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Here's to Your Health:  Swine Flu Vaccanations...Would you?  |
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
1406 Posts
Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
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 Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 1:23:06 PM
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I am concerned with how quickly the goverment wants to mass produce this immunization, and was reading about how they really want pregnant women to get these immunizations first. That scares me, I did read that pregnant women get this type of flu easily, but taking something that hasn't been proven long term is just makes me uncomfortable. Just wonderin' what ya all's opinion is.
how sweet it is to love some one, how right itis to care |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 1:27:21 PM
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Well...honestly, I'm a bit spooked by it all, so my opinion is probably way biased. We just had 3 people die in the last month here, locally (well, Indiana, but still 20 minutes from my home). Noone seems to know how this young man (18) and his sister and an unrelated individual came in contact with it, so that's frightening to me.
Having said that, I was pregnant during the "regular" flu season last year and didn't ever get around to getting my shot. Of course, I never DO get a flu shot, but I probably should have. We all made it through :)
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 2:26:28 PM
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The couple of times I got the "regular" flu shot I got the flu much worse than I do if I don't get the shot. Actually very rarely ever get sick. I will probably just opt not to get the shot.
A couple of years ago, when I was still working at the nursing home doing laundry, we had an awful, horrible case of the flu come through the home. It took probably close to three weeks and two rounds go through the home before we finally got it under control. Everyone there said I looked like Darth Vadar but I told them that there was no way I was going to catch that crud, give it to my babies at home and miss work. Out of the horrible experience and 100-200 people that came through that building there was only about 7 of us that didn't get it, I was one.
Melanie
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
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peapicker
True Blue Farmgirl
716 Posts
texas
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 2:41:46 PM
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| I would not take the vacine especially at this time. There's way too much we don't know about the whole thing. I take vitamin D3,5,000 units a day from fall till spring by my Dr.'s orders. I also don't shop much during the winter when all of the crud goes around. I have found getting enough sleep has about as much to do with getting sick as anything else. If I have to go without sleep and get really stressed I immediately get cold sores and sometimes colds or whatever is going around. But, no I don't really trust just any vaccine. |
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
1406 Posts
Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 3:02:24 PM
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I agree with peapicker, I rarely get the flu and I work in a hospital. I take a zinc supplement, have for years and I think that makes a huge diffrence. It's just the basics wash your hands often, sleep, eat well.
how sweet it is to love some one, how right itis to care |
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 3:35:50 PM
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I noticed an article in yesterday's paper how the province was putting in their "order" for vaccinations. Three days ago I read another article that said there had been a couple of deaths from H1N1 mutations and that they would have been resistant to the vaccine.
Part of me thinks of this as a HUGE cash grab for the pharmaceutical company making the vaccine, but I hate to be so cynical.
I have two daughters both in the medical field...one as a paramedic and one that works in emerg. Both say, at this point, that they will not get it.
It's a hard call on this one, but I certainly won't be first in line.
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 4:23:57 PM
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What's really scary is that they are saying that the swine flu and the bird flu could very easily combine, then what would we do??? We would end up with "PIGS THAT FLY", heheheh
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 4:25:55 PM
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To be serious now, hell no, I would not get one, and neither will any of my family, we are spread from Tennesee, Missouri, to California.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
1406 Posts
Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
1406 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 6:17:33 PM
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Flying pigs, that's good
how sweet it is to love some one, how right itis to care |
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 7:23:47 PM
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I'm still on the fence with this one. I did not get the swine flu the first time around years ago. But I was a lot younger then. I have gotten a flu shot the last few years and have been fine with that. I have only had the flu once in my life and it was horrible. After that I got the flu shots and I've never had it since. I will talk to my Dr. and see what he thinks.
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 7:28:51 PM
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The only company in the US that makes the vaccine is not approved by the FDA! It is in Illinois I believe. They are working around the clock to make the vaccine, most of which is being sent to the world health organization to be shipped around the world. All the vaccines being used in the US are being shipped in from somewhere else! HOWS that for CRAZY! I will not get the vaccine. I also dont get the one for the regular flu because the one time someone convinced me to get it I got the flu REALLY bad THREE times that year!
Farmgirl Sister #17
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www.willowtreecreek.wordpress.com
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PineConeAcres
Farmgirl in Training
31 Posts
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 9:36:37 PM
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| Um..ya'll should research the LAST time they made a vaccines for the swine flu. More people got ill or died from the vaccine itself than the actual sickness. |
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bevibrant
Farmgirl in Training
43 Posts
Kayla
Potlatch
IDAHO
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 05:18:21 AM
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Can I just shout it out...No I would NOT! Seriously though, this is a sore spot for me because they are talking about "mandatory" which really gets me hot. If I want to take a chance at getting sick, that's up to me. Anyone who's had the vaccine shouldn't be afraid of me! --Stepping off my soap box now. lol
Kayla Howard
Farmgirl Sister #588
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peapicker
True Blue Farmgirl
716 Posts
texas
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 06:33:11 AM
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| Oh my, are there some independnt thinkers on this thread or what? I was shocked when my last grandchild was born and I found out how many immunizations they recommended for babies. No wonder we have little ones with so many problems and they can't seem to find out whats wrong. |
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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
2350 Posts
Sheila
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2009 : 11:38:54 AM
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I am not sure if I were pregnant if I would take it or not.
I guess you would have to trust your doctor
Being Diabetic type 2 and high blood pressure/
plus other conditions and diseases
I have to take those shots.
But,
Last year I got the stomach flu
right after having my breast mammogram.
2 days before Halloween .
I was so sick hubby had to take me to the Hospital
I hope I never have the stomach flu again
I have had it before
I thought I was going to die this time it was so bad.
Good luck on what ever you decide to do.
it is hard I know, hugs sheila
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