This is a pit because I got a flu shot 2 weeks ago. But I have the aches , a temperature and all the other symptoms. I am exhausted and will probably end up in bed pretty soon.
WTF, that is not supposed to happen. Did Walgreens cheat me and give me a fake shot?
I was confident i could sail through the winter without getting the flu.
The flu shot is based on what is predicted to be the flu strain du jour. Sometimes they get it wrong. Sometimes they get it right, and people get exposed to a different strain anyway.
No, you didn’t get a fake shot.
If you think you’re getting the flu anyway, your doctor can still alleviate the illness. Don’t wait until you’re at death’s door.
Sorry to hear that and thanks for reminding me to get the flu shot this week.
I’m a tough guy and can shrug off most pain but the flu turns me into the hugest pussy on the planet. For whatever reason, whenever I catch one, it lays me out completely. My joints turn to glass and it even hurts when I urinate, not to mention the usual sore throat-cough-fever-runny nose and exorcist level vomiting.
But i got the shot.
I know what to expect. It will be lots of bed time with 2 beagles and all the covers I can find.
Or you might have another virus that makes you feel like shit. Or maybe listeria, which involves body aches and fever as primary symptoms. Or maybe you got the flu shot too late compared to when you contracted the flu.
It’s still warm enough to get lyme disease too. I thought I had the flu for a couple of days, and then got a rash with the faintest ring around it for a few hours before it got bigger. I preferred the flu. You’re extremely fatigued and achy either way, but you don’t need to be on weeks of antibiotics to fix the flu.
You might just have a cold. The flu shot doesn’t prevent colds. It just prevents the influenza virus (and, as noted, only certain variations).
How do you know if you have the flu? My doctor friends say this: Imagine that you could have $1,000 if you just get up out of bed and walk unaided across the room. Can you do it?
If the answer is “No f-ing way,” you have the flu.
If the answer is “sure” you do not have the flu.
I never get the flu shot because it always makes me feel like crap…
and often enough, I get the flu anyway. So why pay?
You can still catch the flu within a week or two after getting the vaccine, as your body is still building immunity. As a nurse, I hear this story a lot - “I got the flu vaccine and then a week or two later I got the flu!” It’s not that uncommon.
It could also be a reaction to the flu shot itself: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/flushot.htm#whatarethe
Sweetie’s dad has had a reaction like this once or twice. If that’s what it is, it won’t last long like real flu does.
Yeah, I never really understood the difference between the flu and a cold until I actually got the flu. Ryan Reynolds could have been naked at the bottom of the stairs with $10,000 in a suitcase just waiting for me to come down there and get it and I wouldn’t have cared. Just walking from the couch to the bathroom and back exhausted me so badly I had to take a nap. After that I understood why the flu was actually capable of killing children, the elderly, and the infirm.
I’m trying to work my way up to being willing to get the flu vaccine this year but I’m terrified of needles. I’m going to see if my doctor will just inject it into my IV when I go into the hospital to give birth since I’m already going to be stuck with the IV needle anyway.
I was hot about 102. I was weak as hell and covered my body with layers of covers . But it seems to have run its course in about 2 days. the temp is gone, but I am weak.
My beagle, Nordberg, jumped in bed and saw I was hot. She decided to lick my face to cool me down. She tried.
I could go back to bed now.
FWIW, by the above description, I’ve never had the flu, at least since adulthood. I do get flu shots regularly since I’m pretty much a vector for contagious diseases.
That’s so sweet.
As an adult, I believe I have had the flu once, and I vividly recall it. I was driving across town to go shopping on Boxing Day with my family; I felt a little off when I got in my car, and I was hardly able to walk by the time I got to the mall. I went home and spent the next three days on the couch (I don’t actually remember those days very well - they’re a haze of sleeping and dragging myself into the kitchen and bathroom and back to the couch). A regular cold doesn’t compare with that.
My Dad was always as strong as an ox when I was growing up. I only ever saw two things really make him look like death. One was a triple heart bypass (hence him no longer being as strong as an ox). The other was the flu.
When you’ve seen someone (or experienced yourself) with the actual flu you can’t help but laugh at people that claim they had it and went back to work one, two or even three days later.
I read this somewhere recently. If someone taped a hundred dollar bill to your front door, and you are too sick to get up and go get it…its the flu.
Wow, the economy really is tanking.
Don’t screw around gonzo…if you start to really feel bad, go to the freaking doctor. 
I get the impression that a lot of people don’t consider the flu to be a serious threat, but more people are going to die this year from flu that have died from all the nuclear accidents in the history of nuclear power.
Good luck…it sucks to get the flu, especially when you have gotten the shot. In all the years I’ve gotten flu vaccinations I’ve never gotten the flu, though I’ve been sick with other things that were like the flu (usually some sort of food poisoning).
-XT
Upvote for see a doctor. Very good friend caught the flu, did nothing, and it snuffed his pancreas. Instant diabetes.
Ergo, it was not the flu.