Today, I'm sick. I got the flu shot for the first time ever this year and for the first time in my life, I have the flu. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got hit with the “Beginning of the Year Curse” and by that I mean my kids went back to school and brought the flu home. FML
Today, I was going to spend my weekend celebrating my first time not being sick since Labor Day. I woke up with a sinus infection instead. FML
Today, it's 3 days before Christmas and my first day of holidays. Today is also the first day I have been sick all year. Hello tonsillitis, goodbye fun. FML
Today, I found out I have a yeast infection, a bladder infection, and a urinary tract infection all at the same time. Oh, and I also have the flu. FML
Today, my adult son is visiting, sick on my couch with influenza A. He's spent all week screaming about how anti vaxxers are stupid, but admits that he didn't get a flu shot because, "they don't work." I got my flu shot and still got sick because I'm immunocompromised. He fails to see the irony. FML
Today, after moving provinces and working my ass off to find a job, and finally finding one, I got the flu and had to call in sick two days on my first week. They fired me today. FML
Today, I spent all year avoiding COVID, colds, and flu. On December 30th, I caught the worst cold of my life. I’ll be ringing in the new year in bed, with tissues as my only company. FML
Today, being incredibly ill after my second COVID shot, I called in sick for maybe the third time in 10 years (I teach). That didn’t stop parents from calling and messaging to scream at me because they weren’t happy. I had to drag myself out of bed and do work in between throwing up. I feel even worse now. FML
Today, I'm pissed about the fact that I've been fighting off the same cold for the last two weeks. At this rate, I'll still be sick when I need my next injection of the medicine that kills my immune system. FML
Today, I tested positive for Influenza A. I’m either sweating bullets or shivering cold, coughing my ass off, sneezing constantly, snotting out my eyeballs, and aching all over. To top it off it’s hot and stormy, flooding in part of town with 100% humidity, and the power just cut out. FML
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Top comments
Frozyn 0
Essentially the INFLUENZA virus is very vicious and can cause intense problems. If you just got the "stomach flu" that actually has NOTHING to do with the flu shot, it's not even the flu. The flu shot itself is supposed to be the flu, except dead or empty shells, which tricks your immune system into seeing it and thinking it's the real thing, so it can figure out what to look for should you actually get Influenza and react quicker. Essentially it IS possible to become infected by having dormant or only half dead virus cells, but the chances are slim. Commonly though, people just refer to the flu as stomach pains and throwing up, and thusly get that after getting a flu shot then think it didn't work. Well the "flu shot" did, you just got somethin else. All in all, as #15 said, the flu shot did nothing to cause this, just coincidental timing.
carriealana 0
This is so so so so so not FML worthy. So you're sick. You got the flu. Welcome to the club, most of us have had it.
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Comments (64)
keidus324 6
Flu shots give you the symptoms of the flu.. How they do that is by injecting a dead flu virus in your system and cause your body to make antibodies... Also flu shots are extremely dangerous if you've never had one and you get one late in life.. They can actually kill you in rare cases. Seriously, do research before getting any antivirus shots.. It's like reading the fine print on things you sign.
gracevet88 0
U see? Proof that if the government didn't give us those vaccines, we wouldn't have those petty sicknesses in the first place
1482Genome 3
Oh, wow, there are some ignorant people here. The flu vaccine does not "give you the flu." It's a deactivated form of the virus to teach your immune system how to kick the flu's ass. There's more than one kind of flu. They vaccinate for the most common, but there's always a chance you'll get a different strain. The timing is just coincidence.
purplexpinapple 11
Yeah, duh. Don't you know anything about vaccines?
KBurns207 17
Dude that's what it is supposed to do haven't you taken a biology class?
Orchard 33
I feel your pain OP. I learned at an early age not to get shots if I could help it, I always get sick from them. In elementary school they wouldn't let me come to class until I took my measles shot, so I took it. The next day I had measles and was out for two weeks. I got sick from the flu shot throughout high school, so when I finally graduated I quit taking shots, especially the flu shot, and have never had the flu since.
Zottenpedj 21
that is how it works, you can get sick of the shot, but next timr your body wil recognize it and cure it faster
XxQuartersxX 14
Everyone freaking knows that the flu shot gives you the flu. When I was a kid my parents would take me to get it. I always ended up getting sick with the flu. I'm 17 now, stopped getting those shots many years ago and haven't contracted that devil virus (lol) since.
TsarKeith12 9
Well, yes That's how they work This is nothing compared to the real flu
maxyinwonderland 6
Maybe it was a reaction to the flu shot it self since it does have many harmful chemicals. Research what's in your vaccines before you get them!