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I don't. But I know as a kid I always did, and they highly recommend it for the elderly. Some jobs require the shot if you're working with kids or the elderly.
I guess I don't bother because I never actually get influenza, I just get every other crappy illness that comes through, haha.
I got it when I was doing student teaching and knew I would be working with a lot of kids but most years I don't get the shot. The needle though? ...is so freaking small you can barely tell they did it.
I get it free through my job, and I always get it. It just makes my arm hurt for like a day.
Thanks for reminding me- time to get mine.
For those worried about needles, there's also an intranasal influenza vaccine available. It's sprayed up your nose instead of being injected. It's got some advantages (more mucosal immunity) but also different side effects. Good thing to ask your NP/Doc/Pharmacist about.
This thread from last week might be a good reference.... http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/spinoff-annual-flu-shots
Edit: I will add, I don't get it anymore. There's so many strains of the Flu that you are never fully protected. I also have noticed the years I have gotten the shot, I was ill more often than the years I have not.
@MissGreen: I was just about to share my thread! Thanks for beating me to it! :)
OP - I've never gotten a flu shot.
My thoughts .... There are tons of different strains of the flu. The flu shot only covers a few of those potential strains. You could still be infected by any of the others, even with a flu shot.
Also, the influenza virus is constantly mutating (more so than the majority of other viruses). Even though they try to predict what the most common strains for the upcoming year will be, because it takes so long to develop, test, and get approval for the flu shot, the strains that the shot covers are the forms of those strains from a year or two ago. Those strains have quite likely undergone multiple mutations since that time, quite possibiliy rendering the flu shot completely useless against them.
Personally, I would only get a flu shot if I was in a high risk group (pregnant and/or raising young children, elderly, chronic condition making me more suscesptible, etc).
they do it in my office for free, all I have to do is go upstairs for 5 minutes. but if I had to go to the doctor to do it, I'd probably be too lazy.
I just got mine yesterday. now my arm is sore!
I get it free as well through my employer - this last one made my arm hurt for days! :(
@Mrs.KMM: although I totally think it's legit if you decide to not get a flu shot, the thing is that every year, doctors do studies and base the shot on what they predict is going to be the "main" flu each season.
but yeah-- sometimes I wonder how much it's helping me. I haven't had the flu in a really, really long time, including years when I did not get the shot.
I always get it and always make sure my SO gets his. If I didn't get the flu shot, I could potentially carry the virus(es) it protects against and infect high risk people. Not to mention, I loathe being sick. I've only had influenza once as an adult and I also got pneumonia at the same time. NEVER again.
I also get specialty vaccines, like H1N1 and so on when they come out. My best friend in grad school was H1N1 positive last year and the year before, another friend got West Nile.
Herd immunity is nothing to be chanced. It pinches for a second, costs, at most, $15 at the grocery store, and you may feel feverish for the rest of the day. I'm one of the lucky few who develops flu symptoms immediately following a shot for a few hours. Still worth it!
I got it this year for the first time. I had the flu twice last year and was out of work for a total of 7 days (3 days the first, 4 the second). DH had it at the same time as me both times and it was awful. Could hardly move, was completely achy and exhausted, no energy, could barely even make ourselves eat.
I know that the shot might not protect against all strains but I hope it decreases my chances of getting the flu!
@janie-janie: Even if they are right about the few strains that will be most common, that does nothing to combat the mutation rate of the influenze virus.
I got it only because i have to! I work in a hospital and am in Nursing school and we do clinicals in hosopitals. however we do have to option to not get it but we have to wear a mask all the time while in the hospital. Plus my work offers it for free,!
It has always worked well for me. I've never had the flu in the years I had the flu shot. In 2008 I didn't get the flu shot and was very sick with the flu for a week and missed work for an entire week. No thanks. I'm getting it tomorrow actually (work gives it to those of us who want it for free each year) because hopefully I'll be pregnant soon and it is very risky to get the flu while pregnant. Any woman on here who is ttc should consider getting the flu shot.
@Mrs.KMM: There are tons of different strains of the flu. The flu shot only covers a few of those potential strains. You could still be infected by any of the others, even with a flu shot.
= exactly why the flu shot is a great big scam brought on by the pharmaceutical giants.
I voted "conspiracy." Lol.
I get it when I'm doing a lot of one-on-one teaching or working with little kids.
BTW, I love "It a conspiracy!" That is my new go-to conspiracy-identifying exclamation.
If your TTC the doctor will tell you that you should get it (thats what I have heard from women TTC) I get one every year but I am in a high risk group so I have to. The thing about it only covering a few strains is true however they dont just pick them at random they pick based on the strains that are going around it other parts of the world where it is flu season at the time they are making the vaccine so yes it might not cover ever strain there is. Its much better then nothing at all. Also remember if your getting the shot it takes 2 weeks to work so get it soon before we get later into flu season
@Jenn23: That is why I am considering it. We are currently TTC and I don't want to take any chances. I haven't gotten the flu in years and never had the flu shot either but still. I don't want to put any stress on my future little one.
@Beluga: & @littlemissmango: I thought the conspiracy one was a gooder :)
I voted "yes".
My job requires me to get a flu shot. This year, getting a flu shot is a "condition of employement". (I work for a children's hospital.)
If it wasn't required by my workplace, I would not get one.
I don't because I ALWAYS have really bad reactions to shots. My arm swells up like a tennis ball for days and I get really sick.
i voted no (ive never had one) but my office has offered them to staff 3 & 2yrs ago and we had the highest number of sick leave ever as a result (i do the payroll so track these things). this year we didnt offer flu shots to staff, which resulted in one of the lowest staff absence periods - around here people have sworn off flu shots
I got the swine flu vaccine a few years ago when it was the big scare, but other than that I've never gotten one. I've gotten the flu maybe twice in my entire life, and never as a teenager/adult. So, I must have a high natural immunity to it. If I were working in a field that required it or worked around a population particularly susecptible to it, then I definitely would to protect them.
ETA: I likely will before getting pregnant too, like PP's mentioned.
I get it. Especially since 2009 when I got swine flu. That was a BAD week in the hospital.
I voted it's a conspiracy. I don't "totally" believe it but I always tell DH it's population control and we just don't know what they're injected us with.
I got it two years ago as a requirement for school and ended up in the hospital with the flu (months later). Of course it could've been entirely unrelated, but I don't feel like figuring that out!! I've never been that sick in my life. Due to my line of work I'll probably have to get it for the rest of my life, but I'm safe this year at least!
I don't get the flu shot anymore. Everytime I've had it in the past, I've gotten the flu anyway. The shot only covers about 10% of the flu strains out there, so the chances of getting the flu in spite of the shot are still high.
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Do you get the flu shot?
I am just wondering, I am not trying to start any drama or anything. I am just really curious as to how many people get it. I am debating getting it but I haven't for years and I get all *shiver* about needles lol. We are TTC and I know this isn't relevent now but I cannot decide if I would take my future kids to get it either.
EDIT: Sorry. This should have gone under wellness.