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Will you (or your loved one with T1D) get a flu shot this year?
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I believe in vaccines, and always get my flu shot.
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.
I already have and will likely get another in January
Got mine in August at my endo appointment. I get the flu vaccine every year and I’ve never had the flu.
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.
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.
Usually get a flu shot, more important this year because of the pandemic.
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?
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).
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!
I believe in vaccines too and always get any that are available to me!
I never get the flu shot and never had the flu. The shot makes me real sick in bed with fever.
I will once they are available in my area.
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.
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.
No. Government is getting crazy with the vaccines so not sure what they will be putting into it.
Yes I always get a flu shot.
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.
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.