I am recovering after a rough few days of flu…the vaccination worked:shock:
I am feeling rougher than a dead dogs bum! I have never had flu after a vaccination before :shock good luck mate
Do you mean you felt rough soon after the vacc, Vlad?
Yes…sorry that was badly worded…I got the flu after the vac.
I know quite a few people who say they haven’t felt good afterwards.
When I worked, there was an elderly lady there and she was so ill afterwards it was really worrying. She developed the most horrendous chesty cough and looked dreadful and she was so frail to start with.
I’ve heard others say the same.
Hope you are on the mend now :hug:, you’ve had enough on your late this autumn already - and that was before the mice moved in! 
If people are ill this winter, I wonder if doctors will know the whether it’s Flu starting, or Covid?
One of my relatives has been ill since having the flu jab last week…Bugger that!..
Oh really Foxy? Gosh, that’s another one.
It’ll be a different vaccine this year I expect, as don’t they have to ‘tweak it’ each winter and add different strains?
They add loads of stuff these days Mups, I wouldn’t touch the flu vaccine with a bargepole, or the covid vaccine when it finally arrives…But I wouldn’t discourage anyone else from having it. You must do what you think is best for your health.
I wonder if eventually they will combine the two, Flu & Covid, or whether they will expect people to have both?
I find this a bit frightening if they want to fill us with all these vaccines at once - Flu, Covid, and where I am, they are doing Shingles too.
Many older people are already on daily medication for different ailments too, so I can’t help but wonder how these vaccines interact with daily meds too.
I bet these vaccine trials are not done on poorly oldies with other health conditions and meds already!
We will be walking chemical factories, full of drug cocktails inside us. :shock:
Exactly Mups, I’m already on a couple of meds, but I’ll keep off as many as I can, I don’t think too many tablets and vaccines can be good for us. I think you have to balance the quality of life with how much medication you actually need.
Side effects can have a debilitating result and take away your mobility, which I consider the most important thing for longevity.
It’s difficult isn’t it though Foxy. I mean, most of us are not medically trained, so we can at best, only do what we feel is right for us, and hope we are making the right decision.
We had our jabs a week ago. I’ve been fine. Mrs mart got a rash on her arm around the injection area.
That’s good to know (not the rash bit obviously).
You’ll be alright Dongle, a big strong boy like you. 
That’s how I have always been after the jab Meg, just a bit of a stiff arm and perhaps a bit tired in the evening but this year both Mrs LD and my dad have been out of action for two to three days with some tiredness still around after a week.
Found this on the Martin Lewis site. It might be handy to know.
Who qualifies for a free NHS flu jab?
A number of people qualify for a free NHS flu jab each year, and this year the list has been expanded. Here’s who qualifies:
Those aged 65 or over (this includes those who'll be 65 by 31 March 2021)
Those who are pregnant
Those with certain medical conditions (the NHS has a full list)
Those living in a long-stay residential care home or other long-stay care facilities
Those who receive a carer's allowance or are the main carer for an elderly/disabled person
[I][U]New[/U][/I]. Those who live with someone at high risk from coronavirus
Front-line health and social care workers
Children over the age of six months with a long-term health condition
Children aged two or three on 31 August 2020
All primary school-aged children (reception to year six)
[I][U]New[/U][/I]. All year seven children in secondary school
[I][U]New[/U][/I]. Those aged 50-64, but NOT right now, they're only eligible later in the seasonHi
i am on 15 pills and capsules a day. they are what keep me alive.
I have also had the Flu jab.
How life changes over a couple of months.
I would rather be a walking chemical factory than dead.
I like waking up in the morning.
my niece has become poorly after having the flu jab this time
Of course you would Swim, and if everybody was honest they would feel the same. Once you are dead the NHS can do nothing to help you, but if your pills are causing problems they can usually change them.
Which is why I’ve gone through the voucher scheme at work and get mine this Saturday.
Down here it’s free to over fifties if they want it, although mine is a week later than Mrs LD.