Flu Shot?

[rcomito]

I got mine.

Rick

[RMM]

Flu shot ? Now your talking my language. I'm a Registered Pharmacist and a Certified Immunizer and give Flu, Zostavax (shingles), Tdap (tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis), Pneumovax (pneumonia), & Recombivax all day long.

However, I've never taken a flu shot myself. Not because I believe in some crazy conspiracy that it makes you sick or causes autism, but, because I've never had the flu.

My opinion is, if you healthy and under 65 you probably do not need it. If you are allergic to eggs or chickens, you do not want to get a regular flu shot.

If you are: diabetic, immune compromised or on immune system compromising medications, around a pregnant women, smoke, are a child care worker, live in a residential facility, have asthma/ heart disease/COPD you may want to get it.

Most Drs will tell everyone to get a flu shot, as they are very safe and often free. A LOT of places that GIVE the shot are under tremendous PRESSURE to "use up all their shots" as they are no good once the season is done. Nobody wants to be left with extra shots, keep that in mind if someone is recommending one to you.

You can not get the Flu from a flu shot. You can feel fatigued or sore at the injection site for a few days after receiving one.

People who say they "get the flu from a flu shot" are usually people who WAIT to long into glue season to get one. What can happen is, you can catch the flu from regular sources during the 2-3 week window it takes to build up flu antibodies after receiving a shot.

Also there is NO mercury in ANY flu shot. Most of the shots given do not even have a preservative in them.

The flu shot is very important if you are or are around anyone who is immune compromised. I have been battling cancer the past year and my doctors don't want me to even get out of the house during flu season, due to the risk of infection.

Regardless, the vaccine can help mitigate the severity of the symptoms if you do contract influenza. It is impossible to get the flu from the vaccine - it is a dead virus that they are injecting. What is more likely is that people that feel symptoms following the flu shot are feeling the immune response to the injection. While this can mimic flu symptoms, it is not the flu. You may feel like crap, but you won't be transmitting the disease to anyone because you don't have it!

My advice, get the shot. It takes five minutes, it's cheap (as said often free), and helps protect you and your family. The odds are so overwhelmingly in your favor that you won't even notice a thing after you get it. Play the numbers game!

[source: Chair of Infectious Disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center (close personal friend)]

These are the two best posts in this thread.

I also work in the Health Industry and I am used to hear a lot of "stories" about vaccination. They are all unfounded!

[Flash Gordon]

Need to send this thread to my family and friends who try to hound me into getting the flu/covid shots just to prove that my reasons aren't political.

[Tasmania]

Real men get a flu shot!

[opie]

Real men get a flu shot!

Ha, im guessing your doctor tells you that.
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[Flash Gordon]

Real men get a flu shot!

Really? Because I have testicles and I have never have gotten the flu shot
I've also NEVER had the flu despite regularly washing cars in 30° weather.
How do you explain that?

[SameGuy]

Got my first flu shot last month (not counting the mass H1N1 vax campaign in 2009), the quadrivalent jab that’s being hailed as the most effective seasonal vax in decades. Got it at the same time as my fifth Covid shot (bivalent Pfizer), ZERO side effects from either.

[Flash Gordon]

Real men get a flu shot!

Got my first flu shot last month (not counting the mass H1N1 vax campaign in 2009), the quadrivalent jab that’s being hailed as the most effective seasonal vax in decades. Got it at the same time as my fifth Covid shot (bivalent Pfizer), ZERO side effects from either.

Do either of you believe the shots should be mandatory? This is not a trick question. Just curious

[SameGuy]

Flu? No. But I’m also not against the idea, and I’d get it if my employer or workplace (distinct entities) required it. I did need the Covid shots to keep working, and I was glad for that.

[Bosko]

fever of 102...came out go knowheresee ta on the other side