Swine Flu Vaccine?

[PoppyAnna]

Thats very sad, must be awful for her family. They are in my thoughts

Although you'll see from previous posts I was against giving it to my children, DH and I have talked about little else all weekend knowing that they are going to offer it to us for our youngest DD. We have decided to give it to her. I suppose I have realised that if I didn't give her the vaccine and she became very ill from Swine Flu, I'd never forgive myself. I also believe that you have to trust health professionals during these times, and lets face it the country it on its knees financially, if it wasn't important I don't believe the govenment would be spending this much money on a mass vaccination program.

DH was poorly for two days after having it, but is fine now.

 

[natalielongstaff]

Although you'll see from previous posts I was against giving it to my children, DH and I have talked about little else all weekend knowing that they are going to offer it to us for our youngest DD. We have decided to give it to her. I suppose I have realised that if I didn't give her the vaccine and she became very ill from Swine Flu, I'd never forgive myself. I also believe that you have to trust health professionals during these times, and lets face it the country it on its knees financially, if it wasn't important I don't believe the govenment would be spending this much money on a mass vaccination program.

DH was poorly for two days after having it, but is fine now.

i was glad that my two are older and i did not have to make a choice, in principle i do agree with vaccination programmes however im really on the fence with this one !

 

[PoppyAnna]

i was glad that my two are older and i did not have to make a choice, in principle i do agree with vaccination programmes however im really on the fence with this one !

Exactly the same here Nat, DH is so passionate about giving it to her and I guess I'm 90/10, so I'm having to forget that 10 percent and go with the majority.
I worked for the NHS for 12 years and clinical friends of mine have said that the 6mths-5yrs vaccination programme just the tip of the iceberg and it will be offered to the elderly next, then older children, and so on. The NHS has stockpilled enough vaccine for everybody, so I think we will all be tested over this one

 

[tennisfan]

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

I knew this was going to happen due to the reasons you have stated it doesn't take a genius. People put too much faith in GP's sometimes

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

Just catching up with DIS as I have been on nights, this is sad news my thoughts are with her family

I'm not sure if the Vaccine is like the seasonal flu vaccine in that it doesn't stop you getting flu it lessens the symptoms. I'm still not going to have it though as I personally can't see the point.

 

[Head_in_the_clouds]

Oh dear, what terrible news, how sad for her family.

I got my swine flu vaccination invite a couple of days ago and after hearing about the tamiflu resistant cases (I thought this was in Wales?) I must admit I have changed my mind about not having it. This news about a diser has also brought it home. My letter from the doctors basically said you are being offered this because you are one of the people who is likely to suffer seriously complications if you were to contract swine flu. That brought it home because although I have a heart condition, I am only 25 and in my own mind I thought I would be able to fight it off no problem but I have had pneumonia from the normal flu before when I was 19 and now I have started to realise there is a chance I could become very ill if I got swine flu. My dad (a diabetic) has had the jab and is fine. So maybe I will have it after all.

 

[scottish mum]

Thats very sad, must be awful for her family. They are in my thoughts

Although you'll see from previous posts I was against giving it to my children, DH and I have talked about little else all weekend knowing that they are going to offer it to us for our youngest DD. We have decided to give it to her. I suppose I have realised that if I didn't give her the vaccine and she became very ill from Swine Flu, I'd never forgive myself. I also believe that you have to trust health professionals during these times, and lets face it the country it on its knees financially, if it wasn't important I don't believe the govenment would be spending this much money on a mass vaccination program.

DH was poorly for two days after having it, but is fine now.

I was unsure of whether to let my Liam, 8 yrs, have it or not. He is asthmatic so a priority. Like you we decided to let him have it as we couldn't live with ourselves if he got ill with swine flu and we could have prevented it. He had a sore arm for 24 hrs and felt a bit tired and warm but after that he was fine.

 

[T16GEM]

Such sad news, my thoughts are with Dawn's family.

We have also decided that we will let our two have the jab if they are called, I would never forgive myself if anything were to happen to them because of something that I could have done to stop it. As a PP said we need to trust in the health professionals right now, and many of them are having it so, what's good enough for them should be good enough for us too KWIM?