Interesting! Since I have asthma my doctor has advised me I should always get the shot; I've already had mine this year, in fact, at my last doctor's visit a couple weeks ago. And I always get a reaction at the injection site (my worst reaction was to the pneumonia shot, but you only get that once every 5-10 years -- that reaction was the circumference of an orange and about a half inch high. Hot, painful).
But a buildup of mercury in my system! Ack! I don't eat much tuna, though, so maybe the buildup won't be so bad overall?
You know, this makes me mad. After I got my first shot and had a reaction, the next time I asked the nurse what caused it and she said "some people just get a reaction -- sometimes it's because it's an egg-based vaccine, and people react to that" -- she never said anything about mercury! Very interesting!
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on 2007-10-18 05:03 am (UTC)But a buildup of mercury in my system! Ack! I don't eat much tuna, though, so maybe the buildup won't be so bad overall?
You know, this makes me mad. After I got my first shot and had a reaction, the next time I asked the nurse what caused it and she said "some people just get a reaction -- sometimes it's because it's an egg-based vaccine, and people react to that" -- she never said anything about mercury! Very interesting!