Reply With QuoteI've been off work all week with it.
Manflu
OldBushie
Anybody had the flue this year, I received a flue vaccination early in the winter season thinking I would be protected from the flue....mostly. Being a slight asthmatic I watch the flue season very closely. Anyrate to cut a long story short I have come down with a full blown dose of the flue which has brought on a full-on asthma attack, the likes which I haven't had since I was a child in the 1950's.
I now rattle with the various pills including, Sone 25mg., Amoxycillin 500mg., Ventolin ( haven't used Ventolin in 30 years) and Bricanyl, as well as other tablets I am taking for reflux etc. When I walk you can hear me rattle from all the pills.
I am hearing stories that the gummit in all its wisdom bought a cheap version of the flue vaccine to save a lousy $2 a shot. I may as well not have had a flue shot.
Thoughts anybody!!!!!
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I've been off work all week with it.
Manflu
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
Wizard
SubscriberI read somewhere that something like 60% of people that got the flu this tear had been vaccinated
Hope ya breathing free soon
cheers
blaze
OldBushie
SupporterSo far so good this year except for a bit of a cold But last year was pretty awful as the Missus spent a few days in hospital after we both copped a dose of a nasty flue that saw her end up with pneumonia and me knocked up pretty badly as well.
As we are both in our 60's now a dose of the flue seems to knock us about a lot more than it used to.
I hope you get well soon Mate
You only get one shot at life, Aim well
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OldBushie
Thanks mate, I'm in my 70's and I am watching the situation very closely as I don't want it to deteriorate into pneumonia!!!Originally Posted by trout1105
So far so good this year except for a bit of a cold But last year was pretty awful as the Missus spent a few days in hospital after we both copped a dose of a nasty flue that saw her end up with pneumonia and me knocked up pretty badly as well.
As we are both in our 60's now a dose of the flue seems to knock us about a lot more than it used to.
I hope you get well soon Mate
OldBushie
SupporterTake good care of yourself Mate as it doesn't take that long for a simple flue to turn nasty.
You only get one shot at life, Aim well
2004 D2 "S" V8 auto, with a few Mods gone
2007 79 Series Landcruiser V8 Ute, With a few Mods.
4.6m Quintrex boat
20' Jayco Expanda caravan gone
LordRover
SupporterHas it been confirmed through blood tests as the flu or just a bad cold. The reality is that flu compared to a bad cold is relatively rare and would normally put you in hospital.
Yes there does seem to be issue with the flu vaccination this year but it does lessen the severity if you do catch it - though no immunity if you have a strain not covered in the shot.
Get well soon - normally takes me a month to recover.
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I had the vaccine and avoided the worst of the flu, but I did read an expert saying the government bought the $6 cheap version of the vaccine and it has been less effective than in the past. There have been a record number of confirmed flu cases in Brisbane.
Swaggie
I've never had a flu shot.
No sniffles here.
All I can suggest, Jim, is "soldier on, with Codral".
ChatterBox
The cheap flu vaccine is a myth sorry.
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-s...-vaccine-.html
What actually happened this year was an unusual mutation. You are much better off taking the shot every year. Particularly if you're old, very young, pregnant or asthmatic. But it won't stop you getting a mutated version. It will also reduce symptoms if you get the flu as well but isn't 100% effective at stopping you getting it. You are still better off in every way taking the flu shot though.
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