I get the flu shot every year. The one year I did not, I got an awful influenza and ended up with - guess what - BCFS! High fever for 3 days, sweating in bed and shaking so hard I could barely walk and then fried nerves? LOL I'll never know for sure but I didn't have the BCFS symptoms before the virus. Why would any doc tell you not to get one? Unless you are somehow already immune-compromised.There is mucho research developing now on viruses and they are even tracking them to stuff like a higher incident of births of autistic kids (this is during specific parts of fetal development and just in the beginning of the animal trials.) The researchers (who had started out working on the aids virus) came upon this in disproving the false vaccination-austistic connection. I can look up the article if you want to read it.You really have to be careful how to read this stuff, I know, but there is the evidence and there is evidence - the sky is blue so it won't rain vs. the sky is blue but there are clouds so let's wait and see. I'm with the wait and see. But in the meantime I'm getting the shots and also my symptoms have gotten better. We spend so much time worrying about what we eat, chemicals in the environment, tried and true vaccinations, we sometimes forget the real and present dangers. Viruses and bacterial infections have been killing people since the beginning of time.