I Saw on TV Last Evening…..

[911]

…….that there is a low dose COVID vaccine. Is this new? It states that this new low dose vaccine for Seniors is FDA approved.

 

[Paco Dennis]

Yes, u can read about it here. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/01/fda-approves-modernas-new-lower-dose-covid-19-vaccine.html

 

[That Lady in PA]

I was offered the regular dose COVID and high dose flu... I took both.

 

[Oldeagle66]

Nope, any medications or stuff like that is advertised on tv isn't going in my body.

 

[Been There]

I was offered the regular dose COVID and high dose flu... I took both.

I got the high dose flu shot on Friday and now I have the flu. Funny how that works. I heard about this happening to other people, but it’s the first time it happened to me.

 

[That Lady in PA]

Nope, any medications or stuff like that is advertised on tv isn't going in my body.

so no aspirin, tylenol, mylanta, pepto bismol, etc. ?
I am impressed a senior doesn't need any of that!

 

[Oldeagle66]

so no aspirin, tylenol, mylanta, pepto bismol, etc. ?
I am impressed a senior doesn't need any of that!

Not those, they are OTC. I'm talking about things like Ozempic, vaccines and other things with strange names and the dangerous side effects.

 

[Imogene]

I ran into a horse friend I hadn’t seen in a long time in the grocery store. She and her husband are in their 50s. She was loading up on electrolytes and things to break a fever because her husband got the flu shot and it made him deathly ill.

She said he gets the flu shot every year and has never gotten sick from it. I believe, in my opinion, there’s a bad batch of vaccines floating around out there.

 

[jujube]

Sometimes, the problem is that the flu was already there in the body, just hangin' out and ready to pounce and the shot was taken but too late to prevent the flu.

 

[Babs2u]

I got the high dose flu shot on Friday and now I have the flu. Funny how that works. I heard about this happening to other people, but it’s the first time it happened to me.

I believe it takes about 2 weeks before the flu shot becomes effective.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Until now, I didn't know they had low (or standard) dose and high dose on vaccines. People already have trouble deciding whether to vaccinate, and which vaccines to take - now they have to decide on the strength of the dose.

 

[Fritz]

Until now, I didn't know they had low (or standard) dose and high dose on vaccines. People already have trouble deciding whether to vaccinate, and which vaccines to take - now they have to decide on the strength of the dose.

I never heard of that either.

 

[Nathan]

so no aspirin, tylenol, mylanta, pepto bismol, etc. ?
I am impressed a senior doesn't need any of that!

I try to watch what I eat, which negates the necessity of taking mylanta, pepto bismol etc. Tylenol is (IMO) little more than a placebo, I think a sugar tablet would work better. I avoid NSAIDs like the Bubonic Plague, as they increase risk of heart attack and stroke, plus they make the skin wounding on my arms much worse.

 

[Tommy]

I believe it takes about 2 weeks before the flu shot becomes effective.

Yes, but the incubation period for the flu is 1-4 days. I inferred from BT's comment that the vaccine might have cause the flu.

I hope you get to feeling better soon @Been There.