On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 8:43:54 PM UTC-5, MisterDiddyWahDiddy wrote:
> On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 10:23:15 AM UTC-6, S Viemeister wrote:
> > On 11/28/2015 9:43 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> >
> > > I did indeed! I didn't think it possible but this seems to have stemmed
> > > from that It is not as severe as flu I've had in the past, but bad
> > > enough and of course now it has gone into my chest and I now have
> > > tracheitis I am *really* fed up. I did get the flue shot along with
> > > a shingles shot. Could that have made the difference?
> > >
> > An unfortunate coincidence.
> >
> > Doctors' surgeries/offices are full of germs from sick people.
> > And the flu shots only protect against three different strains,
> > considered most likely to be common in any given year. There are other
> > strains out there, and some people are unlucky enough to encounter them.
>
> Ophelia, keep getting those immunizations. You might have been unlucky, and
> were exposed to a strain not included in the flu shot, or what you have might
> be another nasty virus that is not actually influenza. Immunizations are
> pretty much unambiguously good.
>
> --Bryan

Be sure to get your tetanus shot. Those dumpsters can be pretty nasty.