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[Katherine]

I have asthma and have flu vaccine yearly.  Sometimes have sniffles for couple days but that all.  It is 2- 3weeks to build up your imnunity to the vaccine, so I would get it asap.

For me the choice is easy to make.  I hate steriods and as I have asthma the steriods come with antibotics and as I have aged I find I don't tolerate drugs like I used too

I am seriously considering the vaccine. From what I read here it sounds like I might have just had a very bad cold and that was horrible so I hate to think what flu would've been like. I didn't get on well with prednisolone last time I took it, had to stop the course but the antibiotics were ok.

[Jules]

I'm in the 2nd week of something. Definitely not flu but bit of a cold, and very tired and just not right. Eating fine. I thought I was on the mend at weekend so started doing things and feel back to square one. I don't test for covid. Stopped doing that a long time ago. There are so many viral illnesses in winter.

[Raisinette]

I have asthma and am SOOOO grateful for the flu vaccine! It really minimizes symptoms if you do get the vile flu. In the past if I get a common cold it's scary because quickly it turns to bronchitis, which as you know, with asthma is no party. I get the flu shot every single year and have not had the flu since I began taking it. Nor have I experienced any side effects whatsoever. I used to be anxious of getting it until one year in my office EVERYONE but one woman had the flu (including me)... she had gotten the shot and was pleased not to be sick. I was sold. Terrified though, as that was the first time I'd ever had the shot. No side effects, no flu. Hope the same for you!

[Katherine]

How many times have you had the flu vaccine now Raisinette?

[Donna-paul]

In September I wasn’t bed bound most of the time but walking to the doctors 10 minutes down the road felt like climbing a mountain and I had a temperature of 38.2, headache, mucus cough, eventually a chest infection but no runny nose or much of a sore throat. And it came on over a few days. It didn’t feel like a cold. COVID tests were negative. I’d love to know what it was but the doctor just gave me a stronger inhaler and told me to take paracetamol to reduce my temperature.

I had COVID in October and I felt a lot worse than I did the first time in 2022. Both flu and Covid is about.