Health Boards
Sat-03-03-2018, 12:16 PM
I had the flu jab for the first time ever in the autumn, and I’ve just had such a bad cough with high temperature, it may well have been flu. It went on for ages and I don’t even remember a couple of the days!
Obviously the jab didn’t cause it. But I never get ill like this, even on methotrexate a cold would only be a couple of days and light sniffles. Could it be that the flu jab forces your body to be busy making antibodies to it, and therefore fail to successfully fight off other viruses that come along? How long after the jab are you actually making the antibodies? Probably only as long as flu would last.
Obviously the jab didn’t cause it. But I never get ill like this, even on methotrexate a cold would only be a couple of days and light sniffles. Could it be that the flu jab forces your body to be busy making antibodies to it, and therefore fail to successfully fight off other viruses that come along? How long after the jab are you actually making the antibodies? Probably only as long as flu would last.