i'm almost phobic of getting a flu shot. I've read many horror stories about post vaccine worsening of PN but then there are the public service ads extolling the benefits & warning of the dire consequences of going without the vaccine.

Has anyone had one yet? If so, any negative s/e? Anyone have one with zero impact on PN?

thanks for your thoughts!

Neither one of us gets flu vaccines. That is our choice.

But there are many posters over the years coming here with
reactions. Just use our search function: vaccine

If you see something on TV....beware. From cars, to vaccines, various drugs, it is only to make money.

This is my opinion. I am not convinced they are even safe.
Recently I posted the Glaxo contaminated problem...for several years they were warned and never fixed it:

This is only one example:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0EZ1NB20140624

We'll I have had it with the only effect being I don't get flu yippee. As a specialist public health nurse I actively promote vaccinations as they save many lives

glaxo had almost 21% contamination rate! pretty darn high. i'd like it to be zero, thank you very much.

as a 2 time cancer survivor, i think i fall into the immune-compromised, elderly population category. hmmm.

--given the strong likelihood that my acute onset body wide burning neuropathy involved an autoimmune molecular mimicry cascade, I don't get the flue shot, either; in cases like mine the possibility of having such a reaction again contraindicates it.

This is not to say I am anti-vaccine overall, and I have gotten things like tetanus boosters in the past. But I have a benign history with those, and the flu vaccines change each year depending on the strains expected, making the flu vaccine a more risky proposition for me.

It helps, though, that I have been exposed to numerous flu-ridden people (especially my students) and have never apparently gotten it; my overactive immune system seems to be able to prevent that for me, at least so far. I do get the occasional cold, but that's a comparatively minor annoyance.

So what are the implications if someone gets a contaminated dose. The reason I ask is that my father got the vaccine and in about week, ended up with a bad bladder infection followed by pneumonia. He wondered if the vaccine had anything to do with it or if it was just coincidental.

I had the same concerns as you. However I had been taking flu shots for a long time. I got the plain jane 20.00 shot and worried for a couple or three days. I guess it comes down to balancing worries,haha. I hope you the best outcome of your decision. Ken in Texas.

I found this last night:

ADEM on a comment section of Yahoo...discussing this year's failure of flu vaccine.

So I found a discussion of vaccine injury symptoms here:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread213075.html

And this is the CDC article on flu vaccine:
http://news.yahoo.com/cdc-says-flu-s...001054530.html

After reading the list of what is in the flu vaccine, and becoming more conscious of what I am putting into my body, I decided to stop getting the vaccine. My wife is following my lead and none of us, including our children, got one this year. The list of ingredients if frightening to me.
Ron