You can get flu like symptoms since the shot introduces the body to different strains of the flu in order to prepare the immune system to fight it off the next time it comes into contact with it, but I believe it’s pretty rare to actually get the flu after getting the flu shot. Still possible, but rare.
@Pikachu If your immune system is compromised enough, like how someone I know who had gotten chemotherapy a couple times for cancer is~ It might be possible; I can ask her next time she's online.
But essentially yeah it's incredibly unlikely if even possible to get the flu from it otherwise; it's a very controlled batch.
I think it's mostly people who don't know how the immune system works; which I honestly can't blame them since that is some bizarre complex nonsense. Although at the same time I can blame them since they could learn the basics at least.
Essentially there's an incredibly large number of different type of flues you can get, as well as other sicknesses; and the flu shot has only a specific list that it will teach your immune system to guard against based on what flu viruses are probably circulating.
So they likely just think it's a magical cure all, and when they see someone get sick they think it doesn't do anything; personally my flu shot protected me from getting the flu that was going around here.
According to my doc, some people feel bad the next day or two, but it's not actually the flu. Some people will get the flu because the shot is not 100% effective.
All i have is my two years of flu shots and sickness
To put this in perspective, I've had the flu a couple of times. Nothing major. Few days downtime and done.
Each year i had the flu shot i had multiple bad cases of the flu and one connected case of pneumonia. I stopped after that and went back to being normal with a once every other year flu strain.
Now this is my case. It's been different for others i know, who absolutely swear by it.
To each their own. My case may just be a suceptability to the way they prep the vaccines. I firmly believe in vaccination. It's just this one case that screws with me biology
