Flu vaccine, to have or not to have?

[wobblybee]

Re the Flu Vaccine. This will be my first time, if I decide to have it. Has anyone

noticed any side effects?

[nana23]

i had one last year and suffered no side effects whatsoever xxx

[wobblybee]

Sound ok then. I have been invited to have it this Saturday (6 Oct), and was

slightly concerned I may be 'out of order' by next Saturday, which is the date

of the big bash at Stanstead. x

[Andy-C]

I have the flu jab every year...... its no biggie, you may have an ache in the upper arm where you had the injection for a day or two though which can be a little uncomfortable.

Andy

[wobblybee]

Ooh, I wish you hadn't mentioned NEEDLES Andy!

[HarryB Administrator]

Hi

I would rather a needle than flu. I have had the jag for the past few years and have never had any problem with it apart from a little arm ache that Andy mentioned. I have only had flu once before (before I started having the injections) and it knocked me for 6. I would do absolutely anything to try and prevent having flu again.

Harriet

[wobblybee]

Thanks Harry! Well put.

[Hidden]

No side affects for me. didn't even feel the needle going in.

[Hidden]

I have had the jab [sorry wobblybee] it has no side affects apart from as andy-c says an ache afterwards in some people the only thing I will say is wear something sleeveless or with lose sleeves you won't have time to do anything other than role your sleeve up it is so quick.

[jeromekern]

Hi, I've had it for the last 25 years - never know it's done - with no side effects at all.

Doug.

[silkwood]

Going on Sat to have ours.Both of us offered it though not coz of age.No side effects last year when had my first.

[Fifa Volunteer]

Hello

I have had the flu jab for several years. It is good.

I have no side erfects.

Take care

Regards

Fifa

[lindilu]

had for 1st time last year - no hesitation this tjme!

[albec01]

Hi,

I was diagnosed with CA in 1997. I've been getting a 'Flu Jab' every year since then. I can't remember before. I was still working in 2005 and I must have been 'run down'. Each year I queue up with the 'Purple Rinse' Brigade. I think I'm relatively healthy and I suffer very little and I rarely pass anything on to my grandchildren.

I'm already booked this year, I feel no side effects. In fact the most painful part is removing the plaster the nurse puts on!

AB

[gossy]

i also have had flu jab for years due to asthma apart from sore arm you can feel achy for fewdays i usually take a parecetomal after flu jab which usually helps

[wibbly]

same as most, do the same as Gossy, no side effects - why do they say "you will only feel a small scratch" ?

[wobblybee]

Mmm! Why don't they come up with something more inventive, rather than 'a small

scratch'? I started nurse training way back when (in the 60s), but had to stop

because I found if difficult to give someone an injection. (You would think that I

would have considered the possibility beforehand.) Practicing on oranges is

all well and good but faced with a real living posterior is something else. A brave man

volunteered, the medication was streptomycin, I managed but enough was enough!

[wobblybee]

Finally had the flu jab! We got there 5min before it closed, so the GP had lots

of practice before he got to me, it was so quick I hardly had time to think about it!

[PatJean]

I have been having flu jab for many years and I agree with albecO1 it's removing the plaster that is more noticeable than the jab itself.

[SamGH]

No have it