the flu vacine didn't work

[drydem]

early this october I got a $30 flu shot - thinking
I could avoid getting sick this winter. Last Thursday I
caught the bug and now I'm sick as a dog. I hearing from
on of my friends it takes about six days to get over the
flu. :frown:

[cloudzero]

that means your body sucks. you better start jogging and eat your vegetables.

[djxvertigo]

Maybe you had the wrong one, there's swine flu and regular flu... those are two different vaccines protecting two different things...

[eos]

Don't some people still get the flu even though they received the shot? Not quite sure why that happens, but it happens.

[Arex]

The flu vaccine administered in any given year is just health official's/professional's best guess as to which particular strain of flu will be going around in any given year. If they get it wrong, or if you just happen to get a strain that differs from the one addressed by the vaccine, you will get sick.

[drydem]

that means your body sucks. you better start jogging and eat your vegetables.

Yeah.
There's no way around it ... I gotta get back to the basics.

Maybe you had the wrong one, there's swine flu and regular flu... those are two different vaccines protecting two different things...

I think I've got just a seasonal flu bug since I'm
not vomiting and I haven't any irregular digestive problems. :rolleyes:
I'm in my 4th day now - I'm pretty drugged up
with OTC meds... if I had been more vigilant I should
have asked for antivirals on Thursday or Friday
but I didn't...

[snailpoo]

Yeah.
I think I've got just a seasonal flu bug since I'm
not vomiting and I haven't any irregular digestive problems. :rolleyes:


You may want to check with your doctor:

Most doctors aren’t even checking for what type of flu you’re coming down with now because the assumption is that seasonal flu hasn’t come on the surface yet, that anything out there right now is H1N1. Most doctors are saying that if you have influenza, from spring through the summer to right now, you probably have had H1N1.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33731861/ns/health-cold_and_flu/

[AngryABCGirl]

^

I had the worse flu in memory over the summer, so it's quite possible I had the swine flu especially since I ride disgusting public transit and was traveling a lot, aka being in disgusting airports.

It actually hurt/I wanted to hurl when I drank water and totally lost my voice. It was the only time I considered going to hospital sick and didn't go to work for almost two weeks. But I haven't gotten sick sense and people are like flu central right now, so I guess that's good.

[monkeygone2]

I just heard about this...very strange. A cheerleader's annual flu shot triggered a rare neurological disorder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbqwoxJADsg

She can speak clearly when she's jogging and when she's walking backwards. Her case is so rare, people wondered if it was a hoax.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja7lCIp04YY

[drydem]

You may want to check with your doctor:



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33731861/ns/health-cold_and_flu/


After nine days - I'm finally getting over the flu ( I first felt the symptoms on the evening of November 5th). My biggest risk was having the flu morph into pneumonia - but I think that risk has passed. This has been the longest flu episode that I have had in my lifetime - previously I've recovered in about half this time.

:frown: