Comments on: Flu Shots http://medicscribe.com/2009/10/flu-shots/ Peter Canning's EMS Journal Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:52:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Anonymous http://medicscribe.com/2009/10/flu-shots/comment-page-1/#comment-7796 Anonymous Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:31:19 +0000 http://streetwatch.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/flu-shots#comment-7796 Not only can you get sick, I do every time. 14 days after getting the flu shot I will develope flu "like" symptoms. Seven years straight this happened to me while I was in the military. I finally refused to have another shot and I was threatened with a dishonorable discharge. I eventually made a deal with CO, that if he would sign a waiver to not get the flu shot and I got the flu I would never complain about it again. I have never had a flu shot since and do not plan to. I hear/read that everyone shoud get the shot. I believe that everyone reacts differently to all medicines and medical procedures. For example I have allergies and when I take a 12 hour antihistamine It work for 3 days for me. Makes it cheap for me but my sensitivity to medications makes me nervous about what I put into my body. I also have been told that caffeine helps to reduce migraines - it is my trigger!!<br /><br />Not everyone is the same but yet our doctors use the assembly line approach in medicine.<br /><br />D. Holt Not only can you get sick, I do every time. 14 days after getting the flu shot I will develope flu "like" symptoms. Seven years straight this happened to me while I was in the military. I finally refused to have another shot and I was threatened with a dishonorable discharge. I eventually made a deal with CO, that if he would sign a waiver to not get the flu shot and I got the flu I would never complain about it again. I have never had a flu shot since and do not plan to. I hear/read that everyone shoud get the shot. I believe that everyone reacts differently to all medicines and medical procedures. For example I have allergies and when I take a 12 hour antihistamine It work for 3 days for me. Makes it cheap for me but my sensitivity to medications makes me nervous about what I put into my body. I also have been told that caffeine helps to reduce migraines – it is my trigger!!

Not everyone is the same but yet our doctors use the assembly line approach in medicine.

D. Holt

]]> By: Matt M http://medicscribe.com/2009/10/flu-shots/comment-page-1/#comment-7795 Matt M Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:01:55 +0000 http://streetwatch.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/flu-shots#comment-7795 There will not be enough H1N1 shots to go around. It helps that some people will refuse them, leaving more for the rest of us. Those who refuse the shots may get sick. Their children may also get sick. I don't really wish that on them, I hope that there are no serious secondary infections, and I hope that they don't miss too much work or school, but that is their choice. If some of them learn from a bad case of flu, and get the shots next year, this will be good. I don't hold out much hope, because some people are just unteachably ignorant. There will not be enough H1N1 shots to go around. It helps that some people will refuse them, leaving more for the rest of us. Those who refuse the shots may get sick. Their children may also get sick. I don't really wish that on them, I hope that there are no serious secondary infections, and I hope that they don't miss too much work or school, but that is their choice. If some of them learn from a bad case of flu, and get the shots next year, this will be good. I don't hold out much hope, because some people are just unteachably ignorant.

]]> By: Sewmouse http://medicscribe.com/2009/10/flu-shots/comment-page-1/#comment-7794 Sewmouse Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:38:26 +0000 http://streetwatch.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/flu-shots#comment-7794 Got my Flu shot on Tuesday.<br /><br />One of the symptoms (possible) that the sheet of paper they gave me listed was "malaise".<br /><br />I believe I have had malaise all week. Either that or it's just terminal laziness... Got my Flu shot on Tuesday.

One of the symptoms (possible) that the sheet of paper they gave me listed was "malaise".

I believe I have had malaise all week. Either that or it's just terminal laziness…

]]> By: TOTWTYTR http://medicscribe.com/2009/10/flu-shots/comment-page-1/#comment-7793 TOTWTYTR Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:50:47 +0000 http://streetwatch.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/flu-shots#comment-7793 Last year, for the first time ever, I had a reaction after I received a flu shot. Flu like symptoms, 3-4 days after the shot. I was sick as a dog for two days. I'm assuming that it was a reaction, but that's just an assumption. <br /><br />Which won't stop me from getting one (well two actually) this year. The odds are all with getting the shot. <br /><br />Brendan, that was in the US about 1976. Big panic over the Swine Flu, but more people died from the vaccine than the disease. <br /><br />Of course it doesn't help that the public health dweebs are on their third or fourth "End of the World as We know it" scenario in the past few years. Avian Flu, Swine Flu, SARS, were all going to kill millions, if not billions. <br /><br />"Wolf, Wolf" wears thin after a while and breeds dangerous cynicism. Last year, for the first time ever, I had a reaction after I received a flu shot. Flu like symptoms, 3-4 days after the shot. I was sick as a dog for two days. I'm assuming that it was a reaction, but that's just an assumption.

Which won't stop me from getting one (well two actually) this year. The odds are all with getting the shot.

Brendan, that was in the US about 1976. Big panic over the Swine Flu, but more people died from the vaccine than the disease.

Of course it doesn't help that the public health dweebs are on their third or fourth "End of the World as We know it" scenario in the past few years. Avian Flu, Swine Flu, SARS, were all going to kill millions, if not billions.

"Wolf, Wolf" wears thin after a while and breeds dangerous cynicism.

]]> By: Chris Norton http://medicscribe.com/2009/10/flu-shots/comment-page-1/#comment-7792 Chris Norton Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:44:22 +0000 http://streetwatch.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/flu-shots#comment-7792 Firstly, good luck with the martathon.<br /><br />I believe in the flu vaccine too as my mum is diabetic and as she is at risk she needs to have the shot to protect her.<br /><br />I am all for it. Firstly, good luck with the martathon.

I believe in the flu vaccine too as my mum is diabetic and as she is at risk she needs to have the shot to protect her.

I am all for it.

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