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01/16/2023 07:33

Subject: HPV VACCINE

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Anonymous wrote:DD and DS both got it. No concerning side effects. My son often has a mid fever after vaccinations.

I’ve honestly have never heard of any real downside. But my younger kid is about 5 years out. Anti-vaxxers are against it. People who just don’t want to deal with the idea their kids may one day be sexually active often push it off because they think their kids are way too young. Which is the point of getting it at 11-12.

What’s your concern, exactly? My default position is vaccinate unless their is a good reason not to. And a 100 degree fever for a day and my not liking the fact my kid could one day get an std aren’t good reasons to protect my kid from cancer.

All 3 of my kids received it.
Even if they don't become voluntarily sexually active for years they could always (God forbid) be assaulted in the intervening years.
Yes, the odds of this are exceedingly slim but why not protect them from HPV?
There just isn't any downside to the vaccine in my mind.

Of course there is a downside to anything that modern medicine comes up with. To claim otherwise is intellectually sloppy. There are trade offs, it is just that most of the time the upsides more than make up for the downsides.
All vaccines can and do have devastating side effects in a small number of cases. This vaccine a bit more than others, but it is still worth getting it.

My sister had to take a lot of Tylenol in pregnancy and was repeatedly and confidently told by her OB that it is absolutely safe. Her son has autism and ADHD, both of which were linked to prenatal Tylenol by recent studies.
A friend had to have antibiotics and anesthesia in her first trimester and her aon was born deaf, very likely due to that exposure.
Please don’t for a second believe that medications, interventions and vaccines come with zero downsides. By the way, I do believe that in both my sister’s and my friend’s pregnancies the medications were warranted. I am just cautioning against blind trust that it all comes at no cost.

+1 My two DDs have both had it, but I certainly weighed the risks first. There were issues with the first iteration and allegations the dosage was so high it caused autoimmune disease and premature ovary failure. Merck was also motivated to get the vaccine on the market quickly because they had just had to discontinue pain killer Vioxx after only 5 years since it caused heart attacks and strokes. This is a business, not a nonprofit. We all know about HPV because of their marketing campaign, not from our doctor.

So I reviewed information about the lawsuit, read up on studies for the fertility issues of women who got it as teens, and reviewed the claims submitted to the vaccine court. Vaccines come with real risks, not just a fever for a day. The benefits are so high the government is okay with that trade off, that's why we have a government funded vaccine court, but don't for a second think it's without real risks.

For my family, the risks were ultimately outweighed by the benefits and my DDs are vaccinated. I'm posting just because I'm always surprised in these discussions that people don't even seem to understand how the vaccine business is run, how the government protects the drug manufacturers with the vaccine court, or the many drugs and vaccines that were ultimately pulled from the market, like the rotavirus that cause bowel perforation in infants. That doesn't make me an antivaxxer, it makes me an educated consumer.