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my 13 yo neice was given the vacc at school and suffered some quite adverse reactions, when her mother took her to the doctor and asked if it was possibly related to the vacc, she laughed in her face and said not to be ridiculous!!
my neice was ill for about 2 days afterwards, nausea, headaches, diarrhea, blurry eyes.
my SIL now doesnt want her to have the other 2. fair enough!
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It is scary that they refuse to acknowledge that there can be any side effects from it. If you look at the gov websites about it the only side effects mentioned are redness, pain and swelling at the injection site and mild fever, they are just not doing enough reporting of these instances where girls are having obvious side effects so they can get a true and clear picture of it. It proves that it is all part of the big brainwash over it.
I refused it for my DD13 when they did the mass vax at her school last year. Too scary, too unknown it rings very loud alarm bells in my ears...
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Yep Deb. It shouldn't matter which side of the vaccination fence you sit on, this is the one time you should just hold off on it till more is known about the long term effects of it.
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I had the first one of these vaccines a couple of years ago(no reactions) but never went back for the other 2 shots after further info came out about it. This is a real scary one as it is so new. I am even worried about having one of the shots for it!
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My children are ordinarily fully vaccinated, but because there are other methods of avoiding HPV, I allowed my teenaged daughters to make up their own minds about this vaccine. Dd1 had it - and I think wishes she hadn't as she was (probably coincidentally) very run down and had glandular fever soon after that took many months from which to recover. Dd2, who is now seventeen, had severe reactions to vaccinations when she was small, and so has declined the vaccine after informing herself of the risks and benefits.
My concern is how quickly this vaccine became mainstreamed, effectively turning this generation of girls into guinea pigs.
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That's so often the way with vaccines, though, isn't it? After having her triple antigen at age 3 (this was a long time ago before they changed the combination), my dd2 had febrile convulsions, vomiting and significant swelling and pain at the injection site. I'm talking a massively swollen red arm that could not be moved, from the elbow to the shoulder, not just a little hot red lump as you'd expect. The kid was clearly having a massive inflammatory response to the vaccine. The doctor refused to report it as an adverse reaction saying that it can often make kids "a bit sick". She was more than "a bit sick"! There really needs to be some independent mechanism for parents to report adverse reactions to these things.
The sad thing is, I am generally very pro-vaccination and my kids have had everything other than varicella vaccines and gardasil, but when the medical profession diminish parental concerns like that, it makes it harder to make a credible case for their safety.
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Wow. My initial response is to wonder what in God's name they are diluting the vaccine with. I don't think it's the HPV itself - HPV is a fairly benign infection, it's the long term side effects (ie. the increased risk of cervical cancer) that is the problem. But these reactions are immediate. I think it must be the diluents to blame...
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Angie is a "needle phobe" like me, so I won't let them do vaxs for her at the school. She has to be somewhere there is someone I know understands the condition and check her for reactions just to getting a needle. So she was going to get this lot with our loal doctor.
But with this kind of information, DH decided on the spot she and Lyta wont be getting it at all now.
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I have been very open about my dislike of this damn vaccine since day 1. A few points about gardasil
1. it is NOT a vaccine against cervical cancer. It is a vaccination against a suspected cause of cervical cancer.
2. This cause is HPV - a virus which 80% of women will carry at one time or another in their lifetime, and of which there are several different strains. This vaccination "guards" you against only 3 of the strains.
3. IF YOU HAVE HPV AT THE TIME OF GETTING THE SHOT IT IS MUCH MORE LIKELY THAT YOU WILL ACTUALLY DEVELOP THE CANCER!!! did you get tested for HPV just before you ahd your shot?
4. 50 women a year in australia die from cervical cancer - the stats arent provided as to how often they had their pap tests etc.....
5. to get to the stage where cervical cancer is going to kill you it usually needs to go undetected for FIVE to TEN years.
6. if it was so bloody effective why would they still be pushing you to go have your regular pap tests?
there is more, but i just woke up
eta - oh yes tahts right - they dotn even know for sure how long this will protect all those innocent bodies getting jabbed!
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I still am a needle phobe, thanks to lots of hospitalisations as a kid (brittle asthma), I had to go to my GP for injections and Dad had to go first
I contracted GBS after the flu vax in 1992, was fully immunised due to brittle asthma, and have declined to have the HPV vaccine due to there being reported cases of GBS arising from the injections, plus advice from my GP. I sure as heck don't want GBS again!
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