Page 4 | To ask if you’re having a flu vaccine?

OtherS · 02/12/2025 17:31

ChristmasMantleStatue · 02/12/2025 17:10

I got mine at a local independent pharmacy. It cost £19.99. I'm actually eligible for a free one at the medical centre, but this one is more convenient and the pharmacist is an absolute genius with jabs- I can't even feel the 'sharp scratch' that they always tell you to expect.

If you're eligible to get it free on the NHS then the chemist will do it free for you too, you just need to give them your details. (Or at least the ones round here will, I assume it's the same everywhere?)

RafaistheKingofClay · 02/12/2025 17:21

Missed the GP flu clinic and have been slack in getting it sorted so had it yesterday. Usually get it way earlier than this. Should really have got pharmacy to do it when I had the Covid vaccine a couple of months ago.
Managed to get it before I hit flu though which is the important thing. The flu wave is hitting early this year.

Pollymollydolly · 02/12/2025 17:20

Have had flu, covid and pneumonia vaccines this year. Always have flu and covid, first time having pneumonia vaccine but it lasts 10 years so won’t need that again for a while

DinoLil · 02/12/2025 17:15

Had mine a couple of months ago.

LakieLady · 02/12/2025 17:15

I hardly ever get flu and I haven't had a flu vax for years. The couple of times I've had one, I felt like I was coming down with flu for months, so on balance I prefer to risk the real thing.

Now if there was a cold vaccine, I'd have one every year...

ChristmasMantleStatue · 02/12/2025 17:10

I got mine at a local independent pharmacy. It cost £19.99. I'm actually eligible for a free one at the medical centre, but this one is more convenient and the pharmacist is an absolute genius with jabs- I can't even feel the 'sharp scratch' that they always tell you to expect.

TubeScreamer · 02/12/2025 17:06

Choux · 02/12/2025 16:05

Can those of you who have paid to have one in the last couple of weeks advise where they got it. I forgot to get one in the autumn and am struggling to find national chains still doing them in my area. Perhaps I need to pop into a local independent chemist?

Local independent pharmacy

TimeForATerf · 02/12/2025 16:44

I’m not entitled to a free one as I don’t have any medical issues and am in my fifties, I paid for one about two months ago in Tesco, think it was about £18. My employer used to pay for them but I’m retired now so happy to fund it.

unsync · 02/12/2025 16:42

Had mine in October.

Funnywonder · 02/12/2025 16:40

People talking about ‘proper’ flu - you do realise you can have ‘proper’ flu with very few symptoms or no symptoms? You never forget a bad bout though. It’s horrific.

ChristmasMantleStatue · 02/12/2025 16:25

I had mine last week- much later than usual.

The last time I had flu was in 2018. I lost my hearing in one ear and it's never returned.

OtherS · 02/12/2025 16:21

I was away when they were released, but it was the very first thing I did when I got home, even before going shopping. I had flu a few years ago and ended up in hospital barely able to breathe, then a few months later my lower body went numb. Turns out I'd developed multiple sclerosis, which is often (usually, I believe) kicked off by a virus. I was 29, very fit and very healthy. I now have days when I struggle to get out of bed. Understandably, I am now absolutely terrified of flu as it could cause me to relapse, so wouldn't consider socialising with anyone who hadn't had a jab.

For those people who don't bother as they don't get ill; firstly, that was once me and now look, and secondly, you can still be carrying the virus and passing it on to people who do get ill. Please, please, please get the jab - it literally saves lives.

Boomer55 · 02/12/2025 16:15

MzGG · 02/12/2025 11:10

My GP surgery has text me to inform me that I’m duet flu vaccine. I’m going to book myself in.

Will you be having one too?

Nope. Not interested.

tinyspiny · 02/12/2025 16:15

We had ours in October . I’ve had proper flu once and lost about 3 days and I also had swine flu when it went round and that made me really ill , although the antivirals made me feel worse .

Cheshire71 · 02/12/2025 16:13

Had mine a month ago

Funnywonder · 02/12/2025 16:06

I had mine last week. My son is immunosuppressed and, due to mental health issues, won’t be able to have the vaccine himself. So if the rest of us have had it, he’s a bit less likely to become ill.

Choux · 02/12/2025 16:05

Can those of you who have paid to have one in the last couple of weeks advise where they got it. I forgot to get one in the autumn and am struggling to find national chains still doing them in my area. Perhaps I need to pop into a local independent chemist?

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Oioiqueen · 02/12/2025 16:00

Had mine in October. I'm eligible as DH is immunosuppressed. Our doctors surgery won't do mine so I just book it at Boots on a day off. Kids have the injection at school. We managed to time it so that we all had the jab within a day of each other.

hennipenni · 02/12/2025 15:58

I will be having both Flu and covid vaccines, I’m immunocompromised due to having had a bone marrow transplant 3 months ago so complications from either virus could end badly for me.

caringcarer · 02/12/2025 15:40

I already had mine on early October as I'm asthmatic.

ghostyslovesheets · 02/12/2025 15:31

Yep had mine in September

Alittlefrustrated · 02/12/2025 15:30

This is only the second year I haven't had it - retired from NHS, where we were more or less forced to have both flu and covid vaccines (not that I minded).
I don't qualify for NHS now.
My DP and DS have had the jab/spray. They are both laid low with flu symptoms at the moment. I presume it's some other virus going round. I can't afgord to catch it, I've got a really busy week!

Doyouthinktheyknow · 02/12/2025 15:30

Had mine. I’m a mental health nurse working in a general hospital and A&E so need all the help I can get! 😷

itsthetea · 02/12/2025 15:24

i used to get flu when younger and it floored me for a month at a time

i take the jag