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Flu Shots
Do you get a flu shot every year?
Our work has a clinic each year and I always get one because when I was younger I would catch any illness that was going around. I guess for me I am just trying to prevent sickness. But a lot of my co-workers do not get them because they don't think they work or they don't think it is healthy to be that sterile.
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I am getting one. I got the regular flu shot last year, but not the H1N1 shot (because I couldn't find it anywhere) and of course... I got H1N1. Or so they "assume" because they couldn't test me for it since I wasn't in the highest risk category. But I was sick for a week with the worst.flu.of.my.life so I'm going to just say I had H1N1. In the words of the ER doctor: "I can't test you for H1N1 because of CDC regulations, but you look like you've got it, so let's go with that."
I would do anything to ensure that I don't get H1N1 again, so I'll be getting the flu shot!
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Nope - I'm not in any risk group and I've never actually had the flu, so I figure I'll pass on my shot in the hopes that someone who really needs it gets it instead. That might change in the future when kids enter the picture, but for now, I don't feel I need it.
Sometimes I wish DH would get the shot as he interacts with so many people every day and it is amazing how many people will show up and say "I'm sick and stayed home from school/work, but wanted to come to my lesson!" I guess it is good that they want to be there even if they are sick, but it is not very considerate - especially the guy a few weeks ago showed up and declared he had been home sick for a week with whooping cough!
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DH was hit with influenza last year, he was out of it for a week +. And they give them out for free at his work too, I told him this year he needs to get one! I used to get em too, but now I'm lazy and don't want to fork out the co-pay.
This happened to me last year - Dr. basically said I had it but they didn't test me.
I am very prone to pneumonia and bronchitis so I have been getting it each year.
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I don't get one for the simple fact that I want my body to produce it's own anti-bodies for it, and produce it's own immunity to it, rather than something that is injected into me.
Also, my husband does not get them either because when he was in his teens, he had a very bad reaction to it, his whole left side of his body went numb, and was in the hospital for a week.
So, we pass it on to someone who thinks they need it.