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Flu Season Approaches… Part 2

by Scott on November 22nd, 2007

title_influenza_1.jpgJust as I suspected, The flu shot that I received Saturday made me slightly sick yesterday and I had to leave work a little early. It started in the morning when I woke up with a faint headache. Then when I got to work I felt kinda week and started feeling muscle aches which was kinda weird cause I thought it may just be some soreness from my workout…but I didn’t workout since Monday and I wasn’t all that sore on Tuesday. Around lunchtime I started feeling a bit sick to my stomach and really weak.

My stomach felt better by the time I left work but my neck started getting really stiff and I was getting congested. Honestly it was the strangest flu symptoms I have ever felt from a flu shot. I felt much better this morning after a good nights sleep, some motrin and some comtrex night-time.

What I’m really trying to get at here is the question a lot of people ask. “Can the flu shot make you sick?”. I have heard that it depends on what flu shot you get and I think that is correct. Now I don’t know exactly what shot Blue Cross Blue Shield gave me but I felt fine after that one, but the shot the U.S.Army National Guard gave me but I get sick from every flu shot I have ever got from them.

Below I have added a few links that may help determine the answer to this question.

Will the flu shot make you sick. Yahoo answers
Does the Flu Shot Make You Sick Wausau Daily Herald
Flu Fact Sheet

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