To urge you to get your flu jab…

I'd take back the covid vaccine if I could. Stupidly I listened to the government and was forced into it . I had a holiday booked August 2020 to Barcelona and that's when we had to have covid 'passports ' id have cancelled and rather have lost all the money in hindsight.
If never put another poison jab in my arm again , including the flu jab
You do you .

I managed, with help from DH, to take a bath when I had pneumonia.

Just saying.

I (knowingly) had flu in 2008 whenever I’d never had a flu vaccine in my life. I still didn’t get the vaccine for the next 10 years. Never had it again that I know of. I now get vaccinated. Still haven’t had it again. There isn’t a conspiracy where people who get vaccinated get it more.

If you had the Jab why so poorly? It always makes me confused...I've not had a flu jab since probably 2013 and I've not had flu since I was a kid. People who seem to get really ill are often people who are vaccinated? Why?

Nowhere near me sells it. None of the independent pharmacies or those attached to the supermarkets have had any stock since the beginning of November and I live in a large city. I'm fortunately covered as I was eligible for a free one but my DD can't get hers at all and she's been trying since November.

Unless one's immune system has been blasted by chemo or by lupus or by all kinds of autoimmune diseases or is lowered because you've had an organ transplant and you are taking drugs to suppress the immune system that would reject it.. What an ignorant comment.

The local pharmacy (but they don’t have any available anyway at the moment) are attached to my GP & all my prescriptions are sent there.

That sounds awful!

I’ve just tried to book us all in but there are none available anywhere. At least that means lots of people are getting it I suppose.

Just tell a wee porkie! Honestly, they are extremely unlikely to check unless it’s your own GP who is very familiar with your meds.

Ds loves and works in a major city. Availability is very different there.

I rarely use my inhaler. Just occasionally, maybe every few months.

Vaccines work precisely because we have an immune system. The H3N2 strain affects the elderly more than younger people and is continually evolving

lost my hearing as a result of flu several years ago and now have to wear hearing aids

had my jag every year since and encourage others to do the same.

it’s a horrible illness.

yes you can still catch it if vaccinated but the jag can help minimise the effects of
full blown flu and decrease your likelihood of hospitalisation or worse

This thread has highlighted that, despite a pandemic, some people can't grasp how vaccinations work. Or that flu, like any other virus, can induce severe symptoms in some, but mild symptoms in others.

Get well soon OP.

Vaccination doesn’t always stop you getting infected. It usually reduces the symptoms. It can mean being hospitalised but not needing the ICU. Or it can mean you’re unwell but don’t need hospitalisation. It also helps protect others by reducing the spread of infections:

“You have a group of 500 people who have been exposed to an outbreak of a rare disease. Of those 500 people, 490 have been vaccinated; 10 have not. Different vaccines provide different rates of protection, but in this case, let's assume that 98 of every 100 people who are vaccinated will successfully develop immunity against the disease.

When exposed to the outbreak, all 10 of the unvaccinated individuals get the disease.

What about the 490 who were vaccinated?
Based on the assumption of 98 of every 100 people developing successful immunity (leaving two of the 100 unprotected), about 10 of the 490 vaccinated individuals will get the disease—the same as the number of unvaccinated individuals.

Those numbers, however, don’t take into account the percentage of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals who got sick. Of those who fell ill, 10 had been vaccinated and 10 had not. But the 10 who had been vaccinated are only (10 / 490) = 2% of the individuals who had been vaccinated in the population of 500. The 10 who hadn’t been vaccinated are (10 / 10) = 100% of those who weren’t vaccinated.”

https://historyofvaccines.org/vaccines-101/misconceptions-about-vaccines

I'm vaccinated but from what I understand it depends on what variety you actually get as to whether it's effective or not. It sounds miserable, hope you are better soon.

I didn't get the vaccine, although I was offered it. Big mistake. I'm on day 17 of flu. Still coughing, today is the first day I felt a little interest in getting dressed, I'm exhausted. It has been brutal.

You can just tell them you have a steroid brown one.

However, to be honest having asthma doesn't mean you're at greater risk of catching it, but it may mean that if you did you may have an asthma exacerbation.

As an aside, the guidelines in the UK have vastly shifted away from just using blue inhalers now, and patients should be offered an anti-inflammatory plus bronchodilator inhaler instead. This can be taken either as and when needed (same as the blue but with better & longer lasting effect) or as a regular twice daily inhaler.

If you're needing your blue more than a couple of times a month I would really recommend asking for a review.

Try private GP.
Ours had them the week before Xmas.

Your vaccine didn’t work and you are urging people to get it?

To anyone querying about the different strain.

Yes, the virus mutated after the vaccine was created. So there is a different strain which the vaccine will not fully protect you from. However, the vaccine will still ensure that you do not get as sick as if you didn't have it at all. The mutated strain is the one causing most issues, but the vaccine is still very very helpful.