Swine flu

noeltone
noeltone Member Posts: 878
edited 13. Jul 2009, 20:25 in Living with Arthritis archive
Just seen everybody to get injection against or to help not to get SF I wonder whether Arthur peeps will be first????????

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  • wobbly1
    wobbly1 Member Posts: 18
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    noeltone wrote:
    Just seen everybody to get injection against or to help not to get SF I wonder whether Arthur peeps will be first????????
    hi my gp told me on friday that because i am on methotrexate i will have my jab in august. i think you have to fullfill as a certain critieria to get the first lot of jabs but everybody will eventually get it. :D
  • oneday
    oneday Member Posts: 1,434
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    how do you know if you have it(swine flu) considering you are advised not to go to GPs or casulty. 3 weeks ago I had what i would call flu and a temperature that felt very high, never felt so hot in all my life.
  • noeltone
    noeltone Member Posts: 878
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi oneday phoned my hospital re. injection for arthur and it has a message about swine flu and what to do or what not to do it said dont go to A and E or visit hosp if you think you have it but contact your GP or NHS hotline but it appears symptoms might be similar to flu :?: :?:
  • debatat
    debatat Member Posts: 659
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Symptomks are cough and fever over 38c, i know because my son had it last week.

    Deb
  • jaspercat
    jaspercat Member Posts: 1,238
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi, I rung my surgery today with reference to the swine flu jab, both Malcolm and I qualify, but they don't have a list of people yet, we have to ring back next week love Jaspercatxx
  • noeltone
    noeltone Member Posts: 878
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Deb I hope your son is OK and was his fever over 38c and is thta higher than having ordinary flu
  • debatat
    debatat Member Posts: 659
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi, my son is fine now. His temp went up to 38.7, which is high but his has gone up to 39.9 before now, so not as high as I would have expected. To be honest I have seen him an awful lot poorlier with other viruses and have a lot longer recovery time with them.

    Deb
  • Wonkylegs
    Wonkylegs Member Posts: 3,504
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    when I went to my GP surgery last wednesday for my MTX injection, the nurse said that in our area at least, it looked like CHildren would be the first priority, then the chronically sick (us I suppose!) and that the elderly may be the last on the list, although it was changing from hour to hour and day to day.

    not really any help ... but just thought I'd add my experiences into the mix!
  • katherine810
    katherine810 Member Posts: 67
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I was wondering whether this would come up, i've been getting a litte worried about this lately, as surely if we get swine flu we have to come off enbrel injections and i'm not sure able methotraxate?

    I don't know how i'd deal with arthur without medication.

    Scares me to think about..

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