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10-08-2007, 07:15 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,051
| | | It's flu shot time again
Last week, when I called to get an RX refilled, I learned that the doctor's office had flu vaccine already, so I went in this morning before work to get mine.
Last year's was good in that I didn't get any soreness in my arm muscle and I didn't get any flu. I hope for the same this year. |
10-08-2007, 07:18 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,831
| | | Thanks. I never miss. I have a Dr's appointment Nov 8th, but I'll look for someting earlier. I just don't want to spend the $25 at the pharmacy when I can get it free at the Dr's. |
10-08-2007, 07:21 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston
Posts: 45
| | I got mine too last week  |
10-08-2007, 07:28 AM
|  | Super Moderator
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 6,837
| | | Haven't gotten mine yet...you'd think working in a doctor's office, we'd get them early...but usually, it's the first of Nov.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  |
10-08-2007, 07:47 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: St. Charles, IL
Posts: 545
| | | Had mine last week. Had a little soreness in the arm the next day but no big deal.
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10-08-2007, 08:24 AM
| | Banned
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: illinois
Posts: 3,316
| | i gotta wait til the end of the month-that's when they're available at my clinic.....getting the pneumovax,too.....thanks to d-i gotta get MORE shots.....  trish |
10-08-2007, 08:30 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
Posts: 2,667
| | I'm getting mine on Wednesday. Was going to get it last week, but the nurses hadn't inventoried all of them yet, so they couldn't give me mine.   |
10-08-2007, 08:42 AM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Vermont, 50 miles from nowhere
Posts: 2,335
| | Got mine this morning 
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Val
Take care of your body. Where else are you going to live? |
10-08-2007, 09:11 AM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Ohio
Posts: 4,470
| | | Our insurance no longer pays for flu shots, last year we found that out the hard way. Our doctor charged $25 for the shot and $12 for the person who gave it to me! I think I will try the pharmacy this time, some of them have special days when it only cost $15.
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"Life ain't easy. but it ain't that bad.
Sing the song that tell it,praise the man that sells it.
You're alive,you might as well be glad." 
Neil Diamond...Surviving the life
8/26/08 A1C 6.4
Cholesterol below 100
BP 114/64
Still anemic
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10-08-2007, 10:17 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: north wales, uk
Posts: 629
| | getting mine this friday after work
dodging some pretty nasty viruses that are going around at the moment  |
10-08-2007, 11:43 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Posts: 600
| | | My wife got her flu shot and I got sick!
We get ours free at work but not until later in the month.
M
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Dx May 2007
A1C @ Dx = 7.0
9/15/07 = 5.1 (Biosafe home test kit)
10/9/07 = 5.4
1/18/08 = 5.4
6/11/08 = 5.3
No meds - just diet and exercise |
10-08-2007, 11:59 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 3,293
| |  Don't forget the pneumonia shot too!!
I always get my flu shot and I am looking forward to this year's too.
You guys get the pneumonia one too!!! I got that too, a few years ago. You get it once and that's it. Don't go without it. |
10-08-2007, 12:31 PM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 49
| | | I think I had the flu already last week heh... dunno if I'll bother with the shot this year. |
10-08-2007, 12:42 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,300
| | | I'll be getting mine on Friday, October 12 free via work.
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●Type 1 diabetic for 25 years (11 months old)
●Animas pumper since December of 2002
~IR 1000 (Dec. 2002-Jan. 2005)
~IR 1200 (Jan. 2005 - ?)
●LifeScan OneTouch UltraSmart Diabetes is an Art, NOT a Science. You must master the control by skills and not by knowledge alone. |
10-08-2007, 12:54 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,583
| | | I talked to a pharmacist in Chicago about a month ago. They are seeing early signs of the crud this year. I had asked her if she had noticed an increase of respiratory illness...everyone on Michigan Ave. had sniffled and coughed on me that day while shopping! (Retail disease!)
I'm now in Florida and will probably go to the grocery store...it's just convenient to get my shots at Publix. My endo in Chicago didn't give the shots...last two years there was a shortage.
I get them every year. |
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