With the bargain posts recently regarding flu jabs. This is a poll for those who trust by the vaccine annually, maybes and trust their immune systems. Discuss.
Seasonal flu vaccine - Yay or nay?
[Deactivated] on 23/03/2014 - 15:00
Poll Options
- 27Yes, every year.
- 1Maybe, if it's free or if I feel like it.
- 22No, I trust my immune system.
Comments
I was so Ill when I got vaccinated. Worse than I have ever been with flu. But I will have to reevaluate given your comment.
Everyone should buy one less pack of eneloops and fork out for a flu shot instead.
We need a herd immunity, especially for those around kids, elderly, pregnant women or those with a weakened immuned system.
Just curious. Do you get sick after the jab? Like how sick for a healthy person?
I had to take a few days off work. Hit me real hard. Nothing like a cold. Proper flu symptoms, sore bone aches, headaches. And I'm healthy
I don't think its common - I have gotten the flu vacc every year for several years now and have had nothing more than a sore arm for 24 hours after each one.
Also grasstown's sickness may not have been caused by the flu injection in the way you might think. Having the injection puts some pressure on your immune system due to the way a vaccine works - this is why you are told not to have it if you already have a virus/cold or are otherwise ill. If a person is already sick (or immune system is already fighting a bug), the flu injection can make it more difficult for them to fight their sickness.
I've never been sick from the flu jab. Just a sore arm where they did the injection.
Hubby has to have it because of his line of work, but every year he gets sick from it.
This should not even be open for debate. Have you shot every year, end of story. I had mine last week. My symptoms were a sore muscle at injection site, the second day post-shot, which faded rapidly and almost unnoticeable slight thorax chills (probably the antiviral-interleukin response by my immune system) of the same duration. Nothig like the real thing which you know if you get it.
Real flu for me was a six week, epic, soul-grinding nastiness. It left me fatigued and wondering what it was like to be normal.
Real flu for me was a six week, epic, soul-grinding nastiness. It left me fatigued and wondering what it was like to be normal.
Mine was around 3-4 weeks. Lost so much weight, all my pants are falling down now :(
People need to remember that its just the flu…
There are so many worse things to get that are not related to what the flu vaccine attempts to protect you from.
I think you really should get it if you are in face to face customer job otherwise it shouldn't what you decide.
If you regularly get sick without the flu vaccine and not in a customer oriented job then I would really question your immune system.
There are plenty of people who don't get any vaccine's and rarely get sick.
Obviously it doesn't hurt to get it, but trying to suggest that the vaccine is somehow required of everyone is silly.
Are you suggesting there is no negative impacts individually or on a population level for getting a preventable illness? I would suggest the economic burden of a 'week off', incidental medical bills, hospital time for those who are old/immuno-compromised/asthma, death etc is substantial. To say that only front-line people should get vaccinated, ignores how easily the influenza virus is transmitted through a population. Your anecdotal evidence of people who don't get vaccinations rarely get sick is only supported to a very limited degree by herd immunity from the vaccinated population. There has been a recent massive rise is measles outbreaks, and this is due to the vaccinated herd population dropping below the required threshold. You are also not accounting for the situation of asympotmatic reservoir individuals who unknowing continue to spread disease and that vaccines vary in the % protection they provide due to individual responses/booster issues, to the vaccine and small or large shifts in the the viral genome. Because of these last two situations it is essential that as many people are vaccinated as possible for the herd immunity thing to really work that well.
Plenty of people get the flu regardless of the flu vaccine.
And of course people at risk should be getting all the pills and vaccine's they can get.
My point is that of all the vaccine's in the world the flu vaccine would have to be the least effective, I'm not saying you shouldn't get it, I just don't think the average person should need to get it if they don't want it or get pushed into it by the general population.
Its really not that important compared to other Vaccine's and its only use is maybe stopping you from getting the flu, or maybe not.
It's funny because I'll bet that people who say "it's just the flu" haven't had the proper flu. People often call viruses/colds "the flu" but I once had the proper flu and have gotten the vaccination ever since.
I got it when I was around 21, young, fit and healthy and was bed ridden for a week. That's the amount of time I was bed ridden, it took way longer after that to recover fully. I was (and am) usually healthy with a strong immune system, I only get sick about once a year on average with a minor cold/virus.
I can't afford to have that happen again, and experiencing how sick it can make a young and healthy individual, I am conscious of how much worse it can be for the very young, elderly or immuno-compromised.
ditto for me; it took one bad flu to convince me that the vaccination was worth getting every year
Every year for me because if I catch the flu, my asthma would be very bleh.
I encourage others to get vaccinated so vulnerable people like me and my nephew with cystic fibrosis would have one less chance of catching the flu.
There are others out there with compromised immune systems which means they cannot be vaccinated thus herd immunity is very important for them.