Did You Get Your Flu Shot? Kinda My Personal PSA for the Day

No, thank you!

I've taught middle school for 8 years and have managed to evade all of the junk they catch because I take good care of myself my eating well and avoiding toxins (like those present in the flu shot) in my diet, environment and bloodstream.

This shot, like most other drugs, is a money-making racket. There are plenty of other, safer ways to keep healthy.

ETA: I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were dealing with this right now - I would have spared you the soapbox rant. I hope you feel better soon!!!

Haven't had a flu shot in over a decade, have only had the flu a couple of times since I quit taking it.
Got sick every time I took it.
Never again.

We are not a sickly bunch (I know, knock on wood!) therefore I have never gotten a flu shot.
It just hasn't seemed necessary.
Even when I was working as a first grade aide (among all those lovely bugs and germs LOL!) I never got more than a cold.
I DID have the flu once, ten years ago, and I literally felt like I was dying. I could NOT get out of bed, and my MIL had to come help my husband because for about three days I was completely useless.
Honestly, I would not even have had the strength to sit up and type a coherent question like you are able to do, so, *maybe* it's NOT the flu?
The weird thing is, I have a SIL/BIL who are extremely healthy (no junk food, lots of exercise, sleep, flu shots for both of them and their kids) and yet they are often sick, especially with strep throat!
It really makes me wonder,
what the HELL is keeping us so healthy around here!?
p.s. I hope you feel better soon!!!

I don't get the flu vaccine and knock on wood, I haven't gotten the flu;).

I know your hubby is a doctor but really chamomile tea and chicken soup work wonders for the flu.

UUUMMMM no I never get a flu shot. And I usually don't get sick.

Hope you feel better soon and that your case is mild.

Still never getting the shot though...to each his or her own!

I get one every year. I'm an Army combat medic and an EMT. I do not want to put my patients and family in danger. It's really not about ME getting the flu, because I'm young and healthy and would get over it....it's about preventing my patients from getting it...potentially immuno-suppressed people who might not be able to fight it off.

I'm with you....get the flu shot! Don't be a selfish turd!

ETA: I get so sick of hearing stuff like, "I've never had a flu shot in 50 gajillion years and I've never gotten the flu! So that's why getting the flu shot is pointless!"

Just because you don't have extreme flu SYMPTOMS (the only way you know if you've gotten the flu), doesn't mean that you've not had it, carried it, and passed it on to others. Some immune systems simply fight it off better. But some DON'T, and THOSE people are the reason we get the flu shot. We get flu shots to protect OTHER people, not just our selfish selves.

The reason that QueenofCastle got the flu? Not just because SHE didn't get a flu shot, but because the people around her didn't either.

By getting the flu shot, you protect the people who didn't or CAN'T (young babies, immunosuppressed). Not doing so, IMHO, is very selfish indeed.

QueenofCastle, I do hope that you head out and get your shot to protect you and others against the other two types that you've not yet gotten. ♥

End of rant.

Every time someone in my home gets the flu shot or mist they get sick, when we skip it we all stay healthy, so no flu shot for us!

I hope you feel better soon.

I am 49 and have never had a flu shot.
I can count on less than O. hand the number of times I've had the flu. I think twice in my life.
(Hope I didn't just jinx myself!)
My son stopped getting it when he was 5.
I don't think my husband has ever had a flu shot.
He got the flu. Once. Since I've known him. 17 years.

Never had the shot and only had the flu twice. The flu shot led to my grandma's death so never for any of us! Hope you feel better soon, I've always taken oscillococcinum at the first sign and been fine the next day.

Nope and neither will me kids. Not until they stop using it as a science experiment on us!!!

The one year my kids spent hours in the doctor's office and the hospital is the one year they got the shot. Never again. They were 2.5 and 9 months old then. I still get sad thinking how sick they got because we got flu shots for them.

My husband gets it, and I can always tell when he does...he gets sick. Go figure.

Sorry you are feeling so bad. I honestly hope you get better soon!

Actually I am an RN, been in nursing over 30 years and have never had a flu shot, ever. Neither has my husband or either kid who are now 22 and 18. IF, we've ever had the true influenza it's been mild.

I have never got the shot or the flu. I am a big believer of infect me if you dare. I almost never get sick nor do my kids.

This would be why after six hours of watching Monsters Inside Me, I was sure Genna had a parasitic invasion a couple weeks ago. Turns out it was some minor virus and was fine 24 hours later.

Maybe if you get it you just need to keep getting it?

Our whole house is vaccinated against the flu, don't want to take any chances with new baby on the way this week. We always get our flu shots. My daughter (8) came home the other day and told me that her best friend, who's mother chooses not to vaccinate, told her that the flu shot makes people sick so we shouldn't get the flu shot. I can't believe that this line of thinking still exists. If people bothered to research the vaccine AT ALL they would know that this is not true. Sigh...

Sorry to border on debate in response to your harmless question, but I happen to be very opinionated about this, happening to be someone with a pretty crappy immune system.

I hope you feel better soon, the flu sucks!!!

Aaaaw, sending cyber chicken soup and Tamiflu. Feel better! And I hope your husband is HELPING you in addition to dx-ing you.

:(

I got my flu shot early in October and wound up in hospital end of month with bronchitis and asthma. I am just getting back to normal about a month later. So flu shots are out. Hubby did fine no flu. I didn't get one last year so I may just have to skip them in the future.

Have a good holiday season.

The other S.

Nope, we never get the flu shot.

I remember always hearing about the 'flu' and thinking it was just a really bad cold...b/c people just throw that term around willy nilly....and then, 10 years ago (this last October) my family came down with THE FLU! It swept through the house like gang busters and we were ALL sick! Luckily, I sent my kids to my BIL's house the instant my mom (she was staying w/us at the time) became ill and told me it was serious and regardless of how she tried to isolate herself, my husband, my sister and myself + 1 nephew all came down with it! Oh my goodness....the chills, THE BODY ACHES, the vomiting, the diarreah, the fever.....ugh, the smell of all of us alone, is something I will never forget! We were miserable and not able to do anything but lay in bed and suffer through it! The sheer exhaustion and lethargy of it all was something I had never experienced before or since <Knock on some wood> Thankfully the above symptoms only lasted about 24 hours but the following day none of us had any energy or desire to eat anything...it took us about 3 days to feel 100% back to normal.

~I hope you feel better quick! The flu is no joke!

I have gotten the shot the last several years. My company offers it to our employees for free! Yay!!!

Isn't it funny how kids think of us as this indestructable being? Yeah, guess what kid, I'm dying here! I sure hope you feel better!!! Does Tamaflu still work??

I'm allergic to eggs, so no flu shot for me. I've never had the flu, and don't plan on getting it :)

I'm just curious how you knew it was the flu . . . (not being snarky) - is there a lab test or is this diagnosis based on symptoms (or both?)?

And no, I have never gotten a flu shot and I never will if I have any say-so about it.

Yes, ma'am! I had my flu shot (and the kids had it, too) the first day our health plan allowed it - October 1.

I never had the flu growing up, so never saw the need for a flu shot UNTIL one year in college I came down with the flu so badly I was hospitalized. I've never missed getting my flu shot since then (and have never had the flu since, thank god). For anyone who has never had the flu and never had their flu shot, I just hope their luck continues, because when you truly have the flu, you just want to DIE.

I hope you feel better soon! Sorry you're so sick. :(

That's funny. I haven't had the flu shot in over 20 years and have not had the flu that long either. My kids are 13 and 10 and have NEVER had the flu and we do not get any shots. I stopped vaccinating when I met my husband 5 years ago, but they have NEVER gotten the flu shot either. Just my opinion. Regardless, I hope you are feeling better now! =)

I'm a teacher, and I always get the flu shot. My children always get the flu shot, too. My husband is hit or miss as far as getting the shot; he's the same for getting the flu - sometimes he gets sick, and sometimes he doesn't.

I hope you feel much better soon!

I did, thank God. When I don't get the vaccine I'm guaranteed to get the flu. I'm very seriously immune-compromised so I really do have to get vaccinated. The flu knocks me out for a solid two weeks. ::sigh::

Two years ago I skipped the shot for the first time in I don't know how many years. And yep ... I got it bad. 10 days worth. When you have it, you think you've never been so sick in your life. I hope you feel better soon!!

I work in healthcare, so yes, I got the flu shot - I am exposed to the flu on a daily basis.

Had the flu shot last year still got the flu had never felt any worse my whole life I was due in 3 weeks but it had been months since I had the flu shot but still contracted it.

Yep- we all got our shots weeks ago!

We all got the shot a couple of weeks ago. We have gotten it every year since we've had kids.

Hope you feel better soon & thanks for the reminder. Everyone in my house always gets the shot and this year is no different except this year everyone has gotten it except me! I too put it off & I guess I better get myself into gear & get it done.

PS..love your little one's comment :)

Hope you feel better soon.