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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When did it become the norm for everyone to get flu shots? I don’t remember getting them as a kid. I also don’t remember getting really sick with the flu more than once. I don’t think I started getting them until college when they had my whole sports team (winter sport) line up to get it.

I do think they help make the illness less severe even if they don’t prevent infection very well. I make sure my kids get the flu shot every year but sometimes I space on it for myself. Last year was one of those times. One kid got both flu A and B. I didn’t get A but I got B and it sucked. I ended up with a pretty bad secondary infection that I don’t think would have happened if I had gotten the shot. It ended up being a two week ordeal… very disruptive. [/quote]

Usually people get their shots after they've had a bad bout of flu, like you. It happened to my husband and I before we had kids. We spent one Christmas at home, really sick, and from then on, we made sure to get our shots. It's been exactly a week since I started this round of flu (while vaccinated), and despite not having fever for 3 days now, I have some palpitations and still have all the cold symptoms (stuffy nose, blocked ears, lingering cough, etc). I don't know how bad it would have gotten without the shot.[/quote]

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