Flu Vaccine Time 2021

Got my flu vaccine this morning, recommend anyone to do likewise. Just might save a cr@p 2 weeks out of your life and work-time lost.

No side effects whatsoever from my flu vaccine… unlike my second AZ dose!

My immune system is well habituated to the flu vaccine and doesn’t see the need to over-react.

I’m a private patient, have got flu vaccine yearly with chemist because of past medical history. They phoned me this year to offer me early vaccine and told me there’s no shortage this year. I was given it free of charge because some years back my GP had sent the requisite form to say an annual vaccine is appropriate for me. You can approach a pharmacy, they would then check up with your GP (the first year they do it) to go ahead on the basis of need/desirability so you’d qualify for no cost vaccine, otherwise there’s a basic cost.

Ask around at a couple of chemists, try some chains online.

I’m 60, chemist phoned me up to give me appointment 🤔

some years ago, though, my GP had approved that I be out on list of those who need it annually.

The more of us have the vaccine the (somewhat) less it likely spreads around.

My own experiences of influenza have been, in general, many years apart. Yeah, plenty of other respiratory stuff, even bacterial pneumonia landing me in hospital etc. But the episodes of influenza have been memorable for their sudden onset in that I can remember what I was doing each time when struck down.

Past 20 years I’ve got vaccinated annually and haven’t got an extended full blown flu. Last time I probably got it was several years back whilst travelling home from Nepal, when I had got vaccinated late in the season, and where influenza was rampant around Doha where I was stopped and where I sat near a man who looked extremely unwell and was coughing. 36 hours later I got an abrupt severe fever and cough which sent me to bed with memories of past influenza. Thought I was in for it, but 36 hours later I had recovered pretty well completely. It was fairly likely the vaccine had provided enough protection for me to fight off what could have been a much more prolonged nasty infection.