Got my flu shot. Feelin safer....

[lindysalsagal]

anyone else? Free at the local supermarket.

[Desert Dem]

1. Yep

at Walgreens.

[lindysalsagal]

2. Good man: If you've had the real week+ flu, the aches, pains, weakness, you always get the shot.

[at140]

3. I will wait until November by which time

they will have figured out (hopefully) which strain of Flu is likely to be dominant.

[lindysalsagal]

5. I don't believe they respond that quickly. This is it for the year, take it or leave it.

If they guessed wrong, nothing else will be available this year, anyway. It's worth the risk, and hopefully, what I got is close enough to what I'll get exposed to.

[Ilsa]

4. I'll get mine next month.

I need my second shingles shot this month.

[Lars39]

6. How'd you do with the side effects of the first one?

My immune system isn’t all that great and that first shot kicked my buttocks pretty badly.

[RobinA]

10. I Felt Nothing

after the first shot. After the second? Not so good. Just don’t schedule it within a couple days of something you don’t want to feel like crap for.

[Lars39]

11. Mine was the opposite...second

one was much easier. Still felt bad for a few days though.

[Skittles]

7. I have filled out the form

waiting a bit due to antibiotics prescribed for dental stuff

[customerserviceguy]

8. I need to find someplace to do that

I have a lot less exposure to people since I retired (I worked the front window at my last job) but I still go out and have a beer or two with other people.

Gonna have to do it before we go out to visit Mom in late October, she has virtually zero exposure to other people, and I'd hate to bring the flu to her at the age of 86.

Edit: I mentioned this to my lady, and she's got us scheduled for flu shots on Saturday. She doesn't tell me stuff like this because I just don't remember, according to her. In any case, she's got us on track as always. I'm damned lucky to have her!

[NNadir]

9. Got it today along with Shingles vaccine and the pneumonia vaccine. I feel like...

...shit, but I usually do after the annual flu shot.

I'm generally a little ill for a day, but then again, I don't get the flu.

Definitely worth it.

I've heard Shingles is particularly nasty, and I'm glad there's a vaccine.

[Iggo]

12. Good gawd, that time agian already?

How the fuck old am I?

[elocs]

13. I'm 67 and I've never had a flu shot. I think I had a cold 12 years ago or so,

but I don't remember having had the flu. Also, being schizoid I avoid being around people as much as possible.
My doctor offered the flu shot at my last physical and when I said 'no' he told me he had no problem with that, he just had to offer it.

[Aristus]

15. It's not about you.

Sooner or later, unless you're Robinson Crusoe, you're going to come into contact with other people. You don't want to infect them. Contribute to herd immunity, the human race's greatest collective humanitarian endeavor.

Your doctor should have encouraged you with a little more conviction.

But I get it; even I get tired of going eighteen rounds with the 'never had a flu shot, never will' crowd.

[smirkymonkey]

14. I'll get mine at our health center at work.

It's so convenient and it takes about two minutes. Probably not for another 2 or 3 weeks though. I'm away next week and then play catch up the week after that.