How do you feel about the flu vaccination?

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For me personally, I don't get the flu shot. But I get every other vaccination. I don't think that the flu vaccination is important, and a lot of people that I know that have gotten it have actually gotten a bad case of the flu from it. What are your views on it?

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There are many strands of the flu, and the shot doesn't protect against every one.

So it's a coincidence that you got the flu.

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I get the flu shot every year. I have never gotten the flu. I get sick all the time. I'm a walking virus lol so I get every vaccination available. But you don't get sick from the shot. That's impossible. It's a dead virus so you can't get it from the shot.

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You don't get the flu from it, you just get a bad cold afterwards. The shot wears your immune system down my rheumetologist actually explained it to me. I have a very weak immune system so they always try to get me to do the flu shot but it is the one vaccination I do not get. I didn't get it this fall and I have been the healthiest I have been in years, with a shitty I'm immune system.

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It's a flawed system like others. I have to have it for work, but before that I wouldn't bother.

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Never had the flu, haven't had my shot since I was 8? 
I don't think it's worth it. My husbands job makes him get it every yes and he gets sick every time. No thanks

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I usually get the flu around the same time every year, started getting flu shots a few years back. Haven't gotten the flu since and i'm perfectly healthy

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I never had a flu shot or the flu. I've been exposed to the virus multiple times. I guess people will say I'm lucky or whatnot. But I see no point in me personally getting the shot. For others, do as you wish. I've heard the flu is awful so if others want to protect themselves then let them.

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I got it when I was pregnant. I've never gotten it before that and I don't plan to get it another time unless I'm pregnant during the winter again.

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You do not get the flu from the flu shot.

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I get the flu shot because I have a child now, didnt get it before. However, the strain that is in the current vaccine is not the same strain that's going around this year. 
*MIL is a doctor and called to tell us this last night.

How do you feel about the flu vaccination?

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