What's it like to have the flu vaccine?

At most I've had some soreness in my arm from my flu vaccine.

It definitely beats having 7 to 10 days (or more) of feeling head to toe body aches, and horrible coughing chills, exhaustion, and fever with the flu.

There was a flu vaccine shortage the year our youngest daughter was born. I was not able to get one while I was pregnant nor after she was born.

When she was nine weeks old, we moved to a new house. The day before we moved I came down with influenza.

Trying to move with horrible body aches, high fever, cough, and being exhausted all while trying to keep her and our then three-year-old daughter from being exposed is not an experience I would ever want to repeat.

Get the vaccine.

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it just depends on your reaction to the shot some people feel sick after the flu vaccine but it is generally less than if they got the actual flu. Your body is going through fighting a weakened version of the virus. I haven't taken the whooping cough, but I imagine it is similar. The shots themselves don't hurt, just a little prick, I find that if you can distract yourself by holding a conversation and not seeing when you are getting the shot you would barely notice it.

The odds are very much in favor of a slight reaction or none at all.