Check in if you have a condition that makes you more vulnerable to H1N1.

I'm asthmatic. Very mildly so, but it acts up like whoa when I'm sick.

Me coughing and wheezing all the time for 6 weeks is no fun for anyone.

Damn right I'm getting the vaccine.

but since I'm an old bag, I'm not getting the vaccine until high risk groups have gotten theirs.

I did get the seasonal jab.

I worry a tiny bit - as an under-64, I have no prior exposure to protect me. But yet I have to wait......

:scared:

I did get the seasonal shot 3 weeks ago.

I'll get the vaccine, once I can.

He will have to be on those for life.
He's also a Type I diabetic.

He doesn't get vaccines anymore, as per his doctors' advice/orders.
Last week the doctor said basically just watch out for pneumonia if he gets the flu - lung pain, any trouble breathing, bring him right to the emergency room.

is a definite no-no post-transplant.

:shrug:

He's also not to take anything like echinacea (sp) that could boost the immune system.

kestrel FAIL

:hug: you're not the first and you won't be the last, I'm sure of it :D

My younger son got it 3.5 weeks ago, my older son last week. Younger son got another virus as he was recovering, probably due to his weakened immune system. Older son went back to school today and seems to be doing better, all things considered. Since both have asthma, they are in a susceptible group, and sure enough, they got it once exposed somehow. Meanwhile, my husband and I are fine.

Both kids got tamiflu, and we ramped up all their asthma meds and used a nebulizer.

Wish we could have gotten the vaccine. Probably not necessary now although our pediatrician says if we don't know for sure that it's H1N1, which we don't because samples weren't sent away for further testing, we should get the shot.

The flu is spreading like wildfire through the schools here in the metro DC area. Several hundred kids out sick at some schools.

our family of four (me, wife = icu nurse, 5-year-old in public school kindergarten, 2 year-old daughter) we were vaccinated last Friday at our pediatricians. Our daughter is so small (19.5 lbs) she has no reserves so we can't let her get very ill.

edited to add we all got the regular flu shot over the last couple of weeks also

and I have an extremely low platelet count so I'm vulnerable to H1N1. I got my regular flu shot 2 weeks ago so whenever
I can get the H1N1 vaccine I'll be ready.

I guess that is condition that makes you more vulnerable to H1N1. :shrug:

However, I'm also an older human, so I wouldn't get in line early for the vaccine even if I were allowed to do so -- save it for the young, who are the most-vulnerable.

To name a few. Sheesh.

That said I got the regular flu virus at work free about 3 weeks ago. Every year they offer it. They usually offer it 4 days one week and then another 3-4 days the following week. After 2 days they ran out. I was lucky and got it the beginning of the second day. I haven't talked to my doctor about H1N1 because I did take the vaccine back in 1976 and I'm in that group that might not be so vulnerable otherwise. I can only think of one time when I had the real flu but that was almost 40 years ago. Hmmmmm....I think I'll take my chances.