Flu vaccine

miss no stars

Sorry for posting yet another thread. Did a search but yielded nothing.


I'm just wondering, if you're not in an "at risk" category can you pay to receive the flu vaccine? I get the actual flu every single year and have done for years and I'd just like to get the vaccine. I've no chronic problems other than a slight touch of asthma and the fact that, without fail, I get the flu every single year.

Gaspode

As far as I know, if your doc decides you should have the flu jab, then you'll get it free.

Are you sure you've had actual influenza before (i.e. was it daignosed by a medic) and not just a very heavy cold? Seems unusual to catch it every year. I had the real flu once, and I dread the thoughts of ever getting it again, its dreadful!

miss no stars

Yeah my immune system is pretty crappy tbh. This year I got 2 bad colds in a row. Just as I was getting over the second I was hit with flu. Same last year, and the year before, and the year before.

Midwinter I always tend to get a whole string of small stuff and then it hits me when I'm down.

I'm currently in a bit of a bind because I've exams coming up and don't even have the energy to open a book. This can't keep happening or I'm going to fail my way out of college. Last year I went into the college health service in such a bad state that they paid for a taxi to get me to a doctor (hadn't arrived yet that day) and then get me home. I don't even know how I managed to get in that day.

tallaght01

Why don't you phone our local GP surgery and ask?

I'd be amazed if you couldn't get it done privately.

BUt are you sure you get the real flu every year? Like has it been diagnosed in snot or blood samples?

miss no stars

I'll be honest with you, I don't tend to go to the doctor when I'm sick. Like, I have to be sick with the one thing for about two weeks before I'll go so other than last year (when the doctor told me straight off I had the flu along with sinusitis (granted she didn't do any lab tests, just sent me home)) I haven't been to the doctor when I'm sick so I really can't be 100%. Been relying on my mammy's diagnosis I guess


Will ring GP and ask though, was just wondering if it could be obtained privately. If I didn't get hammered with something that looks and feels like flu every year I wouldn't even consider getting it cos I do know supplies are limited. Thanks for help.

DrIndy

I got the flu jab and i still got the nasty dose going around.

Can't be the Australian flu though - still got my own accent.