Anyone had the swine flu jab...?

[misspollysdolly]

I've heard that the swine flu jab seems to be consistently making people feel pretty poorly...? Has anyone experienced this. A few friends have had it, as well as the seaonal flu jab and largely they have all had fairly marked reactions to the swine flu jab. I am asthmatic. Have had my normal flu jab - and had no reaction apart from a sore arm - and am currently trying to decide whether to have the swine flu jab. Just wondering what your experiences have been or thoughts on it are...? TIA

will watch with interest - I've had normal jab which was ok,a bit stingy just after but fine and dandy..I imagine I'd be invited to have the swine flu one as I don't have a spleen

I had it yesterday. Arm has been sore since i had it, and I've been running a bit of a temperature since yesterday evening. I had no real symptoms with the seasonal flu jab. I'd say this one is slightly worse so far, but not terrible.

Hi I'm booked on Monday so interested in hearing others experiences. Of my two friends one was fine with swine flu vaccine and one felt awful and took a day off to recover. I've had the normal one without any problem on saturday.

Oh and if you are asthmatic you would have a bad time if you caught swine flu so probably worth being brave and getting vaccinated

My mum has an auto-immune disease and so was considered high risk for swine flu.

SHe had the regular flu, swine flu and pneumonia vaccine all in the same sitting with no side effects.

Going for both seasonal flu and swine flu jabs in the morning (frontline nhs in high risk area)Am on nights tommorow night.Will report back

Had mine on tuesday, sore at the injection site but otherwise no side effects at all (apart from a hangover from self medicating for the pain in my arm). Was a bit dissapointed, wanted an excuse to lie around on the sofa drinking tea all day!

have got my letter inviting me to go along today,so I guess I'll do it..

Had mine at 10am, bit of a sore arm now. Am self-medicating with cups of tea and mini twixes. Out of the two nurses at the clinic, one said she'd been absolutely fine after and one said she'd had a sore arm. I guess you can't tell which way you'll go!

Reactions will be person specific but Swine Flu vaccine is prepared exactly the same was as seasonal flu vaccine so how you typically respond to the seasonal flu vaccine should give you an indication of how you'll respond to the swine flu vaccine.

Lots of my DH's hospital colleagues have had it and no one has reported anything more sinister than a sore arm so far (some said it stayed sore for around 3 days)

I had my injections on wed pm.
flu in one arm, swine flu in the other. one arm kills, and I feel rotten. Not high temp as such, just rotten.
dh had swine flu aswell. his arm kills. but it also did from when he had normal flu jab a few weeks ago. his shoulder aches aswell. apparently not unusual.

Me and dh had it on Thursday evening, only side effects for both of us is a sore arm at the site of injection. Just considering whether to take dd to have it done.