Stelara - Kat's journey

[Fred]

advised wearing a mask when in public to combat germs.  I am hoping that is overkill.

Over kill in my opinion. You only need to touch a door handle and rub your nose to get the flu, so just be sensible and give a wide berth to people that sound or look like they have it. Also keep away from peoples houses if they have it, but depending on your active life you still risk the chance of getting it.

Does anyone know if there are times when you're more susceptible than others to illness when on biologics?  As in is your immune system more lowered say a week after injection and not as low right before an injection?  I hope I worded that in a way that it made sense.

I was always advised to avoid taking the shot if I had the flu and hold it back for a week, but that was mostly at the start of using Bio's because I used to get slight flu like feelings anyway. I doubt it would make your chances any worse as it's in your system all the time, but the best time to get the flu would be around week 10 (If there is ever a best time) I would still today hold my shot back a week if I had the flu, but once it's in there it's too late to do anything if you get the flu the day after your shot.

Here they offer me the flu jab, but I've never had it it and very rarely get the flu. If I do it's never any worse than Mrs Fred and that's after around 10 years of Bio use.

Don't worry about it. If your gonna get the flu you will, then you just need to rest up and it will pass.