To ask if you’re having a flu vaccine?

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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?

Do you think it will weaken your already great immune system? just curious as i am undecided

This is a really odd reason not to get the flu jab.

I too was fit and healthy and hardly every got so much as a sniffle but I still found myself hospitalised with flu.

And it drives me nuts when people post myths about flu. Flu can be asymptomatic, mild, moderate or severe. Not everyone is unable to get out of bed.
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/yahoo-life-why-does-the-flu-make-some-people-sick-but-not-others

(This does not mean that you shouldn’t get the flu vaccine)

It absolutely will not weaken it - it will strengthen it. The vaccine basically presents a safe version of flu to the immune system so the immune system knows what to look out for and is therefore quicker off the mark in repelling flu if you ever encounter it.

Vaccines are basically like showing pictures of burglars to security guards so that if the burglars come along, the security guards are well prepared to repel them

Hopefully you actually don‘t (how could you actually know) as having a great immune system makes influenza much more dangerous. It leads to a cytokine storm and is the reason so many young people died in the 1918 epidemic.

And yes, as PP has said, having flu tells you nothing about your symtoms. I have tested positive for flu and been completely asymptomatic, and you can also have mild cold symptoms. Getting the vaccine is not only because it can be bad, but also because it can be mild and without knowing what you have you can pass it on to elderly relatives and infants etc.

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

i take the jag

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

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!

Yep had mine in September

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

Had mine a month ago

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 .

Nope. Not interested.

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.

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.

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.

Had mine in October.

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.

Local independent pharmacy

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.