Anyone get a flu shot but still got the flu?

I liken flu shots to seat belts. Wearing a seatbelt is not a guarantee that you come out of an accident unscathed. But you are less likely to get severely injured or die. It’s the same with many vaccines.

I am an A+ asthmatic. I always get the flu and other vaccines. Not with the assumption that I will not get sick but with the assumption that the odds will be that I won’t get really sick and die.

If you understand the science, a perfect vaccine is hard to make. Effective ones are easier. Maybe in the future, vaccines customized based on your DNA will be a reality. Please don’t wait, get vaccinated. Current vaccines are effective.

Adding to the flu jab I have received a shingles jab and am now suffering from severe itching just as if i got shingles!

@seeram I had a light case of shingles back in the nineties. It felt like someone was poking me with a hot needle on my ribcage.

As soon as I could get the two jabs of Shingrix I did. The discomfort from the shots is nothing compared to an actual shingles outbreak on your body. Depending on what nerves are affected, it can be a lot more serious than being poked over and over with a hot needle. Some people get shingles in their optic nerve and lose their sight in the affected eye.

I’m not trying to minimize your discomfort from your jab, I’m just saying the real thing is a lot worse.

It probably happens to just about everyone at one time or another. there are several strains of flu and it's only educated guesswork which strain is likely to be the most virulent from year to year.

It seems we have forgotten about the importance of diet and exercise for protecting and maintaining our health. The solution to everything these days is a pill or a shot. Ask a physician about what foods to eat or avoid based on your health concerns and see if you'll get a response. The same goes for the types of exercise you should do for your particular health situation. Healthy patients and dead patients don't raise profits, but sickly patients who have to keep coming back for more tests and more prescriptions do. That's the sweet spot for our modern medical system.

Ask a physician about what foods to eat or avoid based on your health concerns and see if you'll get a response.

The advice you might get will certainly be in accordance with the current societal/medical fads and fashions about food types and the many hypes surrounding them.

I have. Usually when a flu shot is created, they're almost guessing what version of the flu is going to hit. Flu shots aren't always 100%

Yep, every year, turns out it was from my job (urgent care) and very low vitamin d. Once both of them were fixed, hasn't happened again.

Yes, flu shot, every year and any other vaccine I can find that is available....it's just one less thing to worry about. I don't know where this is coming from - untrained, uneducated, non-licensed people substituting their judgement for that of trained, educated, licensed healthcare professionals. The flu shot is not like the polio vaccine...the flu shot is not 100%...but it's generally much better than going unvaccinated.

For all the years that a flu shot was available, I always took a pass, BUT about 6 years ago I got the flu. Had it for at least 2 weeks didnt eat since about an hour later it came back up, so I actually lost about 20+ pounds. Did enemas daily just to get some water in me and after all that I NEVER pass up a chance for a flu shot, even if it only helped me ONE time, it will be worth it