QOTD 9/19

minionlover · September 2014

Will you get a flu shot this year?

brainybrunette · September 2014

I hate shots, but H is insisting that I get one this year. I'm such a baby and have to lay down so that I don't pass out...it's quite the production, haha!

goatlady12 · September 2014

This will be my first year getting one. Doctors get really pushy about flu shots when you are "with child."

ramstein1027 · September 2014

Haven't thought about it! Maybe

mpjf1001 · September 2014

Yes, I get one every year, i work at a school and that equals sick germy people all over the place! I cant afford to be sick when i have DD at home!

consciousdear88 · September 2014

I honestly don't know. I know they're offering it as a complementary service at my workplace, so I may take them up on that offer. I don't honestly remember the last time I had one though.

islandmonkey8 · September 2014

Only if I'm KU.

catwine · September 2014

Nope! I never have and never will. So many people get sick even after getting the shot so I don't see the point.

brainybrunette · September 2014

^^^ You can't get the flu from the flu shot. The flu shot is an inactive virus, so it's impossible to get the flu from the shot. You can have a low grade fever as your immune system responds, but it doesn't last very long at all (last time I got the flu shot, I had a fever the next night...it didn't last long, just that night).

The flu shot gives you a 60% change that you WON'T get the flu. It may not be perfect, but it's better than nothing.

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm

snuff9861 · September 2014

It's mandatory for school.

pockysquirrel · September 2014

I'm mandated to because I work in a hospital. Yaaaayyyy.

sjs1013 · September 2014

Yes. I should have done it yesterday when I went for allergy shots, but O was getting fussy so I wanted to be in and out. I'm getting it next week because O will get some of the antibodies through breast feeding.

I used to not, but I got it 2 years ago when my nephew was too small to get one, then last year because I was pregnant and now this year to protect O.

WillyH19 · September 2014

Yes, I will get it in October when I go in for my yearly gyno appt.

WillyH19 · September 2014

@brainybrunette have you thought about the nasal mist?

brainybrunette · September 2014

@WillyH19 I did get the nasal mist one year when I was in college. I think it was when it first came out and it was the only year that the student health center had it. It hasn't been offered to me since then. I think most of the mist vaccines go to pediatric offices because it's been shown to be more effective than the shot in kids. I asked H if his office had the mist and he laughed at me, said no, and told me to suck it up....sigh

xxjen015 · September 2014

I should. Last year was the first year in a long time I haven't gotten one, and I was okay, but working in an elementary school, I really don't need to take the chance.

mana8503 · September 2014

Yup, got it at the hospital and I made H and my parents get it and whooping cough. Well dad is still working on the flu shot.

@catwine‌ -http://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12238841/anyone-else-against-the-flu-shot/p1

The second response is probably one of my favorite explanations of how the flu shot works.

DanaOcNy · September 2014

It's mandatory to get one at my job BC I work in healthcare. With T starting daycare I want to try and be as protected as we can! H's job gives them free so he gets one every year as well.

xxjen015 · September 2014

@mana, that was a great explanation! Like I said, I get it 95% of the time, and I knew that you couldn't get the flu from the shot, but I never knew the science behind it all. It's fascinating!

mana8503 · September 2014

@xxjen015 - I was never against it but I only got it once I'm college, and last fall because we were TTC. I never knew about herd immunity or any of that. After that post I got serious about shots for adults. Thus "making" the people going to be around E daily to get theirs. H was convinced he got the flu the other week from the shot... I had to school him.

LDubHawksFan · September 2014

Absolutely. Especially since we are TTC again. I'm getting it at a free clinic in Oct.

mrshall1027 · September 2014

LDubHawksFan said:

Absolutely. Especially since we are TTC again. I'm getting it at a free clinic in Oct.

Yay!! Good luck! I really hope you get your take home baby soon!

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