Flu Jab

[Greedyfly]

Hey

I got my flu jab on Friday and it was quite swollen after etc...

It’s still sore and has been incredibly itchy the last few days. Do I just ignore it?

Cheers

[Peter Pedant]

yes
take paracetamol

[woofgang]

you can put some antihistamine or bite and sting cream on the injection site if its really itchy.

[Hymie]

I think I'd rather have the flu.

[diddlydo]

Just remember next year - don't go anywhere near a flu jab.

[MallyJ]

Himself had the flu jab and I got ill...not letting him have one next year.

[kvalidir]

Have any of you ever actually had proper flu, you know the sort that can last three weeks where you just hope you might die, and you quite possibly will? It kills people, if you are offered a free flu jab PLEASE take it, it's worth a small amount of discomfort, and no-one I know who has ever had proper flu (and not a cold that lasts a few days) would ever hesitate. This isn't preachy, please don't think it is, but flu kills and even when it doesn't you don't want to feel like that for three weeks. x

[sandyRoe]

Is there another jab available for pneumonia?

[tonyav]

Yes there is, sandy. I had that jab as well as the flu jab about a month ago.

[sandyRoe]

I'm going next Wednesday for the flu jab. I'll phone tomorrow and ask about the second one.

[Muntin]

Myself and Mrs Muntin both had flu jabs a few days ago, as usual, no after affects at all.
I have had a vaccination for pneumonia, one jab lasts for life.

[tonyav]

sandy, it's one in the right and one in the left arm.

[Baldric]

Just to back up what kvalidir said, in the 80's just out of the RM's so very fit I got the Flu, was laid up for 10 days or so, even had to roll out of bed and crawl to the en-suite, maybe 8 ft away, never again please.

[tonyav]

I have had a vaccination for pneumonia, one jab lasts for life.

Thats what the nurse told me to.

[grumpy01]

I had flu and pneumonia injections about three weeks ago.I had similar redness and itching but from pneumonia jab which is,apparently, a known side effect.However as a once only injection won't need to bother with that one again.

[Mamyalynne]

Another resounding support of Kval's comments here, Flu was without doubt the nastiest illness I've ever had (and I've had some).

You arm will settle and you don't need to report anything unless you become unwell for more than a few days.

[sandyRoe]

I think pneumonia used to be called 'the old man's friend '.
I could do without friends like that.

[jno]

I had it a few years ago, sandyRoe, and I didn't find it friendly at all. It took three courses of antibiotics. Not helped of course by the fact that it took more than a week to get X-ray results. If I were to die I think I'd prefer the headsman's axe to coughing for weeks on end.

[ChillDoubt]

Hymie
I think I'd rather have the flu.
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You’ve obviously never had it then because believe me, you wouldn’t.

[marval]

I had the flu and I was really ill for three weeks.

I had the jab as usual, I got a cold a few days later. Much preferable to the flu though.

[woofgang]

I have said this before on other threads but I had a reaction to the flu jab this year. I was ill properly for three days and very tired for about a week afterwards. It took me about 10 days to be eating properly again. Compared with having flu, which I have had twice, it was a walk in the park with tea and cakes. When I did have flu I was a lot younger and fitter and it was HORRIBLE. Weeks sick and weeks convalescent. I agree, anybody who says they would rather have flu than the vaccine has never had real flu.