just wondering if you guys got them.

I'll get this year's shot next week but we always get them every single year. I got the flu once when I was 13 and I swear I thought I was going to die I hurt so badly.

My kids get them also.

Never got one. Had the flu in second grade. I don't come into contact with that many people in the course of my day (no kids in school either), so the probabilities are pretty low for me. And I don't get sick easily.

Nah, I never get a flu shot and I can't remember the last time I was sick. Like emjay I don't have kids in school so I don't know that I'm really high risk.

I'll leave my dose to the young and the elderly. :drool: lol

had the swine flu so bad last year along with bi-lateral pneumonia....so yes...i will get it!

Got mine yesterday. DH has asthma and is also exposed to lots of germs in his work.. so he gets one. I get one to protect him.

i take the flu shot every year. they give it to us free at my job. i may miss it because i am recuperating from the surgery.

Due to other health conditions the dr recommends that I ahve one every year.. I will get one

I don't usually get one but I got one this year specifically because of the band. I figured that 24 hours of throwing up is of much greater consequence now.

I'm scheduled to get mine next Wed.

I have never got the flu shot before since I havnt had the flu in many years and am usually pretty healthy BUT since I got the band Im nervous about getting the flu and vomiting and figured with my luck this would be the year I get it so I scheduled a flu shot for next week!!

The CDC recommends them for virtually all people and there is no predicted shortage this year. Most people infected with the flu virus are contagious for a full 24 hrs before they develop symptoms, so flu spreads quickly. The only way for us to protect our families, friends, co-workers, and communities is to encourage vaccinations for all. The flu vaccine is formulated with killed virus and cannot cause the flu. So that is my long answer to the question......Yes, I have already gotten my vaccination.

I agree 100% with Annie :thumbup:

I do every year. I'm a pediatric nurse and around sick kiddos so need to protect myself and family.

I never have in the past. When I worked in neuro, I had a patient who experienced Guillain-Barre syndrome after a flu shot. The first time, it was chalked up to unlikely coincidence. The second time it became pretty darn evident that it was a response to the vax. Since then, I've read about quite a few cases of GBS related to flu vaccination.

Ordinarily I am VERY pro-vaccination. But because I was a young, robust woman who bounced back easily from illnesses, I chose not to take the risk. (My husband, OTOH, is in a high-risk group, and has always been vaccinated; for him, the risk of flu has always outweighed the risk of the shot.)

This year, I will be vaccinated. I got pneumonia the last time I got flu--and while I'm still relatively young and resilient, I am for the first time facing being a single parent---and want to reduce the chances of becoming ill. I have a child who relies on me, and as I stare down the barrel of having no one to help me pick up the slack if I'm ill, I need to protect myself as much as possible so that I can be the best parent possible.

But I will cringe as I get the shot, and worry that I will end up like Mr. B--on a ventilator for months due to vaccination-induced Guillain-Barre syndrome (fully realizing that the odds are very, very, very slight that I will be adversely affected).

ETA: And thank you for the reminder; I will make an appointment today.

I am required to have it for my job. I work at a hospital and work in IT so I have very little patient contact. I have the choice of geting the shot, or wearing a mask for 6 months until flu season is over. The masks are hot, no way.