• My partner said the last flu jab from 2020 wasn't too bad, other times he feels off 1-2 days. Weird one, but perhaps worth taking it again? He gets it due to asthma as well.

  • Oops sorry, I wasn’t very clear. I had the flu in 1999/2000 and it was unbelievably bad. It didn’t affect my asthma so much - my airways were ok, but my lungs felt like they were full of water. What was worse was the all-over pain, inability to sleep while exhausted and nightmares/hallucinations. I learnt then why so many people die from it.

    Anyway, that encouraged me to get the jab, but after three years of getting it, and feeling shitty for a week - albeit nothing compared to actual flu - I gave up on it for a while.

    Nowadays my company brings in a nurse each year and administers a clinic, so it felt like I’d be really foolish to refuse it when I don’t even have to book it and go somewhere. And all the times I’ve done it this time around, I’ve been totally fine.

  • That's awesome your company has a flu jab service :)

    I don't think I ever had the flu, even a mild case is pretty crap.

    We always said as students that's unless you have to crawl out of bed to drink / go to toilet and then collapse back into bed for several days on end, it was a cold, not the flu.

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