Nurses General Nursing
Published Nov 4, 2002
MarcusKspn
123 Posts
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.
nimbex, RN
387 Posts
co-worker sick for 4 days began 12 hrs. post vaccine, nausea, fatigue, general aches. yuck!
vashka25
60 Posts
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.
Might I also add that hospital policy makes it mandatory for us to have them....!
sjoe
2,099 Posts
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.
prmenrs, RN
4,565 Posts
Got it, didn't turn a hair.
cpgrn
138 Posts
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.
sunnybrook83
75 Posts
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.
NurseDennie, BSN, RN
723 Posts
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
baseline
581 Posts
No problems.
Mattigan, RN
175 Posts
no problems here.
nurs4kids
753 Posts
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!