Flu shot

Here is a small rant: for 6 years I have managed to "survive" without getting a flu shot. No, Dr's, I have not died! Now that I am pregnant it was strongly recommended. I denied said shot twice over two appointments, and was asked yet again yesterday at my appointment for a third time. The Dr. said the shot will protect the baby after its born for the first 6 months. She also said that infants make up about 4% of those who become infected with the flu but are among 25% of those who die from it as well.  Trying to be a good mother I reluctantly got the shot. The last time I got the shot I was a college freshman and I only got it because it was free, I have asthma, and convenient. That year I did get sick from the shot (not with the flu but a mild reaction to it:fever aches and chills). You cannot get the flu from the flu shot because there are not live cultures in the shot. You can just develop mild symptoms as you body gets used to what it is, as with any shot: tetanus, MMR, booster, etc.

 Well, what do ya know?! Lo and behold 6 hours after the shot I had a fever of 101, body ache, and chills. Every pregnancy book and Dr I have spoken with says if you get a fever of 100 and above you need to be seen. Well, isn't this just as bad as having the flu because even after taking Tylenol (which I hate taking) I no longer have those symptoms but I can feel like they are just numbed and as soon as the Tylenol wears off they will return. Now I can say, I will NEVER get another flu shot! In fact, that Dr just might get an earfull the next time I have to go in there.  If I am going to get "flu-like symptoms" but not the flu wth is the difference? All I was missing was a runny nose and a cough. Apparently getting something exactly like the flu, but not the flu is better than the flu, when essentially its the same. ya, ok.