My wife is in the same situtation as you are. Without a shot, she gets the flu, and then bronchitis for weeks. Weeks of inhalers, etc. She has access to some of the top doctors on the planet, so it's not like she's making this up.

I'm making her get a flu shot. The only way I have been able to do that in the past is if I got one too, but this year I'll probably give up mine (I never get sick anyways).

Your experience I would believe puts you at risk. I wouldn't feel like you were taking it away from a baby or an elderly person, while there are many of them out there, they won't account for all the doses.

If you look at the numbers, many of them don't want it. Less then 5% of the babies got the shot in 2002 (4.4%), only 30% of kids with asthma got it, and over 40% of the eldery did not get a shot that year.

I believe they will test the supply that is not pulled and it will mysteriously (or at least part of it) be cleared for distribution, just like they did over the summer when this same company had contamination issues (sort of makes me glad I missed the clinic I wanted to go to yesterday before the news broke). They will also probably dilute what's left for healthy people.

I wouldn't risk it if I were you, just like I'm not letting the wife risk it. You have a need, proven in the past that there is a very good chance you will get sick, and can get very sick from it. I'm not in the same boat, and I believe I'm in a very big boat, that if I skip it the worst that will happen is I may get the flu for a few days. But when you start tossing in other conditions with the lungs, the you should have one.