Poppy Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 'er indoors decided to have a 'flu jab this morning. I didn't. I'm on top form. She, on the other hand isn't . Hope we've got enough asprin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExSurveyor Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Sorry to disappoint you Poppy , according to Matron, the flu vaccine is dead, it can't give you flu but will not provide protection against the identified strains for at least 10 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 I've got my jab due next week at work, which is good as I avoided the huge queues for the jab at stalham staithe surgery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Being classed as an 'unfortunate likely to pop his clogs if he sneezes' I get pestered to have the Flu Jab every year. After I got the most appalling flu that landed me in hospital the first year I had the jab, I decided to not have it the following year. No flu. I was then pestered again by the mountebanks who held up my hospitalisation as evidence I needed the jab so I had the jab again...promptly got the flu which turned into pneumonia which landed me in hospital again. So the following year I didn't have the jab. No flu. New GP next year with whom I had a mass argument over the jab. The GP had a word with my Mrs saying that unless I had the jab I would be removed from the GP's list. So once again I had the jab, got the flu, got pneumonia ended up in hospital...and got a new GP. I am not having the jab this year so we will see what happens. There's only one way to avoid the flu...hot, bum burning, curry twice a week. The curry kills the lurgi...well to be more exact it stops the pestilential & disease ridden from coming near me until the curry fumes and exhausts have gone...by which time I top up on curry. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveO Posted October 8, 2016 Share Posted October 8, 2016 Had mine yesterday. Have it every year. Why risk flu when it can be easily avoided? Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 12 hours ago, SteveO said: Had mine yesterday. Have it every year. Why risk flu when it can be easily avoided? Steve Ditto Mary-Jane and me. We arrived at our surgery yesterday morning at 11.40, 10 & 12 minutes ahead of our appointments. We were on our way home before we should even have started! So I think your lot at Stalham should look at their system, Q! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hylander Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 For efficiency you cannot beat Beccles Medical Centre at the Hospital. We all are given our days by the first letter of your surname ie A - G 24th September etc with a last session into October for the people who couldn't make their own day. There is never much of a queue, we have queued for no more than 5 minutes any year and this year we just breezed in. We did wonder if people were not bothering anymore. All of their staff, including doctors and nursers are on duty on those mornings so it is run just like clockwork. I cannot praise them enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 14 hours ago, SteveO said: Had mine yesterday. Have it every year. Why risk flu when it can be easily avoided? Steve If only it was that simple! http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/March-2013/effectiveness-of-flu-vaccine-raises-more-red-flags.aspx http://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/10/25/university-of-minnesota-flu-vaccine-study And for last year , UK figures https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/530756/Influenza_vaccine_effectiveness_in_primary_care_in_children.pdf Timbo, were you aware that GPs are paid extra for every patient who gets a flu vaccine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springsong Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 All day Friday at Stalham minimum one hour wait. Saturday I waited forty minutes. One cannot make appointments just a free for all, not good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Having worked with many elderly people in the past, I would never allow this injection for myself, having seen the really bad affect it had on others. Some said they went to the doctor's for another purpose, and the doctor injected them without asking. When they enquired what it was for, the doctor just said it's the flu jab. I believe a few years ago the doctor was paid just over £7 for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I hasten to add: Not of course, anyone on this forum is old, but there are a few of us that may be vulnerable! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 29 minutes ago, johnb said: Having worked with many elderly people in the past, I would never allow this injection for myself, having seen the really bad affect it had on others. Some said they went to the doctor's for another purpose, and the doctor injected them without asking. When they enquired what it was for, the doctor just said it's the flu jab. I believe a few years ago the doctor was paid just over £7 for this. What about 'informed consent' ? There would have been grounds for a serious complaint! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I thought so too Poppy, I would regard it as an assault, however I wasn't in a position to interfere as most of the folk had families who could represent them if they wanted to. I will soon have to change my doctor, and I may put it in writing that I do not wish to have this injection and there will be repercussions if I am given it without consent (I will stamp my feet quite hard!!) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Ruth and I are sent out a letter every year from our surgery, asking if we wish the jab or not. We have to fill the form they send, stating you do or do not wish the jab, and hand the note or post it to the surgery. Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I have had it in the past ( free on my employer as they got someone in to do the staff to try and reduce winter sickness levels), the very first time I felt a bit groggy for a few days, but I stopped having it last year. the truth is that its available, but each year they take a guess as to the 4 strains of the flu that will occur, if you have had the jab and a new strain of flu comes along, you can still get it, I would much rathe take the risk nowadays and suffer from the flu if I get it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 As we are now entering darkest autumn, we that's SWMBO and I take a daily dose of Vit C and D tabs, plus for me my shake me and I rattle painkillers ! My dear old mum was a nurse, and they were guinea pigs for the original flu jab, it made her very ill, and never had it again. Its a case of pays yer money and takes yer choice. Or not, as the case may be! Iain 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowjo Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 If I sneeze three times I have had the flu, I've never suffered from colds of flu my entire life, when I got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes the doctor somehow persuaded me to have the flu jab, that year I had flu about three times, endless colds and what made it even worse was I just couldn't shake them, colds hung on for weeks and the flu bought new meaning to man flu, I have never been so i'll in my whole life, the next year I told him about it and he told me it's rubbish it can't affect you, I told him where to stick his flu jab! that was around nine years ago, I now refuse the flu jab and havn't had a cold or flu in all that time,, 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 surely if the injection was to prevent flu, it should be called the stop flu jab. maybe it is just living up to its description? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Oh Grendal, what a can of worms you have opened! "How is your cold?" "It's a lot better, thank you!" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishtone Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 If they had an injection for Man Flu I would have it. Until this is available I will live without the common flu injection. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracie Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 There is no way on this planet that any kind of jab or over the counter remedies would cure or relieve the symptoms of man flu, ever The poor unfortunates (namely most men) that suffer from this condition are normally rendered utterly useless, on the sofa, wrapped in a duvet feeling completely sorry for themselves, the poor little lambs Grace 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Gracie said: The poor unfortunates (namely most men) that suffer from this condition are normally rendered utterly useless, on the sofa, wrapped in a duvet feeling completely sorry for themselves, the poor little lambs Grace Baaaaaah! I think they are just looking a little sheepish..... Grace. Iain 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea14Ian Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Gracie if you take enough whisky you forget your had flu simple 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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