Flu Vaccine

humanji

I got the flu vaccine yesterday and it's killing me today. My left side is slightly swollen, and I feel like I've got the flu. On a plus side they sent me home from work (Yippee!) but I feel like absolute **** (Boooo!)

Anyone else get the jab and feel like **** afterwards?

Pighead

Nope never got the jab.

Pigheads grandad did though last year and he was also complaining about pain on his left side. Theres not a day that goes by where I don't think to myself "If only you had of listened to him Pighead"
RIP GRamps.

Adam

Oh Pighead... new lows every day...

I got it when I was younger, I have a good immune system though so I didn't pick up any symptoms if I recall correctly.

Ruu_Old

Never got the jab (and don't intend to even though it is highly recommended), I really want to go to one of those drive thru clinics though, big thing in America these days. I've only been sick once in the past 10 years.

Nightwish

I dont get it, and I never have in the past. They offer it to is in work, but I have an irrational fear of needles so I'm not getting it.

the only people i've heard of getting flu vaccines got the flu afterwards =/

Wishbone Ash

bluewolf wrote:

the only people i've heard of getting flu vaccines got the flu afterwards =/

An urban myth :rolleyes:

A small percentage of people will get some flu-like symptoms but never the flu itself. It would be pointless getting vacinated otherwise.

Wishbone Ash

Wishbone Ash wrote:

An urban myth :rolleyes:

she felt like she had the flu, then :P

johnnyrotten

Get it every year and guess what? I did'nt get the flu or flu like symtoms!

SLight soreness in arm for a day or so. Worth it if you ask me

Karoma

Moved over from AH, with redirect - please, feel free to bounce it back.

Vorsprung

Well.........

HSE wrote:

Will the Influenza vaccination give me the flu?

No, influenza vaccine will not give you the flu. Influenza vaccine contains killed or inactivated influenza viruses and therefore cannot cause influenza. It does, however, take 10 – 14 days for the vaccine to start protecting against influenza.


What are the potential side effects of the influenza vaccine?

One-third of patients have soreness and redness around the injection site. Rarely Flu-like symptoms can occur six to 12 hours after injection and lasting for about 48 hours.

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DrIndy

Pigface - LOL!

I always get the flu jab, better than getting the flu.

Side effects are minimal including mild flu like symptoms after the jab, but they are VERY mild indeed.

myjugsarehuge

I had the flu jab about 3 weeks ago, I have asthma so I normally get one. My arm ached a tiny bit but no other symptoms.

Flu is a nasty illness, most people who think they have the flu only have a bad cold. Flu symptoms are different, more aching joints, sore throat, headaches, terrible fatigue and high temperature rather than the sneezing and snivelling which a cold usually entails. I get about 3 or 4 cold a year and they do make me feel miserable but I had flu once about 18 years ago it was completely different from a cold and made me so ill, I was in bed for 2 days.

You wouldn't be at work if you had flu which some "flu remedy" adverts portray. Why do they always show a handsome guy at work in an office quickly overcoming the flu in such a manly important way, why not a housewife struggling with 3 kids. As if that isn't an important enough job.

I heard a saying that if you are sick in bed and someone tells you there is a €100 note on the pavement outside if you have a cold you'll jump up and get it and if you have flu you'll just roll over and go back to sleep.