Anybody getting the flue shot this year

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hey_moe

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I have never had a flue shot in my life time that I can remember, but this year with all the threats and news I have been reading about Linda and I decided to go get one. Linda gets one every year like clock work. I never get the flue but as many houses I go into that the people are home sick I decided it might be worth while getting one this year...Mike
 
I saw a doctor of infectious deseases on Fox news state that he was more concerned about the shot contents than the flu itself. Think I'll pass on that shot.
 
I've only gotten one flu shot and that was at my current, at the time, doctor's urging. I was never as sick as I was that year.

I've refused to get a flu shot before then, and I've never had one since then.
 
Never got the shot before and don't plan on getting it this year either.

Oh by the way... I've been sick with the flu since Sunday night. Doctor thinks it's the Swine kind.

Now, here's the best part... You'll never guess what I did after church Sunday?

Ate at a Pig Roast!

:isadizzy::isadizzy::isadizzy::isadizzy:
 
Daughter and I get the flue shots yearly. In her case, she was diagnosed with asthma when she was a baby, doctor's advice, she needs one. I never seen her having asthma attacks after her 4th birthday, (after her tonsillectomies when she was 3). How is asthma connected with tonsilectomy and flue shots? I have no idea....Overall, she is a healthy kid! :icon_lol:

Being a member of the SC, it is a healthy thought to get one for myself.... :engel016:
 
after i learned about the contingency plans for the possible swine flu epidemic, i have decided i don't want a flu shot ever again. i used to get one every year.
 
Not getting a flue shot, since my house doesn't have a fireplace:icon_lol:, but I am definitely getting a flu shot. I work around people every day, and my wife has no immune response due to a transplant last year. Catching the flu could very easily kill her.
 
I wouldn't go without one,the people that don,t get one ends up getting the flu and passes it on to other people.Kinda selfish.
 
I had the flu in 1983, it turned into pneumonia. Have had a flu shot every year since and never got the flu again. Yes, I got this years shot. But apparently I am not eligible for the swine flu shot (over 64). I guess that I am now expendable.....:a1451::mad::redfire:
 
Kofschip said:
I had the flu in 1983, it turned into pneumonia. Have had a flu shot every year since and never got the flu again. Yes, I got this years shot. But apparently I am not eligible for the swine flu shot (over 64). I guess that I am now expendable.....:a1451::mad::redfire:
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your 35 years late for carousel :icon_lol:

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i got my flu shot already...but not the one for the H1N1..my dr says i cant have it...think hes being piggish with them...as far as a flue shot goes..it too do not have a fire place nor wood stove so i dont need no stinkin flue shot
 
Regular or swine?

Going to get the regular....get it every year. Swine flu...my doctor is reserving his recommendation until he sees/hears reports of complications or side effects.

He recommends getting the normal flu shot at the end of October to ensure that it lasts through flu season, which ends in March.
 
Southern hemisphere flu season has come and gone - mostly a big non-event.
Some above mention "ordinary" and "Swine" flavours of innoculation - I thought Tamiflu was used no matter what??

There is BTW a delicious conspiracy theory around the whole Swine flu pandemic, involving high-placed gummint officials, share holdings, and giant pharmaceutical companies...;)
 
Wing_Z said:
Southern hemisphere flu season has come and gone - mostly a big non-event.
Some above mention "ordinary" and "Swine" flavours of innoculation - I thought Tamiflu was used no matter what??

There is BTW a delicious conspiracy theory around the whole Swine flu pandemic, involving high-placed gummint officials, share holdings, and giant pharmaceutical companies...;)
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Well then it must be true!
 
I got my "normal" flu jab on the Monday - almost three weeks ago. On the Tuesday I was thoroughly "flu'd" up and have been pretty rotten since - it seems that I have had the swine flu.

Poetic justice? Madness? Getting a standard flu jab over an infection? About the most active I have been for almost three weeks while awake is sitting upright or lying down. Tottering between bedroom, bathroom, PC, couch and back. Breathing has been a torture, I have managed to get an infection in the lungs (clearing now) and the headaches...

So what got me most? The flu jab or the swine flu? I am not sure I want either again.

Oh yes - and my doctor reckons there is mileage in that conspiracy theory - after all, they did make tons of Tamiflu to combat the bird flu a while back - that was a big non event and there are unpaid bills left.

And another thing - of the so-called swine flu vaccines - the other is made from cancer cells. So they give us cancer to cure a flu? I think I'll stick with chicken soup, hot milk with honey and brandy and plenty of OJ.

It may not reduce the time I have a flu or even cure it - but at least I won't care enough to notice
 
I used to get theme very year in the military. Never had a problem. The Typhoid shot is the only one that got me sick as a dog but that was only the first time. After that just a sore arm for a couple days. I haven't got a flu shot since I retired and I usually get the flu every winter. :isadizzy: I am going to get one this year. I am hoping to learn soon if I am going to Iraq to work for 3 months so that will probably require a few more shots.
 
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