Flu Jab

OP

yeah thats what the NHS direct site says too not buying that at all. My friend used to be at boarding school and they had the flu jab every year and every year they had a few days of flu after it.

I felt absolutely flu free before I had the bloody thing I am totally blaming the injection its way too coincidental otherwise, also the nurse told me that rarely people do get fluey side effects.

Reply 3

dave

viviki

yeah thats what the NHS direct site says too not buying that at all.

Totally agree with you on that. For one, influenza viruses are mutating faster than the drug companies can counter them. What puzzles me is that the nasal-spray flu vaccine (LAIV) contains live but weakened viruses, whereas the viruses in the ordinary flu shot are supposed to be dead.
So if you received dead viruses, how did you catch flu?*

*Answers on a postcard to the Chief Medical Officer.

Reply 4

OP

yeah especially because I've had this flu jab because I have asthma and because I've already had one chest infection this winter but its making me more asthmatic.

Getting the feeling they don't know what the **** they are doing.

Reply 5

dave

Anyway, feel better soon. :hugs:

Reply 6

Antonius Varus

They wanted me to have the flu jab, but I refused as I feel fine *passes out from flu pains*

Reply 7

The flu vaccine only covers against the top 3 strains predicted to hit.

If you have full blown flu, it's possible that you have unfortunately got one of the ones not covered...

The 2005/2006 vaccine covers 2 A strains and one B strain:
A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1) - like virus
A/California/7/2004 (H3N2) - like virus
B/Shanghai/361/2002 - like virus

Reply 8

OP

Fluffy

The flu vaccine only covers against the top 3 strains predicted to hit.

If you have full blown flu, it's possible that you have unfortunately got one of the ones not covered...

The 2005/2006 vaccine covers 2 A strains and one B strain:
A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1) - like virus
A/California/7/2004 (H3N2) - like virus
B/Shanghai/361/2002 - like virus

so its just coincidental that I got it within hours of having the stupid jab

Reply 9

viviki

so its just coincidental that I got it within hours of having the stupid jab

More than likely yes - having the jab would have started an immune reaction, and if you came up against a non-covered virus (and lets not forget GP surgeries are germ pits...) in the first few hours, you would have been more suceptible...

The only other thing I can think of is that I assume that you're not allergic to eggs...

Reply 10

El Scotto

Nah, I heard you can get flu after getting the jab, thats why I haven't bothered getting it.

Reply 11

Xx Tomásíona - Mháire xX

viviki

I had my flu jab on friday. Within a couple of hours I had the flu symptoms - shivers and stuff- now I seem to have proper flu, I looked online and it said a side effect can be mild flu symptoms but this isn't mild.

I am all achy and have full blown flu now its not lifethreatening or anything so dramatic but its bloody irritating. Will it last as long as proper flu or just a few days anyone else had the flu jab?

thats what happened my little cousin, she needs the flu injection caus eof her diabetes, and because it was her first time she needed it twice and had flu symptoms twice, but the doctor said she'd have to battle it out just like anyone would with the flu :frown:

hope you feel better soon :hugs:

xoxo

Reply 12

OP

Nope not allergic to eggs but the surgery was a germ pit so I guess I prob got something from the surgery.

Think i've got my chest infection back too :frown:

Reply 13

El Scotto

Nah, I heard you can get flu after getting the jab, thats why I haven't bothered getting it.

It's not possible.

the virus used can't revert to a pathological one.

You can get a mild flu like illness bought about by the immune reaction going on in your body, but that's not full blown flu.

As I said the most common cause is being surrounded by ill mingers when you go to your GP for your jab...

Reply 14

Viviki

If you are really worried and feel grotty tomorrow get the GP to come out to see you. There's one condition that can develop as a complication of flu vaccine called Guillaine-Barre syndrome, but it is rarer than hens teeth (about 1 person in a million will develop it after a flu vaccine).

It's almost certainly nothing that sinister, but it helps to cover all the bases.

Reply 15

OP