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#1 ·
any of you ever get sick from a flu shot?
 
#3 ·
Nope, never, been getting a flu shot every year for years, same for the wife, never got sick, maybe an achy arm, but rarely. Getting one at Kaiser has always been quick and easy, but this year was a little different, Kaiser decided to have a fire drill just as we(wife and I) stepped into the treatment room. :tango_face_surprise 30 minutes later we were back in and got the injections.

Tim
 
#5 ·
Me too, the worst case of the flu that I ever got was for 4 days immediately after getting the shot. I won't do that again. I work in a grade school where the flu runs rampant this time of year but I never get it. I guess my immune system is strong from lots of exposure.....maybe?
 
#6 ·
I know if I get a sniffle about 2 or 3 days after volunteering at the VA I take a Oil of Oregano gel capsule and I don't get sick, nothing "settles in".
Living in a rural area we are not exposed to the "crud" till we go to a city and I.C. gets everyone from everywhere, and then the VA does as well.
 
#7 ·
This year I felt horrible for a day after the shot. Just aches and exhausted feeling. Don't know if it was the shot or not. Never any ill effects before and I will continue getting it after skipping last year and ending up sick for 2 weeks.
 
#8 ·
When I got the inhaled version (a couple times before 50), I got the sniffles, but it was no big deal. I've had bad colds, none that were diagnosed as the flu, but if flu is worse than a bad cold I don't want it, so I'll keep getting my shots.
 
#9 ·
When the flu shots first came out the company I worked for sent a nurse around to every area and every employee had to have one. No lost time from flu for our workers. It backfired and every one at my area came down with the flu and the company flu shot went away. Fast forward a lot of years and a different company and I was asked at my annual physical if I had gotten my flu shot. Doctor and I had a discussion about flu shots. He explained the difference between the old and new vaccines and since he had been my family doctor for many years I trusted him and took the shot with no ill effects. My wife and I have received the shot ever since with no ill effects and they don't even hurt when injected. This year we got the super shot and could tell no difference than the regular shot. No pain, no side effects, no nothing really except removing the band aid they stick on you.
 
#11 ·
In my life I’ve had the flu three or four times and it sucks. Got the flu shot last year for the first time in decades. I’ll be passing on it this year.
 
#12 ·
Thank you, I appreciate the feed back, I question the vaccination after vaccination path of living, still, from the time of the civil war to today, in the service, every group gets sick, then gets better. It has been years for me to be sick, I do believe mega vitamin C and a gel cap of oil of oregano, as the spirit leads if I have a sneeze or sniffle has driven off a lot of "crud".
Best wishes
 
#13 · (Edited)
I got the flu shot ever since my heart valve replacement, and just felt a little "blahhhh" for two or three days. They say the flu shot can't make you sick because it's a "weakened/dead virus".

Fast forward.... Heart failure started getting worse and the cardiologist prescribed a different pacemaker and new wires into the heart. Dangereous surgery, but it went well. Unfortunately one of the current superbugs came home from the hospital with me, and kept coming back time and again at the conclusion of antibiotic therapy.

Finally! Gone! But now it's flu shot time. No problem, been getting them for years!
Three days after the shot, my superbug retuned! The infectius disease specialist said the flu shot triggered it!

After a full nine months of antibiotics I'm over the bug....again....at least for now.

Yes, the flu shot can make you sick, just not with the flu!

Never getting one again!!!!!
 
#14 · (Edited)
when I was young when the first opportunitys to get flu shots came to be I got sick the first two years. Im talking cant leave the toliet for two days sick. I swore off them and it wasn't till my 30s that I tried again and ive been getting them ever since. Last time is said this I was called a lier on here but I haven't had a cold or flu that I can recall in the last 20 years. Good living? Working outside? Staying in pretty good shape?? Don't know why. My wife gets them at least once a year and surely drags germs home because she the lead admitting clerk at the local hospital but it just doesn't seem to effect me. My grandpa was the same. He was a logger and said he never got sick until he retired and stayed inside more and wasn't as fit anymore. Funny thing was I thought just last week my streak was over. woke up about 2am coughing and spent about an hour on the toilet. But went back to sleep and woke up went to the gym and worked out and took a sauna and felt great. I know they claim its impossible to get sick from that shot. Unless your already infect with the virus before you take the shot. I think oldandslow hit on it. I think the first years it gave troubles but they have it straightened out now. I even got the pneumonia shot last year. that you don't have to take every year. If that little pick in the arm keeps me for being sick for a week id say id have to be pretty stupid to not take it. Not to is about as dumb as not getting your child vaccinated because you trust God to take care of it. God guided the hand of the man who created these vaccines. I guess I think of it like this. Its a rare doctor that recommends you DONT have one. I don't ask my doctor about God and don't as my priest about the flu and don't ask for medical advice on the internet from a bunch of guys like me that made it to the 12th grade. :tango_face_smile_bi
 
#15 ·
This is a discussion. I have a hard time trusting an industry that makes a huge profit off of these shots and other drugs that has been dishonest in the past. I realize the flu shot varies in effectiveness from year to year as they are guessing what strain will be prevalent. My wife and kids get vaccinated. I choose not to for no other reason then I don’t want it. I am also more aware of people coughing and sneezing around me and do a better job of washing my hands including how things I pick up from anywhere (like various stores) have been handled multiple times and treat them accordingly.
 
#16 ·
We had a resident hall manager who, if he observed students coughing and sneezing, would go upstairs to his apartment and put water on the stove and put some bleach in it, his theory was the air in a swimming pool room was very clean because of the chloring in the air. Every school year when the kids get back together seems everybody got the crud, 1st of the year, after Christmas break, etc.
 
#18 ·
I've been under the weather after I got the "Flu shot" one of the worse times was after the mandatory swine flu shot for that I ended up sick for a few weeks and missed work... That one really sucked. Other than getting a flu shot in last 30 some years I've not been sick, less than 12 times with a flu or cold if I'm not mistaking.
 
#19 · (Edited)
I have gotten the flu shot every year since they first started. For the previous two years, they didn't seem to have been very effective, because my wife and I had multiple bouts of serious upper respiratory problems. I asked the doctor about that and he said that they missed the mark for a couple of years and the shots were about useless. He also said that flu bugs mutate very quickly and we were getting new versions and not repetitions.

Anyway, this year (2019) we both got the super shot, It didn't bother my wife, but I got a real sore arm and felt kind of puny after the shot. I went to bed early and woke up the next day feeling fine. My wife is trying to shake off a cold, otherwise we're good.
 
#20 ·
Can't say I've gotten sick from a flu shot. What I can say, however is that I've had the flu one time in the last twenty years. I've also had a flu shot one time in the last twenty years. Can you guess if it was the same year for both?
 
#22 ·
My stepson has cerebral palsy. He goes to the CP center during the day. A lot of interaction includes hand to mouth, accidental spills of saliva and urine on shared surfaces, unwashed hands, and things like that. He has gotten the flu twice, it became life-threatening, and he was hospitalized both times. Since we dedicated to all three of us getting flu shots, none of us has gotten the flu in 12 years. I had high exposure to people and contagions as a police officer, so there was a high likelihood that either Luke or me would bring the bug home. We have had good success having annual flu shots.
 
#25 ·
I don't bother with the flu shots because I always get a 3 day flu from it. Oh yeah, my buddies tell me it's not the 'flu' but similar symptoms resulting from the shot that will protect you from the flu. Bull____! the strains developed to protect you this year were developed from last year's flu strains and don't work (all that well) against this year's flu, so it is really a waste of time (imo). And, the dang things always gave me a reaction. I don't care if I reacted to the main component or one of the others - it is the simple fact that I react to the dang things, suffer flu like symptoms (the flu) for 2-3 days, so in the past 27 or so years I have refused the shot I have not gotten the flu. I will get a winter cold, but not the flu. Fine with me.

Found out from my doctor that the best thing I can do to avoid the flu and the 'necessity' for getting a shot, is to stay healthy and to stay away from crowds and sick people and take over the counter stuff for any symptoms you develop. Buenos luck....
 
#26 ·
I've gotten it a few times and never had an issue, but since my aunt almost died from getting it I have sworn it off. Two days after she received the shot she started coming down with Guillain-Barre, which is a condition where all of your nerves die off outside of your brain and spinal column and you are paralyzed, she was put on a ventilator and could not move a muscle. She could hear everything and was coherent, but could not even blink. I thought she was going to die for sure and so did she. Her nerves grew back but it took a long time and she had to learn to walk again as well as everything else.

Guillain-Barre is of course rare, but it common enough that the government has a fund that they pay out to people who get it from the flu shot... And who knows, maybe there is a genetic disposition to it, so no thank you...

And since it increases the risk of Alzheimer's I do not see the risk/reward being worth it. All this and that it's not always effective.

Oh and research the ingredients in the flu shot and tell me you want that injected into you...
 
#27 ·
I get a flue shot once a year and so far, for the past 6 years, I haven't gotten the flue. If I get a cold or flue, I go into a bad asthma attack.



I thought I had gotten the flu that's going around recently and the asthma attack that followed put me in the hospital. I had been procrastinating about getting the shot and I was sure I had waited too long. It turns out I didn't have the flue but I could have gotten some other respiratory virus. Anyway it was bad enough that I was hospitalized for 5 days.


I can't skip getting the flue shot again. I don't need that kind of breathing problem again...


BTW, one of my college professors said in a lecture (many years ago) that every strain of the flu has been traced to a 50 mile radius in China... If that's true, that's one seriously cursed piece of ground...



Tony
 
#28 ·
Eleven people in NC have died this week of flu. One was a young child near me. I don’t like those odds. The risk in not doing anything is probably greater than taking the shot.

Had a first cousin contract Guillian Barre at about age 14. Would have been about 1967. Did we have flu shots back then? He recovered in about a year.
 
#29 ·
Not the only way you get Guillian Barre.

Guillain-Barré syndrome may be triggered by:
Most commonly, infection with campylobacter, a type of bacteria often found in undercooked poultry
Influenza virus
Cytomegalovirus
Epstein-Barr virus
Zika virus
Hepatitis A, B, C and E
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS
Mycoplasma pneumonia
Surgery
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Rarely, influenza vaccinations or childhood vaccinations

They say rarely for vaccinations, but it happens enough that the government has a fund to pay out to people that get it from vaccinations. I'm sure it's extremely rare, but who knows if it has a hereditary link and since my aunt got it, I'll take the under. I read the other day that the shot this year is way off the mark anyway...
 
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