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I was persuaded by my GP 3 years ago to have the jab along with a pneumonia jab and I was ill for 3 weeks.
It's possible that you had already caught a bug,
No. It's not.
Not even when you sat in the waiting room? It can be the worst place for picking up bugs. T.
I'm not 65 but I'm asthmatic so I get called in too. I was persuaded by my GP 3 years ago to have the jab along with a pneumonia jab and I was ill for 3 weeks. I won't have the jabs again. I've just had flu for the first time in many years but it didn't affect my chest. I know if it goes into my chest to get to the surgery or walk-in centre for antibiotics and to get nebulised. I'll take my chances.
The immunity builds up over many years of having the flu jab so it is important to get it done every year.
From all accounts you are taking a bigger risk by not having it done
From all accounts you are taking a bigger risk by not having it done.
There is no way that you can positively say that you did not pick up the bug prior to your injection 3 years ago. Even if the nurse came to your home to give you the jab she could well have passed it on to you. If you went to the surgery .....well, I'll say no more except perhaps that prior to having flu jabs I was very ill every year with flu and always after I had visited the surgery usually in connection with my arthritis.
Quote from: Paulines7 on November 14, 2008, 10:55:46The immunity builds up over many years of having the flu jab so it is important to get it done every year.Does it? There's a different flu strain every year so how does that work?That is what the nurse told me when I had my first jab but there is nothing I could find on the web to substantiate this.Quote from: Paulines7 on November 14, 2008, 10:55:46From all accounts you are taking a bigger risk by not having it done.My experience says not. There is a lot of evidence on the web to show that this is true. The Government are now considering giving the flu jab to pregnant women and children as they do in the USA http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/article3128651.ece Quote from: Paulines7 on November 14, 2008, 10:55:46There is no way that you can positively say that you did not pick up the bug prior to your injection 3 years ago. Even if the nurse came to your home to give you the jab she could well have passed it on to you. If you went to the surgery .....well, I'll say no more except perhaps that prior to having flu jabs I was very ill every year with flu and always after I had visited the surgery usually in connection with my arthritis.I can. I said I was ill for 3 weeks afterwards. I didn't say what I was ill with. You are assuming it was flu. It wasn't, but it was as a direct result of having the vaccinations.That was unfortunate, but the fact that you had a bad reaction should not put everyone else off having theirs.
That was unfortunate, but the fact that you had a bad reaction should not put everyone else off having theirs