flu shots

[Lucy]

Everywhere I go, and I mean everywhere, someone is ready to give out a flu shot. I don't want one. NO THANK YOU! Really!
Rant over...I just had to let that out.. sorry

[Betty]

I got mine last week. I have OA and it effects my immune system. Once I get the flu, I can keep it for weeks and weeks. This said, I seem to have gotten a mild case of the flu, from the shot. I feel crummy all day today. Hopefully this will pass quickly.
betty

[Nightelf]

LOL.

I get one every year, saves me a load of sick days off work every winter. Also got my pneumonia shot!

[millky]

Never had one, should probably get one seeing as how my immune system has no idea how to do its job (seriously. I hardly go one whole month without getting a cold or the flu or...something.)

[HugsFromJesus]

I have several illnesses where I feel like I have the flu all the time and yet I have never had the flu in my life. I have never gotten a flu shot either. I was a nurse all my life and I have worked where hospitals stopped visitations and all the patients and staff were sick and there I was doing everyone's job. I also have only had 2 colds my entire life, one in the early 1970's and one in 1992. But, I feel sick all the time, achy, headache, nausea, but I have a vamped up immune system that protects me from things so what I feel like has nothing to do with anything. I am very strange!

[His Bride]

Must be a personal thing. I get one every year and am so very grateful!

[Wally]

I've already had the flu -couple weeks ago.
I don't bother with the shot.

[freeflykat]

I got the shot three weeks ago and two weeks ago I started feeling sick, more like morning sickness than anything, but my tubes are tied so that would be very strange and of all my pregnancies this would be the worst case of morning sickness I have ever had, but it is still too early to tell and besides I am sure it is just the shot...I say stay away cause this is aweful...lol...

[icebear]

i used to be terrified of needles.... until my accident and tendonitus (which brought cortizone shots into my life) so i never had flu shots on my mind as something i'd ever do.... but i am considering it.
my hubby seems to get every cold/flu/virus that goes around, i tend to catch it somewhere along the line as does at least one of the daughters- and i am expected to keep things running whether i get sick or not. bad leg and all
i just keep plodding along like a herd of turtles

[CircleSlide]

Exact opposite, I used to never be afraid of needles, would get flu shot every year, because of my diabetes I am constantly stuck; I always told my husband and friends to get flu shots because I love them. I was never sick with the flu.

Then last year happened, as usual I received my flu shot in my left arm, and a few days later, I developed adhesive capsulitis in my left shoulder the same shoulder of my shot. Well that is weird I thought. Then six weeks after that, I developed trigiminal neuralgia (which is a very painful condition of your nerve bundle in your face, your face goes numb, and it felt like a spider had built a nest in my ear and had babies), once again on my left side. I had to have two MRI's because they wanted to rule out a brain tumor. My doctor finally said never get the flu shot again because it all seemed to be from my flu shot. I am just weird like that I guess. I am just now recovering from my adhesive capsulitis in my shoulder, the neuralgia went away about 3 months after its initial onset. It took a year for my shoulder to recover. BUT I didn't get the flu, lol! Once again that is me so I am done with the flu shot.

[Betty]

May not be the shot that has made me sick. My son is sick this morning and he did not get the shot. Looks like we both got exposed at the same time and it just hit me a day early. Chest hurts and I feel like a wrung out dish rag. Looks like another lazy day at home today. Took out the stuff to make chili. It is our first cold front coming in today and so it looks like lazy day, chili and cornbread.
God bless each of you and stay well.
betty

[DrSoup]

I'd like to get one, since I am pregnancy and high risk (overweight and have high blood pressure), but my OB won't let me get one until week 14 (7 weeks to go). In the meantime my DH works with elementary school kids and has been sick with a cold-thing for 2 weeks now. I've told him that he HAS to go get a flu shot or else I'm going to spend the whole winter sick as well.

Gotta love the timing....*sigh*

[Juliebeth]

LOL.

I get one every year, saves me a load of sick days off work every winter. Also got my pneumonia shot!

I almost died from pneumonia (copying your awesome spelling ability) 3 years ago. It was close and VERY VERY painful.

[Steph58873]

I have a checkup with my OB today and I'll be getting a flu shot while I'm there.

[AJHIHS]

Everywhere I go, and I mean everywhere, someone is ready to give out a flu shot. I don't want one. NO THANK YOU! Really!
Rant over...I just had to let that out.. sorry

Not for me either!

Those vaccines are loaded with mercury and other known carcinogens. IMO getting one every year for years actually causes more damage than good.

[MidnightCry]

Not for me either!

Those vaccines are loaded with mercury and other known carcinogens. IMO getting one every year for years actually causes more damage than good.

Agreed. It is wise to take measures to keep our immune systems strong and be informed about what is behind the flu-shot propaganda (ka-ching) and then make an INFORMED decision about the risks vs. benefit for each individual. People with compromised immune systems MIGHT need one. Healthy people don't.

[NarrowRoad]

No flu shots for us. Dh and I both have severe allergies and react to the flu shot quite severely. We passed our allergies right on down to ds.
None of us have had the flu in years though...we've been blessed.

NR

[Accepted]

I started getting the flu shot only after actually getting the real flu one year. I’m talkin’ influenza, not a 24-hour bug, and it was awful. Really sick for two full weeks, weak for another two weeks, and it went through each member of our family…so I’m uber-thankful for the vaccination. However, three years ago a strain of influenza that was not covered in the vaccine was making its unwelcome presence known in our area. Our oldest son came down with it at college, I took care of him…and got it myself. I was so ill that I had to miss my own brother’s funeral. I had to turn that over to the Lord, because I had no control over it.

Wait, there’s more in this lovely saga! A year ago in September, our middle-schooler brought home H1n1, and we began dropping like flies. I had to almost fight our doctor to get us on Tamiflu, but he gave in and we were sick for only about four days. This year, the H1n1 vaccine is included in the shot, and I’m also grateful for that. The consequences of passing on the flu to others can be devastating – I take care of my elderly mother, and I believe it would kill her. I help in our church nursery, and I’d hate to think of what it could do to one of those little ones. I also have two college-student sons, and it could derail an entire semester for either one of them. So, in my case, the benefit of the flu shot outweighs the risk, and thankfully no one in my family has ever had any side effects from it. Here’s hoping for a ‘well’ winter for us all!

[Lucy]

I am so sorry for those of you who are ill. May God restore you quickly.
I have never had the flu, never had the flu shot, my kids have never had the flu, never had the flu shot and don't intend to have one ever.
My kids have never been on antibiotics and are extremely healthy. We mingle with people that are sick all the time and we never, ever get it. Praise God!
I have purposed to build up our immune systems as a preventative way of life. We all take lots of vitamin C and have stayed very healthy.

I find it troubling that in every store I go into (except Lowe's --lol) SOMEONE is trying to give me a flu shot. IF I wanted one, I would go to the DR. and get one.
I don't want the secretary at my club office to give me one, or a Wal-mart employee, or someone in the mall...

[Betty]

Lucy,

Not everybody has insurance. Nurses give the shots at the store. I got my shot at the Senior Center.
betty