me that people do have adverse reactions to this shot. I'm approaching 50 and I don't know that I'll ever have one.

[AmusedBystander]

37 cases over 15 years while hundreds of millions have received the shot probably saving many thousands of lives, glad I got mine for the tenth year in a row. Read up on the flu epidemics in the early 1900's. You may just want a flu shot after all.

[boris]

Oliver Sachs, in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, recounts the story of a young (20's?) woman who was given an antibiotic injection.

She lost her proprioceptive sense. All of it.

Close your eyes. Touch your nose. That's the proprioceptive sense: you know where your parts are and can maneuver them without looking (such as touch typing, walking, etc.)

She could not talk. She had to be taught to talk and do other things. She said she felt like she was trapped inside a wooden marionette. She could stand--as long as her eyes were open. Ask her to shut her eyes...she would fall to the floor like a rag doll.

Imagine living the rest of your life in that condition.

--Boris

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Great thing for me to read right after I get back from having gotten my flu shot!

;-)

[exhaustedmomma]

Great... I got my flu shot 2 weeks ago--- at Krogers!

[chuknospam]

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