Did Not and Haven’t Decided Whether Or Will or I Won’t Depending On If I Have The Money For It or Not.
I haven’t gotten one since my mom stopped taking me to get it. I must have been 14 or 15 the last time I had one. Since then I’ve been in school (therefore did not have the time) or haven’t been able to pay for it.
The free clinic I go to for birth control is very flaky about stuff like this. I arranged to get the Gardasil* shots through them and they told me I needed to have the Tdap shot along with it. They made a note on my file that I should have the Tdap shot done with my second dose of Gardasil but when I went to my appointment and asked about it they said no, I was only getting the Gardasil. During that same visit one nurse asked if I wanted a flu shot (this was September), I said sure- she disappeared- the nurse giving me the Gardasil said no again, she was only giving me one thing.
I didn’t bother asking about any of that when I went for my depo provera shot. My last dose of Gardasil is at the end of December, I don’t know if it’s worth it to ask about the flu shot by that point (or if I should also let the Tdap thing go. I’m not planning on having children anytime soon nor do I really interact with kids).
*Gardasil being the brand name for the HPV vaccine in case it’s not always referred to as that in other places.
Yes, I got my shot.
For many years I never got the shot. Then I read a book about the flu epidemic of 1918. Scary stuff. I’ve been getting the shot every season since then, about 6yrs ago. (Book: The Great Infleunza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History)
I got mine at CVS and got the Tdap booster while I was at it. Up to date on everything.
I actually did end up getting mine the first week of January. Hey, they’re free here and you can get them at the pharmacy with no appointment. Seems like a no-brainer.
I didn’t used to, until I had the flu. Not a bad cold, but real influenza. I thought I would die. Once is enough.
This is the fourth thread you’ve bumped up about vaccinations. Stop doing this. If you want to talk about vaccinations, make a new thread about it rather than bumping up a lot of old ones.
is that dying or the flu?
I just got done blasting someone for telling my son not to get a flu shot “because it has mercury in it.” :rolleyes: While there is a mercury derivative in the multi-vac that acts as a preservative, it doesn’t remotely approach any level of toxicity. Why don’t people read something besides Facebook, fer cripe’s sake?
ETA: oops, is this a bump that I’ll get yelled at for?
I felt the onset of the flu last April or so-the aches, the sensitive to the point of painful skin sensations, the usual other odds and ends.
The symptoms were all gone the next morning. My immune system is where infectious agents go to die.
No, I didn’t, I never have before (nothing against vaccinations–I’m caught up with tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) but I’ve just never thought much about flu vaccines, as it wasn’t on my radar growing up) and this is the first year I know of that I caught the flu. It wasn’t that bad, but I’ll remember from now on to get the vaccine, as my doctor scolded me about it. (Well, not directly, but it was obvious to me what he was getting at.)
I got the flu vaccination in mid-November. The last month or so there has been a big panic in Calgary to get vaccinated for the flu, since we had a nasty outbreak. They kept showing the line-ups on the news - people waiting hours and hours to get vaccinated, clinics running out of the vaccine, etc. I didn’t feel a lot of sympathy - I walked right in and got the shot when it was offered earlier in the year. Now you all want the vaccination because there’s an outbreak? That’s not how herd immunity works. That’s not how planning for the future works, either - every winter is a flu season. I’m not sure this should be a surprise for anyone.
I got it after seven days in the hospital recovering from pneumonia.
You forgot “allergic” - I already checked in at post #23 and one of the special snowflake votes is mine. So that leaves two.
That is a reason. It still falls under “Do not intend”.
If there was an alternative to the vaccine I am allergic to that I would be allowed to take I would certainly take it. So my intent every year is to seek such a thing out, but I never find it. So no, it’s not “does not intend” but “other”.
I got mine at the county health department, and to my surprise, they filed it on my insurance, so I didn’t have to pay for it! I assumed I would have to pay and then get reimbursed, so I was glad I didn’t have to worry about that.
Thanks to this, I’m also caught up on tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis. 
My workplace not only provides flu shots, they drop $ 50 into our FSA to take one. No brainer.
Yeah, it’s an old thread, but I got one this year (and the year the thread was started :p)
I started taking them every year when I re-developed asthma as an adult (had it as a kid, it was largely in remission for years, then we got two cats :().
The winter of 1997-1998, there were a lot of cases of people getting flu (or something so like flu it didn’t really matter) despite having the shot. I was one of them. I think it was a relatively mild case - I was never actually praying for death, and there were only about 6-8 hours where if someone had walked into the room with a gun, I’d’ve been saying “sure, go right ahead” - but as often happens when I get a bad cold, it turned into a secondary infection / bronchitis / asthma flare, which led to antibiotics and a steroid taper, and wasn’t especially fun.
Plus my kids were 3.5 and not-quite-1 at the time, and despite the fact that we had a nanny at the time, the kids wanted only to be with Mommy, so I couldn’t even be alone to die in peace!