I get a flu vaccine every year (I had the flu one time and never ever want to do it again) hopefully this years vaccine is better targeted but I think ithe flu vaccine is a must!
http://www.11alive.com/story/life/2015/08/31/flu-vaccine-georgias-aging-and-disability-resource-connection/71463918/
I never had a flu shot, I haven’t been sick because of the flu for 10 years. It’s all due to healthy eating I think. I do wish people who get sick stay home.
very funny!
I’m working this fall…and my employer gives flu shots to anyone who wants them. I’ll be getting one!
Great reminder, @zobroward ! Many universities give them to students for free . . . be sure to check your local campus health center/student health (or whatever your school calls it).
Boy, that came around fast. I feel like I just got one. Where did the year go?
Berkeley already has first case of measles…blaming public transit…
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Berkeley-student-has-measles-put-in-isolation-6477224.php
Oh no, my kid was visiting her friend at Berkeley this weekend.
I get the flu shot because I know nobody will take care of me while I’m sick and hubby takes public transortation so I figure he is probably exposed every year. I always get the intra-dermal needle. No arm muscle pain! I recently got the TDap shot and my arm hurt a few days later, but not bad. The pharmacist said he used a very thin needle. I’ll go to him if I can’t get intra-derma for the flu shot. He didn’t have it in stock yet.
The side effect I have gotten from the flu shot I also recently got from the TDap shot. My lymph node ,on the side I get the shot on, near my collar bone swells and is tender. I hate it but with a new grandson coming in 2 weeks I’ll have to get the flu shot too. The lymph node made me nervous, but it has happened several years now and always goes back down. I was finally able to find on the internet that it is a reaction that some people get to vaccines. Does this mean my immune response is high or low?
I had to get the mmr shot after S1, I tested negative for antibodies while pregnant. I wonder if all our childhood shots wear off? Speaking of that, my kids got the chicken pox shot because S1 had asthma and they said chicken pox would be bad for him. S2 got it because S1 was afraid so S2 got it to show him its no big deal! (at ages 4 and 7). Now will they have to remember their whole adult life to get the shot every 10 years? Its worse to get CP as an adult. Wish they’d just gotten CP.
Here are the flu strains for this year’s vaccine in the northern hemisphere:
A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)pdm09-like
A/Switzerland/9715293/2013 (H3N2)-like (different from last year)
B/Phuket/3073/2013-like (different from last year)
Quadrivalent flu vaccines also include this strain:
B/Brisbane/60/2008-like
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/vaccine-selection.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_annual_reformulations_of_the_influenza_vaccine
Our D also had her MMR titer checked and needed to get a new shot of MMR, so she won’tget it if exposed when she returns to CA. She’s also going to get a TDAP, as it was been 10 years since her last one. It was different, getting the shots at the CVS Minute Clinic, as they have the vaccine and the MDs don’t. There was no co–pay or charge for us.
The MD recommended that D only have one shot and then wait a week for her next vaccine, as her health is a bit fragile and no point in pushing things. It’s working out OK for us.
I got my flu shot at Costco last year. I had an appointment at our usual health center, but they were back logged and I left after waiting for 45 minutes. Ridiculous!
I had to pay at Costco but it was only $9.99 and I only waited about 30 seconds.
I had that swine flu that went around a few years ago, it was the most horrible, wretched I have ever felt. I never want to ever feel that way again if I can avoid it for $20.00.
Also, D1 had it when she was in kindergarten, and got pneumonia afterwards. It was so scary. She will definitely be getting hers when it is available.
My PCP allows morning walk-ins with no wait. My insurance pays for it completely and my moonlighting job pays me $20 to get it for the safety of our elderly clients.
But my main reason for getting it is remembering my brother-in-law who died from complications with flu at age 39. After desperate measures to safe him by amputating his arms and legs.
The flu is a horrible horrible disease. Anyone I know who has ever had the flu gets a flu shot without fail. Why in the world wouldn’t you get a flu shot?
Ummmm, no. It’s all due to not having encountered the flu virus and, perhaps. to careful hand washing.
veryhappy,
I agree with you 100% but I think dr google was making a joke about the healthy eating relating to another thread. I may be wrong but me thinks dr google was not being serious with that statement.
@VeryHappy Some people have severe reactions to the flu shot, even after many, many successful years of vaccination. Trust me, someone close to me lives with this daily. I would rather be extremely ill for 2 weeks every year than live the rest of my life with a debilitating and/or agonizing side effect. However, I am not anti-vax, and fully support vaccinating for dangerous childhood illnesses. To me, it’s a risk/benefit thing.
I wanted to let you know why in the world someone wouldn’t get a flu shot. Not trying to be argumentative or confrontational…just informative.
@3boystogo: What was your friend’s (family member’s?) reaction to the vaccine?
@VeryHappy I’d rather not go into details here. I hope you understand.
Thanks for explaining that! I don’t get out much. (Read all the threads.)
Also, OP, thanks for the reminder. I’ll make an appointment today.