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10-02-2017, 10:09am | #1 | ||||||
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Flu shot....
Wife and I are getting the senior shot tomorrow. I have been getting it every year for the last 14 or 15 years. Had it once or twice before I started getting the shot and would have welcomed death.
I highly recommend getting it ......but do what you want,I know like anything else there are believers and non |
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In the military, I had to get the shot every fall. Just about every year, I got sick afterwards. When I retired, I tried an experiment. I didn't get the flu shot the first year and didn't get sick. So, I did it again the next year and didn't get sick. So, I've purposely not gotten it and gotten sick only once in six years. Dumb luck or what?
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I have had the flu in the past and its not fun, not as bad as shingles or Gout, but its bad. I have enough medical problems (age 72) that if I can keep the flu away by a simple shot I'm going to do it. My health insurance pays for it in full I get it at the doctors office, but if I had to pay for it I would still get it. |
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I've been getting one for 30+ years for a good reason. I had my spleen removed 30 years ago due to a blood issue. They told me it was highly recommended that I get one.
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The hospital where I volunteer at are recommending to the employees that they wait until November 1st to get the shot. I guess they are expecting the bug to arrive a little later this year and hang around longer into the spring.
I'm not sure if I'll get one or not. I rarely get the flu, but I did last year. I didn't get the shot last year, but my wife did. I got my flu from her. She got it from her sister-in-law who came home from Ireland already sick, so it was probably a strain of the flu they were not expecting here and the shot did not cover it. Nasty stuff, too. Had ne down for over a week. |
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I haven't had a flu shot yet, and that's not likely to change.
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hope it keeps going good for you
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I've had maybe two shots my entire life. I've had the flu twice in my entire life, and one year I had the shot a couple of months earlier. So I just don't bother, and everything is fine. I think the fact that I'm rarely around other people's kids helps.
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I take the old man and myself for one every year. Knock on wood...neither of us has had a flu bug or even a cold since we've been going. Highly recommended.
Maybe the military shots suck Johnny? |
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As 6spd said, shots effect folks differently. We used to get the series of Anthrax. Some folks said those shots gave them terrible side effects.
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Agreed, everyone does react different to shots.....I for one feel any short term discomfort is worth it and it is not possible to get the flu from the shot....
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I used to not get it. Never had the flu. My wife convinced me to start getting it. She works at a hospital...who knows what she could be exposed to. And being asthmatic even a mild case of the flu could put me in the hospital.
The shots never give me a problem. |
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We get ours free at work.
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I’ve had the flu once, it was miserable. With the little one due in 4 weeks I’ll be getting my shot here in the next week or so.
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I know. That's what the hospital recommends and they give us that for free. The different thing this year is they are telling us to not get it until November 1st, I think they are saying the flu is expected to arrive late this year and hang around until later next year than usual.
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I don't get why seemingly normal people suddenly become anti-vaxxers when it comes to flu shots.
I get them every year and have for at least 20 years. |
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I hear Duck Die Nasty is really good at FLEW SHOTS.......
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