Swine Flu Vaccine?

[disneyholic family]

Matt came home from school yesterday not well, slept about 3 hours, went on NHS site and it prescribed Tamiflu, started the course before he went to bed, up lots of times thru the night.

So sorry to hear Matt's not feeling well.

i hope he feels better soon Wayne!!

 

[tennisfan]

Sorry to hear Matt's not well, hope he feels better soon

We thought my mum had it last week but she has a severe chest infection/possibly pneumonia again (had chest x ray waiting for results), she had all the symptoms for swine flu so it proves that many are being told they have it when the chances are they don't.

My mum always has the seasonal flu vaccine & is always ill with flu after so we have finally convinced her to miss it next year. She will end up ill either way

 

[pandajess]

my family and i, all fell in the at rick, we all had are jabs yesterday and are all complaning of a sore arm and it feeling heavy must be a commen side effect, but we are all releved that we where able to have are jabs done, although it was a big disision.

 

[scottish mum]

After much deliberation I finally took liam for his swine flu jag today. he also got his seasonal jag too. He was so brave and said thank you to the nurse afterwards . Liam has asthma quite bad and we just decided that any reaction to the jag is probably going to be less than if he got swine flu. Fingers crossed that we have done the right thing.

He said that his arm was a bit sore but we gave him calpol and wa sadvised to give it to hime regularly today and tomorrow. He has to have another dose in 3 weeks as he is only 8

 

[disneyholic family]

a friend of mine is a nurse in a pediatric hospital.
she agreed to have it after she saw all the doctors getting the vaccine.
But her head nurse refused it and is now very very ill with swine flu.

Wish i could get it....a few more weeks....

 

[malibuconlee]

My Dw and DS got theirs tonight, and anyone else who lives in the house can get it as well if they want.
As for US and canada, like PP said they will be happy to give it to anyone if you want to pay for it.I am sure those that do not have enough money to pay for it in these countries will not get it

Just wanted to say this is not the case. We have private insurance thru DH's employer. While my ped did have the H1N1 vaccine on Tuesday when we were there they did not have the dosage for under 2 patients for seasonal flu for private pay insurance. They did however have it for patients under 2 with Medicaid/CHIPs insurance. This is the government insurance for low income. Apparently the government bought vaccines for the patients they insure and passed those out to doctors. The rest of us have to depend on the number of vaccines the doctors purchase/manage to purchase to vaccinate.

As far as cost to us, I'm not sure if it's covered under our insurance or not. Will have to wait for them to my insurance company and wait and see what our charge is.

 

[PoppyAnna]

I've just heard on the radio that the NHS is going to "offer" the Swine Flu vaccine to children between 6months and 5years of age. I for one will not be giving it to my 4 yo DD. DH was quite unwell for three days after he had his last week. My DD is a healthy child with no underlying health problems and as far as I'm concerned will not be in a life threatening state if she catches swine flu.

 

[PoppyAnna]

Matt came home from school yesterday not well, slept about 3 hours, went on NHS site and it prescribed Tamiflu, started the course before he went to bed, up lots of times thru the night.

Sorry to hear Matt is not well Wayne.
Wishing him a speedy recovery.

 

[disneyholic family]

too late - i think i have it...
why do i ALWAYS get sick on the weekend???????????????????????????

i have every symptom now, but the high fever....which feels as if it's starting to build up...

i'm not happy - especially since i'm probably going to expose everyone else in the house as well - and none of them have been vaccinated yet either..

i'm so annoyed....so many people who were entitled to be vaccinated didn't go...
and those of us who wanted to be, weren't permitted....

and now i just read an article that in norway, they've found 3 cases - 2 patients who died and one who is gravely ill, with a mutated and much more dangerous form of swine flu... although they claim that the vaccination is good for that form as well...

perhaps the mutation is the explanation for the sudden increase in deaths where i live...

so i'll be honest....i'm quite worried right now..

i'm hoping it's just the 'good' old common cold....though it probably isn't....

i've always hated pigs...now i know why...

Wayne, how's Matt doing? feeling any better?

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

When i saw my GP today i asked him a few questions about the SF injection, he did say if a newer strain comes along then the first vaccine will be useless, but he strongly advised me to give DD the vaccine as its better to be safe than sorry esp as under 5's are most at risk.

He had recently had his and i asked him if he had any side effects and he said his arm ached abit but that was it. I also asked if the ingredients in the vaccine were componants of the SF (this is what worried me most as i dont want to inject DD with the virus) and he said no.

I need to think about it a bit more about what to do, but i'm leaning towards letting her have the injection now.

Did you hear about that in Scotland a few cases of SF have been immune to Tamiflu?

 

[wayneg]

Wayne, how's Matt doing? feeling any better?

Hope you just have a cold.

Matt is a lot better, not sure its swine flu, he is nowhere near as bad as I was with regular flu about 10 years ago. Never want that again.
His high temp has gone, worst thing was his stomach. spent more time on the toilet than off, chemist said it is a side effect of tamiflu so told him to take Imodium, took 2 this afternoon and he can now at least eat something without it going straight thru.
He should be OK for his mocks next week.

 

[ukstitch]

Did you hear about that in Scotland a few cases of SF have been immune to Tamiflu?

It was bound to happen because they've been issuing Tamiflu like it's been going out of fashion and without actually testing for swine flu first

 

[disneyholic family]

When i saw my GP today i asked him a few questions about the SF injection, he did say if a newer strain comes along then the first vaccine will be useless, but he strongly advised me to give DD the vaccine as its better to be safe than sorry esp as under 5's are most at risk.

He had recently had his and i asked him if he had any side effects and he said his arm ached abit but that was it. I also asked if the ingredients in the vaccine were componants of the SF (this is what worried me most as i dont want to inject DD with the virus) and he said no.

I need to think about it a bit more about what to do, but i'm leaning towards letting her have the injection now.

Did you hear about that in Scotland a few cases of SF have been immune to Tamiflu?

i can understand your hesitance - it's a big decision...

as for Tamiflu - i'd heard there have been some resistant cases, but i didn't know where they were....not sure if they were just in Scotland - i think i heard that there also have been some in the US - and maybe elsewhere as well..
but there's another drug that can be given if tamiflu doesn't work - i can't remember the name....relenza i think...they've used it in hospitals here (in israel) with partial success (some patients who were on death's doorstep recovered, others didn't)...

Hope you just have a cold.

Matt is a lot better, not sure its swine flu, he is nowhere near as bad as I was with regular flu about 10 years ago. Never want that again.
His high temp has gone, worst thing was his stomach. spent more time on the toilet than off, chemist said it is a side effect of tamiflu so told him to take Imodium, took 2 this afternoon and he can now at least eat something without it going straight thru.
He should be OK for his mocks next week.

glad to hear he's feeling better!!

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

It was bound to happen because they've been issuing Tamiflu like it's been going out of fashion and without actually testing for swine flu first

Guess we are all doomed then.

as for Tamiflu - i'd heard there have been some resistant cases, but i didn't know where they were....not sure if they were just in Scotland - i think i heard that there also have been some in the US - and maybe elsewhere as well..
but there's another drug that can be given if tamiflu doesn't work - i can't remember the name....relenza i think...they've used it in hospitals here (in israel) with partial success (some patients who were on death's doorstep recovered, others didn't)...

Thats the drug issued to pregnant woman, you inhale it or something.

 

[disneyholic family]

Thats the drug issued to pregnant woman, you inhale it or something.

yes, you're right - i just was reading up on it on the NHS website (a very good site providing comprehensive information)..

they refer to it as an inhaled drug - so i guess that wasn't what was given to the people...as on the news it was referred to as an injection of some sort...
don't know what it was....but it helped some of the gravely ill people...so that's hopeful..

i wish they'd finally come out with the universal flu shot...then we wouldn't have to worry about mutations...we'd be covered for all of them....
hopefully, they'll speed up the trials...there are several different universal flu vaccines currently in development....and they've had some very good trial results so far...

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

i wish they'd finally come out with the universal flu shot...then we wouldn't have to worry about mutations...we'd be covered for all of them....
hopefully, they'll speed up the trials...there are several different universal flu vaccines currently in development....and they've had some very good trial results so far...

I 100% agree.

It would certainly make life a lot easier.

 

[ukstitch]

As a very unfortunate example of what swine flu can do to somebody unfortunate to suffer a major case of it, one of the regular posters on the Disneyland boards is currently very ill (she's in hospital with severe pneumonia as a direct result of the swine fly and was placed into an induced coma with possible brain damage). The thread is here if anybody wants to send well wishes to a fellow DISer...

I think this really hits home just how bad swine flu can be if you're unlucky enough to suffer a bad case of it. If I get the vaccine offered to me then I will be having a long, hard think about taking it knowing what can happen if I was to contract swine flu.

 

[ukstitch]

Just thought I'd update my above post to say that unfortunately, Dawn / Fairykin from the Disneyland California boards sadly lost her fight against the flu and pneumonia that resulted from it last night.

I know it's already been said over there, but I'm going to add it here as well. Many, many thanks to all those who've popped over to the California boards to wish her well (or offer condolences since last night) - it's really appreciated and shows the strength of the DIS community

 

[natalielongstaff]

oh thats terrible news my thoughts are with her family at this sad time.

 

[mandymouse]

What sad news. Her friends and family are in my thoughts