Getting a Flu Shot?

[Class III]

I've been getting a flu shot for at least twenty years. Only contracted the flu once in the last twenty years. Doc told me I probably already had the flu when I got the shot that year. Taught me a lesson. I now get a flu shot EARLY in the season. Getting this years shot Monday.

Class III

 

[kenv1950]

Every year now for the last 20 yrs.. Before i started getting flu shots I'd be sicker than a dog every winter

 

[kaaskop49]

10 days ago, took both the Flu-Zone Hi-Dose shot and the Pneumovax-23 shot, one in each arm. Was sick for 2 days with flu-like fatigue. Happily, the symptoms vanished quickly, like a door closing.

That's just me, don't let my reaction prevent anyone from getting injections. Last year, I had no reaction at all from 2 simultaneous shots.

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[RobertJ.]

I've never had a flu shot, and haven't had the flu in 28 years.

 

[wbraswell]

I'll get it. I got one last year, you know the one that wasn't supposed to be much good. I came down with the flu a few weeks later. The shot made it a whole lot less miserable, and when I went to the doctor and got meds, they knocked the rest out pronto. It was really impressive to me. I hate to be sick. It's free for me.

 

[redlevel]

I will get it, but it'll be JUST the one shot.

http://smith-wessonforum.com/lounge/398782-not-real-smart.html

 

[gregintenn]

Hell no! My wife's employer requires her to get one even though she works from home.

I'd sue or find a new job, but she doesn't see it my way.

Why would a sane human being inject an unknown substance into their body for no particular reason?

 

[Rule 303]

I get one every year. When I was a Chief in a small 30 Officer Department I'd give free flu shots to the Officers and Employees who wanted them. It grew to the whole City Employees getting them.

I would give an officer free sick days off if he later developed the flu after getting the flu shot.

Worked out well in the Department.

Rule 303

 

[soFlaNative]

No, 55 years old and in good health. Since working at a wastewater treatment plant exposes me to pathogens on a daily basis I haven't had anything more than an occasional sniffle.

 

[moralem]

Flu shots and other vaccines, no matter what they tell you, cannot be good for you. Many far more intelligent people than I believe that retroviruses are alive in vaccines that are supposed to protect us. I simply say no.

 

[Grayfox]

Flu shots work for me. Every time I took one, within just a couple of days, I'd come down with a terrible case of the flu.
Quit taking them years ago and haven't had the flu since.

 

[Salty RI]

I got my last flu shot back in 1964 and it worked great, I had the flu in less than a week haven't had a shot or the flu since.

 

[mcoe74]

I got a flu shot this morning and have had the pneumonia shot.

The flu shot is controversial, but I think it helps strengthen my immune system. We live in a area with a lot of "snow birds" and thousands of tourists through the winter months. Any disease prevention is appreciated due to the sheer number of walking "petri dishes."

 

[Bahamaroot]

Never have, never will. Never had a case of the flu either.

 

[Straightshooter2]

Last time I didn't get a flu shot I got the flu. A few years before that, neither my wife nor I got a flu shot. We came down with the flu almost simultaneously. For days, whichever one of us felt the least lousy would make soup and toasted cheese sandwiches when we could stand to eat. So yes, I'm getting one.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

In my youth, I was in SAC. We were worldwide Clydes and had to have worldwide shots.
Yellow Fever was the only one that made me sick.
Later, went to SEA. We took the Gamma globulin to aid against hepatitis.
It hurt! It was injected with a large needle in the butt. And it was only good for 6 months.
I got my first one too early! After some training, then after Jungle Survival School at Clark AB, I went down to the terminal to go to Bangkok.
They looked at my shot record and said you need a shot.
A Phillipino who probably had just OJT-Ed from plumber helper gave it to me at the terminal. I got one more, this was by an AF Nurse who had actually gone to school.
It's not a shot I ever want again!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_globulin

 

[straightshooter1]

I used to be one of those who claimed the flu shots gave you the flu. Now I know that's not true (and I know I can't convince you if you believe otherwise, so I won't try).

I've gotten them for about 30 years, I've had the pnuemonia shot (and a newer version that I don't recall much about) and the shingles vaccine, though I had the shingles (bad, bad, very bad) back in '04 or '05.

The VA here has tables with personnel offering the shots on every floor and used to have a drive through for the shots, but I don't know if they still do that.

I always, at the insistence of my wife and my primary, get mine in October but I have never asked either why they say to do that.

Don't we do this thread every year?


Bob

 

[dougb1946]

Looking down a back road in MN, I found an old grave yard. Lots of people, all ages, same few years. Influenza epidemic had run amuck. It can and will kill. If you aren't getting the flu, it's because others around you aren't carrying it and "herd immunity" is protecting you. Good luck.

 

[da gimp]

I have to get approval from my oncologist & family docs first....but we generally try & get them every year... I think that both the pneumonia & flu vaccines work...

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Looking down a back road in MN, I found an old grave yard. Lots of people, all ages, same few years. Influenza epidemic had run amuck. It can and will kill. If you aren't getting the flu, it's because others around you aren't carrying it and "herd immunity" is protecting you. Good luck.

I often do a stumble count on how many sibs my Dad had.
They lost a son and a daughter during the 1918-19 Flu Pandemic.

Herd Mentality? We have old GI saying- just roll the dice.
You can't lose in a big game!