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Flu shot makes you sick

rh71

rh71

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*Can make you sick. Our 11yo twins haven't been remotely unwell for maybe a year and the same week they get the flu shot they start having symptoms of stuffy & runny nose. No fever, no nausea, and a little initial soreness. They have had allergies off & on, but it doesn't present to this degree and doesn't last throughout the day(s), but whatever they have now, it's staying. They are not bed-ridden or anything, but clearly they are battling something. So I don't care that the virus they give you is a dead strain. It still makes them unwell. Who's with me? Good thing we scheduled the shot away from any important events/travel. They have games every weekend so I have to plan for this shot every year.

I get my shot every year and I have been fine, but bottom line, don't trust that your kids will be 100% ok.
 
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rh71 said:
*Can make you sick. Our 11yo twins haven't been remotely unwell for maybe a year and the same week they get the flu shot they start having symptoms of stuffy & runny nose. No fever, no nausea, and a little initial soreness. They have had allergies off & on, but it doesn't present to this degree and doesn't last throughout the day(s), but whatever they have now, it's staying. They are not bed-ridden or anything, but clearly they are battling something. So I don't care that the virus they give you is a dead strain. It still makes them unwell. Who's with me? Good thing we scheduled the shot away from any important events/travel. They have games every weekend so I have to plan for this shot every year.

I get my shot every year and I have been fine, but bottom line, don't trust that your kids will be 100% ok.
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Dude, I’m sorry your kids are sick but take a biology class. That’s not how germs work. It’s not how vaccines work. Ignorance like this is why we have to worry about measles, which was near eradicated. A handful of discredited doctors, Hollywood types and people who got C or less in 8th grade biology keep this anti-vaccine rubbish going, putting us all at risk.

Get a flu shot on the way to the library.
 
Flu shot does NOT make you sick.


www.cdc.gov

Misconceptions about Flu Vaccines

Read more on common misconceptions about seasonal flu and flu vaccines effectiveness.
www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov
CDC says
"In randomized, blinded studies, where some people get inactivated flu shots and others get salt-water shots, the only differences in symptoms was increased soreness in the arm and redness at the injection site among people who got the flu shot. There were no differences in terms of body aches, fever, cough, runny nose or sore throat"
 
I usually don't bother with it unless I'm already at the doctor for something else and have not had it in a while then I get it.

It is possible for it to make you sick since it's basically a dead version of the virus so your body will react to it. In some cases it might react violently enough that you basically get sick. Being sick is the symptoms of your body fighting it. Oddly enough when it comes to things like cold, your body fighting it is the part that is worse on you than the actual virus itself.
 
I got a Tdap shot soon after recovering from strep and did not react well, including fever. Cleared up in a day tho. These vaccines can't make you sick but you can get symptoms.
 
EVERY time I've gotten a flu shot, I've gotten sick with a few days. I KNOW the dead virus can't give me the flu...but, it SEEMS like it does.
 
I always thought it was essentially a weak version of the flu - hence allowing your immune system to easily defeat it. It would seem... ahem...PROBABLE that it would be possible that certain immune systems would have a tougher time...

But hey - I hated science stuff 😛 so I'm not about to act like I know anything in this realm.
 
Some people get caught up in semantics. Sure your body is technically not sick, but if you're getting all the symptoms, then it's basically the same thing. The sickness itself is not what makes getting sick miserable, it's the symptoms.
 
I haven't had a cold or flu in years. When I'm away from home, I carefully avoid touching my nose or eyes with my fingers, until I'm home and have washed my hands. That's the main way the cold and flu viruses get transmitted.

I do still get a flu shot, though, just in case. I always get muscle soreness, but it's not too bad. I tend to think that if a vaccine makes you unwell, then the real virus would make you that much more unwell than the average patient. So if the flu shot caused those symptoms (which I somewhat doubt), then your kids might be prone to die from the flu if they got it without having the shot first.
 
This is what's available in our area

2019/2020 influenza vaccines
Influenza strains contained in the 2019/2020 influenza vaccine are:
  • A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus;
  • A/Kansas/14/2017 (H3N2)-like virus;
  • B/Colorado/06/2017-like virus;
  • B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus (in quadrivalent vaccines only)
The A/Brisbane and A/Kansas strains were not contained in the 2018/2019 season vaccine.



Spread the word (not the bug).
 
rh71 said:
*Can make you sick. Our 11yo twins haven't been remotely unwell for maybe a year and the same week they get the flu shot they start having symptoms of stuffy & runny nose. No fever, no nausea, and a little initial soreness. They have had allergies off & on, but it doesn't present to this degree and doesn't last throughout the day(s), but whatever they have now, it's staying. They are not bed-ridden or anything, but clearly they are battling something. So I don't care that the virus they give you is a dead strain. It still makes them unwell. Who's with me? Good thing we scheduled the shot away from any important events/travel. They have games every weekend so I have to plan for this shot every year.

I get my shot every year and I have been fine, but bottom line, don't trust that your kids will be 100% ok.
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You are insane if you don`t believe that the flu shot made your children sick!! Don`t be one of those anti-vaxers!
 
So many in here, defending the "Medical Mafia", and towing the party line. Why don't you wake up, and listen to real people's experiences. They can't all be wrong, you know.

Edit: I personally think @Red Squirrel is right-on. You technically (are not supposed to) "get" "The Flu" from the vaccine, but you often get "the same symptoms" as "the Flu", in a manner that is virtually indistinguishable from actually having it. Only, I suppose, you're not technically "contagious". But from the perspective of your own body, you might as well have it.
 
VirtualLarry said:
So many in here, defending the "Medical Mafia", and towing the party line. Why don't you wake up, and listen to real people's experiences. They can't all be wrong, you know.

Edit: I personally think @Red Squirrel is right-on. You technically (are not supposed to) "get" "The Flu" from the vaccine, but you often get "the same symptoms" as "the Flu", in a manner that is virtually indistinguishable from actually having it. Only, I suppose, you're not technically "contagious". But from the perspective of your own body, you might as well have it.
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More nonsense.
You don't get
1) high spiked 104+ fever
2) painful aching bones
3) possible pneumonia
4) organ shutdown

as symptoms from a flu vaccine.
 
VirtualLarry said:
So many in here, defending the "Medical Mafia", and towing the party line. Why don't you wake up, and listen to real people's experiences. They can't all be wrong, you know.

Edit: I personally think @Red Squirrel is right-on. You technically (are not supposed to) "get" "The Flu" from the vaccine, but you often get "the same symptoms" as "the Flu", in a manner that is virtually indistinguishable from actually having it. Only, I suppose, you're not technically "contagious". But from the perspective of your own body, you might as well have it.
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Exactly. now getting the vaccine is still good, since the "sickness" you get won't be as intense, and you also won't be contagious since you're not actually carrying the sickness and just feeling it's symptoms. When I worked in a hospital I got it every year as I was doing it to protect other patients more than myself. I never personally gotten sick (or symptoms or w/e) from it, but it's a well established fact that some people do.
 
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