Flu shots. Anyone ever get them?

[Guest bkelm18]

Every year. My job requires it.

[mav]

Well, there is an upside to all of this crap. My use of smokeless tobacco has been pretty much nonexistent. I tried a pinch a few minutes ago. That was a big mistake as I spent the next 10 minutes or so paying homage to the porcelain god. I guess there is no better time than the present to just quit it altogether.

[NextExit]

The government gives you tracking implants in the flu shots. Its real. I saw it on the internet.

Shhhh... it's true

[tnhawk]

I usually get a shot every year. Those around me say they don't need it, but then need to take sick days from work.

[R1100R]

Yes every year, sometimes twice if the Army looses your shot record.

[Guest malbolja]

Every year.

[Oh Shoot]

You guys don't keep up with the zombie threads?

Some year's flu shot with an accidental wild card in it will likely be how it happens.

I mean like, ya know, just wow, how could y'all not know that?

- OS

[bigwakes]

I get the flu shot every since my four year old was born. I got one this year and got type A flu. It wiped me out for a solid 3 days, but better than the typical 7. My wife and kids did not get it even though I was around them. It seems like maybe I just got a bad shot, because they got the same shot and never got sick from me. The doc was surprised it was type A. He said most people were getting B.

[Bubba0031]

I get it every year. Have no way of knowing if it works or if I would get sick without it. I do know that since they put the hand sanitizer dispensers around our building and put small bottles of it in the office supply cabinet for people to take to their desks I use a lot more of the sanitizer than soap and I think, but can't prove, that I have less colds.

[Reservoir Dog]

I get one every year.

I did miss the one year (2009-2010 flu season) because the shots were scarce, due to the manufacturing problems and the all of the H1N1 insanity. Didn't get the flu.

[peejman]

.... As a microbiologist in a former life, I am quite familiar with the development and manufacture of influenza vaccines, and will agree with a previous post: a lot of the negative you hear about influenza vaccines is inaccurate, and just plain wrong....

Care to comment on the duration of immunity from the vaccine?

I have two young children so we get the shot every year (the only year I didn't, I got the flu). I've seen/heard conflicting info regarding the duration of immunity. Some places say 3 months, some 6 months...?

[NextExit]

You guys don't keep up with the zombie threads?

Some year's flu shot with an accidental wild card in it will likely be how it happens.

I mean like, ya know, just wow, how could y'all not know that?

- OS

Hmmm... good point. Didn't think of that. Hopefully, no one will get the "vaccine" before the next gun show. Zombies at gun shows

[soapy]

Flu shots have been thought to cause this.

Guillain-Barré Syndrome Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Most doctors think I got CIDP from a flu shot in 1998.

kin to the above, my first diag.

turned out I got the crappy cousin.

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Crippled me bad.

Still have the disease.

But, maybe that didn't cause it.

Only God knows.

If I was strong enough

to survive the flu. (no major health issues)

I would not recommend taking one

my .02

peace and strength to ya.

whatever u decide...

soapy

[GKar]

Care to comment on the duration of immunity from the vaccine?

I have two young children so we get the shot every year (the only year I didn't, I got the flu). I've seen/heard conflicting info regarding the duration of immunity. Some places say 3 months, some 6 months...?

Short answer - for most folks between say 15 and 50, the answer is likely somewhere in between those two numbers. Different people's immune systems respond very differently, so its hard to make a general answer. That variaton gets even less predictable as you approach the extremes of age and overall health status.

Longer answer: There are no definitive studies...at least yet. One of the big problems with generating that data is that just about each year's vaccine is in reality a new product, because of the changing strains that must be used to keep up with changes predictions of the most prevalent circulationg virus for the upcoming year. Some strains yield higher levels of protection, others less. Time constraints prevent any meaningful testing in humans RE conferred immunity pror to manufacturing commercial scale quantities of the vaccine. Each season's vaccine is composed of three or four strains. That makeup is determined by the World Health Organization and FDA beginning in January of the manufacturing season - the first strain is usually identified in January. Monitoring worldwide continues, with additional strain strains picked in late Feb and April, usually. It takes months to produce sufficient quantities of each strain component...and vaccine needs to be reviewed and approved by FDA and available for distribution by mid-August at the very latest. So it is in essence a race against time every year, with almost no room for error...or generating a lot of data ona gven year's vaccine, because by the time that data is available, that vaccine is no longer in production.

[peejman]

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

[daddyo]

I get it at work cuz it's free!!

[Guest claysaw17]

i was forced to by my parents after i got Swine Flu back in 2009.