Flu Jab

[daz h]

explain this one then
for the last 4 years ive had a cold the same week every year
its as though soon as the dark nights start to come i get it
looked in my training diary

[Fleeter]

i've just picked up a cold and i seem to get a about 2 or a 3 year,thought about taking multivitamins but never got round to it,do they help?

p.s sorry for the thread hijack

[Deeko]

I've had it as well - no problems with it all. In fact, last year I ran to and from the docs to get it!

[OneHillWonder]

explain this one then
for the last 4 years ive had a cold the same week every year
its as though soon as the dark nights start to come i get it
looked in my training diary

You obviously need to put it in your forward planning diary daz if it's that predictable!

Not quite the same thing here as I am not talking about someone who was a runner but my grandma had not had flu for 10 years + but had the jab on the advice of her doctor. Then got flu (or 'side effects' or whatever!) and regretted! Maybe depends how suseptable you are to this kind of thing.

[username]

i had the jab at work, no side effects except for an achy shoulder for a few hours. i'm pretty sure the vaccine is in-active virus so you dont get flu symptoms

[Swoop]

Don't forget the flu jab only protects you from a limited strain of flu, rather than the whole spectrum.

Jamie needs something that will protect him from the whole of Spectrum (Striders that is! )

[Deeko]

So - who's had their jag? Mine's is next wednesday....

[NotOnUrHelly]

Had mine,

God it was awful, I have been bedridden ever since.

Serioulsy though, no probs at all

I went running that night and I was fine, apart form not being able to sleep I had no other ill effects.

That was last monday, I have not slept since.

[Deeko]

That was last monday, I have not slept since.

I hope you're joking!

[emmilou]

hell - not had mine yet - keep putting it off. colds I can handle ester c and echinacea it's gone in 24 hours but I'm puffing on this damned inhaler every day now with the damp chilly weather drawing in.

J - have you really had it and were you really ok??? I don't want another year of having to miss the tour cos my chest is heaving and I'm coughing up carp!!