Do you get a flu shot every year? If so, when do you get it?
Andy likes to wait until the end of October for ours, so yesterday afternoon we confidently went down to our doctor’s clinic to get them. Unfortunately, we need the double dose for seniors, and the clinic was out. The woman said they might get some more in later — about November 6, but she sounded dubious. She also said we might try the pharmacy at our supermarket, but she didn’t sound optimistic about that either.
We decided to give it a try and in fact they did have it. It would be a wait, but we could do our grocery shopping, just get back by 5:20 and let her know when we were back. We got back before then and ended up not having to wait at all, the woman giving the shots was ready for us. Not only that, she used a super-thin needle and we didn’t even feel it.
I told her we were grateful they had the vaccine and she said our timing was good — they hadn’t had it that morning but a new order arrived that afternoon.
How lucky was that? It made our day. 🙂
October 245, 2019
I had a doctor appointment mid October so we got ours then. Dave doesn’t always get them but then he brings me the germs. Gee, thanks.
We get ours every year, and we always go together. It’s a nice tradition.
late autumn – but often my clinic sends me a reminder – it’s free for me as I’m an Asthmatic but it would’ve been free anyway when I turned 65….
i understand they do run out of doses, and yep the super fine needles are wonderful…
oodles of people don’t get it because they think they are immune or that the strain that will arrive isn’t the one in the jab…and then they get sick, and it’s everyone else’s fault!
when I see news that many people are down with the flu’ I try to go into really cautious mode and have my wet wipes packets in my bags….of course, I didn’t get the flu’ I managed to get laryngitis which didn’t help my lungs and although I felt I was on-2-it – I ended up having to take a week of steroids and a lecture from the nurse…
Why the lecture? It sounds as if you were taking precautions.
the lecture was to do with the whole winter ailments and asthma…that just because it wasn’t the flu’ didn’t mean it wasn’t serious. So even if antibiotics on the whole don’t cure the flu’ they give those with underlying conditions antibiotics – I cured it based on my own with over the counter meds – BUT it hadn’t completely cleared my lungs…hence a course of steroids…
sometimes here in the bigger clinics people turn up with very bad infections and some should’ve gone directly to A & E …also they don’t make appt so they get on a wait list – and they cough/sneeze etc any which way.
I couldn’t see a reason to add a complication to my infection…and nurse did agree with me…
at the beginning of this month I had one at my doctor’s office. and they insisted on a pneumonia shot. I fought pneumonia this year through Jan Feb and March! was a little leary to have that shot but if it helps keep the P bug from me… it’s worth it!
barely felt the flu shot. but the pneumonia shot was very painful. interesting!
We had a pneumonia shot years ago and don’t remember it being painful. I wonder if they’ve changed the vaccine.
I guess it is time…I never get one but Roger does.
Years ago I would sometimes get one, sometimes not. Then one year I got sick and decided the shot was a good idea.
I never ever get one.
Maybe, I will this year though.
Although my sister is very against them.
She doesn’t think I should get one but that I should take mega doses of vitamin C instead.
That’s what she does and she’s never sick!
And she works in a hospital!
Why doesn’t she like the idea? The possible side effects? We figure we’ve never had any trouble with the shots so will keep getting them.
No, it’s not the possible side effects that she’s concerned about.
Her husband is a chiropractor and they are into everything holistic.
She thinks all vaccines are bad. I don’t think she ever vaccinated her kids! I don’t agree with her at all on that!
I have never gotten one. I asked my doctor one time if they were really necessary. He said yes and no. According to him, it would depend on what I do. He said if I worked in a hospital, nursing home, school then yes, it would be necessary. I know a few people who get them every year and always end up getting sick right after.
Ann, that is why I don’t. I worked at this place for almost twenty years, and every year one of the people got that shot and then got sick. I cannot say how many years I saw it happen, but several. And who knows how many before I made the connection.
My daughter hasn’t been getting them because she gets sick afterwards. She said she will probably get one this year because she’s probably more vulnerable because of what she’s doing at work. Andy and I have never had problems so we get them.
I’m faithful about getting the flu shot every year around the middle to end of October. Then last year they ran out and I had to wait so I got it early this year. Found out afterward about the senior strength which I will ask for next year. Getting the flu when you’re all alone can kill you.
Yes, I’m glad you’ll be moving so you won’t be all alone. It’s scary.
I have a 17-year-old daughter, I’m faithful about always getting her the flu shot, I try to do it around the first of October every year. My husband and I never get one though.
I started getting one regularly after I got sick one year I hadn’t gotten it. For us it’s a no brainer because we haven’t had any bad side effects.
No problems with flu vaccine here. I got a flu jab 10 days ago, and they recommended a pneumonia jab as well so I agreed to have that. Apparently the pneumonia jab can last up to 10 years because it creates antibodies that keep circulating in your body (well, that’s what she said). I can’t remember the last time I had flu, and I only very occasionally get a cold.
In the past I rarely got colds, but that seems to have changed the last couple of years. It will be interesting to see if that continues. Good for you that you don’t get them!
You are all ready for the flu season ahead! They always say it’s going to be worse than the year before – We’ll see! We usually get ours at the office. The doctor I work for, has had his Mom, who is a physician, give every one in the office one. But this year, she’s out of the country so we’ve been asked to have it done elsewhere. I guess I will……..
We’re a lot older than you, so it’s probably a good idea for us. I can see that it’s more of a nuisance for you if you have to find someone to give it. I think it helps that Andy and I always do it together. It’s a nice tradition.