[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Flu shots? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 10/21/2009 2:24:31 PM EDT
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Are you going to get one? Did you get one and have an adverse reaction?
ETA: Wife got the regular flu shot yesterday. 8-hours later she developed a severe headache, chills, sweating and nausia. She Always seems to have a minor reaction to the shot for a couple days after. |
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Fuck that noise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScGC7nFDxM&feature=related |
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Never have had a flu shot due to my grandmother almost dying from one several years ago. It gave her the flu and no amount of medical "experts" can tell me otherwise, she was perfectly healthy when she received the shot and in 4 days after she was in the hospital.
This is a vaccine that has been researched for years, there's absolutely no way in hell I'd take the H1N1 that got thrown together in a panic and is being pushed by the Obama Administration. |
| I've seen people get sick from flu shots and I've seen people / kids die from getting the flu. You can look at all the statistics for both sides of the argument but when it comes down to it, all those numbers mean nothing if it's your kid or family member that becomes affected. I try my best not to tell people to get it or not. It's their decision and not mine. I will not flip the coin for them. |
......jeez, I picked a another taken one!
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I believe in many cases it isn't a thought out response. No is simply the answer people give when they don't go to the doctor unless they are near death. Lots of people in the low risk age group rarely get sick and see no reason to get a shot.
I don't judge them. I never got them until a few years back. Now, every time I get a flu or chest infection I end up with bronchitis or pneumonia. I currently have bronchitis - day 13. So the small issue of getting a flu shot is mute in comparison. |
I just got the regular (seasonal) flu shot a couple of hours ago. No dystonia, no reaction, no paralysis, no dying (so far)––as usual. 
I believe I had the "swine flu" a few weeks ago (based upon the symptoms, not tested), so I'm not going to bother with that one. |
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FWIW i would have got one but worked all night before they were giving the shots and it was sleep a few hours before going back to work Vs get the shot and be up for 36 hours straight. i figured sleep deplivation was a bigger risk than influenza at that point.
I might find a pharmacy thats giving them and pay out of pocket. |
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When is the last time you ran into someone with smallpox? What conclusion can we draw from your answer? As just above, some (most?) who won't get a flu shot WILL get a tetanus shot. I can't comprehend that kind of "logic." 
Vaccines should either be deemed "safe/effective/worthwhile" or "unacceptable" (for whatever reason the person chooses to believe)––but to trust one and reject all others is . . .
I'm hoping the guy I quoted and queried will return and explain. I'm just curious, but I'm REALLY curious as to his reasoning. 
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FUCK NO!And JFC enough of the same fucking question over,over,over,and mutherfucking over again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I hear more about the GD flu on arfcom than anywhere else.Enough already  .NO MORE FUCKING are you gonna get the shot questions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sorry for the mini rant,but WTF???
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Sometimes after a flu shot a person may experience mild flu like symptoms, that's the body's defense response to what it thinks is the flu virus, this is not a bad thing, it allows your immune system to develop it's defenses against the active virus when it makes the rounds.
Another thing to keep in mind, what have you done to improve your immune system? Just about everyone on this sight is an advocate of self defense, your attacker could be anything, including a virus. |
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I get it every year. Uncle Sam makes me. I got the flumist again this year (yesterday actually). That shit makes me sick every time, and I'm feeling it a bit today. That's becauseFluMist is a weakened live virus vaccine. It is made from a live virus that has been designed not to cause the flu but you may get some mild symptoms as a result. Just because you get a flu vaccine does not mean you will not get the flu. The vaccine is designed based upon what they think will be the most common strain to hit during the next flu season. ETA: I've had a flu shot evey year for the past 9yrs and no flu. |
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I WISH I could find the flu shot. Or the H1N1 vaccine.
Neither are in abundant supply here. My wife is getting the H1N1 shot in the morning. I can't get one because I'm not in the same risk group. (pregnant) Plus, she teaches. Several of her students are absent. Some are coming back after being gone a week with flu symptoms. If my wife gets H1N1, she has a significant chance of dying from it. Too much of a chance to suit me, based on current statistics. One of my technicians is out with H1N1. He got it from his wife. At least that is what we assume. Hospitals and doctors are not seeing patients with flu symptoms. Therefore, very few sick people are getting diagnosed. |
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Never have had a flu shot due to my grandmother almost dying from one several years ago. It gave her the flu and no amount of medical "experts" can tell me otherwise, she was perfectly healthy when she received the shot and in 4 days after she was in the hospital. This is a vaccine that has been researched for years, there's absolutely no way in hell I'd take the H1N1 that got thrown together in a panic and is being pushed by the Obama Administration. It takes about two weeks after vaccination for antibodies to develop in the body and provide protection against influenza virus infection. In the meantime, you are still at risk for getting the flu. |
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It wasn't from the flu shot, her dystonia is a mental problem, not a physical one. |
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Never have had a flu shot due to my grandmother almost dying from one several years ago. It gave her the flu and no amount of medical "experts" can tell me otherwise, she was perfectly healthy when she received the shot and in 4 days after she was in the hospital. This is a vaccine that has been researched for years, there's absolutely no way in hell I'd take the H1N1 that got thrown together in a panic and is being pushed by the Obama Administration. It takes about two weeks after vaccination for antibodies to develop in the body and provide protection against influenza virus infection. In the meantime, you are still at risk for getting the flu. "no amount of medical "experts" can tell me otherwise" Your fancy words and mysticisms can't confuse me––it was the shot, THE SHOT I SAY!! |
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Never have had a flu shot due to my grandmother almost dying from one several years ago. It gave her the flu and no amount of medical "experts" can tell me otherwise, she was perfectly healthy when she received the shot and in 4 days after she was in the hospital. This is a vaccine that has been researched for years, there's absolutely no way in hell I'd take the H1N1 that got thrown together in a panic and is being pushed by the Obama Administration. Sigh, the H1N1 is manufactered in the exact same way as what we now call the regular flu shot. The H1N1 is the same shot as the one we always got that has been cultivated for a different strain. Every year the regular flu shot is made up of two Influenza A strains and a Influenza B strain, so each shot contains dead viruses of three different strains. If the swine flu, or H1N1flu, had impacted us a few months before it did, it would have been part of the regular shot. It would have been one of the influenza A strains. |
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When is the last time you ran into someone with smallpox? What conclusion can we draw from your answer? As just above, some (most?) who won't get a flu shot WILL get a tetanus shot. I can't comprehend that kind of "logic."
Vaccines should either be deemed "safe/effective/worthwhile" or "unacceptable" (for whatever reason the person chooses to believe)––but to trust one and reject all others is . . .
I'm hoping the guy I quoted and queried will return and explain. I'm just curious, but I'm REALLY curious as to his reasoning. tetanus is good for years smallpox vaccine is good for life MMR is good for a long time maybe life I'm not positive flu is yearly, that's the difference while not afraid of needles I don't particularly like them and have better thing to do that sit in line for a shot that might be good for a year plus this is the first time I think I might have had the flu, and if it was it was a very mild case |
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I just got off the couch after four days of laying there nearly shitting myself and wondering where the hell I was...still NEVER going to get ANY shot. I'm too sceptical...plus don't believe in injecting myself with the ailment in order to prevent it. You realize that the flu vaccine is dead viruses, right? It can't give you the flu. |