Just killing me, cant drink, smoke and sleep, cos of coughing damn shit...

Drinking tea with honey all day long and starting to feel like fucking bee:palm:

I'm starting with it now, my wife is passing it for three days. Yours sounds worse. Take care and get better soon.

We are just ending a three week bout of it and hopefully that is the last for a while. A third of the people I know around here in Southern Cal. have it or are getting over it.

Drinking tea with honey all day long and starting to feel like fucking bee.

Welcome to my world.

Government mandated flu shots, haven't had the flu in years.

I used to come down with the flu every year or two, but no more.

Yeah, got it bad right now. This one is nasty, haven't felt this shitty in years.

Mine ran its course last week. Worst possible time in the semester, thank christ this dissertation I've to get in is just the draft and not the final submission.

Winter time flu vaccines for the last several years here as well...

This thing is on my wish list as well, flu shot I mean, next time going to take one...

I've been sick with the flu and sore throat for the last week and a half too.

Damn thing almost went away but then I got a friggin' relapse during the weekend.

Not the flu, but I currently am off work with a chest and head cold. The worst part is that I can barely hear anything, so I can't even listen to music:mad:

Just wonder how much this flu shot cost, in your place I mean.

Hoping we all get better a.s.a.p.

Had it since the weekend. Taking cough syrup every 3-4 hours as well as paracetamol for aching joints.

Hope it clears up before I go on holiday on Friday...

Just wonder how much this flu shot cost, in your place I mean.

Free. Well, not exactly since it comes out of our taxpayer dollars, but there's no fee to get the shot. We just drop by the clinic, get stuck with a needle and that's it.

No flu here but I did have a nasty cold for about a week or so.

Nice, cos up here its free ( covered by insurance, so not exactly free ) for people with age of 50+, just guessing, but for me would cost like EUR 25, I think, cos my age isnt in the risk zone yet... Will call my GP tomorrow...

Free. Well, not exactly since it comes out of our taxpayer dollars, but there's no fee to get the shot. We just drop by the clinic, get stuck with a needle and that's it.

Nice, cos up here its free ( covered by insurance, so not exactly free ) for people with age of 50+, just guessing, but for me would cost like EUR 25, I think, cos my age isnt in the risk zone yet... Will call my GP tomorrow...

Same here, it's free for any risk population. For working at a hospital I can have the vaccine, but the only year I got it, I passed the worst flu in my life, so I haven't dared to repeat At this moment passing a strong cold

Same here, it's free for any risk population. For working at a hospital I can have the vaccine, but the only year I got it, I passed the worst flu in my life, so I haven't dared to repeat At this moment passing a strong cold

Torpedo I believe "getting the flu after the flu vac" is one of those myths that doesn't seem to go away.

I'll see if I can pull up some papers on it. I just remember our Occupational Health department giving us a 20 minute lecture on it after grand rounds.

Hahaha, I got the shot, then about 24 hours later fever raised over 40

Hahaha, I got the shot, then about 24 hours later fever raised over 40

That does make sense if the vaccine is live attenuated.

Yep, however I don't know if that year they were using that type Whatever, be it just coincidence or a bad batch of vaccines, I had my worst flu ever after being vaccinated hahahaha I only felt worse when I had the measles for the second time (I swear, it's true, quite rare but happens and it had to happen to me) at 17, and when after they operated my Achilles tendon for it breaking, it got infected by S. Aureus and it went worse leading to septicemia

I've had more painful conditions, but the overall feeling of "just let me die" for a disease, only on those 3 occasions. Flu can be really distressing.

That's just a horrible string of luck

You can't get the flu from flu vaccine. You can get the flu after a flu vaccine, but it's not from the vaccine.

My personal theory is that your defenses are down while your body plays "war games" with the dead cells.

PS You asked how much it cost -- for me, it costs my deductible, which is like 5 bucks.

There's another problem with the vaccines in the first place, which happened last year -- doctors aren't prescient. The ones who perform the research behind flu vaccines have to anticipate which particular strain is going to become prevalent in the upcoming season, and then create a vaccine against it. The effort is enough that they can only create vaccines against 2 or 3 strains at the most. If they guess wrong, then you get outbreaks anyway. This happened last season.

That's just a horrible string of luck

Indeed, I'm here to tell

Dusty, as Deepak said, you can get the disease from the own vaccine if it's not properly made and is based on attenuated live viruses. Obviously it's impossible if the vaccine uses just proteins, parts of the virus or completely dead ones. Also having received the vaccine doesn't necessarily mean your body is capable to make the antibodies needed to make you immune. As a matter of fact I received 4 doses of B-Hepatitis vaccine and I didn't reach minimum antibody levels to consider me protected... I should donate my body to science hahahaha.

Seems that honey does wonders, at work again...

Come on guys, use more honey and we will sing BZZZ song ,all together, after all...