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Consolation (not really):
The current popular strain of the flu (a type 2) is apparently not one of the types the shot protects against (in its current mutation). Although she may not have given you the flu, you may yet give it to her.
Aside: is it just me or has the success rate of predicting flu strains for the shots been rather disappointing for the last bunch of years. Online searches showed varying interpretations of various data.
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Both my doctors (primary and endo) have told me that flu shots are worthless now. They are still required to tell you to get them. That is fact, not opinion. From a doctor, not the internet.
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My opinion on immunizations:
"Permanent" immunity - I go for it. Or, at least long term (like tetanus) also a good deal.
"Transients" like the flu vaccines, which are (if you're lucky) only useful for the current season? Not so far. I'm getting old enough where risk/reward (and a very powerful immune system is not going to last forever) are making it a consideration. But not more than that.
Anti-vaccine ? People haven't lived in the times when these diseases ran rampant. Polio. Diphtheria. Others. Amazing amounts of misery and death. Now that the herd-immunity the anti-vacciners have benefited from is waning (as they aggregate in un-vaccinated clots), it is unfortunately, affecting others.
Admittedly, there's commercial/government interest (read that conspiracy) to keep the vaccine makers in the money (not just flu, but the very costly HPV shots).
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Marc Clifton wrote: So, I call upon the experts here - can you get the flu from someone who just got a flu shot? 
No, nor can you get the flu from the shot itself.
I'm taking immunosuppressants, and get the flu shot most of the time when I get the reminder. There's no risc at all. The vaccine does not contain the live flu, but dead training-material.
You or her would have caught the flu earlier, with symptoms breaking out just now. Easy way to get rid of the flu by helping your immune-system. You know how the immune-system raises the bodytemperature? It does that because the system works better at a somewhat higher temperature and the virusses work less efficient. Warm a cup of milk, add a teaspoon of ground black pepper. Mix, drink, and go to bed, with a lot of sheets and blankets. Keep warm!
It's an old trick that works (dunno why exactly, since the pepper doesn't raise body temp) but you will be feeling better next day, albeit a bit dehydrated and slow the next day.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Warm a cup of milk, add a teaspoon of ground black pepper. Mix, drink, and go to bed, with a lot of sheets and blankets. Keep warm!
My father has a more palatable version: Make tea with lemon and honey, add a shot of whiskey (or whisky  ), drink, and go to bed with lots of blankets. He (and I) swear by it!
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Make tea with lemon and honey, add a shot of whiskey (or whisky ), drink, and go to bed
Certainly the best thing that doesn't cure the flu.
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Or a hot gin toddy:
Juice of one orange, freshly squeezed
1 oz Gin
1 tsp honey
Put in mug, add boiling water, stir to dissolve honey. Drink up!
Adjust Gin and honey to taste.
Not guaranteed to cure anything, but it certainly eases the discomfort.
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Add any honey or alcohol; as long as it makes you sweat, it will work.
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Not quite ‘no risk at all’. My wife contracted Guillaine Barre (sp?) from one several years ago. No feeling in her feet for 2 years.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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No risk at all; you have no base to blame flu shots for that.
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You are absolutely correct - I don't believe either the internal medicine specialist who told her that, nor either of the neurologist who told her that either. All three told her to NEVER get the flu shot again. But what do they know - I'm sure your take on it is far more educated than theirs. 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Both my kids have the flu really bad. Doctor says it is real bad this year in the U.S. Kids out of school for the rest of the week.
Hoping I don't get it... 
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Slacker007 wrote: Kids out of school for the rest of the week.
Whaha 
Weaklings.
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She mentioned to me that I sometimes snore at night, so I asked the doctor about it. He told me that if I lost some weight, my tongue would shrink and that would stop the snoring. I should lose some weight?  So I asked him: "What's the matter. Can't you operate?" All I got was a strange look.
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Tell her it's fat for her pleasure
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Careful! This is a family forum!
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That's along the lines of the first thing that also popped into my mind. 
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Actually, it's more likely your head's too small.
Furthermore, if you lose weight, the loss of fat will surely affect your head more than the rest of you . . .
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Quote: if you lose weight, the loss of fat will surely affect your head more than the rest of you
Yes, and my brain is already very tiny!
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Tongue, Snoring I was under the impression that due to air flow?
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Recent study was published showing that a fat tongue obstructs the air way more, so the best way to improve air flow is to lose the tongue fat. There are some more details but that's the short version of it.
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I suppose it's soft tissue (mostly muscle?) so it could be affected by fat cells, never really thought about it...
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It should be but apparently there can be a lot of marbling in there. Maybe people who talk or use their tongue more snore less. 
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You are perfect just the way you are. Don't try to conform to someone else's ideals.
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