To think that although the flu jab isn't a live jab it can make you feel bloody poorly

[JustMyLuck84]

Flu jab on fri (12 weeks pregnant). All this week bunged up, achey, sore throat etc.
AIBU to think it's more than coincidence?!

Next years vaccine will have the one in Australia in, this years has swine flu .and Avian flu one in , cant remember which other i was told when i had mine today
I feel fine,except for an achy arm,

GoldilocksAndTheThreePears
"I'm supposed to have the flu jab this year as I'm on a new medication that buggers my immune system but I'm dreading it. "

If it's any consolation I've had it for the last 3 years, for 3 flu jabs I've been on immunosuppressive drugs and not had anything more than achy arm/headache.

Had one yesterday and usual sore arm & headache. Also had v. painful trapped wind last night but I don't think that was down to the jab🤔

Got to 33 years without having fly so never chose to get the shot in pregnancy.

7 years of getting the flu jab and all I get is a sore arm, no biscuits or lollipops, I'm quite sad about that. no flu in fact I've had less colds thank ever

Trust me, having flu like symptoms after the vaccination (whether by injection or nasal spray) is a damn sight less unpleasant and dangerous than actually having influenza and/or one of its complications.

I have been getting it for 20+ years, I get a sore arm to varying degrees (depends on my immune response to any given year's antigen mix) and I may well have felt 'fluffy' but not enough to affect my functioning.

The Spanish flu in ?1917 killed more young and otherwise healthy people than WW1 and to this day nobody really knows what made that strain quite so virulent. We have not had a major flu epidemic in a long while which makes one more likely with every passing year.

I'll have my sore arm, thanks.

The flu vaccination offered in pregnancy is to protect the neonate, not the mother.

Had it last week and feel fine 😁

I've had swine flu. Now I get the jab.

For the record, I have never felt 'fluffy' after the flu jag (thanks, autocorrect), but maybe 'fluey'

Wow, salad.

You get the 'flu 2-3 times a year and don't die?
Not only that 2-3 different strains, none of which are the most common sort that year.
Every year!

You're a medical marvel.
I strongly reccomend you contact the WHO next time you have the 'flu so they can run some tests on you.

Astonishing.

I also get very frustrated with people claiming they have the flu when they have managed to get to work or similar. I have had flu only once, but plenty of colds, especially with a nursery aged child. With the flu, staggering the few metres to the bathroom was something it took me hours to psych up to, and moving my head on the pillow hurt. The sheets were sodden with sweat. It was truly terrible.

Goldilocks I'm on immunosuppressants and I don't get much reaction. :)
I had 'flu when I was 20 and super fit and healthy and I thought I was going to die. I dread to think what it would be like when I'm older and sicker.

Every single time I have my flu jab I end up with full blown flu 2-3 times at winter.

No, you don't.

I've had flu once and I was very ill and ended up in hospital, despite being a fit and healthy adult. It was many years ago but I've never forgotten it. Many people who say they have flu don't really have it.

I'm not eligible but am paying to have a jab as I'm self employed and if I can't work I don't get paid.

Scare stories are really unhelpful. I would say if you are eligible for the jab you should take it.

Had it for the first time last year and ended up in a coma with pneumonia January this year. I will not be getting it again.

That's a daft attitude. The vaccine didn't cause pneumonia, it just didn't prevent it. There's never a 100% guarantee that the vaccine will be effective as they have to work out which strains will be most common in advance and sometimes get it wrong. Also, you may have just been unlucky and caught an uncommon strain.

I always usually get the flu jab but last year I had a bad reaction to the injection (vasovagal response) and then felt awful for the next few days - couldn't go into work or do the school run - which made me reevaluate whether it's worth risking it this year.

Had it for the first time last year and ended up in a coma with pneumonia January this year. I will not be getting it again.

What?? How long after the flu jab did you get pneumonia?? Why do you think the two are linked??

From the NHS website: 'If you have what you think is flu after vaccination, it may be that you have caught a flu-like virus that isn't really flu, or you may have caught flu before your flu vaccination had taken effect.'

Read www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/flu-vaccine-side-effects.aspx for the actual facts!

I had a chest infection last year and I hadn't had the flu vaccine at that point 🤔

DH has had a very poor reaction with clear flu symptoms twice after the only two times he's had the flu jab so he had never taken it since.

It absolutely could be pure co-incidence but he's convinced it gave him flu.

I've had mine and do every year. No issues apart from feeling like i'd been punched in my arm after a few hours.

Had it for the first time last year and ended up in a coma with pneumonia January this year. I will not be getting it again.

No vaccination offers 100% protection at all times and forever for whatever microorganism it protects against.

While pneumonia can be a secondary infection in people affected by influenza, it is often bacterial and in that case has bugger all to do with influenza or indeed the vaccination to reduce your risk of getting 'flu.

Why is the concept of 'risk' so difficult to get across?? I am genuinely puzzled by that.

People love to prove the establishment wrong. If I had a £ for every person who said 'that vaccine gave me flu, it did! It did it did it did!' I wouldn't need to hear it any more. Because I'd be living in Barbados. No amount of explaining or reassuring works. Just look surprised, nod and smile

I've been having the jab for years now, maybe for the last 10 years, and apart from an achy arm for a day or two afterwards it's caused me no problems whatsoever. My sons have been having it too for the last three or four years and they've always been fine too.

Bit miffed that I've never had a lollipop or a biscuit though.

You can't catch the flu virus from having the flu jab. Think of the virus like an egg - to make the vaccination the egg is taken and the contents (yolk etc) removed, and you're given the shell. Just like you couldn't create a chicken from just an egg shell, you can't get the flu virus from the flu jab. The jab tells your body to create an immune response for the flu virus, but you can't develop the flu as you haven't been given the virus itself.