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Off topic question
« on: January 10, 2014, 02:15:58 PM »
My wife works at a medical facility,yep flu time H1N1 showin up already,now i don't know if that makes it a a worse flu or what,i have never had a flu shot,how many here have had them if i may ask,what do you think,she is trying to get me to get one,so far i have been sick with colds and other stuff 2013 was pretty rough in that direction,she had broncitus very bad this year and becuase she works at a medical facility(family practice) me i came down with everything else about every other week! I'm thinkin maybe a flu shot this year,but sure as carters sells pills i'll get it after the shot!!!!

Reckon i should do er?? :-\
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2014, 02:25:00 PM »
I always get the Flu Shot.

Never had a problem, nor caught the flu, either.

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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2014, 02:49:15 PM »
Wife and I both have for several years.

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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2014, 03:02:29 PM »
GET IT!   Wife is diabetic and "at-risk".  She gets it free on public health and so do I. If the health department thinks it is a good deal I agree.
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2014, 03:36:46 PM »
Get it!
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2014, 03:41:27 PM »
I agree.
GET IT!
The older you are the more important it is to get the Flew and Pneumonia vaccinations.
I was raised as a Military Brat. We got all these vaccination on a regular bases. And for various diseases not common here in the US.
As a kid, I hated it! It was always done by a Nurse that looked like the Wicked Witch of the West dressed in white. Her only job in life was to torment little kids with dull needles.
I still hate SHOTS!, but get them.
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2014, 04:30:14 PM »
I got one last (2013) Flu season , and I got mild symptoms, but nothing like full blown flu.

I've yet to get one this year, but will when I see my Doc. this Month, for my bi-yearly kick the tires check
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2014, 06:04:50 PM »
Rackofrappinsnickeplaquinfoitstoiler!!! Looks like i better get one.Ok ya talked me into it,i was so sick last year i'm afraid to feel better!
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2014, 07:33:05 PM »
I've had the flu shot the last 3 years…..no flu…..I get it at the doctor's office I don't trust the drug stores.


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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2014, 07:44:11 PM »
My wife fought getting a flu shot for years, see way back when her mom got one and it made her sick.  Well as our Dr explained to her, if the shot makes you sick get down on your knees and thank who ever you tank.  Because you are one of them the full blown flu might have killed. 

Yes I get one every year, our insurance pays for it, we go to whre my wife works and we all line up and get it.  I'd buy it if they didn't.

Rick, get your butt in there and get it.
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2014, 09:16:08 PM »
Okie Dokie :-\ :)
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2014, 09:57:03 PM »
only had 1 flew shot in my life and got sicker than a dowg.

but thinkin I may take advantage of it this yeae
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2014, 10:04:56 PM »
only had 1 flew shot in my life and got sicker than a dowg.

but thinkin I may take advantage of it this yeae

Good idea, I'd hate to see both of you dead.
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2014, 10:53:55 PM »
I had my first Flu shot in 1959 in boot camp and it made me sick. Didn't get the next one until fifty years later. I'm glad I started getting them again because the Flu used to hit me pretty hard every year. Haven't had it since I started getting the shots again.
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2014, 12:26:19 AM »
only had 1 flew shot in my life and got sicker than a dowg.

but thinkin I may take advantage of it this yeae

The way they exsplain that is the virus was there before the shot and you got it any way,i'll go monday,i know as we get more exsperienced in years we lose our ability to fight off the virus,so this year i go! I have some weird rash on the up side of my arms,on my back and a few on my lower legs,feels like i been workin with fiberglass and itches like poison oak a few on my neck,now and then on splits open and bleeds like crazy then heal up like a dry rough blister!! Been dealing with it for about 3 months,doc gave me some antibiotics and a couple tubes of cream,had to take 4 antis a day 500m each,smell like sulpher,took my last one this morning and still no good,itches like crazy! Any ideas on what that is?????? Dermitoligist next if and when i can get one and get in!
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2014, 04:26:31 AM »
My wife works at a medical facility,yep flu time H1N1 showin up already,now i don't know if that makes it a a worse flu or what,i have never had a flu shot,how many here have had them if i may ask,what do you think,she is trying to get me to get one,so far i have been sick with colds and other stuff 2013 was pretty rough in that direction,she had broncitus very bad this year and becuase she works at a medical facility(family practice) me i came down with everything else about every other week! I'm thinkin maybe a flu shot this year,but sure as carters sells pills i'll get it after the shot!!!!

Reckon i should do er?? :-\

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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2014, 07:46:23 AM »
My wife and I both get a flu shot every year. We were exposed  on a recent trip with 3 other couples. One individual got sick and he and his wife went home. He was diagnosed with the flu. So far three others have gotten sick. They hadn't received a flu shot. My wife and I are ok and haven't developed any symptoms. I believe in it. We get the dead virus shot. As I understand it the live virus nasal mist can produce mild symptoms.

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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2014, 11:42:07 AM »
The evidence seems to be in favor of getting one.  I would not even think to give you advice on something like this, but I can tell you my experience.

I used to get one every year as a condition of my employment - the company insisted, so we wouldn't get sick and use up sick time and cause scheduling and manpower problems.  Well, guess what: I always got sick, and I don't mean just a bit - I'd be down for a week or two, and more than once in any given year.  And then, at the end of the year at evaluation time, I'd get a disciplinary letter for using too much sick time.  I finally convinced the company Doc, and my bosses that it was the shots that was making me sick, and quit taking them.  Guess what: when I retired some twenty years later, I had over a year of sick time on the books, and that was after being off for over six months after three heart attacks a few years prior.  When I came to Las Vegas ten years ago, my new Doc insisted I needed that shot - over sixty, diabetic, heart patient, cancer survivor - and that it was different than it used to be, shouldn't make me sick; I got the shot, and I got sicker than a f*&^% dog.  No more for me.
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2014, 12:58:05 PM »
The only time I got sick from the flu shot was in 1966, and the Air Force required me to get it. The next year, I arranged to opt out. But those shots used attenuated live virus, not the killed virus stuff they have today. I've gotten the tri-valent shot for the last ten years or so, and never got sick from the shot. I have health issues, and am over 70 and the doc recommends it. (I was advised by both my doc and the pharmacist to wait about five years before taking either the stronger shot or the quadrivalent. Let somebody else be the guinny pig on the new stuff.) But definitely get the regular one!
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Re: Off topic question
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2014, 06:15:34 PM »
In 72 years, I got the flu when I was around 16. I have never had the flu shot. Don't intend to, either. Probably can file that under famous last words.
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