What?…. The flu jab doesn’t work?….

So each year I trundle off to my GP to get my annual flu jab, and each year I usually get a mild dose of flu soon after receiving the jab. I can cope with that.

Well, this time round from November 2024 January 2025, I haven’t had any effects from my flu jabs whatsoever…. Until…now!

I’ve caught it..flu….Not making it up…totally zonked out with aching joints, crazy temperature fluctuations like overheating one minute, freezing cold and shivering the next ( adding clothes then taking them off almost just as fast), coughing, tickly cough, sore throat, headaches, and runny nose pipes….I mean…I thought that having a flu jab was really to prevent such a concentrated dose getting to me….

So next year, need to think again.. What’s the point, and reading up on flu jabs, lots of articles say they don’t work, or more accurately, they don’t protect against every strain of flu doing the rounds. Now I thought flu was flu and I guess you can’t get protected against every type of flu going, but me, just as usual… presumed wrongly, that having my flu jab would provide total cover from me catching it and being like I am currently.

Now where’s the biscuits and cups of T!