Twink nothing would convince me to have the flu jab …Its something ive just always thought was a waste of time …I was invited to have one last week but kindly refused.
You have your views I have mine 
Twink, The reason l don’t have the flu injection isn’t because l’m scared of the injection. I am blood group, Rh O negative, so l’ve had lots of needles stuck in me in the past! I also have Pernicious Anaemia and have a Vit B12 injection every three months.
I wonder how many doctors decline the flu injection?
Yes. That’s an interesting thought Art.
Could be. I remember having a jab in the 50s for some preventative or other with a lollipop given to recover from the ordeal. The needles then looked (and felt) like knitting needles. The one I had on Saturday could hardly be felt - the practice nurse said “A small prick” and by the time I looked down to see if my flies were open the job was done.
It’s the way you tell them Judd 
Re Flu Pandemic
WARNING: The following statements are established facts.
Un-objective readers should look away now
NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTRE
http://www.nvic.org/nvic-vaccine-new…-the-time.aspx
“During the 2009 swine flu pandemic, scientists in the Netherlands asked a big question: Do annual flu shots preventing natural influenza A infections in infants and young people increase their risk of illness and death when a highly pathogenic pandemic influenza strain develops and circulates? The answer to that big question was “Yes” when, in 2010, Canadian health officials confirmed that school aged children and healthy young adults, who had gotten a flu shot the previous season, were at twice the risk of coming down with pandemic A swine flu in 2009 that was severe enough to require a trip to the doctor’s office.”
"Here is what they found when they studied the 2009/2010 pandemic flu season:
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First, repeated annual flu shots may hamper certain kinds of immune responses, making young vaccinated children, who have never been naturally infected with influenza virus, “more susceptible to infection with a pandemic influenza virus of a novel subtype.”
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Second, about 75 percent of children and adults who got influenza didn’t show any symptoms, and those who did have symptoms self managed without needing medical attention. Plus, hospitalizations and death rates for confirmed influenza infections were very low in the flu pandemic.
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Third, many unvaccinated persons, who did not get sick during the pandemic flu season, were “silently” infected with pandemic influenza anyway and mounted a strong T-cell immune response to the new influenza strain.
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Fourth, compared with people who remained unvaccinated, those who got a pandemic flu shot were more likely to get sick with an “influenza like illness” (ILI) caused by a rhinovirus.
Rhinoviruses cause the common cold and other upper and lower respiratory infections that give you a fever, headache, body aches and a terrible cough that hangs on for weeks"
End of Facts. Numpties may uncover their eyes now.
I think you will find that sore arm verses no sore arm has a lot to do with the technique of the one administering it.
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“oncrease the uptake of the winter flu vaccine for their staff
so as to reduce sickness absence and protect vulnerable patients from infection. The aim is to increase staff vaccination rates from around 50% to nearer to 75%.”
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Yes isn’t it wonderful how they wish to keep their staff healthy and working to ensure there is enough staff to care for and to protect their patients…thus avoiding staff shortages and the need to close wards and theatres etc. during the winter months and the need to have to employ agency staff to cover.
I’m inclined to agree with that, Pats.
Even with simple blood tests I have noticed some nurses techniques are a lot less painful than others. Also, some bruise me and others don’t.
Hi
I was in hospital recently.
I had my injection. not scared of needles.
The older lady in the next bed, we where in the Medical Admissions Unit, so mixed, was a hoot, at least 80 years old
The curtains where drawn, but we could hear everything.
The Doctor said, this won’t hurt, just a small prick in your bum.
She replied,that is what my husband said.:-D:-D
She was hilarious, cheered me up no end.
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
While how well the flu vaccine works can vary, there are a lot of reasons to get a flu vaccine each year.
Flu vaccination can keep you from getting sick with flu.
Flu vaccination can reduce the risk of flu-associated hospitalization, including among children and older adults.
A 2014 study* showed that flu vaccine reduced children’s risk of flu-related pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission by 74% during flu seasons from 2010-2012.
Another study published in the summer of 2016 showed that people 50 years and older who got a flu vaccine reduced their risk of getting hospitalized from flu by 57%.
Flu vaccination is an important preventive tool for people with chronic health conditions.
Vaccination was associated with lower rates of some cardiac events among people with heart disease, especially among those who had had a cardiac event in the past year.
Flu vaccination also has been shown to be associated with reduced hospitalizations among people with diabetes (79%) and chronic lung disease (52%).
Vaccination helps protect women during and after pregnancy. Getting vaccinated also protects the developing baby during pregnancy and for several months after the baby is born.
A study that looked at flu vaccine effectiveness in pregnant women found that vaccination reduced the risk of flu-associated acute respiratory infection by about one half.
Another study found that babies of women who got a flu vaccine during their pregnancy were about one-third less likely to get sick with flu than babies of unvaccinated women. This protective benefit was observed for up to four months after birth.
Flu vaccination also may make your illness milder if you do get sick.
Getting vaccinated yourself also protects people around you, including those who are more vulnerable to serious flu illness, like babies and young children, older people, and people with certain chronic health conditions.
*References for the studies listed above can be found at Publications on Influenza Vaccine Benefits.
I agree too Mups. I give myself 4 injections a day and very often I don’t even feel the needle.
Now then, why don’t you all come to my house for next years flu jab?..I promise it wont hurt!
Only if you let me give you one.
In hospital last year most of the ward staff were doing their best to avoid the flu jab, one by one they were tracked down. We patients did or best to make sure they were on the pointy edge for a change. :)
Probably should say you were hoping for a man that would give you more than one!
What :surprised: and suffer the same disappointment as last time? 
I’ve been studying up on it.
Well practice makes perfect… so who are you practicing with? 
The young nurse at the Medical Centre showed me how to stick the needle in.