Flu jab question

Are they worth having or are they smoke and mirrors?
(I am 65 with no chest problems to date.)

Wrinklie One =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A9?=...

Horses mouths and gifts comes to mind :-)

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

Someone said in here a few days ago that they were giving it a miss this
year since in the past having the jab had left them with cold like symptoms
throughout the following winter.

Wrinklie One =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A9?=...

I'll wager the majority of us had em

Frogman...

Had mine Yesterday :-)

jamps...

Had mine on Tuesday - no adverse re-actions!

Gareth...

I've got to put up with catching it for a good few years yet. :/

John...

I have an appointment for mine at the end of the week. :-)

Frogman...

Lucky you ;-)

jackie...

I have had them for several years now - no ill effects and no flu!!
Very rarely catch a cold even now (touch wood)!!

Mike Tullett...

They certainly are worth it. The vaccine is not a live virus (so you
cannot actually catch flu) but it will offer protection against the three
most likely strains of flu to affect us this winter.

You'll likely get a few mild flu symptoms for a day or so, but they soon

linedancer...

I agree. but this year I did not have any symptoms afterwards, I did put it
down to (as I have said before)not waiting in the surgery afterwards, I was
waiting to see if anything would happen and started to feel faint with
thinking about it, this year I just had a brisk walk home straight away, no
problems.

go.

John...

Well (touches wood) I haven't had the flue since I started having them,
and I used to suffer terribly with it nearly every winter.