Flu jab bah

[MrGrumpy]

Got the flu jab last week, bad decision me thinks although wife disagrees. I feel like sheet, shivering terrible head cold not sleeping great! General aches and pains, anyone else find flu jabs not exactly fab?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My grandpa had the flu jab once, he was ill for six months - hope that helps!

 

[beanzontoast]

I had the Swine Flu jab last year and felt a bit grim for the 24 hours after - could tell my body was fighting something off. It was my first experience of any kind of flu jab.

 

[Globalti]

Er.... that's how vaccinations work. You get the virus but it can't reproduce inside your body.

 

[Ste T.]

I have had a flu jab each winter for the last three years and, touch wood, not had any bad reactions. Even if I did,I think I would rather feel a bit rough for a few days than go through a bout of flu.
(By that I mean real flu, not man flu )

 

[gbb]

I'm not actually sure of how a flu jab works...does it introduce the virus in some safe form into your body so it can build up an immunity..or what ?
I had the jab some years ago, and felt like death for 24 hours.
I know plenty of other people had the jab with no day after effects !!!

Is it because perhaps some people who havnt either had the flu or the jab for years and years react badly.

 

[beanzontoast]

I'm not actually sure of how a flu jab works...does it introduce the virus in some safe form into your body so it can build up an immunity..or what ?
I had the jab some years ago, and felt like death for 24 hours.
I know plenty of other people had the jab with no day after effects !!!

Is it because perhaps some people who havnt either had the flu or the jab for years and years react badly.

I was told it is a deactivated form of the virus that stimulates your body to produce antibodies, so that if you are exposed to the actual flu virus, your body is better equipped to fight it off.

 

[totallyfixed]

So far as I am aware the flu vaccine is not live so you cannot get flu from it, takes about 10 days for the body to start making antibodies in response to the injection.

 

[tyred]

I always remember a company I used to work for offered all staff a flu jab. I declined, as did quite a few others but the ones that did get it all were off sick the next day. They didn't offer it to us again...

 

[numbnuts]

I had a flu jab in October and I feel fine

 

[Hover Fly]

My uncle had a flu jab one year on the 23rd December, by the 28th he was dead. Not that I want to worry anyone.

 

[monkeypony]

you CAN NOT get flu from the flu jab. Period. Any illness following it is purely co-incidental.

 

[benb]

you CAN NOT get flu from the flu jab. Period. Any illness following it is purely co-incidental.

True, but the whole point of it is to provoke an immune response, so some mild flu-like symptoms are not unheard of. I just had a sore arm for a few hours.

 

[benb]

Oh, and this is a great example of the post hoc fallacy. That just because event B (the OP feeling crap) follows event A (getting the flu vaccine) it does not mean that A caused B.

With millions of people getting the flu vaccine, you would expect some of them to coincidentally feel ill within a day or two afterwards.

 

[User169]

A live attenuated flu vaccine would presumably carry a risk for immunocompromised individuals.