I've never gotten a flu shot

[Occhidiangela]

Only TWO times in my entire life was I ever so severely incapacitated and sick with fever that I thought I might be near death.

Before the age of 15 I had gotten the flu many times.  Once when I was a child I got so sick I had to go to the hospital.  They told my parents there wasn't anything they could do for it except a decongestant and lots of water/juice and that I'd just to wait it out.  I was sick for 2-3 weeks.

I consider myself in fair health (I exercise and eat healthy), have four kids who pass on infections all the time, and I NEVER get sick.  The past four years I have not received one single cold but my entire family was BED-RIDDEN three times.  I don't recall being sick between the ages of 16-21, but after the age of 23 I have only gotten the flu once, and this time happened to be when I got the flu shot!  I was so sick, I had to go to the hospital again for a temperature above 105 (they gave me a shot of some kind to bring my temperature down), constant chills that made my head split and my bones ache when my body shook, some vomiting, and a overall feeling that I was going to die any moment.  Everyone I know that actually GOT the flu shot that year got sick.  The people that did NOT get the flu shot got mildly sick.

Call it just a hunch, but I'll NEVER get the flu shot again as long as I live!
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According to the info passed on by our medical folks, there are entire classes of people who should not get the flu vaccine, for example those allergic to chicken feathers, and it seems that each year that list gets longer.

Maybe you hit a sweet spot that they had not discovered yet.

105 degrees? Ouch! That's nasty.

Occhi