The last time I had a flu shot was 40 years ago when the Army made me take it. I promptly came down with the flu right afterwards. Haven’t had a flu shot since and haven’t had the flu either.
It’s in medically incorrect thinking like this that can result in the death of a seemingly healthy 49 year old from a disease that’s probability is reduced by 80+ percent from a simple vaccine.
The CDC advises all persons greater than 6 months of age to get an influenza vaccine yearly. Only medical reason not to is either egg allergy and possibly a history of Guillian-Barre’ Syndrome (which has never been proven to have been caused by the vaccine).
Vaccines from the 70’s were considerably different than current medical technology - so you might want to reconsider. If not, get seen within the first 48 hours of a fever causing illness in flu season to get meds to shorten the course and reduce your chance of a life-threatening complication. Good Luck...
I will second that, what you said. 15 years ago I took a flu shot for the first time ever and promptly became sicker than I’ve ever been in my life. Took 2 months to get over it and I swore to never take another flu shot.
Unfortunately I succumbed to the PC line “get your annual flu shot” 5 years ago, my company was putting pressure on us to do it. I thought “well, that was probably a fluke last time, I’ll try it again”, took the shot and again got deathly ill for almost 2 months. Only this time it destroyed the part of my pancreas that produces insulin, and so now I have to live with that.
I just cringe when I hear anyone say “don’t worry, it’s a ‘killed’ form of the virus, it can’t hurt you” Thing is, a virus isn’t alive to begin with so how do you kill it? You can’t, all they do is use a ‘deactivated’ form of it, except, what if it isn’t really deactivated?
The only time my husband got sick enough to take to bed was when he got a flu shot at work. I have never had one and never will based on family experiences...