Flu Season and a Poll

[Lulu54]

The news tells us the Flu Season is upon us with a vengeance this year and is going strong in all 50 states.  Whether to get the flu vaccine or not has been debated here every time flu 'season' rolls around and if you are interested in reading more of the varied perspectives, I will find an old thread to bring to the first page and give the link here.

In the meantime, I really am curious as to what you decided this year about getting the vaccine and would like to know - please feel free to add comments for more insight because a simple poll usually doesn't tell the whole story.

[Lulu54]

PD - I wish there was a 'like' button here - good for the wife (and you!).

[PastorDan]

Wife got hers Monday.  Her RA infusion messes with her immunity, so her rheumy and I team nagged her into it.

[Lulu54]

Shell  - it sounds like the flu meds rx'd by your doc nipped it in the bud.

I just watched the story on the nightly news on NBC (I imagine the other channels have this story, too!)  about how potent this strain of flu is, and how it is quickly moving from being ill to being hospitalized.  You can ask Torikat about her mom for the details.


If you are still unsure, consider what our MS bodies do with a simple infection, fever or the summer heat.  Then imagine your body roasting at 102-104 degrees for several days.  That alone could land you in the hospital fighting both the Flu and MS.

Call your doctor(s) and ask their advice - you may be among the few who shouldn't get the vaccine and you need the rest of us to get the  shot to protect you.  If there's not a medical reason to avoid the vaccine, please take one for the team and don't hesitate to do the shot.  

wishing you well,
Laura

[sllowe]

Lu - I still think I'm still going to get it. Put me on the poster. I can't be certain it was the flu (left the docs office "before" it hit) - but it felt like it. Horrible body pain and fever. But, kicker is, that part only last a couple/few days. 2-3, barely 3.

Coincidentally, here is the story - I went to the doc for a heavy chest. Having been around so much illness (including flu, pnemonia and bronchitus) I decided to go to the doc in advance of worsening problems.  

Got me some meds, went on my merry way all happied up thinking I escaped worsening problem - only to be hit, out of no-where on my commute to the pharmacy to fill the script with the flu-like symptoms. Filled my script, came home, and worked through the rest of the week and weekend battling the probable flu and chest infection or whatever it was.It got worse before better of course.

How should we title the poster? Dummy-Shel? lol Na, seriously folks. If you haven't  went for the shot - please, please consider it.  Remember this... you get "antibodies" to the flu with the dead shot. Not the flu. It's a good thing :)

I still may go - by chance I could be exposed to another variety of it. I escaped the 1st one w/no relapse. I don't want to risk it again.
-shell

[GorgeousGeek]

I got the flu shot once in my life. January 2007 it was. For the entire winter I experience very very painful joints in my fingers and toes. I could barely move my fingers in the morning when I woke up at 7a. And I could barely stand to walk to class it was so painful. I moved like a grandma and I was all of 18 years old then. The pain didn't exist if I woke up at 11a, oddly.
But I attributed that whole ordeal to the flu shot because its never happen again. That why I refused to take the flu shot ever again.

[fortywhat2]

I also got mine back in September...   FYI people, you can still get vaccine!
Debbie
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