H1N1 shot ... for those of you going in November/early December

[Tantor]

You know, they scare us half to death then make us scramble to clinics and wait hours?? If there's enough vaccine, why? Why can they not allow family Dr's to vaccinate as well?????? What a fiasco!

The media has whipped this into a frenzy now and people are panicking. People really need to let the high risk get there shots now.......
I will wait a couple of weeks and get the shot. I have told my DD to make sure that she uses the hand sanitizer and that she also washes her hands(ie use common sense).

There are some family doctors that signed on but I believe it's the paper work that is the issue (lots of it) and the size of the dosages.

 

[tigger2on]

We now have to wait as 5 out of 6 in our family were exposed to H1N1 and came down with some severe flu. I have 3 under 5 that have it now and it is painful as myself and hubby have it to. The cough hurts sooo much that it feels like your chest will collapse, and it is really tight. Extremely high fever.... 103+, muscles and joint ache like you need to be oiled and chills that give you goosebumps even when yu are under 2 heavy quilts. I also had the worst headache of my life yesterday.... we have NOT been tested for H1N1 as the results take longer than the duration of the symptoms but are being treated as such. My one year was sooo irritable and floppy yesterday .... scared the bugs outta me... could not get his fever down and almost took him to emerg but when I called they said stay home if he was conscious and drinking....
This is NOT something I would wish on my worst enemy and I have had the flu before.

 

[canadianjovigirl]

We have to skip it as we leave in 48 hours and all my kids are getting over a cold (a regualar cold....runny nose, sore throat, no fever, no aches)...so i guess we will hope for the best and make a decision at the end of November as to if we will do the vaccination or not.............

 

[BellyBaby]

If there's enough vaccine, why? Why can they not allow family Dr's to vaccinate as well?????? What a fiasco!

My guess is that Dr's will cost the system way, way more to administer than the local health nurse. It always comes down to $$

We're weren't going to get it, but yes, got sucked into the media frenzy, no one wants it to be "their" family to have a terrible experience. But we're not so scared that we're going to rush in and wait 3 hours. Maybe mid to end of Nov. I'm lucky that my DD4 doesn't go to daycare, so less exposure. And hoping my teen is smart enough to keep washing.

 

[hopeis]

They won't be immunizing children in my daughter's school until after November 30th! Though my almost 2 year old can get her's on Monday. Then hubby & I have seasonal asthma so not sure when we'll get ours... I was told by someone who works in health care that our province doesn't have enough so I don't know! "They" would turn away anyone who wasn't pregnant or under 2. Hard to find factual information though!

 

[Kris74]

We all got ours yesterday DH and DS have asthma. No troubles other then a 2 hour wait.

 

[AZMyers]

In order to be protected before we leave we need to get vaccinataed before Thursday to allow for the 10 days for the vaccine to work. Now in Manitoba they're saying they'll run out of vaccines by Monday!

I'm trying not to get myself worked up if I can't get it by Thursday. I guess there's nothing I can do. I'm going to enjoy my trip!! Hopefully everything will be OK.

 

[AZMyers]

We all got ours yesterday DH and DS have asthma. No troubles other then a 2 hour wait.

Looks like we're going on the same day!

 

[snickerboo]

You know, they scare us half to death then make us scramble to clinics and wait hours?? If there's enough vaccine, why? Why can they not allow family Dr's to vaccinate as well?????? What a fiasco!

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Because there's not enough *right now*. If you follow this closely what they are saying is that there will be enough for everyone to be vaccinated eventually ("by Christmas" was what I saw on CTV yesterday)-NOT that they have enough right now. But it's in every corner of Canada NOW, it's in our kids' schools NOW. Now there's a shortfall in vaccine to be delivered next week because the government asked GSK to make unadjuvanted instead for the small amount of the pop that eed that. GSK can't make both at the same time so the adjuvanted went on the backburner and now provinces will be getting a large shiortfall of avccine this week, meaning it will be 2nd week Nov by the time general Canadians can start being vaccinated. Call me crazy, but since th evaccine takes at least 21 days to be effective in children, and my dd has 10 kids absent in her class today, and 1/4 of the school is out sick, isn't that way too late? I think that people will get it before they can be vaccinated then we'll end up with a big stockpile of vaccine that no one wanst that taxpayers paid for.

 

[granolacruncher11]

EXCELLENT observation snickerboo....ITA!

 

[AZMyers]

In order to be protected before we leave we need to get vaccinataed before Thursday to allow for the 10 days for the vaccine to work. Now in Manitoba they're saying they'll run out of vaccines by Monday!

I'm trying not to get myself worked up if I can't get it by Thursday. I guess there's nothing I can do. I'm going to enjoy my trip!! Hopefully everything will be OK.

I was able to go yesterday!

I'm so glad I did. Now I will not be so parranoid. I think my DH is glad I got it....I was driving him nuts with my paranoia!! =)

 

[Calgary DISHeads]

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Because there's not enough *right now*. If you follow this closely what they are saying is that there will be enough for everyone to be vaccinated eventually ("by Christmas" was what I saw on CTV yesterday)-NOT that they have enough right now. But it's in every corner of Canada NOW, it's in our kids' schools NOW. Now there's a shortfall in vaccine to be delivered next week because the government asked GSK to make unadjuvanted instead for the small amount of the pop that eed that. GSK can't make both at the same time so the adjuvanted went on the backburner and now provinces will be getting a large shiortfall of avccine this week, meaning it will be 2nd week Nov by the time general Canadians can start being vaccinated. Call me crazy, but since th evaccine takes at least 21 days to be effective in children, and my dd has 10 kids absent in her class today, and 1/4 of the school is out sick, isn't that way too late? I think that people will get it before they can be vaccinated then we'll end up with a big stockpile of vaccine that no one wanst that taxpayers paid for.

I absolutely hear what you are saying, and the situation we have placed in is absolutely not acceptable. However, the vaccine will not go to waste. Even if you have been confirmed with H1N1 you still need the vaccine. I am living proof, as advised by the Calgary Health Region. Frustration for me is that there is no vaccine here in Calgary for high risk vaccination clinics. When there was vaccination clinics open I was in isolation with the flu. I am now sick with bronchitis and pneomonitis, went back to work for one day after the flu, now and down with this. It's been two weeks.

 

[hopeis]

Well, over here in SK we are still waiting to have our children vaccinated... it has only been pregnant women and children 6 months to 5 years. They have just opened it up for children under 10 with underlying health problems... not sure when all the other kids will get their needles. Who knows when it'll be available for the adults.
We've been told that they 'should' have a second vaccine BUT the health unit doesn't know when they'll receive more so are trying to get the kids their first dose.
Little worrysome, we are running out of time before we leave. I would really like a good two weeks before our trip to make sure there are no reactions!
Kids are getting sick (seasonal flu I suspect). Our schools are required to sent a letter home once they have 10% absent. There are a few in our system that have had that letter. Staff have been told that if the pandemic hits that no one will be allowed any extra time off... which means our trip would be cancelled ~ we both work for the school and were taking a few extra days with our winter break.
Lets hope all our kids can be safe!!

 

[Ham Ham]

During both SARS out breaks in 2003 I spent most of my days in, around and hospitals close to the women and men fighting the virus daily on the frontline.
SARS havd a higher chance of not you surviving once you were diagnosed with it.

Chances of contracting SARS was very low for most people as it was mostly contained to medical facilities.

Swine flu isn it is out in the community. Far more people will contract Swine Flu than Sars. One of the questions about is H1N1 more dangerous?
Most folks who contract H1N1 will survive.

Stay informed glean information from different sources. Wash those hands.

Here's a link to CBC's Swine Flu page. Plenty of info.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/flu/