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- A Private Eye
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Re: H1N1 Vaccine
That's why you should take it TWICE a year. Hence seasonal.
I don't know anyone that has a flu jab twice a year, I didn't even know it was an option. Having said that my point still stands, two flu jabs will/should provide you with immunity against the strain of flu thought to be most common/dangerous at that time. What it won't do is provide immunity against the other thousands of strains of flu that exist at any one time. Which is why some people who have flu vaccines still get flu.
- A Private Eye
- Rep: 77
Re: H1N1 Vaccine
That's incredible, it's almost as if it's partly psychological!
Re: H1N1 Vaccine
neurological
the vaccine data sheet explicitly says to not get the vaccine if you have a neurological disorder
it also has eggs in it...so if you are allergic to eggs...dont get the shot...
if you are already sick....do not get the shot
peopel need ot learn to read shit instead of just jumping in with both feet
like i said the thing that tipped the scales for me is that this particular strand attacks (and does lasting damage) to the lungs...i have compromised lungs with the asthma so thats why i got it...normally though i do not get the flu shot ... this is my first one ever, and i doubt i will get the seasonal one
Re: H1N1 Vaccine
I ended up getting a regular flu shot around a month ago. A couple of weeks later I came down with a really shitty case of the flu (infected throat, mucus, cough and all types of nasal problems). I'd just as soon avoid getting it since I'm not sure it makes that much of a difference to me anyway.
I'm still not sure how anyone differentiates between H1N1 and the regular seasonal flu both their symptoms sound the same.
Re: H1N1 Vaccine
The point of a flu shot is to kick start your immune system against the virus by presenting your immune system WITH the virus.... (among other potentially harmful substances)
Some people have no adverse reactions to that... for others... the immune system is (at the very least) temporarily weakened... hence.. some people actually are more likely to get sick after the shot....
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: H1N1 Vaccine
My situation with Flu shots is this:
Back in about 1994 I got the flu *real* bad. I was at school, and it just came over me in like 15 minutes, all of a sudden I could hardly sit upright let alone stand. I got home. Fell into bed, and the next thing I remember it was 7 days latter. Apparently during that time i'd been concious while my mum was looking after me and stuff, but I don't recall anything from it, that's how sick I was.
Anyway, after that I was petrifed of getting the flu again, I've had loads of heavy colds over the years, and had even had a milder flu before, but that incident showed me that the real honest to goodenss hardcore flu can really screw you over if you're unlucky.
So since about 2000 i've been gettig flu shots, as I don't fancy another brush with it.
My understanding is it's impossibe for the shot to give you the flu, as they are injecting you with a dead virus. The dead virus has the effect of making your natural antibodies build up, just cos it's foreign, and so then when you do come across a live virus you're better prepared to fight it. But it can't in and of itself give you the flu.
I think post cases where people got sick after having the shot are one of the following:
1. they were already about to come down with the virus anyway. (The vax takes a period of time - i think a couple of weeks - to be real effective) so if you're exposed prior to that time you can still get sick.
2. It covers against like 70% of the types of flu out there. if you bump into one of the other 30% you can still get sick.
3. Some people have a heavy cold and call it the flu, when it's not the same illness, even though they have similar symptoms and both suck.
So i'm not worried about the normal flu shot.
Although for the h1n1 I am worried because of times in the past when stuff has been done quickly and then has bad effects. But then this is 2009 not 1970, and hopefully lessons have been learn't. I'm also slightly scared of that video above that says repeated vax can cause alzimers from the mecurary build up or whatever.
This link suggests that the metal issue is less than you'd get in tuna and other foods anyway, and that its far more dangerous to avoid vax for swine flu:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 … -safe.html
The problem with all this stuff is there's so many conflicting websites. Who knows what the truth is.
Re: H1N1 Vaccine
i dunno i got a paphlet when i got the shot...i could post it if anyone wants to see it...i dunno if canada gets the same one as other countries, but it says that its essentially the same shot as a normal flu virus except that there is adjuvcant or something added to it to specifically battle the H1N1,...just a normal vaccine but altered to battle this particular strain
