Will You Get A Swine Flu Vaccination This Fall?
 

Yes, if I can find one?

No?

No, unless I hear that the disease has turned into something more dangerous/severe?

Other?

I will never get a flu shot

Why not? Just curious. I have never gotten one myself, but have no particular reason for it.

Probably

Tobra: Why not?

Aluminum, found in flu shots, has been very directly linked to Alzheimer's is one good reason to not get a flu shot. Not to mention that the vaccine can actually make you more susceptible to the flu. It reacts poorly in individuals who consume a lot of aspartame (diet coke anyone)

I have been really sick with the flu one time, after getting a flu shot. They told me it was not possible, I went back a few days later and put them straight.

I can count the times I have been sick since I was a little kid on one hand. After Typhoid shot in boot camp, after flu shot in podiatry school, food poisoning a few times, altitude sickness in Vail when I went to my cousin Gary's wedding.

Do you tell your patients not to get them?

Only vaccine that made me sick was one for either typhoid or yellow fever. All I remember was it was a series of shots, about 2 weeks apart, and I was sick everytime.

My wife and kids get the flu shots most years. They don't get flu, either from the shot or otherwise.

I never get the shot. I get flu maybe once every three years. I kind of like it, actually - stay home, feel sorry for myself, eat a lot (flu makes me hungry), watch TV in a dazed state. Lasts a day or two.

I think I just got over the swine flu. Honestly. I've never had a flu in the summer in all my life, and I got blasted by a big one for about a week in the last couple of weeks. It kicked my a$$. I fly airline passengers around for a living, so I'm probably more likely than the average American to be exposed to illnesses.

Also, I've NEVER had a flu shot, and I don't plan to get one until I'm really, really old.

No flu shots. I seem to do fine without them.

Never have, never will. I get the flu once every 7-10 yrs., the common cold maybe every 5.

No.

I know a guy that has it currently. He's pretty sick, but he'll live.

It's too late for me. I came down with the damned thing today. The fever and headache is the worst part... The body ache is pretty bad too.

Are you asserting that you got the flu from the shot, or that the shot didn't work?

People who get sick a coupla days after getting the shot are not getting sick from the shot... the gestation period of the virus is longer than a couple of days.

If it's a longer period of time, say two or three weeks afterwards, you most likely got a different strain of the flu than what the shot was formulated for.

Doctors here can speak up and clarify/embellish.

I've taken the shot for years. No problems and no flu.

First time I had a flu shot, I also was sick shortly afterwards. I blamed the shot. After skipping it a few years, I decided to give it another try. I get the shot every year now. No flu for me (fingers crossed).

Free at work...every year I got one....

I've never gotten a flu shot and never had the flu that I know of.

When I was in college they required that everyone get a second Measels shot. I had a 102-103 fever within a few hours of getting the shot, but that only lasted about a day. It freaked me out a bit.

yes.

been getting flu shots for about 9 years and have not gotten the flu during that time. prior to that, i would certainly get the flu during flu season every year

+1

I've never had the flu, so no. If it ain't broke...