Any thoughts on whether "we" should get the flu sh

grannyh · Post by **grannyh** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:26 am

Family doc was pushing flu shots when I went in yesterday but I have a tooth infection and inflamed sinus so I refused.. Wondering if I should bother at all with it?
grannyh

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:37 am

Hi Grannyh,
Here's a discussion from last year about flu shots. Hope it helps.

http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewt ... t=flu+shot

Love, Shirley

Lucy · Post by **Lucy** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:16 am

grannyh,

We always get 'em. Had mine a week or more ago. They never seem to bother me, although sometimes I feel a bit tired the first 24 hours afterwards.

When I was in the AF, one gave me cold sweats most of the night, but no other problems. Don't ask me why though?

Yours, Luce

hazel · Post by **hazel** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:58 am

I always get the flu shot. No adverse effects. One year, prior to getting flu shots, I got the flu and I never hope to be that sick again! Fever, chills, etc.

I think flu season may already be here. My DIL in Atlanta has been sick since Monday.

mle_ii · Post by **mle_ii** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:40 pm

I've actually been thinking about this, or at least some thing similar, recently.

I actually am starting to think that getting the flu, or cold or any other ailment that causes us to produce antibodies is actually a good thing. Specfically a good thing it that it might slow down or inhibit our Microscopic Colitis.

I'm going to write a whole lot more on this subject as soon as I figure out a bit more. But to put it simply when our bodies are producing antibodies to a pathogen it can inhibit MC. How this is done is through chemical messengers in the body. When the body is responding as it does during MC it is a TH1 response (the macrophage response), which can inhibit a TH2 response, namely interleukin-12. A TH2 immune response (the one that produces antibodies instead) sends out chemicals that inhibit a TH1 response (interleukin-10).

There are 2 more things that inhibit a TH1 immune response. One we already know though by a different name (glucocorticoids) and the other one are regulatory T Cells. I'm going to go into more details soon, but I'm finding it very interesting indeed.

Mike

grannyh · Post by **grannyh** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:51 pm

Will look forward to any further information... my husband refuses to get the shots.. maybe he has the right idea:)
grannyh

annie oakley · Post by **annie oakley** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:00 pm

I get one every year with no side effects. I am getting the Phuenomia shot this year as well. It keeps me from getting sick and I used to get Sick every single year. Love Oma

harvest_table · Post by **harvest_table** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:30 pm

I'm not going to get a flu shot this year. My immune system is working perfectly.....it's overactive to the point of extreme...in other words it will sicken me with severe symptoms for only 24 hours warding off whatever virus's are attacking my body and then I'm home free while Alan and Lannie are throwing up and running a fever for a week or longer.

It's a paradox. If bird flu hits I might have complications from an overactive immune system fighting off the flu rather than the flu itself.

Love,
Joanna