This years Flu Shot?

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We had a lot of people with bad reactions after they had this years flu shot. A lot of them had real feverish red spots with pain radiating down their arms, a lot of N/V going on. I know that the shot is not supposed to make you sick cause of it being dead viruses. I'm just wondering how the rest of you are tolerating them this year. I had mine and I did not have a problem.

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co-worker sick for 4 days began 12 hrs. post vaccine, nausea, fatigue, general aches. yuck!

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Haven't had one yet this year....and dreading the thought....

Every year, same thing....get the shot, get a fever, get sick, get pneumonia, get to use up sick pay and for what???? A shot that's supposed to "prevent" a flu from progressing into a serious resp. infection.....hmmmm can we say ironic? lol.

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Might I also add that hospital policy makes it mandatory for us to have them....!

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Specializes in Corrections, Psych, Med-Surg.

I slept for 20 out of the next 24 hours. Just too fatigued to get up. But I didn't have any other sxs.

For more info, there was a previous thread a couple weeks ago on this same topic.

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

Got it, didn't turn a hair.

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Always get a flu shot. This year got the shot the same day as my husband - no reaction. He felt bad the next day but admits he did not feel well when he got the shot. I just feel safer with a flu shot and in the last 6 years have not had the flu and neither has my husband. We always used to get it before.

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I've gotten a flu shot every year except this one- Last year after I got the shot my arm turned flaming red, swelled up and hurt- when the redness and swelling finally went down, it was a lovely mix of black and blue (oh and some green, too!). I figured localized reaction, but decided to skip this year- if others are reacting to it, I'm glad I made that decision. :confused:

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I've never had a flu shot until last month. I've never had the flu, either. But I've had pneumonia three times in less than a year and a half.

I got the flu shot and the pneumonia shot both at the same time. No problems at all. And I figured that if anybody was going to have a problem, it would have been me - I was seriously anemic and just generally "puny."

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Dennie

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No problems.

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no problems here.

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Specializes in Pediatric Rehabilitation.

Slight tenderness at the site for about 48hrs..

nothing more.

I do want to add something, though. On another thread, someone stated they'd just returned from a conference and that you "can't get sick from the flu shot". Well, it was strange to me that on the release form I had to sign, it warned of "tenderness at site, fever/chills X 48h, fatigue, etc".

However, mine was a breeze...

i'll take a little tenderness at the site over the flu anyday!

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