To be dreading MMR

[Bellver888]

Ds is 14 months old and finally has an appointment for his 1 year jabs tomorrow and I’m really anxious about MMR.

Not about autism it’s more the side effects I’m so worried he’ll be dead poorly.

What should I expect after this?

I’ll add to the posts hopefully, we’ve just had them, he’s fine now after some tears (from me as well) and chocolate

Why are you crying??? I

I'm bloody glad I don't have to do vaccinations, my patience would be worn very thin with this type of reaction.

there were absolute hoards of women saying their kids had fits, lumps in necks

My dd had her first epileptic fit shortly before her first MMR. Just imagine if it had been shortly after.

[quote TurquoiseDress]@MyLittleOrangutan

Sounds like a febrile convulsion due to extremely high fever?

I've never heard of vaccinations causing epilepsy- this isn't very helpful for worried parents trying to make decisions about vaccinating their children[/quote]
I tried to make it not conclusive. But also not do the "ah itll be fine, nothing ever goes wrong." Thing. We know first seizure was soon after the jab, and apparently doctors said caused by the jab, which then continued as epileptic seizures, requiring medication, that were eventually grown out of in old teens/young adult. I dont think and didn't say, the jab caused epilepsy. The jab caused a temperature which resulted in seizures, that continued. All I said was keep an eye on his temperature and why.

I tend to think, and feel myself, that I'm more anxious about things when everyone just says it's fine, so I tried to show what side effects could do, information is power and all that. Dunno, just trying to help.

Mine too @MakeMineALarge1.

My nurse was amazing with my sons imms. She was strict with my toddler DD telling her to sit down and behave, I was so grateful I could have kissed her. The whole process was calm and quick. The more fuss parents make with the jags the more likely the kid is to sense that and get upset. Just be brave and suck it up is my opinion.

My son caught measles a week before he was due his MMR. He was so so ill and in hospital in isolation for a week. Trust me when i say the side effects of the vaccine will be absolutely nothing compared to what my son went through with measles. He is a strapping 15 year old now though who is partially deaf because of this.

Shit @wewillmeetagain I’m so very bloody sorry. How awful. Bless your son.

Mine had a fever, measels like rash and bit grumpy on and off for just over a week.
Calpol, patience and stopping reading horror stories about the vaccine helped :)

@MrsBotibolsCruise

Shit *@wewillmeetagain* I’m so very bloody sorry. How awful. Bless your son.

Thank you, he is mostly fine now. Typical teenage boy apart from the hearing issues.

Vaccines don’t cause epilepsy. I’ve had anti vaxxers trying to tell me that my sons epilepsy was caused by vaccines. Except that he had epilepsy from birth. They tend to look disappointed when I tell them that...

@Mistlewoeandwhine

Vaccines don’t cause epilepsy. I’ve had anti vaxxers trying to tell me that my sons epilepsy was caused by vaccines. Except that he had epilepsy from birth. They tend to look disappointed when I tell them that...

My eldest son has ASD and he had him MMR around the same time that Dr Andrew Wakefield claimed the very dodgy link between MMR and Autism. the amount of people i have had asking if I believed he was autistic because of his MMR is unreal! They also looked very disappointed when i told them no i knew there was something different about him way before he had the MMR!!

@TurquoiseDress

I think maybe a fever or feeling slightly off the next day or so

Much better & milder than the alternative which would be risking contracting one of the disease it's protecting against

Now that these illnesses are rare, I think a lot of people don't realise how serious they can be.

My late DM's friend lost a child to measles, and I was nearly hospitalised. Mumps was 2 weeks in bed when I got it at 12, and I was so unwell the GP visited every day for a week. It can affect fertility in older children.

Rubella was much milder, but I gave it to my dad, who was really quite poorly.

I realise this all sounds a bit Victorian, but it was only the 50s and 60s. Vaccination for what were once childhood killers has been a huge public health success story. Diphtheria is almost unheard of in the UK now and polio has virtually been eradicated world-wide.

I have two kids. Other than being cranky/ sleepy and on occasion a raised temperature we had no ill effects from their childhood vaccination schedule.

Neither have the many hundreds of people/children I’ve encountered.

@Bellver888

He’s been absolutely fine with all his others, I had a serious case of urging to slap the nurse disease!

I’ve read a bloody horror story about it causing fits and all sorts so I’m crapping my pants and whenever I’ve asked I get the serious side effect people only and then I flap it even more! I do have health anxiety and I’m hoping it’s a flare up

My family has a GEFS+ which in the mild form is basically febrile convulsions that go onto puberty and a lot more of them than normal. My DS had around 25 and DD had 4 . Neither of them had a fit as a result of MMR and even if they did as to quote Dr Christopher Green

"the short fever fit does not harm the child, only his mothers nerves"

My DC once decided to have 4 convulsions in 2 weeks between them, my nerves were shot to pieces those weeks, but they are perfectly healthy grown ups with no consequences from the fits, other than possibly carrying the dodgy gene

DD had a slightly raised temperature on the day, which may also have been from the meningitis vaccine. About a week later she had a bit of a rash ( very mild) and a raised temperature. She also had a cold at the time, so the temperature might not have been the MMR. Nothing a bit of Calpol couldn’t fix!

Both of mine were a bit unsettled on the day / night. They also both got delayed reactions (common with MMR) approx. a week later, which consisted of fever spikes and some bad diarrhoea for a few days. It wasn’t hugely fun, but obviously I am very pleased that they got the immunisations. I’d just make sure that you don’t have anything important planned for the next couple of weeks in case they do react (lockdown is the perfect time!).

I think there is a misnomer that people claim the MMR is the only cause of autism. It might be “a” cause (don’t hit me, I said “might” as it hasn’t been proved or disproved) but it is the same as any other condition, such as deafness as mentioned above. Measles isn’t the only cause of deafness but it is “a” known cause. You can also be born deaf. You can also be born autistic. It doesn’t mean that something else can’t be the cause.

My daughter had hers on Monday just gone and she seems fine, a bit more cuddly. I've taken tomorrow off work just in case as I remember my son got a temp 5-6 days after his. If she's fine it will be nice to have a day together anyways.

My DS got awful fevers with both MenB jabs so I was a bit worried about his one year jabs (we ended up putting them off for a month as he kept getting viruses) but he was totally fine with the MMR.

I think there is a misnomer that people claim the MMR is the only cause of autism. It might be “a” cause (don’t hit me, I said “might” as it hasn’t been proved or disproved)

It has been repeatedly proven that there is absolutely no link at all, not even a "might", between vaccines and autism.

You can also be born autistic. It doesn’t mean that something else can’t be the cause.

Autism doesn't develop like that, it's not something something is triggered or contracted, it is there from birth. It's a neurological difference that includes differences in brain structure. Signs of autism may be become apparent as a child grows but the autism itself will have been there from birth.

Totally agree @FoxyTheFox

You cannot prove a negative- there is no link between autism and mmr, prove it by proving it.

Neither of mine had any ill effects.

I do remember taking my older one for her booster. She had it at the same time that the younger one had something.

I thought it made sense for the older one to have hers first, as the younger one wouldn't understand what was going on. She had it and didn't make a sound. Then when she realised it was her sister's turn, she looked sternly at the nurse and said 'don't you stick that thing in my baby sister. She won't like it'. Baby duly bawled. I did feel mean!

@FoxyTheFox, really? Post a link to one single piece of conclusive proof please.

www.statnews.com/2019/03/04/vaccines-no-association-autism-major-study/

This is just one study. There are many other including one funded by an anti-vaxx organisation who very pissed off when their study showed the opposite of what they were trying to prove

@FoxyTheFox, no evidence of a link is not the same as evidence of no link.