Will you (or your loved one with T1D) get a flu shot this year?

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  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  not for those of moderate income.
- 6 hours, 43 minutes ago
  
  Kristi Warmecke likes your comment at
  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I am hopeful- it may not be in my lifetime, but they have already made great strides in the research. The autoimmune response and need for immunosuppressants is still a pretty big sticking point.
- 6 hours, 44 minutes ago
  
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  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  But probably not in my lifetime.
- 8 hours, 24 minutes ago
  
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  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I don't see how a cure will be possible without islet cells as they are what produce insulin. Using immunosuppressants or not is what will determine what the first "cure" will be like. If safe immunosuppresants are used, then it is actually a "functional cure". If they can infuse islet cells without needing immunosuppressants nor other meds, then I would call it a "cure".
- 8 hours, 25 minutes ago
  
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  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I am hopeful- it may not be in my lifetime, but they have already made great strides in the research. The autoimmune response and need for immunosuppressants is still a pretty big sticking point.
- 9 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
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  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I don't see how a cure will be possible without islet cells as they are what produce insulin. Using immunosuppressants or not is what will determine what the first "cure" will be like. If safe immunosuppresants are used, then it is actually a "functional cure". If they can infuse islet cells without needing immunosuppressants nor other meds, then I would call it a "cure".
- 9 hours, 45 minutes ago
  
  Steve Rumble likes your comment at
  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I think that a functional cure is the most viable scenario as far as a "cure" is concerned. It seems like the most progress is being made with islet cell therapies.
- 9 hours, 52 minutes ago
  
  Natalie Daley likes your comment at
  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I don't see how a cure will be possible without islet cells as they are what produce insulin. Using immunosuppressants or not is what will determine what the first "cure" will be like. If safe immunosuppresants are used, then it is actually a "functional cure". If they can infuse islet cells without needing immunosuppressants nor other meds, then I would call it a "cure".
- 10 hours, 22 minutes ago
  
  Marty likes your comment at
  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I am hopeful- it may not be in my lifetime, but they have already made great strides in the research. The autoimmune response and need for immunosuppressants is still a pretty big sticking point.
- 10 hours, 22 minutes ago
  
  Marty likes your comment at
  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  But probably not in my lifetime.
- 10 hours, 32 minutes ago
  
  Kathy Hanavan likes your comment at
  If islet cell transplantation is proven safe and effective, how likely would you be to consider it a treatment option?
  Very likely provided immunosuppressants aren't required. Also younger people should receive the treatment first.
- 10 hours, 32 minutes ago
  
  Kathy Hanavan likes your comment at
  If islet cell transplantation is proven safe and effective, how likely would you be to consider it a treatment option?
  as long as it doesn't require immunosuppression, I'm interested
- 10 hours, 32 minutes ago
  
  Kathy Hanavan likes your comment at
  If islet cell transplantation is proven safe and effective, how likely would you be to consider it a treatment option?
  I was going to comment that there's always a trade off. Am I trading insulin replacement with some other daily treatment? If so, what's the difference? Is the new daily grind more harmful than the old?
- 10 hours, 34 minutes ago
  
  Kathy Hanavan likes your comment at
  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I am hopeful- it may not be in my lifetime, but they have already made great strides in the research. The autoimmune response and need for immunosuppressants is still a pretty big sticking point.
- 11 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
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  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  But probably not in my lifetime.
- 11 hours, 29 minutes ago
  
  KCR likes your comment at
  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I am hopeful- it may not be in my lifetime, but they have already made great strides in the research. The autoimmune response and need for immunosuppressants is still a pretty big sticking point.
- 11 hours, 29 minutes ago
  
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  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I said, "Unsure." I do not have enough information to state an opinion.
- 11 hours, 30 minutes ago
  
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  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  But probably not in my lifetime.
- 11 hours, 45 minutes ago
  
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  How willing would you be to take immunosuppressants if you were considering an islet cell transplant?
  Scylla and Charybdis being perhaps more apt.
- 12 hours, 11 minutes ago
  
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  How likely do you think islet cell therapies are to become a viable long-term treatment for T1D?
  I think that a functional cure is the most viable scenario as far as a "cure" is concerned. It seems like the most progress is being made with islet cell therapies.
- 14 hours, 53 minutes ago
  
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  How willing would you be to take immunosuppressants if you were considering an islet cell transplant?
  After 70 years with T1d and some reduced kidney function and seeing my dad's poor recovery after a kidney transplant, I have no desire to be subjected to chemicals that would further accelerate the demise of my kidneys.
- 1 day, 6 hours ago
  
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  How willing would you be to take immunosuppressants if you were considering an islet cell transplant?
  Nope, T1D is a manageable thing with today's technology. I'll keep the devil I know.
- 1 day, 7 hours ago
  
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  How easy is it for you to find research opportunities that feel relevant to you?
  Agreed, and there are plenty of issues aging with T1D.
- 1 day, 12 hours ago
  
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  If islet cell transplantation is proven safe and effective, how likely would you be to consider it a treatment option?
  All depends on if anti rejection and immunosuppressive medications are needed. If so I would not be interested.
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  If islet cell transplantation is proven safe and effective, how likely would you be to consider it a treatment option?
  Very likely provided immunosuppressants aren't required. Also younger people should receive the treatment first.
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Will you (or your loved one with T1D) get a flu shot this year?

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Sarah Howard

Sarah Howard has worked in the diabetes research field ever since she was diagnosed with T1D while in college in May 2013. Since then, she has worked for various diabetes organizations, focusing on research, advocacy, and community-building efforts for people with T1D and their loved ones. Sarah is currently the Senior Marketing Manager at T1D Exchange.

19 Comments

Lawrence Stearns

I believe in vaccines, and always get my flu shot.

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Wanacure

For COVID-19 I was Phizer vaxxed ASAP last spring at Kaiser Permanente. Vaccinations save lives. Look at the Salk polio vaccine. Vaccinations should be free to all people in the world. Future pandemics (germ warfare) could be far more deadly than COVID-19. COVID-19 has revealed many shortcomings with for-profit medical care. We can learn from these shortcomings.
Reasons for hope: CRISPER works. MRA tech is worth investment. Lobby for these & invest in these till we get socialized medicine which will be more cost efficient to all humanity.

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rick phillips

I already have and will likely get another in January

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Annie Wall

Got mine in August at my endo appointment. I get the flu vaccine every year and I’ve never had the flu.

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TEH

YES, had the double shot of Maderna for covid.
Will get the booster in a few months. I don’t want to end up in the hospital and have the health care pro take over my T1d management tgat has no idea how to deal with CGM & pump.

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gary rind

Before T1D (dx at 43), I never got a flu shot and never got the flu. My endo is rather insistent about me getting a flu shot. My company brings flu shots to work for free so it would be silly not to get one. Have gotten one ever since.

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Sahran Holiday

Usually get a flu shot, more important this year because of the pandemic.

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Richard Vaughn

My wife and I had flu shots in the early 1980s. Then we had the worst flu we have ever had. The sickest time of our lives. We read in our local newspaper that there were live viruses in some of the flu vaccines that year. We think that made us so ill. We stopped taking flu shots, and we have never had the flu since that time. Is it possible that our experience made us immune to the flu?

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Kaylea Bowers

Yes, absolutely. The flu is a nasty beast. I’ve gotten it pretty bad even with the flu shot (still wound up in the ER with a temp over 103), so I can’t imagine how horrible I would’ve felt without it. And it’s impossible to have lifelong immunity to the flu because that virus mutates constantly (that’s also why some years the flu shot isn’t as effective… it’s all a highly educated guessing game over which variant will emerge, but a guessing game nonetheless).

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Marsha Miller

I get a flu shot every year, and so does my husband and children. None of us have ever had a problem with it. We also do not get the flu!

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Lorri McLuckie

I believe in vaccines too and always get any that are available to me!

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Mig Vascos

I never get the flu shot and never had the flu. The shot makes me real sick in bed with fever.

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Kristine Warmecke

I will once they are available in my area.

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Janis Senungetuk

Yes, I got my seasonal flu shot 1 and 1/2 weeks ago. I’ll also get a booster COVID-19 shot when it becomes available.

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Andrew Stewart

Maybe, if it’s convenient I’ll get it but I rarely get sick and only occasionally have I got the flu shot. Maybe 2-3 times in last 10 years.

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Cindy Barcus

No. Government is getting crazy with the vaccines so not sure what they will be putting into it.

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Sadie Robinson

Yes I always get a flu shot.

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ConnieT1D62

Yes. I do so every year.

In 1990 I did not get a flu shot (I can’t even remember why) and got seriously ill from the virus that was rampant that year. I couldn’t breathe, spiked high fevers, felt physically drained anbd miserable, and my BGs were constantly >400 (finger stick meter tests in those days). Took me 10 days to recover. I have gotten one every year since and have not had another episode of seasonal flu.

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LizB

I got mine this past week. Before getting an annual flu shot I got extremely sick every year between December-February. Getting an annual flu shot has pretty much stopped that tradition.

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