# influenza
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/influenza/714665
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 10, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/influenza/714665 "2015-03-10T02:49:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/influenza/714665/1 "2015-03-10T02:49:39Z")
This started last Thursday at 5:00 am sharp when I woke to start the day, my life has been a little pocket universe of misery and hell.
I am one of those individuals that Mother Nature (that green bitch) has deemed to be unable to receive the flu vaccine due to an allergy. All these years I have been extremely lucky to have never caught the flu, until this year. at the tail end of the season and I get hit with Influenza type B (that fecking green Bitch)
So, my extended weekend off of work has comprised of me taking tons of ibuprofen floating in the hottest water I could stand, and trying (and failing) to sleep for more than 20 minutes at a time since Thursday, at 5am, when I woke up in an agony of muscle pain and body ache (oooohhh that mother fecking Green Bitch)
Lord how I would like to be able to show that fracking Green Bitch a new definition of Red in Tooth and Claw
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/influenza/714665/2 "2015-03-13T14:00:33Z")
Ouch ☹ It’s been a few days since you posted that - are you over the worst yet (as in no longer actively praying for death)?
Check into the nasal flu vaccine. I don’t know if it is safer for those with an allergy to the injected kind.
Also can you look into getting tested for the allergy in question (eggs, I presume) on the off chance you’ve “outgrown” the allergy? No clue how likely that might be.
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### Author:  [@SJL4041](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SJL4041)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/influenza/714665/3 "2015-03-13T14:04:13Z")
There is also a flu vaccine made without eggs: Flublok
[http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/qa\_flublok-vaccine.htm](http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/vaccine/qa_flublok-vaccine.htm)
However, the effectiveness rate for all flu vaccines this year is so low that it might not have mattered. Something to consider for next year.
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### Author:  [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/influenza/714665/4 "2015-03-13T14:29:17Z")
I feel for you. I haven’t had the flu I several years, but I remember it hurt even moving my eyes side to side. Hell even my hair hurt. ☹
I hope you’re doing better now.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/influenza/714665/5 "2015-03-14T03:14:17Z")
Some people start a sentence with, “I think I had the flu…” I think when you really have the flu, you really freaking know it!
Feel better!
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/influenza/714665/6 "2015-03-14T05:39:48Z")
I did NOT know about flublok, thanks for the tip (scribbles note to boss at work for next season) Hopefully, since my place of employment provides flu shots for free I can convince them to spring for that.
Mama, it is possible that I have outgrown it, well, no, it has lessened in severity, used to be I couldn’t eat chicken at all without getting all swollen, itchey and wheezy, these days I will sometimes get just a mild, almost less than conscious “itch” at the back of my throat, so its still there…:mad:
And yes, I am feeling better, just working my way through some residual tiredness and a little bit of left over conjestion
On the plus side of it, it was thanks to being miserable at home for a week that brought me back into posting status here.