Rant: 'flu jabs

[Jabba]

Why is it that I've been as sick as a dog since having a 'flu jab last week?

Now am on antibiotics for a chest infection.

:rant:

[_Stretchie_]

So you had the flu jabba

Sorry, couldn't resit

[Mr Speirs]

Injections are the devil.

[Jabba]

So you had the flu jabba

Sorry, couldn't resit

I'll set 'em up.......... ;)

[Miss Alpinestarhero]

I guess different people react differently to the jab, perhaps you were already carrying the virus and once you had the flu jab it developed into the flu? I had the flu jab last year and didnt develop it (or get flu like symptoms), but i refused it this year.

Hope you get better soon..!

[dizzyblonde]

My dad has the flu jab every year, and every year he ends up with a cold. Better a cold than him being seriously ill. Having retropiritonealfibrosis makes him extremely susceptible to anything nasty.

[Jabba]

retropiritonealfibrosis

Is that a real word? :D

[diamond]

Is that a real word? :D
It is when it's spelt right, and with a space ;):D

[dizzyblonde]

yes it is, also helps if I put a space in there

retropiritoneal fibrosis

http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40000695/

funnily enough my dads just rung and told me the specialist has given him some good results this time:cool:

he has one kidney functioning, but only a very small amount of function at that. Hes been like it for years with treatment he keeps going
Hes superman is my dad :-)

[Gazza77]

Great to know as I first read this thread having just got back from Occy Health to get mine.....

[plowsie]

I got ill after having mine.

[slark01]

My dad always gets ill straight after his injection, mum however never does!

[missyburd]

When you have a jab, a very small dose of the infection is given to you in order for you body's immune system to recognize it should it bump into it again in the future. You reacting to it is just your body's way of storing the infection in its memory cells, so next time it will be prepared. Some people are lucky and don't have the actual reaction, the body just stores it immediately, for others it may take longer.

Something like that anyway :p

[Speedy Claire]

Just to put everyone`s mind at rest there is no way whatsoever that a flu injection can cause you to catch flu as the flu vaccine does not contain a live virus!

You can get some "minor" cold symptoms ie. slight temperature and some aches and pains for a couple of days and this is due to the immune system responding to the vaccine.

I have had my flu jab every year for the past 5 years and can thoroughly recommend it and i`ve never had any side effects other than a slightly sore arm.

[Speedy Claire]

The vaccine is made from a modified form of the flu virus and contains dead samples of the strains (generally) influenza a and b. The virus is grown in hens eggs and then made harmless in the laboratory before being made into the vaccine.

[missyburd]

Yeah I forgot to clarify it isn't a live virus :rolleyes:

[stevie]

I've had mine for around five years now and never had any problems, only had proper flu once and it sidelined me for a month.

[Lou M]

I've been having the jab for years (I'm NOT over 60, got asthma) and I'll swear by it, I never get colds or any illness now.

[mrs cuffy]

So you must be a MAN then!!!!!!! :roll: ;)

[DarrenSV650S]

Are you all OAP's ?? I thought it was just old gits that got flu jabs

[Lou M]

So you must be a MAN then!!!!!!! :roll: ;)


Errr me? Or jabba?

If me, I'm definately female! :D

[mrs cuffy]

Errr me? Or jabba?

If me, I'm definately female! :D


No no JABBA lol

[Jabba]

No no JABBA lol

I can assure that I'm not female :confused:

[Woz]

I thought it was just old gits that got flu jabs

Or diabetics or people who work in healthcare or any number of others for whom illness might cause complications.

Had my first one a few weeks ago and didn't get any kind of reaction.

[Speedy Claire]

As Woz says anyone who is registered as diabetic, asthmatic.... also anyone who is a carer to someone or anyone who works in the healthcare working with vulnerable adults ie. OAPS and poorly people is entitled to a flu jab. Imagine if nurses going into the elderly were to spread a flu virus around, somebody relatively healthy can kick of a flu virus, the elderly, terminally ill, people with heart failure etc cannot.

[CoolGirl]

somebody relatively healthy can kick of a flu virus, people with heart failure etc cannot.

well, yeah, it would be a bit difficult if you were dead.

anyway, Isaac and i have the jab every year and neither of us have had any issue ither han a sore arm afterwards. I guess you just got unlucky, Jabba dear. have a kiss better x

[Speedy Claire]

well, yeah, it would be a bit difficult if you were dead.



Heart failure also known as cardiac failure or coronary heart disease does not mean that your heart has stopped or is about to stop. It is a condition in which the heart can't pump enough blood throughout the body.