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Old 10-10-2009, 05:03 PM #1
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Just wondering who here with MS gets the seasonal flu shot / pneumonia shot each year. Now there's the H1N1 shot as well. That's available in a nasal spray and an injection. I think I read somewhere that people with MS should not take the nasal spray.
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I got my regular flu shot a couple of weeks ago, and I'll get the H1N1 injection when they have it at our local health department. My MS neuro said we should get both when he was speaking to those of us in the infusion room the past few months. Before I was on Tysabri he also said I should get flu shots because if an MS patient gets the flu it can pretty serious with complications.
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I just watched this video that mrsD referred to in another forum. It goes for over 9 minutes and takes some time to load, so if you decide to watch it I suggest you start the download and go back to it when it's finished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnaiubVJv8E&NR=1

This is not necessarily my own view on the subject but I found the topic interesting, and while it's a discussion about all vaccines and not just swine flu, the speaker mentions MS among the auto-immune diseases he feels have worsened as a result of past and present vaccinations.
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I got my regular flu shot already and I'll get the swine flu shot asap. My neuro strongly suggested them. My son's Crohn's doc really wants him to have both too.

You're right about the nasal spray, Kelly, we shouldn't get that type of vaccine. I think it's because the spray has the live virus in it.
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I will most likely get my reg flu shot in a couple of weeks. My Doc usually favors it. I will see what he has to say about the hini shot?
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I just got my flu shot yesterday. My neuro strongly suggested it since I get sick alot.

We don't have the swine flu shot yet but he also wants me to have that. I got the pneumonia shot last year, but I just got over 20 days of that so obviously it didn't work for me!!!
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I will decline H1N1 but Himself will have it so as not to bring it home to me.

There is currently a patient in ICU who had the vaccine on the first day of release (week and a half ago?) and is now suffering swine flu. I don't know...
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She must have had the nose spray, which is the live virus..
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The nasal vaccine is what was rolled out first. I think Omaha gets the actual shots this week. I have a relative who does the vaccines for one of the local hospitals. She didnt like giving the nasal vaccine...people always wanted to hand her their kleenexes...even if she was wearing gloves, she's like ewwwww!

I'm not getting a flu shot of any kind this year. I've decided to stop poking at my immune system with vaccines, since it seems like everytime I get a vaccine, I get some sort of flare a few weeks later.
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we don't have the nasal spray in Oz as far as i know. so the ICU person would have had the jab.
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