Did you get the flu shot / flu? (Poll)

[Skinsfan1311]

We get them free at work, so I get one. Haven't had the flu yet. Knock on wood.

[DC9]

Holy cow, that's an insanely high temp spike. I hope your little guy hasn't had spikes that high since. Good luck and hopefully he recovers soon

Same to Daveakl's kiddo

Thanks! Yes, we were very worried. He is much better now, thank you very much. This has been a terrible season for sickness for everyone I know. I can't wait for the spring/warmer weather.

[Park City Skins]

Glad to see the little ones getting better. As for the question about the shot. Yep. Fifth year I've received one and fifth year,(so far so good anyway),I've gone the winter without getting sick.

[twa]

the poll doesn't seem to reflect the general population, of course the board is mostly in the low risk groups

[CaptainJames2004]

Got the flu shot at work (in a psych hospital) a few months back...just got slammed with flu symptoms wednesday evening and still not back to 100% now.

[artmonkforHOF]

I picked no shot, no flu. It's the lesser of 2 evils for me, anytime I have gotten a flu shot, a week or so later it feels like I have a nagging head cold that won't go away, stuffed up, sore throat, watery eyes pretty much everything except the fever. That seems to last about a month whereas when I get the flu, I'm out 3 days tops, and really only 1 bad day.

I'll take my chances with the flu, even if it last a week over feeling like crap for a month after getting a flu shot. I don't see why people are so afraid of the flu anyways, the best defense is to catch your local strain & let your immune system run it's course, you get it over with once & you are pretty much safe from getting it again for the rest of flu season.

Kid flu's scare the crap out of me, especially the ones that take out 3-5 year olds for a few days. Think about how much energy a kid that age has; if something can defeat that energy for 2-3 days, it's probably strong enough to kill an adult. Parents know this, they get the sickest from what their kids bring home from school, not what their spouses bring home from work (unless they happen to work with kids).

[GoSkins0721]

I picked no shot, no flu. It's the lesser of 2 evils for me, anytime I have gotten a flu shot, a week or so later it feels like I have a nagging head cold that won't go away, stuffed up, sore throat, watery eyes pretty much everything except the fever. That seems to last about a month whereas when I get the flu, I'm out 3 days tops, and really only 1 bad day.

I'll take my chances with the flu, even if it last a week over feeling like crap for a month after getting a flu shot. I don't see why people are so afraid of the flu anyways, the best defense is to catch your local strain & let your immune system run it's course, you get it over with once & you are pretty much safe from getting it again for the rest of flu season.

Kid flu's scare the crap out of me, especially the ones that take out 3-5 year olds for a few days. Think about how much energy a kid that age has; if something can defeat that energy for 2-3 days, it's probably strong enough to kill an adult. Parents know this, they get the sickest from what their kids bring home from school, not what their spouses bring home from work (unless they happen to work with kids).

I travel every week for work & have a wife that works at a school. The past 8-10 years I've gotten a flu shot every year and haven't gotten the flu. I WON"T take my chances with the flu. It's not a good thing to gamble on, especially as I get older.

This is from WebMd:

"Flu Myth #3: The flu vaccine can give you the flu. This is the flu myth most likely to drive experts bonkers. “There is simply no way that the flu vaccine can give you the flu,” says Hay. “It’s impossible.”

Why? For one, injected flu vaccines only contain dead virus, and a dead virus is, well, dead: it can’t infect you. There is one type of live virus flu vaccine, the nasal vaccine, FluMist. But in this case, the virus is specially engineered to remove the parts of the virus that make people sick. Despite the scientific impossibility of getting the flu from the flu vaccines, this widespread flu myth won’t die. Experts suspect two reasons for its persistence. One, people mistake the side effects of the vaccine for flu. While side effects to the vaccine these days tend to be a sore arm, in the past, side effects often felt like mild symptoms of the flu. Two, flu season coincides with a time of year when bugs causing colds and other respiratory illnesses are in the air. Many people get the vaccine and then, within a few days, get sick with an unrelated cold virus. However, they blame the innocent flu vaccine, rather than their co-worker with a runny nose and cough."

http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/fe...p-13-flu-myths

Is getting the flu shot going to stop you from getting the flu? No. But it's going to increase the probability that you won't. It won't lower it.

[PeterMP]

This is from WebMd:

"Flu Myth #3: The flu vaccine can give you the flu. This is the flu myth most likely to drive experts bonkers. “There is simply no way that the flu vaccine can give you the flu,” says Hay. “It’s impossible.&#8221.

However, minor flu like symptoms are a side affect of the vaccine.

They don't tend to be as bad as the flu, they don't affect most people that get it, and you aren't contagious, but they can happen.