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What vaccines have you had as an adult?

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    #32
    witchgirl26
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    I get the flu vaccine every year. Have gotten the whooping cough one while pregnant (to protect me & baby). Got some ones for travelling (polio and a couple of others). Also have gotten the chicken pox vaccine and MMR. I don't hold immunity to diseases it seems. I've had both measles & rubella in my life but bloods came back showing no immunity. Same with chicken pox - had a presumed case as a child but no immunity in my blood. Means I need to get bloods done every couple of years to see where my immunity is at.


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    Wibbs
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    Flu vaccine every year. Heavens, why would you not?
    If you come down with the flu every year or are immunocompromised then yeah, very much so, but I don't and am not, so never bothered. If I did or I was, I would.

    I got Swine flu, which IIRC wasn't covered by that years vaccine, but cleared that within the space of days and wasn't stuck in bed for any of them(fairly knackered for a few weeks after though). People differ and a true fact is that a third of people with flu show few or no symptoms. The "oh if you really had flu you'd know it" is mostly nonsense.

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    Wibbs wrote: »
    If you come down with the flu every year or are immunocompromised then yeah, very much so, but I don't and am not, so never bothered. If I did or I was, I would.

    I got Swine flu, which IIRC wasn't covered by that years vaccine, but cleared that within the space of days and wasn't stuck in bed for any of them(fairly knackered for a few weeks after though). People differ and a true fact is that a third of people with flu show few or no symptoms. The "oh if you really had flu you'd know it" is mostly nonsense.

    I can very well remember getting the flu in 1992. Yes, a long time ago, but I remember the first week, hardly able to get to the toilet, and three weeks before I could get around in any semblance of normality. And I was fit, and in my late thirties. And that’s why I get the jab. Each to his own, of course!


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