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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / September 2008Flu Shot While on TX?
Good idea? Bad idea? (My office offers this next week...) > Good idea? Bad idea? > > (My office offers this next week...) my doctor had me get one before I started TX, then again the next year while I was still on TX. I feel that it helped S > Good idea? Bad idea? > > (My office offers this next week...) My Doc strongly recommended it to me while I was on tx. Most everybody ends up with white count\immunity problems to some extent. > Good idea? Bad idea? > > (My office offers this next week...) I had one during tx and I still get them free every fall because of a compromised liver function. (still HCV +) cactus jammies >Good idea? Bad idea? > >(My office offers this next week...) I've been getting yearly flu shots since they were introduced, and I had one two months into therapy. I'd say it's a good thing to do - treatment is daunting enough for some, and the thought of coming down with the flu while well into therapy would be enough to convince me... Cheers /greyhackles > >Good idea? Bad idea? > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > /greyhackles Thank you, greyhackles and everyone else. I will go ahead and get one. Just wanted to make sure that the combo treatment wouldn't render the vaccine less effective...or that there wasn't some weird contraindication I hadn't heard of... I had flu and pnuemonia shots prior to starting tx. Despite those precautions, with serious neutopenia, Epogen injections weekly after month 7, I still came down with a cold 10 months in, that turned into pneumonia,10 days of watching the flowers dance on the wallpaper. It was NOT fun!! That despite all the pre tx shots etc. My vote would be to protect yourself from additional woes, if at all possible. No gaurantees, but can it hurt? I went from the pneumonia into a MRSA infection the next month..... How many things can try to kill you in a one year period?? But hey, I'M still kickin!!!!...... |
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