Who's getting the flu shot?

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I work in the grocery store and every year at this time, we do the “good” deed of giving flu shots. we have nurses come in and a lot of the elderly people from near by nursing homes come in to get the shot. it’s pretty cheep and easy to do.

I don’t know, I just feel wierd about the flu shot. after reading a lot of stuff about vaccines, I’m not crazy about them to begin with and it seems silly to try and vaccinate everyone for the flu when there are like billions of different strains of the flu. I can sort of understand why eldery people get it. especially if they live in nursing homes. but everyone at work is looking at me like I’m nuts because I’m not getting it. I’ll take my chances with good newtrition and prayer, rather than have some unknown chemicals injected into my arm. am I alone here? I know there are a lot of “wierd” people like me on here, so I was wondering what you folks do. do you get “the shot”?

I know too many people who have gotten the flu FROM the flu shot! so it just seems like a huge waste of money and time to me.
 
Not I…and not my kiddies.
We have never gotten the flu…but that can because we cover our mouths/noses when we cough/ sneeze and we use hot water and soap to wash our hands often.
To me it a waste of money unless you are in one of the groups that they recommend get it (elderly, etc.)
 
My company provides free flu shots for all employees, so I will probably get one. I got sick from it the first year that I got one, but since then it has kept me flu-free.

Now, if I could just get rid of this never ending cough that I have had for almost 2 months.
 
Not us. We rarely get the flu, in fact, I can’t even remember the last time I got it. We up the vit c and vit d during flu season and keep our hands clean. And no, I would never give that vax to my kiddos. Aluminum (not to mention mercury) goes straight to the brain. That’s not something I want in my kids’ bodies year after year.
 
SueKrum said:
Hi,
I I know there are a lot of “wierd” people like me on here, so I was wondering what you folks do. do you get “the shot”?

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Every year, for quite some years. 👍 Nothing to show for it except that I have never had the flu. I work at the Post Office, and colds and flus sweep through the workplace on a regular basis. They pass me by. (Washing hands frequently also helps.)
:rolleyes:
 
I’m not in any high risk group, but when I get the flu I am out of commission for literally two weeks. We’re talking don’t get out of bed, lose my voice, sleep all day, cough all night sick.

I have never gotten sick from the flu shot, and have never gotten the flu in a season when I was able to get the shot. It’s totally worth it for me.

My husband does not get it because it carries a small risk of developing Guillion-Barret syndrome, which is very serious. His dad had this before DH was born, and has permanent nerve damage in his calves and feet, and will never be able to walk normally again barring a miracle.
 
Its a common myth that you can get the flu from the flu shot.

“The flu shot contains dead viruses. The nasal-spray vaccine contains live but weakened viruses. You cannot get the flu from the flu shot or the nasal-spray vaccine.”
familydoctor.org/x2084.xml#3

I work in healthcare so its pretty important that I get the flu shot. I wouldn’t want to get the flu in the first place, nor would I want to pass it on to already ill/weakened patients!
 
I will be getting the flu shot because when I get the flu I am sick in bed for a minimum of two weeks. I have never gotten sick from a flu shot and have only caught the flu once in the same season as getting a flu shot. My husband did not get a flu shot and he was sick for three weeks. I was sick for 3 days that year. Hopefully this year there will not be such a shortage of flu vaccine.
 
After being as sick as a dog for about 10 days last year with my first flu ever, I will be getting a shot this year.
 
kaj3 said:
I thought they had taken mercury out of vaccines?
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Not the flu shot. 25 mcgs of mercury.

From what I’ve read, all vaccines still have mercury in them. But they can call them mercury-free because only a “trace amount” exists. So most of it’s out, just not all of it.
 
Yes, we’re getting the shot. I want my baby protected as much as possible, plus if I were to get the flu it would severely exacerbate my abdominal hernia. So I pray we are flu and respiratory-infection free this fall and winter!
 
As a nurse, I can tell you that you cannot get the flu from the shot.
In case the bird flu comes this way, which it probably will, you are much more likely to be protected if you have been vaccinated against the normal flu. The 1918 flu killed thousands of healthy young people, and a pandemic may arrive again any year.

Vaccines do have a trace of mercury, but the risk of that is negligible compared to the high death rate from measles, whooping cough, diptheria, mumps, polio, rubella and hepatitis B, all of which we should vaccinate our children against. The more who are vaccinated, the smaller the pool of people who can contract these diseases and pass them on to others.
The death rate from these diseases was enormous before the vaccines were invented.
Please, if you plan not to vaccinate your children, inform yourselves thoroughly, and talk to your doctor.
 
I probably won’t, unless I happen to be somewhere where they’re giving it for free. I am pretty hardy, practice good preventive health, and have never gotten any year’s flu.
Dacinom said:
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT INFLUENZA (FLU) IS NOT THE STOMACH-FLU THAT SO MANY THINK THAT IT IS. When you vomit for a few days and feel icky that is NOT the flu. With the flu you do not usually vomit but are VERY sick for weeks and many die. Just thought I would toss that in, in case someone didn’t know.
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True dat. The correct term for so-called “stomach flu” is gastro-enteritis.

DaveBj
 
The “cure” is worse than the disease…

Unless you’re very young, or very old, or have a “weak” constitution I’d roll the dice…
 
Ordinarily I wouldn’t, but as one of my fellow students reminded me, we’re attached to a big hospital complex. Everyone gets sick in the winter, apparently, and I can’t afford to miss a week of school (which is how much work I missed when I had the flu a few years ago). So I’m considering it for the first time ever.
 
I am! the one year I didn’t get the shot, I got the flu itself, and it felt like being hit by a truck. The nasty case of bronchitis and the secondary eye infection I got while my immune system was busy w/ the flu virus weren’t pretty either.

But, if a person isn’t at high risk for getting it, I can see skipping it. Who needs to feel like a pincushion more often than they have to?
 
I received the flu shot twice in my life, both mandatory for the workplace I happened to be in at the time. Both times I got very, very sick within days of the shots. I know people say you can’t get sick, they obviously never did, I wasn’t as fortunate. Don’t know how to explain that, but I know that it happened.

I don’t get them anymore.😉
 
Yes, I will be getting a flu shot. Perhaps some who say they got sick from the shot had already been exposed to the virus, but were not showing any symptoms as yet. Please everyone get a flushot so we can keep to a minimum the number of fatalities should the bird flu strike! YOU CANNOT GET THE FLU FROM THE VACCINE.
 
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