#8615 10-22-2006 05:19 PM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,140 Likes: 1 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) |  Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,140 Likes: 1 | Nelie, you make my case. Those students should be vaccinated and then they would not be spreading it. I was astouded to learn that babies get flu vaccine too. You are absolutely correct about checking with one's doctor. In my case, I had good blood results so just went for it, knowing that at least my blood was normal (grin). | | |
#8616 10-22-2006 05:46 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Nelie you have my sympathy! I was a classified school district employee many years ago and I was sick constantly. When they laid me off I hardly ever got sick. Those kids have some wicked viruses.
I've never gotten a flu shot and I rarely get the flu, but I work at home and don't come in contact with many people. I also am careful to wash my hands when coming back from public places.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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#8617 10-23-2006 06:53 PM | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 316 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | | Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 316 | Hi all, The first time I had a flu injection (19 years old), it was from the recommendation of my 'then' GP. (I'd had a few episodes of bronchial pneumonia from the age of two years old). After that injection I was laid low with colds/flu, for the whole year. So, I was rather wary of having another one. This year I was advised to have a flu injection - I'm 2.5 years since last radiotherapy Tx - and I have had 3 to 4 colds/chesty infections in the space of 3 months! All during my radiotherapy and other appointments I travelled on buses, in cars with other people sniffing, sneezing and coughing, plus being in waiting rooms surrounded by others with colds/flu, and I never became ill. It amazed me (and others) how I did't catch any cold/flu, albeit with a compromised immune system! I don't know if it's only me, but I did dread having another flu injection this year in case I would have a dose of a cold or flu. Well, I'm still battling on with a few 'colds'  I'm never having another shot again!...just my experience... Cheers! Tizz
End of Radiation - the "Ides of March" 2004 :-)
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#8618 10-24-2006 03:55 AM | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 82 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | OP Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 82 | Not only am I exposed every day to college students, I also have a 7 month old daughter in daycare with some wicked germs. I was just joking with my husband that she had a cold for 24 hours 1 1/2 weeks ago, and we still are battling it.
I will probably get the shot, but I just wanted to know what others thoughts were. Like a said earlier, I already checked with my MO and he was neither opposed to me having it or telling me that I needed it. His exact words were,, "Go about doing routine things like you have done in the past". My conflict was that I never had one in the past. I pressed him on it and he said, "It probably wouldn't be a bad idea".
Like I said, a lukewarm response at best.
DX on 05/01/06 with SCC of right tongue. 05/11/06 surgery-tumor 1.2cm & 4 cm clear margins & parital glos. & neck dissection with removal of 34 nodes/1 positive at 4mm)T1N1MO
35 IGRT & 3 cycles of chemo (1 cisplatin & 2 carbo-complete on 8/9/06.
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#8619 10-24-2006 04:22 AM | Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 167 Gold Member (100+ posts) | | Gold Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 167 | I had read online 'not' to have flu shots (too close to treatment) as it can actaully give you a virus.
I asked the chemo dr's nurse and she said as far as she knows he's oking flu shots. (I'm going to confirm this when the shots come out.)
We'll also ask the RO when we see her in mid Nov; however I too find they don't seem to say much.
My Dad (Sam) at age 69 dx SCC Base of Tongue T1N2C Well-Diff - March 2006.
35 IMRT rads & 3 Cisplatin chemos - Apr-June/06. Nodes shrunk 50% Dr's suggest ND. Negative PET - he declined ND.
March/07 Had Bilateral ND. No Cancer!! Doing Well!
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#8620 10-25-2006 07:47 AM | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | I just got some info. from the nurse who runs the health clinic at our school (they will be offering vaccines this year). Apparently there are two types of vaccines. One, the one that can be sprayed nasally, contains a live form of the virus. The other, the shot, does not and is administered to people with immune deficiencies all the time. There is no chance you can actually get the flu from it. There is more info. on this here: http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/VIS/vis-flu.pdf Knowing this, although it can't hurt to check with your MO anyway, I'd recommend getting the vaccine. Nelie
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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