Who's getting the H1N1 shot? - Page 39 - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

wooohooo · 10-30-2009, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by oilers_fan

But there's no need to rush to a doctor if I suddenly get the flu? Can they even do anything for you once you get it, if you do indeed contract H1N1?

From what I heard, if you have on set, you could get it checked out and they would most likely give you tamiflu or some other anti viral meds. But, it's pretty hard to distinguish between the normal flu and H1N1 I think.

EDBTZ12 · 10-30-2009, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Rerun

There are people out there who need it a lot more than a healthy male, 26 years old with no history of medical problems.

I thought you had Diabetes

EDBTZ12 · 10-30-2009, 11:55 PM

I feel sorry for the parents that couldn't get their kids the vaccine because most clinics closed before 12 today.

I'm not going to get the vaccine yet. Maybe in the future, but it makes me sick that a city with a population of a million has 4 clinics open. it emberasses me as a life-long Calgarian and i just feel bad for the people who are willing to take the shot and are being denied.

Ashartus · 10-31-2009, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by oilers_fan

But there's no need to rush to a doctor if I suddenly get the flu? Can they even do anything for you once you get it, if you do indeed contract H1N1?

Don't go to the doctor unless you are high risk or are showing signs of things turning serious (e.g. trouble breathing). If you go to the doctor with a mild case, you're just clogging up the health system and risking exposing others - they won't do anything other than tell you to go home, rest and drink plenty of fluids. They aren't prescribing Tamiflu for most people since they don't want to increase resistance to the drug.

metallicat · 10-31-2009, 12:04 AM

Once you've had H1N1, can you get it again, or do you become immune?

EDBTZ12 · 10-31-2009, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Once you've had H1N1, can you get it again, or do you become immune?

That's kind of the whole point of a vaccine don't you think? So the answer is no.

metallicat · 10-31-2009, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by EDBTZ12

That's kind of the whole point of a vaccine don't you think? So the answer is no.

I thought it was so you don't get it in the first place. I really don't know what happens if you get the sickness before getting vaccinated.

theg69 · 10-31-2009, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Once you've had H1N1, can you get it again, or do you become immune?

You do become immune, but as of writing, there is no serology testing for H1N1 that is reliable, therefore, unless you were a confirmed case that had H1N1 (and had a H1N1 positive swab), there is no way to be 100% sure that you did have the H1N1 flu.

Therefore, the advice for people is that even if they think they had the H1N1 flu already but never had it confirmed, is to just go and get the vaccine.

The only silver lining in all of this is that so far, there is no evidence that the H1N1 virus has mutated, therefore, deeming people who have previously contracted it, or received the vaccine, to be immune against it.

EDBTZ12 · 10-31-2009, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by oilers_fan

I thought it was so you don't get it in the first place. I really don't know what happens if you get the sickness before getting vaccinated.

Yah well they put a dead H1N1 virus in you so that your body recognizes it and can fight it off.

I really don't know either if you have H1N1 and you get the vaccination if it effects you in anyway. It's a real good question i hope someone could answer.

theg69 · 10-31-2009, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by EDBTZ12

That's kind of the whole point of a vaccine don't you think? So the answer is no.

As I mentioned above, people do become immune if they did have the H1N1, but serology testing to this point is unreliable, not to mention expensive, therefore it is just easier to vaccinate everyone.

wooohooo · 10-31-2009, 12:19 AM

Technically it should not affect you if it is the same strain. You're just injecting the same virus into your body, which your body has the antibodies to fight it.

Now, if you got the vaccine and a new strain attacked you, then you're fair game... of getting sick that is.

theg69 · 10-31-2009, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by EDBTZ12

Yah well they put a dead H1N1 virus in you so that your body recognizes it and can fight it off.

I really don't know either if you have H1N1 and you get the vaccination if it effects you in anyway. It's a real good question i hope someone could answer.

It will have minimal to no effect if you get the vaccine after recovering from an H1N1 infection, considering you would've already developed the immunity by virtue of having the sickness of H1N1 already.

FlamesAddiction · 10-31-2009, 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by EDBTZ12

I feel sorry for the parents that couldn't get their kids the vaccine because most clinics closed before 12 today.

I'm not going to get the vaccine yet. Maybe in the future, but it makes me sick that a city with a population of a million has 4 clinics open. it emberasses me as a life-long Calgarian and i just feel bad for the people who are willing to take the shot and are being denied.

Four clinics isn't the problem. It's that every alarmist yahoo who isn't high risk is running out and taking a spot from people who really need it. That includes people who have "high-risk" people in their family that they don't live with and don't need to be in physical contant with right now.... because nearly everyone has an elderly relative.

photon · 10-31-2009, 09:21 AM

No serious reactions here, all 3 of us just have sore arms.. did feel pretty tired yesterday but that could have just been from standing in line for forever with a hyperactive kid.

Shazam · 10-31-2009, 09:27 AM

If you don't want sore arms, be completely limp.

Knut · 10-31-2009, 09:44 AM

I have a bit of a sore arm.... my fiancee was confined to the bed with shakes and sore muscles all over her body.

pylon · 10-31-2009, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Four clinics isn't the problem. It's that every alarmist yahoo who isn't high risk is running out and taking a spot from people who really need it. That includes people who have "high-risk" people in their family that they don't live with and don't need to be in physical contant with right now.... because nearly everyone has an elderly relative.

We have this bug starting to run through our building now. I also talk to probably 20 different people every day. If I get sick, my department pretty much shuts down, and there is only 3 guys in the dealership that are qualified or licensed to what I/we do. If finance shuts down in a car dealership, your hooped.

Between the three of us in my department we have one guy who is off because his wife is dying from this bug, myself, and my other partner. We actually said one of us should go, just incase, so we can keep going if the dealership gets hit. Also, when I am dealing with multiple strangers every day, I do not want to give it to anyone unknowingly, If I do get it. My only sibling died of lung disease, and after watching someone die on a respirator, I would not wish that on or impose it on anyone. Its about a week of torture watching organs shutting down, limbs turning black from lack of circulation, more tubes than you can count, and bloated unrecognizable bodies from all the drugs pumped in. Its not all glamorous like you see it on TV where they just peacefullly lay there and sleep in a quiet room. It sounds like a factory, with alarms, and buzzers, machinery everywhere. More something out of a Clive Barker film.

If I did not have a job that didn't deal with the public, and I wasn't so heavily relied upon for the operation of the business, I didn't have asthma, I would have waited. But I don't have the choice to lock myself in my house all winter and not come out.

wooohooo · 10-31-2009, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Hesla

I have a bit of a sore arm.... my fiancee was confined to the bed with shakes and sore muscles all over her body.

Sure it wasn't something else?

BlackArcher101 · 10-31-2009, 12:29 PM

The lineup at Acadia is absolutely disgusting when I drove by. At least 2 blocks long, if not 3.

Dion · 10-31-2009, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Four clinics isn't the problem. It's that every alarmist yahoo who isn't high risk is running out and taking a spot from people who really need it. That includes people who have "high-risk" people in their family that they don't live with and don't need to be in physical contant with right now.... because nearly everyone has an elderly relative.

My mother has severe asthma and this virus, if she got it, would kill her. I'm not in the high risk group but I got the shot as I don't want to risk passing it on to her. If that makes me an alarmist yahoo - whatever dude.