<p>I just don’t understand it. People don’t seem to know about it. Anyone can walk in and get it, without even being in the risk groups. I haven’t gone because I don’t feel right about it. Is this another example of our government’s incompetance?</p>
<p>It’s being given at our local university and there aren’t even any students getting it, so the university couldn’t have notified anyone.</p>
<p>People are freaking out here- I have asthma but haven’t gotten it, because I haven’t heard of any place where it is in stock.</p>
<p>An enterprising person could start a medical tourism business. For a set fee, they could pick up people at the airport, take them to the daily clinic location, and then back to the airport. Meanwhile, all our city’s uninformed miss their chances.</p>
<p>Wow! I stood in line six hours last Thursday, but it was the first day the vaccines were available in our county, and since I’m leaving the country tonight, I didn’t want to take any risks that they’d all be gone by the time I return… which was a good intuition; they only lasted two days until the state sends the next shipment. We joked while in line that someone could go over to McDonalds, buy 100 hamburgers, bring them over to the vaccine line and ask double what you paid for them. Or hot chocolate, or whatever. There was a lot of money to be made, but they’re all gone now. They only had 1350 vaccines the first day of our clinic, and 400 the second before they ran out.</p>
<p>You were supposed to be a high risk, but they didn’t ask anyone what their high risk was.</p>
<p>emeraldkitty, for what it is worth, I too am asthmatic and had H1N1 , along with my 12 year old daughter…I am not going to tell you that is was a day at the beach , but thankfully my asthma was not aggravated. I took tamiflu , but my daughter did not and she had had a longer recovery period…she has been back in school for a week and still is fatigued , but other than that we are relieved that we are out of the woods and feel a bit immune now</p>
<p>EK- Group Health has the flu mist.</p>
<p>I don’t think you are supposed to receive the flu mist if you have an “underlying condition.”</p>
<p>mafool is correct. No one with asthma should get the FluMist vaccine. Wait for the shot.</p>
<p>I need to book a flight to Toledo (I assume that’s where you are).</p>
<p>I got the not unexpected news at work yesterday that our H1N1 shot clinic is canceled. S was supposed to get his shot at school, but they are also canceling. Pediatrician’s office has a very few doses. S has asthma so I would like for him to get it.</p>
<p>I think this whole thing is kind of scary! I saw a segment on 60 minutes this past sunday where a hs football player had h1n1 and was hooked up to all these machines and still going through physical therapy a couple of months later. So sad! How does this happen? Some people have no side effects and this poor boy…life changing! I guess it is called life!
I think waiting in such a long line for the h1n1 shot could put you more at risk for getting it. I think I would probably take advantage of the no line vaccine!</p>
<p>What that boy had and what kills most people with H1N1 is superimposed bacterial pneumonia. That is why if you are on the mend or develop sudden severe respiratory symptoms you need to go to the doctor or ER ASAP. It is why it is so important for asthmatics to get the vaccine and be on Tamiflu if exposed. If you are an asthmatic or live with one, if one member gets H1N1 the asthmatic should go on Tamiflu, the prophylactic dose.
They also anticipate that the disease will become more severe as the flu season progresses. Don’t take this one lightly.</p>
<p>H1n1 vaccine is still in short supply in Florida. As a health care provider, I have received the regular flu shot but not H1N1. There have been 2 health dept clinics in our county, but they are trying to get kids and pregnant women even before health care providers based on the timing of clinics and locations. The hospital has not received any H1N1 vaccine yet.</p>
<p>In Tallahassee, home of FSU, the health dept set their high risk parameters as ages 2-18 NOT 20 or 21 as they did not want to have their limited supply depleted by the sheer number of college students, despite their high risk status. And the U does not yet have H1N1 and depleted their supply of seasonal flu vaccine in 2 hours during the first 4 hour flu shot session. Frustrating.</p>
<p>Everyone here has already had the flu–too late for the shot. Now the school district is giving shots to high risk groups. (Illnesses and absences peaked about 3 weeks ago.)</p>
<p>D is a 1st year med student. The med school she attends gave the M3s and M4s the shot, as they are seeing patients, but not the M1s and M2s, who do not yet see patients. The M1s and M2s are not high enough priority to warrant a shot.</p>
<p>UCF in Orlando just got 1500 doses of the H1N1 Flu mist (no injections as of yet). They are giving them out to students and faculty on a first come first serve basis. I am waiting to hear back from my daughter’s GI doctor as to whether she CAN have the live nasal mist since she has a chronic GI condition (which has been in remission for 3 years). She is flying across the country for Thanksgiving and I really want her immune to H1N1 before she gets on a 6 hour flight!</p>
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<p>With my job, I occasionally have to go into hospitals to visit with families. Last weekend, I was in the MICU one of our local hospitals, and they were preparing to intubate a woman with H1N1 (this is not a huge hospital) who was probably about my age or younger. Every now and then I’d overhear the staff talking about it, or I’d walk past the room and overhear someone educating this woman’s husband on the disease. She was working very, very hard to breathe and they knew she wouldn’t last, so they were proactively intubating her. The doctor also said that they’ve seen many of these patients decline very, very quickly, which is why they were taking these steps. Of course, what I don’t know, is whether this woman had any underlying medical conditions. Of course there were signs on the door for droplet precautions, and the mask that they had to wear when entering the room looked incredibly uncomfortable, and I would imagine any visitor or staff member not wanting to keep it on for very long. It is the closest I’ve been to a known case of H1N1, especially one that was so serious. I am now five days after my vaccine, so just nine more to go until I’m fully protected.</p>
<p>GI doc gave daughther the thumbs up to get the flumist. Whew. She got a voucher to go back to the student health clinic and get her vaccine on Friday. She texted me last night, worried that she had already had the seasonal flu shot in Sept. I assured her that it is fine. I know of some people who got both in the same day (a seasonal flu shot and a H1n1 flumist).</p>
<p>My husband, an OB/GYN received an early shipment of the vaccine for his patients. At the time they were ordered, it was thought patients would need 2 doses, not the one that is now recommended. What this means is he has double the doses he needs for his patients. His hospital vaccinated the doctors 3 weeks ago, and my family all got their’s last week.</p>
<p>While my parents are not in a high risk group due to their age, their doctor said since they has access to the vaccine, to go ahead and get it. Unfortunately, my dad has been sick this week so they decided to wait until he felt better. My daughter had friends over last night so my husband offered shots to both; one girl took him up on the offer after calling her mom the nurse!! My medical student son joked about selling the vaccine since we seem to have plenty. Actually, my husband is offering it to all patients, not just the pregnant ones.</p>