Ouch! The latest flu shot really beat me up!

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11. My quandary: Have never had reactions to any.

In my previous 70+ yrs lifetime, the only vaxes I had were the childhood and school things and the military things - all of which were routine/mundane accepted and unquestioned. In my majority Middle Period decades (post school and military, all Civilian) had nothing, and especially nothing the Flu one because it didn't seem important and heard people say they caught the Flu because of the shot and can't pinpoint whether I ever got the flu. When the covid new-kind-of-scary pandemic thing happened, it came with a new political dimension to it and I took all of the boosters, did the whole thing of loss of some loved ones and learning some new level of mortality and hatred of antagonists.

So have had them all - all the covids, then later the anti-shingles/pneumonia/RSV and rigorously Flu. And never have had reactions, to the point that I wondered whether the pharmacists were actually not doing the placebo thing.

I've got the covid/Flu in October as usual, simultaneously as usual, nothing happens (so far) as usual. (The shingles & pneumonia are forevers.)

*** My only mild, quandary now is that this time with the season changing, have had some sniffles and the occasional annoying sneezing fits. Are those routine, dust, allergies - I only dust and such when things get intolerably irritating, so there's that. So, are the sniffles/sneezing just "normal"?

I've introduced myself to nasal, salt inhaler things, which are helpful.