do you get a flu jab and is it worth it?

[brimfull]

have been sent my reminder which I usually ignore.I am wary of having a vaccine I might not need.
Anywya last winter I had really nasty chest infection,not the flu ,but I was quite ill for quite a few weeks.I am a mild asthmatic.
I really don't want to go through that again.Any opinions on whether the flu jab would make any difference whatsoever.

[harleyd]

i get the flu jab every year. the first time i had the pneumonia(?) jab too - i think you only need this once.
i dont really know why i get it, but they send me a letter every year and i think what the hell.
i havent had anything more that a few head colds over the last few years.

[brimfull]

does it make you feel ill ?

[expatinscotland]

I do!

Last time I got flu, I was 25 and about as fit as a person can get - spending nearly every spare hour climbing and hillwalking at 5,000+ feet.

I wound up with pneumonia in both my lungs and spent Xmas in hospital.

It took me months before I was back to my prior level of fitness.

True influenza is anything but a run of the mill illness.

Get your jab!

I have to harrass my 71-year-old father who has hypertension and heart disease to get his, don't give me a new person to harrass !

[harleyd]

nope it has never made me feel ill.
tbh im not really sure why i got on the posting list for it. i had mild asthma when i was little, mainly coinciding with hayfever. but havent suffered from it for years

[IdrisTheDragon]

DH has asthma and has had the flu jab for the past couple of winters. He hasn't had flu after having the injections (neither have I without injections, but I don't have asthma either).

[lou33]

i didnt have my flu jab last year and got really sick, so am making sure i do this time

[brimfull]

right am going to book myself in.

Ds has had his reminder aswell,he has asthma,but is allergic to uncooked eggs,unsure if he can have it.

[expatinscotland]

The pneumo jab did make my father ill this year, but he is elderly and has lung scarring from many years of smoking and a particularly bad bout of pneumonia when he was young.

And as I pointed out to him, if the jab did that, imagine what the real disease could do?