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Are you getting the flu jab this year?

163 replies

Rainydays55 · 20/10/2021 21:29

Mid 30s just wondering if I should get the flu jab this year? Wouldn’t normally consider it but keeping hearing how as many people as possible need to get it.

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SickAndTiredAgain · 20/10/2021 21:50

Yep I had it a few weeks ago.

Completely impossible to get one for DD though (the nasal spray one), the surgery just says they have no idea when they’re getting it.

Mumobag · 20/10/2021 21:51

I had mine last week. I'm 36 and very healthy, but I pay to get the jab every year because I had flu 11 years ago and have absolutely no desire to repeat the experience while looking after two young children.

Abraxan · 20/10/2021 21:51

@CatherineCawood

I got it, then 10 days later caught flu and ended up in hospital Confused I get it every year and it has never let me down before!
I suspect it wasn't the jab that let you down. Like most vaccines it takes a good couple of weeks to become effective if I remember rightly, so I think you may just have been unlucky with the timing sadly.
Suzi888 · 20/10/2021 21:52

Have booked it for next week. Had it last year too.

GoodnightGrandma · 20/10/2021 21:55

I have mine every year at work now as I had flu once, and I never want it again.

shouldistop · 20/10/2021 21:55

Ds1 got the flu when he was about 18 months (wasn't offered vaccine until 2) - he was very, very unwell for 2 weeks. It was absolutely awful, raging high temperature, being sick all over the bed in the night, wouldn't eat, was listless and sleepy. He slept with me for 2 weeks as I was too worried to have him in his own room.

He's had the vaccine every year since!

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 20/10/2021 21:55

I have it every year because I'm a single parent and oils be totally screwed if knocked out with flu for weeks. It made me feel worse this year than it has before - but not even beginning to touch actually having flu so. I don't really see why anyone wouldn't have it.

Concestor · 20/10/2021 21:56

I've already had mine and so has my 12yo. I'm declining it for my youngest though as it really distressed him having it last year.

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 20/10/2021 21:57

@CatherineCawood

I got it, then 10 days later caught flu and ended up in hospital Confused I get it every year and it has never let me down before!
Pharmacist told me it takes 3 weeks for your body to get the immune response so in the time you are just as vulnerable as an unvaccinated person. That was very bad luck for you, but nothing whatsoever to do with getting the vaccine.
bananaboats · 20/10/2021 21:58

I'm mid 30s and already had it

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 20/10/2021 21:58

Have had it. Have it every year though, even when I wasn’t entitled to a free one. Used to get it because I was self employed and didn’t want to lose income being ill. Now would get it even if not free, and now I’m employed, because who wants to be ill?

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 20/10/2021 21:59

Once I did get flu in the weeks before the immunity kicked in - back in 2009 I think. The dr thought it was probably swine flu, which I believe was new that year.

cadburyegg · 20/10/2021 22:00

I've had every year for several years now, but I get mine for free as I'm coeliac. The one year I didn't get it I became really ill with flu! I'm a single parent and I actually don't know how I'd look after my kids if I got the flu again.

cadburyegg · 20/10/2021 22:00

I'm 34 btw

Trinacham · 20/10/2021 22:01

31 here. Wouldn't usually have it but I'm pregnant so will this year. Had the flu before and it wasn't nice!

pointythings · 20/10/2021 22:04

Had mine last Saturday, COVID booster the day before. I'm over 50 and I've had flu three times in my life. I aim to not make it 4.

stealingbeauty · 20/10/2021 22:04

I had it as they offered it with my second Pfizer. I have mild asthma and have intended to get a flu jab for years but then never get around to it.

whitehorsesdonotlie · 20/10/2021 22:06

Already had mine. Why wouldn't you?!

cstaff · 20/10/2021 22:08

Just had mine today actually. Our office provides it for anyone who wants it for the last 5 years or so. There was a breakout in our office back then and ever since the option is there for whoever wants it.

Rainallnight · 20/10/2021 22:09

I have it every year except for one year when I caught proper flu. I never missed it again

AnnaSW1 · 20/10/2021 22:11

I got it today

MadeOfStarStuff · 20/10/2021 22:12

Yep, had it a couple of weeks ago, I get it every year anyway

Itsnotover · 20/10/2021 22:13

Yes

TravelLost · 20/10/2021 22:16

Nope.

Never do it and this year is looking like even more hit and miss as they don’t quite know which variant of the flu will hit the U.K. (as very few cases in the south hemisphere - covid again).

GroggyLegs · 20/10/2021 22:17

Yes.
I travel around a lot for my work & meet lots of different people over the week so lots of potential to catch & spread it.

Feels like the responsible thing to do.

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