got mine...
you cannot get the nasal vaccine... I KNOW that.
hello Audrey, I got a flu jab and a pneumonia jab too on wednesday last week, i'm on 20mg of MTX orally I dont feel any different to what I did before I got the injections, Hope this helps.you can get the flu shot...and it is recommended that you do so. It must be the shot you can not take the flu mist inhaled vaccine
My GP forced me to get one. I tried to get out of it saying I can't I'm on MTX. She looked it up and it's like Babs said- the nasal vaccine is live and a no no. The shot is killed and OK.
I hate shots. It wasn't awful but it hurt and my arm was sore all day and the next. Then I read on some website that you can still get the flu after the shot and that if you do it only makes the duration 4 hrs shorter then it would have been.
I never got them any other years and never got the flu either. GP says sounds like it's your turn- get the shot!
Shame on you and this forum!
AchingAudrey2008-11-30 21:54:57You know what's been bugging me is that my 4 year old got his shots recently, and they are going to do MMR next year since its a live-virus vaccine, but they still did Flu Mist. Doc said he'd never heard of issues with immuno-suppressed person getting the flu from someone else's flu mist shot, but I wonder. I've been sick but haven't had high fevers.
I'm getting my shot on Wed, if I feel better. I've only gotten the flu twice, but I can't afford to miss a week of work, so will do whatever I can...
IDK about the flu mist shot... but I remember (eons and eons ago) when I had children getting the live polio and we were told to keep them from pregnant women.... does that make sense? it is a vague memory.
My dr insisted I get the flu shot. I got mine last week. My arm was sore a few days but it's better now. I didn't get one last year and got a bad case of the flu! I went to get it but they ran out and I said to give my mom the last one.
SOOO, peoples get that shot!!
I get the flu shot yearly. I don't know if it's related but four days after my shot, I had a flair up in the shoulder I got the injection in. Did anyone else experience that???
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