<p>Both DD’s got H1N1 and seasonal flu shots. DH and I only got seasonal as H1N1 was not available to us here until now. We are both going tomorrow to the local pharmacy to get the shot. DD’s good friend was sick for 12 days over Christmas break with confirmed H1N1 and I saw a neighbor of mine on New Years Eve walking his dogs and said he had been down for two weeks with confirmed H1N1.</p>
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<p>The flu shot is made of a killed virus. Killed viruses cannot replicate, therefore they cannot cause the flu. It is possible to get the flu even after having the shot if you are exposed to the virus before your body has had the chance to produce sufficient antibodies. You can get the flu in spite of having the shot as no vaccine is 100%. You can get the flu in spite of having the shot if you are exposed to a flu virus that is different from the targeted strain in the vaccine.</p>
<p>You can get the flu in spite of having had the shot, but you cannot get the flu because you had the shot.</p>
<p>Not getting the shot. Everyone already had the flu back in Sept.- Oct.</p>
<p>I encouraged my daughter to get her H1N1 vaccine at her university, but she didn’t seem too interested. That is, until someone she knows got it (a freshman, healthy young woman), ended up on life support for almost a month, and passed away from it right before Christmas. My daughter got the mist the day after she heard that the young woman had gone on life support. We were all pretty upset to hear that the student didn’t make it. She put up a valiant fight, though.</p>
<p>I always get the seasonal flu shot. With limited supplies of H1N1, I was unable to get one back in the fall. Fortunately, S with asthma was able to get this shot at school. </p>
<p>Now, our local pharmacy is advertising they have it - finally, months after the fact.</p>
<p>how do i start my own post?</p>
<p>Sasha, just responded to your private message.</p>
<p>But it looks like you figured it out, since you posted a response on the thread.</p>
<p>Did you want to start a new topic, instead?</p>
<p>which forum do you want to start a topic in?</p>
<p>If it is here in the Parent cafe, then click up above the topic title, near the top of the screen. There is “parent cafe” in blue. Click on it. Then it has a list of several different threads, and in the upper left hand part of the screen, it says “Start new thread”. Click on it. Name your thread. Start typing your post.</p>
<p>[The</a> Official Word to All, Get a Swine Flu Vaccination - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/health/policy/08flu.html?hpw]The”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/health/policy/08flu.html?hpw)</p>
<p>This story was in today’s NYTimes. The CDC is urging all everyone to get the H1N1 flu shot now.</p>
<p>It is very personal decision. I told my D. that I cannot advise her on that and will support whatever she decides. I believe that nobody can advise anybody, let alone complete strangers.</p>
<p>I am on chemo and wanted my D to be vaccinated as she was in the prime age group and my condition. Then I was a ble toobtain one when it was ok. i felt flu like for a bit but think it was from my condition D had no ill effects. My daughter in college had issues obtaining the shot and got flumist though I would have preferred the shot. H never does. My aunt has told me her hospital expects a 3rd wave in february. She got vaccinated but felt flulike for a week but she is recovering from shingles. Its difficult because you dont want one more thing when you are already sick but I think in a weakend immune system you do feel it more. I am glad we got it. My D is going overseas and I don not want that to worry about too. This has been a scary flu i advocate it.</p>
<p>I’m 49 and not in the “tier 1”(I think that’s the correct term?)group, so the H1N1 vaccine has only recently been made available in my area for my age group. I just got the shot this morning at my county’s board of health. I got the seasonal flu vaccine back in September, with no complications.</p>
<p>D2 got the the H1N1 flu mist vaccine last month, and had some relatively mild flu-like symptoms for a day or two, but she’s glad to have obtained the vaccine. D3 got the H1N1 shot around the same time with no side effects. All three of my kids got the seasonal vaccine this September/October with no problems.</p>
<p>All in all, I’m in favor of getting vaccinated.</p>
<p>We all got the H1N1 and regular seasonal flu shots.
Both sons got theirs at their colleges.
Husband and I got both too.</p>
<p>None of us had any side effects from the H1N1 vaccine or has had either flu!!!</p>
<p>We aren’t vaccine people-so no.</p>
<p>Considering that US Government contracted and guarantee’s Sanofi to develop and produce the vaccine in US Government’s own facility; And that the vaccine has a limited self-life; And that the distributors, retailers are making a terrific profit in administering the vaccine. without liability exposure;</p>
<p>You might as well get the stuff. It’s already been paid for.</p>
<p>The H1N1 vaccine we got was made by Novartis. It looks like it is manufactured in NC.</p>
<p>Everyone in the family took the regular seasonal flu shot, plus my college age son took the H1N1 (though I think he may have had it before he got the vaccination).</p>
<p>DH and I got the seasonal shot but not the H1N1. Outbreaks seem to have really slowed down here, and even though I am in healthcare, I am holding off on the additional vaccine and using hand sanitizer a lot. Hopefully that will suffice. I advised ds’s to get flushots-- doubt either one did.</p>
<p>I am wildly allergic to eggs so I cannot get flu vaccines. But H and both sons have had both the seasonal and the H1N1. The herd immunity is personal around here.</p>
<p>$8/innoculated plus any liability
“The federal government has spent $2 billion to buy about 250 million doses of vaccine and has pledged to buy enough to immunize every American if there is enough demand.”</p>
<p>[Hospitals</a> in Indianapolis, Memphis Are First to Receive Swine Flu Vaccine - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100501019.html]Hospitals”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100501019.html)</p>