I am a school teacher and I take my Vitamins (especially vitamin C) on a regular basis and I also exercise and eat healthy. I have been a teacher for 17 years and never had the flu or had a flu shot. This year (about 5 weeks ago) students were absent in my class in clusters of 5 and 6 students a day. They all went to the hospital and tested negative for H1N1, some were treated with Tamiflu until the results came back. All the results have been negative for H1N1 but they did have influenza. 3 weeks ago I got really sick, headache ,nausea and fever,cough. My doctor tested me for H1N1 and put me on Tamiflu and when my results came back negative he put me on Levaquin for the sinus infection. I was in bed for 3 days (highly unlikely for me) and everything hurt. It is a tough decision to make I don't know how someone with a compromised immune system would handle this. My doctor says he doesn't recommend the vaccine. As to the flu shot I have to wait 20 days before I get it. But I don't think that I will; of course I say that now that I am feeling better.
