My first flu shot

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   lilho · Oct 13, 2009 9:27pm

   paul it does not hurt. i have gotten them the last three years... not required to, but i haven't gotten sick so...
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   vincent · Oct 13, 2009 11:39pm

   What's the point of saving the lot #, the manufactures have full and total immunity from any liability lawsuits.
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   paul · Oct 14, 2009 1:44am

   It hurts a lot but I had no choice. They wrote the lot number down for us on a paper we are supposed to give to our primary care physicians.
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   tinypliny · Oct 14, 2009 1:48am

   Don't think about it - plus don't keep rubbing it. The pain should subside overnight.
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   tiburon1724 · Oct 14, 2009 3:55am

   it shouldn't hurt if they give the shot right :/
6. 

   twisted · Oct 14, 2009 5:01am

   What do you mean "you had no choice?" Did Buffalo suddenly become a police state?
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   ladycroft · Oct 14, 2009 5:33pm

   you know, i only ever got 1 flu shot my entire life, and that is the time I got the flu, really, really badly. Most other years, no shot, no flu.
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   libertad · Oct 14, 2009 5:34pm

   So far nobody in my dept has gotten sick from flu shot but our arms all hurt.
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   jenks · Oct 14, 2009 10:47pm

   twisted- I think NY is mandating all 'health care workers' get the flu shot. (I guess paul counts since he's at roswell?)
   
   I dunno. I personally am sick of hearing the nurses bitch about it. I have heard several that say they will be fired before getting a flu shot.
   
   Seriously? I don't understand what the big deal is. Ok sure, your arms hurts for a day or so. Sometimes you get some mild flu symptoms. And there's like a one in a million chance something bad happens.
   
   Seriously? it's worth losing your job over that?
   
   I mean the point is so you don't get the flu from/give the flu to your patients/coworkers/family/friends. I don't see why people are freaking out so much.
   
   Bleh.
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    metalpeter · Oct 14, 2009 11:42pm

    I'll tell you why they are freaking out: our at least why I disagree with the mandate.
    
    1. The Vacine for Swine Flu is new and hasn't really had that much testing. What I mean is for things long term.
    
    2. The Government is over stepping their bounds. If they can make you get a shot of this, what is the next thing they will be able to force you to do?
    
    3. Some people with shots do get sick from them. I don't mean that tiny bit of sick you are supposed to get. Everyone's body doesn't take to it the same.
    
    4. I have heard that this Swine Flu going around now may have changed some and if that is really true then would the shot help any one any ways.
    
    5. There are some people who I'm guessing also have conditions that might not iteract well with it. How about people who have poor imune systems. I'm not sure what else but what happens if you are on allergy medicine those seem like that could be a problem.
    
    I get what NYS is trying to do, and I don't fault them for doing it, but I get why a nurse would be upset. But there is one other factor and that is group think. What I mean is when a couple people don't like something they talk a lot about how it is bullshit and how they aren't doing it and this and that and then others join in. Then when that event comes they do it any ways.
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    libertad · Oct 14, 2009 11:51pm

    Those are all good points metalpeter and jenks. My grandfather had a reaction to a flu shot once. He had symptoms of a heart attack and went to the hospital at my grandmother's insistence. I don't believe he has had another flu shot since. It would be awful if either one of them got the flu. It is so dangerous.

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