Who Is Getting A Flu Shot And Why?

[jyl]

Flu season is starting early here in Portland, with doctor visiting spiking in Dec vs a normal start in Feb/Mar. 5 have died, including two relatively young adults. This year a H1N1 strain is circulating, which is harder on young people.

Do you get a flu shot? Why or why not?

My wife and kids always do, I do every couple of years. No particular reason when I don't, just because I never got around to it.

[Gogar]

Yes, I got a flu shot.

Why? So I don't get the flu, I guess.

[cantdrv55]

I have to get the shot annually as a requirement for hospital vendors. I'd get it anyway because I feel it helps minimize the effects of the bug but I don't think it provides immunity.

[livi]

No.
I hate needles.

[nynor]

i did. because i am literally forced to do so in order to maintain my employment. it is, IMO, a scam. note how the flu shot has incrementally been made to be more mandatory since the early 1990's. someone is making a lot of money off the mandatory requirements for flu shots.

[nostatic]

Get it every year now, early in the season. My days of invincibility are far behind me now...

[Jim Richards]

I had a flu shot last month.

[beepbeep]

[A930Rocket]

Yes. Every year because my wife says to.

[ted]

I got the shot at the local CVS, no apointment and took just 2 minutes.
The needle is the smallest I've seen, really tiny never felt it.

So this winter if/when I get sick and and my head is splitting in half with cold shakes and loss of 15lbs on soup for a week I wont have to wonder if a shot would have prevented this near death experiance.

[Hard-Deck]

DOD makes us all get one, but I'd get one one my own anyway. My family gets one too.

[Halm]

Got the shot last fall. Sitting at home today on Tamiflu.

[nynor]

Originally Posted by Halm

Got the shot last fall. Sitting at home today on Tamiflu.

exactly. the flu shot is a crap shoot.

sorry that you are sick. the flu is no fun.

[ckelly78z]

I have a compromised immune system, and currently still getting chemo, so it is highly recommended.......yes, I got it about 2 months ago.

[NY65912]

Yes, every year. I'm on Humira an immunosuppressant for my Crohn's Disease.

[pete3799]

Went in for a routine check up a month and a half ago. Doc recommend I get one so I did.
First one I've ever gotten. Germs just ricochet off me now.

[TimT]

I got the Flu shot just after Halloween. I was sick for almost 10 days after the shot....apparently my body did not agree with this years serum.... The symptoms I had were minor body aches, and congestion... my RN girlfriend, and my Dr. said I was one of the lucky ones who didn't agree with this years shot....

I feel fine now...

[herr_oberst]

I wish I would have gotten one; I was flat on my back last weekend. The flu hit me fast and hard, like I've never had the flu before, and I'm still shaking off the effects.

[Paul_Heery]

Originally Posted by TimT

I got the Flu shot just after Halloween. I was sick for almost 10 days after the shot....apparently my body did not agree with this years serum.... The symptoms I had were minor body aches, and congestion... my RN girlfriend, and my Dr. said I was one of the lucky ones who didn't agree with this years shot....

I feel fine now...

This.

I have been getting the flu shot annually for the last 10 years. This year, I got the shot and was sick for the next week.

[widgeon13]

yes, age.

Why not.