Yes. I do get a flu shot
No. I do not get a flu shot
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Interesting, for the first time in about 6 years, my youngest son got a flu shot. 24 hours later he was sick and stayed sick for 3 days. The experience was bad enough he doesn't plan to get another shot unless he is forced.
I personally haven't gotten a flu shot in the past 20+ years, about every 7-8 years I get the flu. I believe 2009 was my last time, so maybe this year will be my time again.
Last edited by Mad_Murdock; 2017-12-30 at 06:38 PM.
Having symptoms like flu could be possible but flu shots don't contain any live samples and it is clinically proven that it can't actually cause a flu. Now getting a flu shot when there is already epidemic ongoing won't guarantee protection since it takes approximately 2 weeks to have the full effect of the shot and then there is the fact that the shot could be rather ineffective itself for the current strain of the virus but it is a fact that the shot cant give you flu.
Once you have flu, you will care not about the needle.
Imagine a week of being so weak you're barely able to move, none stop severe headache, loss of appetite, nausea, vomitting, dissentry, bouts of violent shaking or shiverring, huge temperature swings, cold sweats. It's basically feeling like you're literally going to die, just a period of pure agony, suffering and helplessness.
A lot of people I find tend to confuse the flu with the common cold though, you see someone say they have flu because they have a headache and a sore throat, because of course a bad cold can be agony too, but it's barely a fraction of what having flu is like.
With that said, I haven't had a shot.. I've had flu 2-3 times in my life, once per decade experience.
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I've gotten Influenza B the past 2 years in a row, so this year I got a flu shot. So far, so good. Though, the entire family came down with a "stomach flu", which isn't really the flu, over Christmas. My wife never gets the shot, and has never had Influenza. Even when I had it and she was helping me out when I felt like I was dying with a 104 degree fever.
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Flu shots only help with certain strains that mutate all the time. No one in my family gets one unless their employer requires it. Oh and for reference my parents and brother all work in the medical field 2 are pharmacists.
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Modern gaming apologist: I once tasted diarrhea so shit is fine.
"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an excercise of power, are barbarians" - George Lucas 1988
Fair enough, looked like you were using George Carlin to defend your stance on not taking vaccines, I do find it odd that you think getting the live virus is going to improve your immune system yet think getting the dead virus is not worth it even though it improves your immune system. Confusing.
Last edited by draykorinee; 2017-12-30 at 07:08 PM.
It's listed as a common symptom on the NHS website, that's more relevant than personal experience... And to go back to my original post, a lot of people confuse severe colds with the flu, especially people who have not been unfortunate enough to get real flu so can't make the distinction, since a lot of the symptoms are similar.
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Live in a bubble. If some Texan kid can do it in the 70s with no immune system, so can you.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-disease.html
- - - Updated - - -When David Vetter was born in September 1971 his parents David and Carol-Anne knew that he had a one in two chance of having severe combined immune deficiency.
His elder brother, also called David, died after eight months. So when David was born by emergency caesarean section at St Luke's Hospital in Houston, Texas, he was instantly removed to a sterile bubble until tests were performed to see if he had inherited the congenital disease.
Flu shots aren't the only way to mitigate catching something.
Not American but I do have my flu shots when needed.
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I've had the flu plenty of times when I was younger. To my mind, it's just the flu.