Swine flu

[qahtan]

 Do you have the swine flu scare on over there, in Toronto the city is going crazy, people are waiting 7 hours in line to get the vaccination. Now they are saying it could be even slower...
Are you going to get the vaccination for it or regular flu.....

Gerry and I went to the walk in clinic this morning, and got both, no hanging about.
we are about 100 miles from Toronto. not a small town about 130,000 people...

                 qahtan

[qahtan]

[SamLouise]

Qahtan, thankfully the swine flue scare-mongering has stopped in the UK but it was quite intense for quite some time! There has been coverage lately about getting the jab over here.

Personally I'm not going to have it and I don't have any littlun's to worry about so it's an easy decision in this house  :)

[betula]

I have the flu jab every year because of a medical condition.

I have decided I will not have the swine flu jab because concerns have been reported about if it has been thoroughly tested............... ???

Who is to say if it is the right or wrong decision,just do not want to fall into the general hysteria about this,I think the government are doing this to make the public feel they are doing something about it............... :)

[Flighty]

I've no doubt that the same will happen here at some point as we head into winter!
Like SamLouise I won't be having either jabs, in my case as I know how badly I would react to them!

[asbean]

We won't be having the jabs - we're not in a vulnerable group, and have no underlying medical conditions so I don't think it is necesary.

[Slug_killer]

I am in one of the high risk groups and asked my consultant about it some weeks ago. I'm still waiting to hear from him about whether I should have it or not.

The only ,advise that I have so far, if I am suffering I'm to ring the hospital in advance and they will let me know when they have a bed ready for me, and not to just turn up at A&E.

[qahtan]

 Why will you want a bed,?????? qahtan

[Mr Smith]

We always have a seasonal flu jab and if they want to stick a top up for swine flu be my guest, on our local TV this week it  showed a guy in an intensive care bed at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, he was  was young and fit but he came down with SF and he was very ill,  LGH they have only ten beds to treat such cases, I'm not a  'Mr Manering' type but all I can say is don't Pannnnnnnnniicccc, :)

[manicscousers]

my daughter works in intensive care, they still have lots of cases in, mainly people who are vulnerable..any person who goes in with a chest complaint has to be treated as having swine flu  :o
Ray has had his 'flu jab(diabetic), me..nowt  :)

[rosebud]

 My husband & i had our flu jabs 4wks ago.  I have a heart condition & i am diabetic, hubby has had a heart attack so we are amongst the vunerable .
I am still undecided about the SF jab.

[RobinOfTheHood]

Not for me or my family, never ever ever!! 

For something that 'they' eventually admitted was less severe than regular flu, they have certainly gone OTT about getting the vaccine. And virtually any symptoms now seem to point to swine flu. Slight fever? Swine flu. Sickness? Swine flu. etc etc

And there are concerns about the testing procedure, or lack of, while the drug companies have been absolved of any liability from problems it causes.

Why would you trust it? I certainly don't.

Rant over.   :)

[saddad]

OH works in a hospital (no names) and has just come home to say they have had a patient in an open ward all week before they found out they had H1N1...
:-X

[Slug_killer]

Why will you want a bed,?????? qahtan

I thought Canadian heath care was far superior to the UK - but at least we get a bed to lie in when we're ill, we're not expected to stand in a corridor and die  :(

[Digeroo]

I though it was only being offered to at risk group over here.  Presume they are being used as guinea pigs.  So if there are problems with the vaccine it can be put down to underlying health issues.  Also it can presumably be justified that the number of deaths was likely to be smaller than getting the actual flu in this this group.

Nice to hear the Canadians are queueing up to be the guinea pigs. 

Seems those over 50 something are less likely to get it.  I remember the flu epidemic of about 58 when I was one of only three left in the class at school.  We got it a week later than everyone else.

[grannyjanny]

Youngest daughter had swine flu in July & had to have the tammy flu as her OH is epilectic & can't risk high fevers. Eldest daughter is asthmatic & will be having the swine flu jab. She is a journalist & has researched & has no qualms about it

[Poppy Mole]

My friend, a senior consultant pathologist, calls it "skivers flu".
If you have any kind of flu you won't be trawling the internet looking for a diagnosis, but calling the doctor -  as you are almost incapable of getting out of bed.
Luckily I am healthy enough not to need a flu jab, but would be very wary of having one anyway.

[shirlton]

WE have both had the flu jab and I had the pneumonia jab acouple of years ago cos of me. COPD. They reckon us old uns are probably immune anyway

[ACE]

I though it was only being offered to at risk group over here.  Presume they are being used as guinea pigs. 

I know understand why they are wasting the 'cure' on all the unproductive types instead of targeting the healthy workers who are the backbone of the country and who are not a draw on the NHS  resources anyway. Now don't get all worked up, I include myself in this statement, as I also come under the vunerable umbrella. But you won't catch me getting conned down at the surgery nomatter how pretty the nurse is.

[theothermarg]

Oh has had his flu jab and will be having the SF jab in a few weeks cuz he's diabetic he takes pills to treat the side effects of other pills so I go the other way and stay well clear and havn't seen a GP for years  luckily I am heathy and am not sure if it's because of this. I would not take the flu jab I'll take my chances
it seems at 62 I am not a high risk and think when it's time to die I'll go quietly
marg

[grannyjanny]

The only vaccine I have had since childhood was a Hep B one 15 years ago. I was told to have it because of the work I did as a carer for adults with severe learning difficulties. I haven't worked since as it left me with ME. No more jabs for me ever.