to be very worried about DD having the HPV vaccine?

[JillBYeats]

Recent reports have been frightening regarding the adverse side effects. I have a very sporty DD who would be devastated if her sporting activities were to be curtailed by effects such as "headaches, excessive fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, gastrointestinal discomfort, nerve-related pain, sleep disruption and light sensitivity."

I read extensively about the MMR 12 years ago and was happy to go ahead with it for DD so am not given to automatically following a panicked crowd. But I am quite worried about this - what experiences have MNers had???

all vaccines carry a risk of adverse reaction - you make a choice based on those risks V the risk of dying of cervical cancer

I am truly sorry about your daughter I am

My daughter has chosen to have the vaccine - I am happy with her choice

I'd have the jab, I'm dying of cervical cancer and I can assure you all those side effects listed are not a patch on what I suffer!!! My DD will be getting it.
Don't take the risk xx

Having read all the reports when vaccine first came out -l opted out of DD2 having the vaccine. There has not been enough research or evidence to make me regret my choice.

I realise the tiny risk but I personally would have made the decision to have it rather than experience LOOP, LEETz, laser, carcinoma in situ, fear, colonoscopies, a cone biopsy and then the fear or laing a baby through an incompetent cervix and i was lucky. I know quite a number of women who have experienced similar. I think it's worth the risk but you have to weigh it up.

Colposcopies obv. Not colonoscopies.

the house i am so very sorry

caron did the doctors confirm this was the result of the jab?
I have all of those symptoms but have not had the vaccine!
I have fibromyalgia ( just recently found out there's a small possibly it may be lupus, but this is only a small %).
I started getting migraines as a child then worse as a teenager.
About 18 i started getting headaches constantly.
Then my joints started aching when i was17-18. My late 20's i started struggling to walk and stand.
I have always been very academic however in last 7 years ( i'm early 30's) my concentration has gone and i struggle to remember, the last 2 years it has got progressively worse.
I haven't slept at night properly in years.
Some days i can just suddenly fall asleep, i can't keep myself awake.
This illness can come on at a young age.
It can be bought on by a few things, or just random.

My friend's daughter started having brain seizures after the HPV vaccine and is still not well. This also happened to a young girl in our village, same thing, hpv vaccine and then brain seizures and fainting. I didn't let my daughter have it.
Best to research thoroughly and then decide what is best for you.

No side effects for dd.
Although there was the usual hysteria from girls waiting in line for it.

There was a fair amount of wailing, fainting, difficulty breathing, anticipatory sore arms and headaches in DD's year group too: all that happened before the jab, I mean.

I was in exactly the same position with my dd .. It was relitivley new when she had it around, five years ago. I googled and researched it and became so worried about the side effects that I said no to it. Then when she came home and said she was the only girl who didn't have it (bar one on religious grounds) I had second thoughts rang the school and she eventually had it with the girls that had been off that day. With my second dd it was a straight forward "yes". Both are now 19 & 18 no side effects what so ever .. So glad now they had it. I think the Internet scare stories were a lot to blame.

I think it's only natural you worry about your children having medical procedures that are proven to cause lots of people issues.

Personally I stay away from vaccines and have a few friends who do to - it's a risk we are willing to take.

it's a risk your children take, actually.

you, presumably, are vaccinated.

don't take them outside Europe and make sure they know the situation if they plan exotic gap yahs when the time comes.

no vaccine is safe, nor should be described as such. NOTHING is safe. Life is a terminal illness. Assessing and comparing risks is how intelligent decisions are made.

Special no I'm not vaccinated, I've been outside Europe a few times and never had any vaccinations, Nothing happened to me - should it have?. No it's a risk we take because my children aren't old enough to make decisions for themselves.

fair play, you share the risk your kids are taking. I stand corrected. Polio, tetanus, diphtheria, typhoid - brave of you to risk these horrors.

the reason you don't take unvaccinated kids to countries with high risk of these diseases and poor medical care is because your unvaccinated kids could be incubating something which is then passed to the locals. Your kids get to go home for treatment under travel insurance, the locals don't.

adults carry fewer diseases as the unvaccinated ones have probably had it or died of it, so lower risk but still there.

HPV not the issue here, just the good old fashioned child killers.

for Caron and daughter, thank-you for your informative and factual post.

DD1 has had it - no ill effects at all. DD2 is now in Yr8 and will soon be called up - she has been doing her own research and has decided to have it.

Correlation is not causation.