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I usually get one.
They work.

I used to get one; until I saw someone felled to G-B from the shot, and yes, his doctors will flat tell you that the shot is what did it.

Never. I trust the folks making and pushing the flu shots as much as I trust my government. My Creator made my immune system perfect and as long as I do my part, i.e., eat well, take my supplements, exercise, practice good personal hygiene, get proper rest...thus far it's worked well for me for 49 years.

I could easily understand that... I got it 6 months before a 10-11K foot hunt in CO and figured I'd die up there anyway.... but I had it gone before then by a month luckily.

risk in everything.....surprised i aint picked up anthrax yet, has come out of the ground and killed cattle where i grew up running around in the hills and creek bottom....infact i had walked that ground a couple weeks before.....

Yep, hope you don't go to the doctors either. Just let the maker handle it all.

This is a very interesting discussion..I have no medical training so if I'm wrong please correct me.I thought the flu vaccine was specifically targeted against one strain to be effective and never thought it was a catch all remedy for other strains and the common cold..I know as many friends who take it as don't and from what I hear their results are the same.

Maybe strong immune systems are genetic by nature.My dad's side of the family seemed always well, hardly got the flu or even colds but mom's side was completely opposite...

varies i think, one of my sisters and i are polar opposites.....she had strep near year round and i have never had it or atleast never bad enough to go to the doc for it....we both get sinus infections but where mine tend to run their course in 10 days without any outside help but heavy doses of hot chinese food here linger for a month even with the strongest antibiotics....

funny thing is neither her nor i get infected cuts or the like.....she grew up out running around on our grandparents farm with me and after getting our legs tore up on the thorns of rose and bulberry bushes we would hit the stock pond looking for turtles knee deep in black sludge....drives my wife nuts that i dont bother with antibiotic creams or bandage much up.....unless i got a sliver buried i never get an infected cut.....atleast that part of her and my immune system is tempered in chit

i think that's why a lot of kids get sick so easy now a days. their parents don't let them get dirty and play in grud. heck i grew up playing in the dirty ditch water and what not. kids never get exposed to it so their immune systems can't fight it. plus good genetics my great grandmother lived to 114 and most of my relatives have lived well into their 90s

Pretty much sums that up for me too..with all my constuction over the years and working around yucky stuff like septic tanks/drainfields and generally funky schitt that accompanies renovation projects,never had an infection or got sick.Of course I'm not a nose picker either!!!

my major problem is my lungs went apechit on me at about 8 years old.....was like flipping a switch went from fine to severe asthma damn quick.....no clue why, didnt grow up in anything remotely close to a sterile environment.....still have it though not as bad as when i was younger.....

i drive my wife nuts, ignore my asthma till im at well under 50% lung capacity, she freaks when she hears me wheezing and at that point it aint even on my radar.....so long as i can get the bleeding stopped i dont do bandages and only bandage stuff when i dont want to bleed on job work

nearly 9 years together and she still hasnt figured out i just dont get infections even after she has watched me help brand all day be cut and scrapped up, covered in dried cow chit and dont bother cleaning up till the end of the day.....she figures my hands gonna rot off

Yes, every year... no side effects for me... no flu either.

Like many of the previous posters I didn't think I needed a flu shot, then I contracted the flu five years ago. I had no underlying health issues that put me at risk, but the flu put me on my back for almost two weeks. I was so sick that I thought death may have been an option to improve my condition. I've been getting flu shot ever since with no ill effects. In my opinion the benefits far outweigh the risks, which after careful study seem to be be very low.

My thoughts as well. I didn't get sick all that much when I was a kid. Don't that much now either. My grandma's are 92 and 97.
My wife is a teacher. After being exposed to everything under the sun her first year, she very rarely even gets a cold now. Neither of us get the flu shot. I'm not sure I've ever had it.

Re, Fubarski: "Not unless it comes in a shot glass."
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You're right. A shot in a glass, beats a shot in the ass.

In the ass? What kind of doctor you going to?

I must have drunk the koolaid. I get the flu shot.

I believe in vaccinations. Antibodies are modular. They key to the exterior proteins on the virus. My mental picture is of modeling clay molding to the pebbling on a basketball. The pebbling changes a little from year-to-year. Many of the antibodies will still key-in-lock fit to the exterior while a few will not. Yes the virus will mutate, but a gang tackle by 5 is nearly as effective as a gang tackle by 6.

Our bodies are wonderful things.

-Joe

Why did they put the h1n1 vaccine into the flu shots for this year? They could not peddle the h1n1 shots so they did an end run and put into the regular flu shot. Another government nanny state intrusion on our freedom.

Flightmaster

I travel overseas a lot and got one here at work. Figure it won't hurt and they already innoculate for tons of stuff so why not.

no its pretty well based on science.....it has killed 14,000 ppl and is a threat....based on pretty sound science not scare factors.....just cause it didnt spread as bad one year as they thought dont mean its still not a threat....and the general procedure is one or two strains from the year before and one or two new strains in each years vaccine.....the fact that H1N1 is in the vaccine should not be a surprise, the surprise would be if it wasnt in there.....