Flu shot

Do you get flu shots? H1N1 vaccine?

  • Never get a flu shot and won't this year.

    Votes: 45 54.9%

  • Get one every year...I'm a repeat customer!

    Votes: 9 11.0%

  • Only regular flu shot.

    Votes: 7 8.5%

  • Only H1N1 this year.

    Votes: 2 2.4%

  • I'll get both H1N1 and the regular flu shot.

    Votes: 12 14.6%

  • I think it's all a bunch of BS.

    Votes: 22 26.8%
  • Total voters
    82
  • Poll closed .
HaleYes

HaleYes

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Clay County, IL
Do you get one every year?

What about the H1N1 vaccine, are you going to get it?
 
Yes - x2.

I am over 50 so I get the shot, this year my arm got real sore and I felt clammy for a couple of days. About 1/3 of the guys here that got the nostril spray were off work 1-2 days.

I am scheduled to get the H1N1 vaccine next week.
 
I am required to get whatever shot the USAF deems necessary....


....however, I still think it is a bunch of BS. Every year that I get the flu shot, I get sick anyway - the years where I've missed out on it, I never get sick.
 
I'm 25 and I've never had one. Mainly because I have this really bad thing about needles. lol I work as an EMT based at a hospital, all of the hospital employees will be required to get the vaccination. If not, they have to wear a mask whenever they're around patients. I'm exempt from that since I'm not employed by the hospital and only have contact with patients in the ambulance (basically like any other EMT, except I'm based at the hospital instead of a fire station).

I rarely get sick, anyhow... haven't had the flu in 4 years. Picked up a mild case of bronchitis this year going around the firefighters in my station, but that's it. Oh, and food poisoning last year. *doh*

The spray thing has worse affects because it's the live virus. But, either method is hit or miss... The scientists guess at what strain of the virus will be the most popular this year and release the vaccine for it. If they guess wrong... you'll still get sick. :) This year, I've heard there will be the normal flu going around, plus the H1N1 swine flu. Have fun with that...
 
JNickel101 said:
I am required to get whatever shot the USAF deems necessary....


....however, I still think it is a bunch of BS. Every year that I get the flu shot, I get sick anyway - the years where I've missed out on it, I never get sick.
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Yea, they took about half the squadron off the flight schedule for a day. Cornered us into a room without telling us what it was about, then gave us all a flu shot. We tried to get out the back door but the XO was waiting on us, Flight Doc was waiting on the other end.

Did the second half the next day. I got out of it last year because they were not as well organized.
 
I'm not as lucky at dodging shots this year as I have been in past years, however, this year is different for us.

My girl works in an area hospital and she currently has 5 confirmed H1N1 patients that she has contact with every day. We know there's a high probability that she's carrying this stuff home where I can pick it up from her, so this year I'm getting them both. Had "The Flu Shot" yesterday, and the "H1N1 Shot" is coming in a week.

Yay...NOT It's better than doing this: :puke:
 
I am diabetic and according to my doc high risk so I'm getting whatever the doc says.
 
whatevah said:
...I have this really bad thing about needles...QUOTE]


I couple years ago I had to have a toenail removed. When the nurse saw me flinch at the sight of the long needle the doc was about to jab into my toe, she told me that if I needed to I could just go ahead and hold her hand.

About 30 seconds later she said: "Let go, let GO......LET GO!"
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Rod Knee said:
whatevah said:
...I have this really bad thing about needles...QUOTE]


I couple years ago I had to have a toenail removed. When the nurse saw me flinch at the sight of the long needle the doc was about to jab into my toe, she told me that if I needed to I could just go ahead and hold her hand.

About 30 seconds later she said: "Let go, let GO......LET GO!"
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Wussy!! Had a toe crushed and they wanted to amputate it and I refused. Worst pain in my life. But I didn't need to hold a womans hand.
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I typically get a cold during the winter months, but i haven' had the flue since 9th grade ( 6 years ago). However, i'm only 20 and more than likely have a healthy immune system.
 
No way, no how. The last flu shot I got was, maybe 1985? I was in the Army, and that was the one shot I could not wiggle out of. Managed to get out of the rest for my 6 years of service. Connections are a good thing. :-)
 
I used to avoid the flu shot, my immune system is fairly robust and the shot was guaranteed t screw me over, while catching the flu was maybe one chance in four.
Got the flu one year, it turned into Pneumonia (bad pneumonia). Intravenous antibiotics for two weeks, so weak I could hardly walk a block for a month afterwards.
I'm regular with my flu shots now and also get the Pneumonia vaccine. Compared to death, I guess the side affects are tolerable.
 
I'm gonna regret saying this, but at 39yrs I've never had an influenza related illness as far as I know (and so I hear, I'd definitely know)

I handle thousands of dollars of currency at least five days a week and come into close contact (hand shakes, conversations within a 1.5 foot range, and share a phone with 8-10 others with the same occupation and hazards) and have yet to catch anything that would keep my out of work. My principal customer base is the employees of the largest Navy base in the world, but I've never caught anything a penicillin shot couldn't cure:shhh:
 
Diabetes, asthma, and well past 50--I get the regular shot every year for the past five years, and I will get the Swine shot soon.

I have five grandkids, so that is like having 500 typhoid-Marys running around.
 
already had H1N1 a few weeks ago, no shot for me!

I might get the normal flu shot though, depends on if they have em at work and whether I remember or not.

EDIT: never had a flu shot in the past. For that matter, the only shot I've had recently was tetanus (rather important going by the amount of work I do on my Jeep! :roflmao:) - long story, chalk it up to a fairly rare religious upbringing.
 
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