People saying they’ve never had flu?

I think I was 27 or 28 when I got it. Then I got it twice in one year. Haven't had it since.

40 here and I've never knowingly had it. Bad colds, yes, COVID, yes, but never ill for more than 4-5 days at the very most, and only ever had a temperature with COVID. Never been bed bound with anything other than norovirus and tonsillitis.

Never had flu, never had a throat or chest infection, never had norovirus. Got covid once and it was symptomless. I get colds but they tend to fizzle out after a few days.

I think the only illness that has had me bedridden as an adult was a serious gum infection caused by impacted wisdom teeth.

I am a farm kid - got the constitution of a rhino.

I think you must be bomb proof after such a long teaching career. Long time TA here who looks after the poorly children and I think I’m Teflon 😂 (I do have the flu jab too)

I had it at 18, was in bed for a week 3 weeks into uni. My lecturers thought I was a pisstaker but I was absolutely flattened. Never had it since though!

I haven’t had a cold for 3 years now. Have an auto immune condition with the side effect of it beating every minor illness it comes near.

Get the vaccine - from memory about £25 in. Boots.

I don’t think I’ve ever had fly, and Covid only once. Lasted about 36 hours, no worse than a cold.

Both DSs have been felled by some kind of flu type virus, but I’ve never been so ill that I couldn’t have gone into the garden to grab some money flying around, what I’ve heard is the definition of being ill with flu.

Never had a flu jab either.

I’m late 40’s and I think I had it once in my early 20’s. Couldn’t get out of bed for a few days, Felt the worst I’ve ever felt, so assume it was flu.

Vaguely remember having it as a kid but not since. I rarely get colds and when I do I tend to not get the symptoms as bad as others - e.g. years ago my flatmate was off for the whole week, feeling wretched on the sofa. I caught it and felt a bit rough for three days but worked throughout.

I can only remember two days in my life where I've had a day off from bring ill, and it was more the lack of sleep

I'm 43 and have never had the flu, neither have any of my children. My husband had Beijing flu when he was about 16, but not since. My Mum had it once in 74 years.

I'd have thought it more unusual to have had it than not.

I had swine flu when that was doing the rounds but that’s it

Perfectly normal not to have flu. I think people say they've had flu and they mean a bad cold. Flu is very severe can't get out of bed. Never had a jab never had flu I'm 40. My mum has had it once she's 70. Don't know anyone my age that has had flu. I think it's mostly old people.

I’m nearly 70 & have never had anything remotely like flu, only colds sometimes lasting a couple of days with sore throat & runny nose but no aches & pains. I don’t bother to get the flu jab offered to us oldies as what’s the point.
I never had any covid symptoms either & didn’t bother with the jabs after the first couple.

I've never had flu, as far as I know. So if I have, I didn't have it badly.

Things like improving you diet and getting enough sleep can help OP, but they’re often easier said than done. Do what you can about those things, but the thing that’ll probably help protect you the most is to pay for the flu vaccination. I’d get it booked if I was you.

I've had it once and it absolutely floored me - I lost 3 days and a stone in weight, I've never felt so awful (and I had pretty bad COVID 3 times after vaccination!)

I now pay for a flu jab every year as it was so frightening to feel so poorly.

Late 50s, never had flu. I worked for many years in customer-facing roles and rarely had a day off sick. I think I had 2 days in 20+ years. I’ve had colds but I know it’s never been flu based upon how it is described.

I've been very lucky to not had it in 50 years. My DM I know had it once as I remember as a child her being in bed for two weeks. .she now 80 and only had it the once. That childhood memory is why I always get the flu jab and my parents get it too. Real flu is awful and a killer. So no I been lucky enough not to have flu but had bad colds etc

This is complete nonsense. We all had a crash course in how a virus works during the height of the pandemic. Some people can definitely tap something into a phone whilst feeling pretty ropey. Other people can’t remember their own name, have hallucinations, alternate between fevers and shivering and wouldn’t care if an asteroid was about to hit their house. And some will be out for their morning run completely oblivious to the fact that they have flu. Just like Covid. But not Covid.

I’m early 60 ‘s and even though I’ve sworn I’ve had flu my doctors (when they tested) said that it wasn’t. Horrendous fever, sore throat, body aches, cough…I get depressed too. Yet the times I’ve sworn I’ve had it I apparently haven’t.

Nearly 70, have had flu several times over the course of my life. Definitely flu not just heavy colds, I was bed-bound for up to a week then 1-2 weeks beyond getting over it. Always at a time when a lot of others were also coming down with it, i.e. early winter. Haven't had it for a couple of decades but have been housebound so less likely to come into contact with it.