I have arrived

[jethrien]

I got my first Christmas-gift-from-a-vendor yesterday. I am the proud owner of a gorgeous year planner that's really too big for me or Chuckro to use. Still, someone thinks I'm worth sucking up to. Go me!

I got my flu shot today. Now I'm feeling vaguely feverish. Psychosomatic or caused by live vaccine? (It seems early for my body to be reacting, but I don't know that much about the extreme details of how vaccines react in your body.)

Comments

[freekofnature.livejournal.com]

Actually what's happening is that the flu vaccine is faking your body into thinking that it is under attack by the flu, so what you're feeling is the inflammation response as you marshal your defenses. By the time it realizes that no infection is occurring, you will have begun developing antibodies that will recognize, attack, and destroy any real invading viruses.

I got my flu shot last month, the symptoms went away in three days. The 2007-2008 Trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine reaches full effectiveness about two weeks after you get the shot.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Ummm...duh.