Flu Shot?

Anyone on treatment getting a flu shot this year? Why or why not? What have your doctors told you?

Personally, I'm hesitant but I'm not sure it's based on anything concrete.

-- Jim

[rifleman]

My doc invited me to get one next month when I go for my 2d hep A shot, but I am post tx.  I would think that the flu would have a tough time getting ahold of you if you are full of peg & riba.
DJL

[jmjm530]

You're a geno b or c who opted short track tx? How many weeks did you treat and hv you had a post-tx PCR yet? Hope things are going well.

-- Jim

[jmjm530]

Meant geno 2 or 3 -- boy, these drugs are having their way with me. LOL.

[genedog]

i got a flu shot 2 week of treatment never again i felt so bad. but that just could be me, 4 shots left to do of 56 get pcr back monday

[snook_man]

I will never get one again! My wife is a nurse, and she does not even get them. She has seen Many, many cases in recent years of people getting Gillians Barre, which is some disease or something directly related to the flu shot. She says that it is awful!! Patients end up on ventilators and everything.
I would rather get the flu personnally.
Last shot I got a few years back got me sicker than ANY flu or cold I have had my entire life..I guess it depends on the person though, as with everything else.
How you feeling and what week you on now?

[Tonyz]

You old dog You,


You've already done a undetectable results from your PCR.



           Blessings,


                 TonyZ

[rifleman]

I was a 2b and opted for the 12 week tx.  Cl'd sometime before week 4.  Took last peg on 9/2 and riba a week later.  PCR drawn on 9/8 showed no detectable HCV.  Next PCR is scheduled for a month from now.  Will have 6 week PCR, 12 week PCR, 6 month and 1 yr PCR.
Doc informed me that I am 90% likely to be cured.
In any event, the people who went 12 weeks (after neg at 4 weeks)in the Italian study and relapsed were all cured, as I recall, with another 24 weeks tx.
It is sort of a dice roll.  If cured then I can say "told you so."  If not, I get to kick myself in the ass and get ready for 24 weeks more when I could have been finished by going 24 weeks initially.
I got off the meds just as the sx were starting to manifest themselves.  HgB was down to 12.1, etc.
DJL

[Lynne5477]

When on tx, my doc said "sure, get the flu shot if you want".  I chose not to but not for any specific reason.  One thing I did notice while on tx, I never ever had a cold.  Guess the meds were holding things at bay?????  Anyway, caught one a few months post-tx, though.

Don't think it would hurt to get one.  I was just too lazy.

[chellski]

only 4 shots to go!  good luck on ur pcr!

jmjm - i've been feeling so crappy on these meds the last 5 weeks, i think i would pass on flu shot also...

chelle

[genedog]

tony i had a pcr week 42 that was + dr said could mistake thats why the extra 8 weeks,

[rifleman]

I might have gone for 24 weeks if I didn't have to work.  Tough being self employed and going thru tx.  You don't get cases unless you are "out there" in my profession.  Riba rage does not bode well with dealing with criminals, either.  They can really cheese you off.  Without the riba I can take a step back and remember that they are, after all, criminals.
DJL

[jmjm530]

Thanks guys. I think I'll pass on shot. I may have had a bad reaction with the hep b vaccine so I'm kinda parnoid about these things anyway.

Rifle...I'm on week 30/48. 90% sounds about right. I would have done what you did. If you don't really need the drugs, why take em.

Genedog...good luck at the finish line.

-- Jim

[briannacorn]

Hi posted on the 18th about having lymphadenopathy in conjunction with hep c I also have asthma so I usually get a flu shot but this year my GP and gastroenterologist are advising me to wait pending results of my cat scan of my lymph nodes. which I just did a couple days ago. I don't know if this is significant but I was diagnosed with asthma in  my thirties, I poohpoohed the idea of having a flu shot until one year when I did get the flu and damn near died now because of asthma I'm almost religious about getting flu shot.

[snook_man]

Hey, they call me Tator Salad!!! LOL
How you and them Alaskan prawns doing? I'm done with tx, just waiting on my next PCR. Wish you the best!

[doll face]

Last year when I was on tx. It was highly recommended by my doctor that I get one, because of my low blood counts. And like tator tot says we are qualified to get one even if there is a shortage. My doctor had to fax me a letter to get mine though cause "I didn't look high risk"  I got some pretty nasty looks from other people waiting for thier shot. But with a compromised immune system to begin with I wasn't taking any chances. Good luck