Flu Jab

[mintymow]

What, if any, reaction can you get from the flu jab.

[Sqad]

No big deal and all minor.
Someone will be along shortly to give you a link to a website that will give you a list of side effects.

[Maydup]

Have you had a reaction minty?

[Sqad]

minty seems that i was wrong........nobody has yet come forward:

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/flu-vaccine-side-effects.aspx

Try this for size, but remember that the vast majority of folks have very little or no reaction.

[saintpeter48]

I've had the flu jab for past 6 years and only once did I get reaction after, I had flu like symptoms for a couple of days with weak and aching joints, other than that, no problems.

[Jomlett]

The only reaction I've had, after several years of the flu jab, was surprise to also be offered, and accepted, a anti-pneumonia jab, which I'd never heard of.

[Peter Pedant]

very minor

a few faint within a few minutes and nothing much else
[ having had that myself ]

gives good protection

[Peter Pedant]

The multi-valent pneumonia vaccine gives good protection

[ which reminds me I need one - thx ]

[anneasquith]

only ( reaction ) a slightly painful injection site for a few days..

[ummmm]

My dad used to get very mild flu like symptoms for a couple of days. Nothing a few pills couldn't sort out.

[douglas9401]

What Anne said. I make sure to get it in the arm. :-)

[mintymow]

Thanks everyone. I only had my jab yesterday. My arm is a bit tender, but I've had that before. I do feel a bit tired and achy today and might have the start of a cold perhaps. Still not really blaming the jab I was probably brewing something before it. They ask if you are feeling well, I said yes, because I was, but we'll see how the rest of the day goes.

[woofgang]

I get the tired and achey every year. would rather have that than flu.

[islasmum]

I had mine yesterday, and I feel pretty rough today - tired, and my joints ache. Still, probably better than getting flu.

[sandyRoe]

I just got a letter this morning asking me to make an appointment for my jab. I phoned and have arranged to go on Saturday morning, 25th Oct. Hope I don't get the flu before then.
In the past I've had no side effects.

[jennyjoan]

Ermm - why do you put yourselves through this as

no. 1 - your mother and father didn't get the jab

no. 2 - your health (I take it) has been fine so why put yourselves through flu-like symptoms.

[woofgang]

JJ I have had flu, real flu, twice in my life. Both times I was very fit and well beforehand and both times I needed to take to my bed and stay there apart form struggling to the loo. Its horrible and debilitating and takes ages to get over. I live alone with two dogs and my family don't live close by. If I got flu it would be very difficult to manage so I choose the minor inconvenience of a day or so aching and feeling off colour in order to reduce the risk of getting it again.

[Mamyalynne]

JJ having had Flu - they could stick pins in me head to toe, if it prevents a recurrence.

[jennyjoan]

That's what I mean Woofgang - you take it to REDUCE the risk not totally eliminating it. Anyway each to their own.

My sister got it (injection) several years ago and she was coughing and spluttering from November to Jan - she said never again.

[Mamyalynne]

My only reaction has been a sore injection site for around 48 hours.

[boxtops]

I too have had real flu twice in my life - once in my twenties and again over the Millenium, I was really ill for a good two weeks each time and it took about six weeks to feel anything like well again. I don't ever want it again. That's why I take the jab.

Side effects are usually minimal, the sort of symptoms you're feeling - but they are at pains to emphasise that you can't get flu from a flu jab. It's an insurance well worth taking advantage of. Flu is a seriously debilitating illness as we get older (that's why, conne).