Diabetes Talking

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Any comments about T1 and flu?

I’m lucky in that I don’t (finds something wooden to touch fnar fnar) get the flu. Finally, anyone ever bothered with flu jabs

I usually have one most years.  I don’t think it’s related to my superhuman no-flu tendency as I was never struck down in the years before those ‘Enry Cooper ads. Just my 2p worth JR

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my back, sick as a dog and crawling to the bathroom was enough to convince i just wish i had learned BEFORE i got the flu having said that…… Beav has NEVER had a flu jab much less the flu! go figgure! kate – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’ve been through the rack with this darned flu for nearly 2 weeks now. Have to admit, it is the worst onset I’ve ever had and I though I fell ok, I still have a very scratchy cough. I’ve always had a post-nasal drip so the continual coughing cycle I go through aggravates everything else. Then again, this is also the only flu I’ve had since my dx 2 yrs agao, so maybe I’m paying back big time, or maybe the elevated bg is doing no more than feed an infection that normal folk would have shaken off by now. Any comments about T1 and flu? Finally, anyone ever bothered with flu jabs that we lucky diabetics are recommended we should have each year? Worth it? The way way new strains of flu come and go, I’m not sure if the antibody reponse to one strain would necessarily be of complete value against a new one? Peter Hamilton-Scott. T1, dx 23rd March 2001, (24u Lantus; 2×6u Humalog). Diabetes, eh? Does it hurt? Only when I laugh!

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I’ve been through the rack with this darned flu for nearly 2 weeks now. Have to admit, it is the worst onset I’ve ever had and I though I fell ok, I still have a very scratchy cough. I’ve always had a post-nasal drip so the continual coughing cycle I go through aggravates everything else. Then again, this is also the only flu I’ve had since my dx 2 yrs agao, so maybe I’m paying back big time, or maybe the elevated bg is doing no more than feed an infection that normal folk would have shaken off by now. Any comments about T1 and flu? Finally, anyone ever bothered with flu jabs that we lucky diabetics are recommended we should have each year? Worth it? The way way new strains of

Hi Peter, The flu jabs work for me: jab yes, flu no:                                        jab no, flu yes: Been like that for may years, since long before I was diabetic. — Al, Melton Mowbray, uk, LADA dx Jan97 Control basal/Beef lente bolus/Novorapid I do not experiment, I AM the experiment.

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I’ve been through the rack with this darned flu for nearly 2 weeks now. Have to admit, it is the worst onset I’ve ever had and I though I fell ok, I still have a very scratchy cough. I’ve always had a post-nasal drip so the continual coughing cycle I go through aggravates everything else. Then again, this is also the only flu I’ve had since my dx 2 yrs agao, so maybe I’m paying back big time, or maybe the elevated bg is doing no more than feed an infection that normal folk would have shaken off by now. Any comments about T1 and flu? Finally, anyone ever bothered with flu jabs that we lucky diabetics are recommended we should have each year? Worth it? The way way new strains of flu come and go, I’m not sure if the antibody reponse to one strain would necessarily be of complete value against a new one? Peter Hamilton-Scott. T1, dx 23rd March 2001, (24u Lantus; 2×6u Humalog). Diabetes, eh? Does it hurt? Only when I laugh!

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I’ve been through the rack with this darned flu for nearly 2 weeks now. Have to admit, it is the worst onset I’ve ever had and I though I fell ok, I still have a very scratchy cough. I’ve always had a post-nasal drip so the continual coughing cycle I go through aggravates everything else. Then again, this is also the only flu I’ve had since my dx 2 yrs agao, so maybe I’m paying back big time, or maybe the elevated bg is doing no more than feed an infection that normal folk would have shaken off by now. Any comments about T1 and flu?

Yeah, the only time I’ve had it since dx 15 years ago followed the one and only flu jab I had. I’d not had it before, and I’ve not had it since (not even a cold) and guess who’s not had a flu jab since either!! Finally, anyone ever bothered with flu jabs that we lucky diabetics are recommended we should have each year? Worth it?

The doctors seem to think so and I even get a phone call off mine EVERY year telling me to think hard about coming in for one. I do, and I don’t  The way way new strains of flu come and go, I’m not sure if the antibody reponse to one strain would necessarily be of complete value against a new one?

I’m bloody sure it wouldn’t, althugh that’s not the reason I don’t have the jabs. Yet another case of YMMV I’m afraid Beav

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