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Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 4:59:09 PM   
cuddleheart50


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Do you take the flu shot every year?



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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:01:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		No, I am young and I do not have a compromised immune system, so I feel it is more dangerous to get injections with vaccines to non-life-threatening illnesses than it is to actually get the disease.

I do not take things I do not need

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:01:31 PM   
swtsouthernsub


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Status: offline 		yes I do as well as a pnemonia shot every 5 yrs

Reason being I've had open heart surgery and my immune system is  not what it used to be

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:03:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		The worst bout of the flu I ever got was the one year I got a flu shot.
No.  I won't be getting it.  Neither will my kids.

edited to add that I don't see me ever giving it to them.

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:06:06 PM   
sissifytoserve


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Don't want that "delicious" squalene, toxic metals, cancer viruses, et al...in MY bloodstream.

No thanks.

Secondly,

Why take a "Vaccine" that won't even protect you from the TYPE of flu that is going around?

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:10:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		It said in that article that it has killed 4 heart patients.

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:12:15 PM   
Rule


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Status: offline 		I buy one every year, because my immune system is compromised. If I do not, I get three to five life threatening bouts of severe flu per year, each accompanied by or followed immediately by herpes virus manifestations.
 
When I get my flu shot, I either do not get the flu, or if I get it, it usually is less severe - what I call a minor 'cold'.
 
Minor cold: blow nose 800 times
Cold: blow nose 1300 times
Flu: blow nose 3000 times.
 
Healthy, young people should never have themselves vaccinated.
 
 

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:15:36 PM   
sissifytoserve


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ORIGINAL: cuddleheart50

It said in that article that it has killed 4 heart patients.


The Military Typhoid shot I was forced to take back in 1997 almost killed me.

If no one had been home down the hall from me the day i had the shot..i would have died.

(I know some people here at collar me would have loved that).

I spent two days in the hospital thanks to that one.

I made damn sure that was in my service record.

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:18:22 PM   
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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:18:25 PM   
cuddleheart50


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Status: offline 		you are only 35, you dont need a flu shot.....

no one here at CM wants you dead.  I like you.

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:21:19 PM   
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They're free so why not?

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:38:59 PM   
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Nope, have never had one and don't intend to ever get one. My daughter in law got one... a couple of days later my daughter took her to the hospital because her arm was bruised from elbow to shoulder. Turns out it gave her a staff infection.
 
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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 5:57:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Pretty much feel the same way Julia, Aileen and Sissify. I wouldn't matter if the mainstream news announced they were experiencing an epidemic this year and Wal-Mart was offering Flu shots for free with ''no line'' - I'll take a pass and let my healthy immune system deal with it.



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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 7:35:18 PM   
trannysub007


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Status: offline 		Never have, never will. i use a homeopathic remedy called Oscillococcinum. Take 1 tube under the tongue every 6 hours for 3 doses. Shorthens the length and reduces the severity of symptoms of flu. Amazing stuff!!

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 7:58:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Never had one, most likely never will.   I have issues with taking meds in any form.  I don't believe pharmaceutical companies, i don't buy into their make a pill to help a person, then charge so much that the person can't afford it and their insurance company won't pay for it either.    Gadz!  i could go on.  I will stop here.  Bottom line...no, i won't be getting the flu shot.

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/22/2006 9:06:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm going to buck the trend here and state that I do get one faithfully.  I am a  nurse serving a special needs population which has a very high rate of flu outbreaks due to their medical fragility.  Every year that I did not get one I did contract the flu.  The last time (over 10 years ago) that I did get the flu I developed pneumonia as a complication.  Given what I do and where I do it and my history with severe respiratory infections in childhood I consider any potential risks from taking the immunization much less than contracting the flu and suffering the inevitable complications.

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/23/2006 12:24:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Aileen68

The worst bout of the flu I ever got was the one year I got a flu shot.

Same here. 

I agree with Julia's response, also.  There's no need to take it in my case.

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/23/2006 1:43:14 AM   
JerseyKrissi72


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Status: offline 		I am diabetic and everyone tells me to get one ..but then i hear if you get sick and your body fights if off it's better for your immune system....so I'm not sure, I may get one to be safe..

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/23/2006 5:46:46 AM   
Rule


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ORIGINAL: DommeChains

I'm going to buck the trend here and state that I do get one faithfully.  I am a  nurse serving a special needs population which has a very high rate of flu outbreaks due to their medical fragility.  Every year that I did not get one I did contract the flu.  The last time (over 10 years ago) that I did get the flu I developed pneumonia as a complication.  Given what I do and where I do it and my history with severe respiratory infections in childhood I consider any potential risks from taking the immunization much less than contracting the flu and suffering the inevitable complications.

Quite. All health workers and those who work with the elderly should get a vaccination, even if the flu does not disable them, because when infected they otherwise will act as a vector and may infect the already weakened people they care for.
 
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ORIGINAL: JerseyKrissi72
I am diabetic and everyone tells me to get one ..but then i hear if you get sick and your body fights if off it's better for your immune system....so I'm not sure, I may get one to be safe..

For a young, healthy person it indeed is better not to be vaccinated, as vaccination will disable the very important cellular immune response, perhaps permanently.
 
I do not know about the combination of diabetes in the young and healthy and the flu, though. What is your experience? If you never or rarely suffer from the flu, you do not need a vaccination. If you have, as a consequence of being diabetic, suffered from life threatening, severe flu, then it may be wise to do get a vaccination. It is your body and life; it is your decision.
 
Today I heard on the news that Israel stopped flu vaccination because four people died from cardiac arrest after the vaccination. That vaccin was produced in France.

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RE: Flu Shots - 10/23/2006 5:56:33 AM   
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