When's the best time to get a flu shot?

[hedgehog]

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	Already had mine.
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	Um, this afternoon?
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	Later on in winter when the media reports an upsurge in hospitalizations due to a flu outbreak.
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	Later on in winter when the media report a shortage in flu vaccinations.
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[WinkyDink]

1. October.

[Nye Bevan]

2. Smug smug smug. Got it at CVS last week. (Last year I didn't get around to it at all).

No copay and they give you a 20% off shopping coupon!

[sharp_stick]

3. When my company offers it up for free

actually that's tomorrow, so I'll probably forget and wear and long sleeve shirt that doesn't roll up worth a shit just like I do every damned year...

We'll usually have everyone in the family immunized in October or at the latest in early November.

[Iggo]

24. Nurse comes by the office this Thursday with flu shots for all.

My company's cool like that.

[Shrike47]

4. Got mine in August when I was picking up a prescription at the drug store.

Got my pneumonia and shingles shots there, too.

[uppityperson]

5. Before influenza is in the community

[Beaverhausen]

6. I never get flu shots

and so far, I haven't gotten the flu. Just sayin'

[Voice for Peace]

29. good luck. I have never gotten one until this year.

Last year I got the flu, which morphed into pneumonia.
This year I decided on the shot. Now I have a small
case of flu shot but it's not too bad.

[TheKentuckian]

8. Apparently every third time because on the other occasions I get horribly ill.

I'm surprised I even tried again after the first shot, that was truly horrendous.

I'm extremely dubious of trying again. I did have one good run with it but got crappy sick again last year. It just seems my results are better just taking my chances, I get sick then sometimes as well but it is nowhere near as consistently as after I get the shot.

[NuclearDem]

9. As soon as possible.

Also, already got mine.

[ZombieHorde]

10. My workplace is giving them out

at the staff meeting latter this month.

[zappaman]

11. Never.

Don't want autism.

[Iggo]

25. Oh! Good point.

[MineralMan]

12. Today.

[justhanginon]

13. Tomorrow. Our village has the Visiting Nurse Assn. come

in and give them free of charge to residents every year. Before I retired 14 years ago, the office I worked in gave them and I have not had a serious bout with the flu since. Highly recommend the shots.

[bigwillq]

14. I got mine last week. First time ever. (nt)

[Gormy Cuss]

15. When there's no line.

[11 Bravo]

16. At least two weeks before you're exposed to the flu.

[RussBLib]

17. BEFORE YOU GET THE FLU!!

IOW, every year.

[B2G]

18. So I think I currently have it

Been feeling like crap for a week, all the right symptoms.

Is there any value in now getting it once I kick this shit? It totally sucks, BTW.

[hedgehog]

19. I have no idea, but I think this year's shot protects against 3 different flu viruses,

so maybe 2 out of 3 ain't bad?

[B2G]

20. Yeah, I was thinking that

I was going to go last weekend, and then bam.

I don't recommend going without and getting what I have. It's pretty damned miserable.

[SheilaT]

26. It is my understanding that each year's flu

shot is formulated for three different and specific flu viruses. The people in charge of this make an educated guess early in the year as to what will come around some months later, and they generally do a pretty good job of guessing.

[HuckleB]

21. As soon as you can get one.

[B Calm]

22. Got my flu shot on Monday last week.

[Iggo]

23. In the morning.

That way most of the pain's gone by the next day.

[Voice for Peace]

30. I got mine in the late afternoon

and there wasn't any pain to speak of but the next morning
I was throwing up. Don't know if it was a coincidence.

[Puzzledtraveller]

27. I don't get them, anymore.

used to when I was in the military, always got sick afterward.

[unblock]

28. PUSH POLL!