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Flu shot
Nov 1, 2019 9:48:20 GMT
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Post by chrissyc72 on Nov 1, 2019 9:48:20 GMT
How many of you get the flu shot? I am the type of person that hates any type of medicine or putting anything in my body after having a bad reaction to a steroid once. But still, just don’t like it. But as I get older I feel like I might need a flu shot. My chiropractor is dead set against them and I am just curious what others think.
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Post by Basket1lady on Nov 1, 2019 9:59:33 GMT
I used to. The flu can have bad complications; why not avoid that if you can? Do you get other vaccines?
I had a reaction to the flu shot a few years ago and now they will no longer give me one. I saw an allergist and she said I should be fine, that it wasn’t an anaphylactic reaction, and to get the shot. However, the immunization clinic refused to administer it. I may try again this year in a hospital setting.
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Nov 1, 2019 10:01:02 GMT
Got mine a month ago.
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Post by elaine on Nov 1, 2019 10:32:17 GMT
Always, every year.
I don’t only get flu shots for my own health, but for everyone else too. Staying up to date on immunizations (to the degree one is physically able) is a civic duty, imo, like voting. Herd immunity is crucial, as we have been finding out in the past few years with outbreaks of measles and whooping cough.
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Post by christine58 on Nov 1, 2019 10:39:30 GMT
This is the first year ever I have gotten one. EVER..decided to this year because my dad is on a chemo pill for his life, I am filling in at my niece's inhome licensed day care for 2.5 weeks in November and a week in December. Also I am headed to my niece's in December to help her out with her new baby and 2 year old.
My mom can't get one as she had a HUGE reaction to it 10 years ago...ended up in the hospital for 5 days.
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Post by Merge on Nov 1, 2019 10:39:59 GMT
I work with kids. I get it every year. The school provides it for free.
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Post by gar on Nov 1, 2019 10:45:22 GMT
I’m in the UK but I have had one. Last year was the first time I had. I don’t really know why I changed my mind - maybe now having a grandson I spend a lot of time with.
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Post by monklady123 on Nov 1, 2019 10:47:28 GMT
Yes always. I work in a hospital so it's required, and they offer it. But I also work in an elementary school so even if I didn't have the hospital I'd still get it because those little kids are germ factories.
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Post by sueg on Nov 1, 2019 10:48:33 GMT
I get it every year. At first, because I was a teacher, and you need every little bit of protection from kid germs, and now because I am considered to be in a risk group for flu complications. Usually, the lab nurses at my diabetes clinic offer it to me at my appointment in late September, so I get it then, so as to avoid making a special visit. My DiL can’t get the vaccine as she has had a previous autoimmune illness, so the rest of us need to protect her as well.
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Post by peasapie on Nov 1, 2019 11:07:06 GMT
I started when I was teaching and have continued every year. I have a history of pneumonia and bronchitis and take every precaution not to get that again.
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Post by purplebee on Nov 1, 2019 11:11:15 GMT
Yes, I work at a Primary School, so of course I take advantage of the free immunization offered to students and employees. I have a co-worker who almost died from the flu a few years ago. Guess who refuses the flu shot because she "doesn't want that in her body." Duh.... She's not getting any of my sick time this year!
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Nov 1, 2019 11:12:16 GMT
I'm not sure I've missed a year since the early 1990s.
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Post by maryannscraps on Nov 1, 2019 11:16:15 GMT
I'm another one who always gets one. I didn't want it racing through my family when my kids were younger, then my husband was immunocompromised for years, and now my mom lives in senior housing. I don't want to get it or pass it along to anyone else.
Vaccination science is sound. Your chiropractor sounds like an idiot.
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Post by Linda on Nov 1, 2019 11:18:05 GMT
I'm high risk for complications so yes, I get it
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Post by AmandaA on Nov 1, 2019 11:37:12 GMT
I'm another one who always gets one. I didn't want it racing through my family when my kids were younger, then my husband was immunocompromised for years, and now my mom lives in senior housing. I don't want to get it or pass it along to anyone else. Vaccination science is sound. Your chiropractor sounds like an idiot. . Our entire family gets vaccinated every year. I suppose it helps protect us from people like your chiropractor 🤷🏻♀️. Seriously.. people can DIE from the flu, and not just the already sick or weak, so I will do my best not to be that person.
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Post by schizo319 on Nov 1, 2019 11:39:22 GMT
I do not. Not because I'm opposed to vaccinations, but because it seems like every year our area runs out of the flu vaccine and I don't feel comfortable taking one as a relatively healthy 40yo adult knowing it might leave one unavailable for children, the elderly, and immunocompromised. If there were a guaranteed supply every year, I wouldn't have a problem getting one.
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Post by kibblesandbits on Nov 1, 2019 11:45:32 GMT
No. Never. It's always in short supply here.
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Post by iluvpink on Nov 1, 2019 11:51:26 GMT
Yes, I don't see why not myself. Influenza can be very dangerous to some, even people who are knowingly healthy can die from it. Even when not deadly it can be extremely miserable and put you in bed for a week or two. As someone who has had the flu (not in many years) I will always get a flu shot. As a mother to a child with a compromised immune system, it's very important. I've been getting the shot for over 20 years now and have not had influenza since. I know it's not fail proof, but I would rather not take a chance. And if you get the shot and still get influenza, it can make it more mild. My daughter always gets the shot and did get influenza last year. Thankfully due to the shot, her doctor prescribing Xofluza and an antibiotic to avoid pneumonia, she was only down and out for less than a week and it really just seemed like a bad cold.
My sister had it probably five years ago. She's a generally healthy person, was in her late 30's. She was totally down and out for about a month after it turned into pneumonia. And it took a few more weeks before she was up to full speed. She's a teacher and was out of work the whole time (lucky for her, part of it fell over her Christmas break).
And FYI I hate how people call a stomach bug the flu. Two totally different things. In general Influenza is much more debilitating for longer and much more dangerous.
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Post by summer on Nov 1, 2019 11:55:11 GMT
I get the flu shot. I am diabetic and my doctor recommends me getting it. I haven't have the flu in many years thankfully. Interesting that some of you say it's in short supply in your area....that's never been an issue by me.
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Post by piebaker on Nov 1, 2019 12:12:11 GMT
We do every year. My older daughter has asthma and younger one was a micro-premmie so it made sense for all of us to have it for their benefit. One year the flu ran through their elementary school with multiple absences in both their classes, but they avoided it. That convinced me the shots were worth it.
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Post by bbkeef on Nov 1, 2019 12:20:37 GMT
I've only missed one year in the last 15 years and that's the year I had the flu and felt like I was going to die. My mom is on hospice in the nursing home, so now my goal is to protect all the people there if I can. I understand some people's reservations, but for me it's worth the small risk of a complication. Oddly, we met a man in a wheelchair while attending my nephew's play. He said he was paraplegic from a severe and very rare reaction to the flu shot. It wasn't Guillian Barre syndrome, but something super rare. He even told me that he would never tell people NOT to get the flu shot. It was just a weird case with his body he said.
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Post by mikklynn on Nov 1, 2019 12:28:58 GMT
Always, every year. I don’t only get flu shots for my own health, but for everyone else too. Staying up to date on immunizations (to the degree one is physically able) is a civic duty, imo, like voting. Herd immunity is crucial, as we have been finding out in the past few years with outbreaks of measles and whooping cough. Yes! I am getting mine today. I am a little later than usual, as I just finished my 2 shingles vaccines.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2019 12:30:28 GMT
Nope.
1. Allergy/immunology says not to.
2. The one time I had the flu, I had the shot 1 month earlier.
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Post by mimi3566 on Nov 1, 2019 12:38:01 GMT
Nope....never have and I've never had the flu. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Post by jassy on Nov 1, 2019 12:41:33 GMT
Yes! My at the time very healthy 3 year old nearly died from Influenza A in 2004. Went from sniffles to a collapsed lung in less than 24 hours. Spent one week in our PICU, and was *this close* to being put on an ECMO.
The flu can kill; We will never EVER miss a flu shot again. I did not get the shot for my kids that year, and the guilt of that still haunts me and my son is 18 years old.
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Post by Patter on Nov 1, 2019 12:50:02 GMT
Absolutely get it every.single.year. I do it for my daughters with health issues. I do it for myself. I do it to protect others. Too many reasons TO do it than not IMO. My entire family gets it every year. We used to go together. It was kind of fun. But now we all have to do it when we can. Hubby got his at work. DD#2 gave it to her fellow medical students who then gave her one. DD#3 got it on her own at Publix. DD#1 got it on her own at Publix also. I too went to Publix. Why did we all go to Publix? Because you basically get paid to get the flu shot. The shot is free (with all of our various insurance plans), and they give you a $10 GC to the store when you get one! Can't beat that! We all got our early this year (in September) because that's what our doctor's advised this year.
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Post by christine58 on Nov 1, 2019 12:51:11 GMT
Oh and to the person who sent me a message...I KNOW full well to have the whooping cough updated and did a couple years ago. I am very well aware about infants and whooping cough
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Post by freecharlie on Nov 1, 2019 12:51:44 GMT
Yes. Most years. We usually get it late because the kids sports and someone gets sick around the time we want to get it.
We got it early this year as my brother has cancer and is on a chemo drug and we wanted it fully working before we see him.
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Post by cakediva on Nov 1, 2019 12:53:22 GMT
I work by myself in my home, so I've never seen the need.
But this year as I'm over 50, the doctor suggested it when I was there for a BP check. I opted to get it because I'm dealing with elderly parents. DH's parents are not in great health, and while my mom is, I would rather be safe than sorry.
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Post by yivit on Nov 1, 2019 12:59:10 GMT
I do. My BFF's mom is in a nursing home and I go fairly regularly to see her so for that scenario it's as much for me as it is her. I also work in a room that's a shotgun shack of cubicles and I have coworkers with school age kids, one with a newborn and one who is pregnant. In that scenario it's more protecting me because kids bring germs home, give them to the parents, and then they come in breathing and coughing on me.
I haven't gotten mine yet this year. They give them free at work and there was a delay in delivery. I think the immunization drive is next week though.
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