Schmidt_Rubin said:After 21 years with the same company they only give me 2 weeks a year for vacation, so I catch the flu once a year to get the extra time off.
Doodoobubbachuck said:I am a firm believer in them. I don't believe you can get sick from the shots tho, because they are not live viruses. It usually means either you already had a flu virus to begin with or you caught a flu of a different strain (?) than the shot proctected against....but I could be wrong.
spideyjg said:You are correct Linda. An infectious disease specialist explained once that most of the "flu-like " symptoms are the immune systems response to an infection. You do not feel the infection itself of flu.
Minus a bunch of medical terminology that clanged off my head, your body reacts to the flu shot "virus" the same as if it were a live one and you feel bad due to the immune response. Since there is no live replicating virus the reaction is very short as your system develops antibodies and cleans it out. The antibodies remain to battle any real virus the gets in later.
Bottom line you get the shot you will feel a little icky but it shouldn't knock you out like the real thing.
Way back when in the Navy we got shots for yellow fever or typhoid I don't recall which but those really jacked me up.
I get flu shots every year as well.
Jim
Doodoobubbachuck said:Well, I am glad I got the flu shot this year. I have seemed to have been hit with everything else possible BUT the flu over the last 4 weeks. I am getting through a throat infection and bronchitis now. I never knew what it felt like to have bronchitis without the flu!!! :zombie: It's not as bad as I imagined. LOL! It just makes you sooooooooo tired. Flu shots.....thank goodness. I've got antibiotics the size of a small strawberry to take which means no tequila shots for me at Canes!