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10-11-2012, 11:24 AM
|  | Just one more question | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: San Franciscco, CA | | | To flu shot or not to flu shot
That is the question. My company gives us free flu shots. I got one last year and it set me back a little. I didn't really get sick I just felf off a little achey for a couple of days. Decision time for this year.
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10-11-2012, 11:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: East Providence, RI | | | I get one every year. Never had a problem with the shot. |
10-11-2012, 11:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | As long as flu shots have been available to me I have refused to take them, with no consequence.
For that reason I continue to turn them down.
YMMV
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10-11-2012, 11:34 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Toms River,NJ | | | I've worked in hospitals for 20+ years and have never gotten a flu vaccine |
10-11-2012, 11:40 AM
| | Just one more question | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: San Franciscco, CA | | I'm leaning in that direction too. Be interesting to see if I get the flu this year. If I do can I blame youz guys? 
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Originally Posted by Tituscrow
Don't let slobake fool ya. He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy
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10-11-2012, 11:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | FWIW, I always get one. Usually I don't notice any reaction to the shot, but once or twice I have felt slightly feverish for a day or two afterward. Still better than the full-blown flu. |
10-11-2012, 11:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: The Motor City | | | I used to pass on the flu shot. Then one year I got the flu. Not the bad cold that people often mistake for the flu. I got the flu. About 8 days of 100+ degree fever, vomiting, pooping, cold chills while sweating, shivering uncontrollably, and intense aching all over my body.
After that I get a flu shot every year. As do my wife and kids.
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10-11-2012, 11:45 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by slobake  That is the question. My company gives us free flu shots. I got one last year and it set me back a little. I didn't really get sick I just felf off a little achey for a couple of days. Decision time for this year. | Compared to the bedridden 3-7 days of "I think I might die" that the flu gives you, I would get the shot.
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10-11-2012, 11:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by slobake If I do can I blame youz guys? | Dont you put that on me, Ricky Bobby!
If you dont get the shot then you can only blame your immune system. Mine's a champ.
Do you trust your immune system?
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10-11-2012, 11:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by malthumb I used to pass on the flu shot. Then one year I got the flu. Not the bad cold that people often mistake for the flu. I got the flu. About 8 days of 100+ degree fever, vomiting, pooping, cold chills while sweating, shivering uncontrollably, and intense aching all over my body.
After that I get a flu shot every year. As do my wife and kids. | +1
I am convinced that most people who think they have had the flu at some point haven't.
Stomach bugs where you are throwing up for 24 hours are not the flu. |
10-11-2012, 11:51 AM
| | Just one more question | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: San Franciscco, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MatticusMania Dont you put that on me, Ricky Bobby!
If you dont get the shot then you can only blame your immune system. Mine's a champ.
Do you trust your immune system? | After what I have put it through? Yes!
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Originally Posted by Tituscrow
Don't let slobake fool ya. He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy
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10-11-2012, 11:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | | I'm getting one in about a half hour. The injection area is usually achy for a couple of days but that's been it as far as adverse reactions for me.
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10-11-2012, 11:54 AM
|  | I wanna be...say, what day is it today, Ted? | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Location, Location | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MatticusMania As long as flu shots have been available to me I have refused to take them, with no consequence.
For that reason I continue to turn them down.
YMMV | I'll always take a pass on the (what I consider to be) superfluous injections.  I never get the flu anyway and if I did then I figure my system must've needed a good housecleaning. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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10-11-2012, 11:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Durham, NC | | | I never got a flu shot for like, 20 years. Then I got the flu twice in three years. Now we have a baby, so I got one. Both times I had it, I understood very clearly how people die from the flu.
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10-11-2012, 12:05 PM
| | Just one more question | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: San Franciscco, CA | | I have had the flu before it was awful. In bed for a week, 2 exits no waiting (if you know what I mean  ) body aches, fever. Took me another couple of weeks to get back to normal. Hey, I just used the word 'normal" and me in the same sentence.  Still I think I am going to pass this year.
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Originally Posted by Tituscrow
Don't let slobake fool ya. He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy
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10-11-2012, 12:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Austin, TX | | | I'm loaded up on my gov drugs for a lifetime. After being a pincushion in boot camp. No more for me.
Actually flu shots a few years after the Military.
I did get "swine flu" a few years back. It was only 3 days of hell. Not too bad. I think that was the last time I had a flu shot.
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10-11-2012, 12:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: MEXICANADAMERICA | | no shots for me either! i've been on your planet for decades and have had the flu less than 10x. fermented foods are a better preventative, IME. 
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10-11-2012, 12:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by pacojas no shots for me either! i've been on your planet for decades and have had the flu less than 10x. fermented foods are a better preventative, IME. | If you have had the flu, the actual influenza that causes the flu, anywhere near ten times, you would be first in line to get the shot every year. |
10-11-2012, 12:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | There are two EXCELLENT reasons to get flu shots:
1) It considerably reduces your chances of getting the flu.
2) It considerably reduces your chances of spreading the flu to others - which is also your responsibility.
If you work in the same building I do, be a grown-up and get your damn flu shot.
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10-11-2012, 12:27 PM
| | | | In all honesy I can't remember when I last had a flu shot. But I remember the last time I had the flu...October of 2009 when I was laid off. The fever and intense chills came and left in about 3 days but for the next 8 or 9 days I felt like I had the crap beaten out of me. Never had a flu that beat me up as bad as that one did. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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