<p>As of 2014, vaccinations have to be free for anyone that has insurance in the US. And everyone (except the very poor, in some states) has to have insurance. So no more “can’t afford it” excuse.</p>
<p>Bay, I read up on the nasal spray and I’m not suggested to get it. It’s cool that they have a nasal spray, though.</p>
<p>I’m another victim of pertussis boosters wearing off. I have never ever been so miserable in my life. And yes, the doctor who didn’t recognize whooping cough was an idiot. It’s unmistakable.</p>
<p>I’ll admit to not getting flu shots. I haven’t gotten the flu since 1973 and that was the one and only time.</p>
<p>Garland, a friend of mine was told once you’ve had shingles the vaccine won’t do you any good. Hope she was wrong!</p>
<p>Flu mist contains live flu cultures and shouldn’t be used by certain people (not sure of them all, but people who have MS like me are contraindicated). </p>
<p>Vaccines are a funny thing. Having family members who died about 100 years ago from preventable, treatable diseases makes me appreciate them very much. On the other hand, since I suffer from quite a medley of auto-immune diseases, as do many other people, I have to wonder what complexities our meddling may have created</p>
<p>Re#41 Iill wait till next year to get the shingles vaccine then, cause it is over $200.</p>
<p>My mom had whooping cough as a child (pre vaccine era) and struggled with breathing problems her whole life. I am up to date on my boosters.</p>
<p>I am planning on getting the shingle vaccine next year but I was told that I will need a prescription as I am not 60 yet.</p>
<p>Onward, not sure about the RX, but the CDC does not recommend the vaccine until age 60 in spite of their own website saying it starts occurring more commonly at age 50. So most insurances won’t cover it until you are 60. You can self pay… unless maybe you can get your doctor to convince the insurance company to cover for some specific reason (maybe that is what you mean by a prescription).</p>
<p>Both my mom & dad were hospitalized for meningitis during an outbreak so large that kids were stacked up in the hallways.
Yuck.</p>
<p>Someone I know not all that well, but well enough to have briefly been fbk friends with was RANTING on his page about Merck, claiming that vaccines routinely had hidden cancer viruses from diseased monkeys, and claimed that several meds were yanked off the market for killing people (this was patently false- the meds he railed about are in active use, and their side effects are well known, and high frequency of immediate cause of death is not amongst them). When I asked if there were any juried research articles on this (rather than from some email newsletter), I got called all sorts of names. Unfriend that one.</p>
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<p>Boy I’ll say. A lot of people label a bad cold or some digestive upset “the flu.” It ain’t the flu. If you feel real lousy but can still drag yourself into work or school, you don’t have the flu. When you have influenza you are so sick that you are flat on your back for several days and can’t/won’t get out of bed.</p>
<p>Influenza is to a cold what a mountain lion is to a kitty cat.</p>
<p>I don’t even get colds anymore let alone the flu!
I guess I have enough wrong with me it wouldn’t be fair if I had something that was contagious.
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<p>My mother told me that back in her day some parents would expose their young children to kids with mumps (boys) and rubella, “German measles” (girls) out of concern that adult contraction of mumps could cause infertility, and measles during pregnancy could cause significant birth defects. Getting these diseases as a child was a vaccination against getting them at the wrong time. </p>
<p>I think some school systems and/or states are making it tougher to secure a waiver from vaccination. </p>
<p>We shouldn’t forget that as recently as the 20th century, flu epidemic of 1918 killed far more people than the mass slaughter of World War I–50 versus a messly 15 million.</p>
<p>Last time I got the flu, for several days I was too weak to watch TV. Yes. Too weak to lie down flat on a couch with a blanket over me and watch TV. With the flu you get a high fever, and you also feel like someone has just run you over with a steamroller, and you also are too weak to watch TV. It’s nothing like some little thing where you vomit for a day. You’ll be flat on your back and miserable for over a week, and it’ll be several more weeks before you really start feeling yourself again.</p>
<p>I’m pretty healthy, but nowadays I get my flu shot.</p>
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<p>measles = rubeola
German measles = rubella</p>
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<p>Actually, it is those whose incomes are between the Medicaid old and new limits in states that refuse the expanded Medicaid. Such people do not get Medicaid, but are not eligible for PPACA subsidized plans because the law was written to assume that anyone under the new Medicaid limit would get Medicaid. So the poorest under the old Medicaid limits will be insured, but those slightly less poor in some states are less likely to be able to find anything affordable.</p>
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<p>Adults can get Td (tetanus + diptheria) or Tdap (tetanus + diptheria + acellular pertussis) vaccine (pertussis = whooping cough). Current recommendation is described in the following link:</p>
<p>[Updated</a> Recommendations for Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccine from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, 2010](<a href=“http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6001a4.htm]Updated”>Updated Recommendations for Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccine from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, 2010)</p>
<p>CF, our (Michigan’s) medicaid expansion won’t go into affect until April- which means well over 300,000 people who qualify still won’t have insurance for 3+ months.</p>
<p>ucbalumnus, Realize that most people who are under the income limits for Medicaid still are not eligible. Medicaid at present is generally for poor children and their mothers and for disabled people, in most states. Nondisabled men and nondisabled childless women are, in most states, not eligible for Medicaid. And in the states that don’t do the expansion, they still won’t be eligible. </p>
<p>Almost half of Medicaid spending goes for long-term care for the aged and the disabled.</p>
<p>I selectively vaccinate.
Both my kids had chicken pox and to me it seems silly to vaccinate for hep a, when I’ve developed antibodies for hep B without being ill.
Much of this seems like rich people’s problems I guess, when you consider what’s going on in the rest of the world.</p>
<p>[Why</a> Polio Isn’t Going Away: Scientific American](<a href=“http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=polios-last-act]Why”>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=polios-last-act)</p>
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No, I think I had a small flu. At the time, not getting out of bed and doing nothing was not an option. Some people have more will power than others.</p>