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tools for commensality 🧿
tools for commensality 🧿
@inquiline@assemblag.es  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

does anyone have experience with taking #flumist as an adult? i took it a couple of days ago and am having side effects, to the extent where i'm thinking i shouldn't be around elderly people on the chance that i could shed virus their way....

not how i was hoping to kick off winter break/holidays 😿

am kind of wondering how "normal" this is. very much like being ill, sneezing and head cold symptoms, some aches, maybe light fever, two full days

#flu #influenza #vaccines

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Feznander
Feznander
@feznander@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@inquiline @inquiline Haven't done it as an adult, but I got it for the kids one year to spare them the shot, and the snotty side effects were miserable enough that we went straight back to shots the next year. I remember hearing that the attenuated virus carried some transmission risk, but I don't think they gave us much of an idea of how likely that was.

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tools for commensality 🧿
tools for commensality 🧿
@inquiline@assemblag.es replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

i guess the risk to anyone immune compromised would be about the same even if i weren't symptomatic, but it's also hard to imagine that sneezing everywhere isn't somewhat worse 🤧

will go back to getting jabbed in the future, but had wanted to try this for a few reasons

also, love too be an academic, as soon as we go on "break" we do medical things (i didn't want to risk being slowed down by this in active semester. my colleague got wisdom teeth out when classes ended)

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Sam Levine
Sam Levine
@SRLevine@neuromatch.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@inquiline I almost did my covid vax last night (because day off today), but completely forgot until I was home and didn't want to go back out. Maybe Friday...

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mivox is exhausted :ri:
mivox is exhausted :ri:
@mivox@mivox.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@inquiline Thanks for saving me the trouble of trying it! I’ll stick with the “slightly sore shoulder for a day” vax. blobfoxlaughsweat

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