HPV vaccine - did you get it for your son or daughter? If not, why?

[Anonymous]

Yes - two sons.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Because cancer is bad and I'd like to prevent it.

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OP I so agree w you. My daughter is 12 and I asked Ped if I could do some research on this before consenting. Our functional practitioner says she sees many kids after vaccine injuries.

The fact that you see a functional practitioner in the first place already means you don't trust actual science based medicine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_medicine

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Anonymous wrote:You aren't pro vaccine if HPV and the flu shot "give you pause."

Yes I am, actually. Being pro vaccine doesn't mean every single vaccine you have to blindly trust.
I probably will get them it at some point but questioning things is smart.

PP with questions- flu vaccine I know 2 people injured by it and many more with severe flu even with shot
And remember the flu mist? It's great, then oops doesn't work, taken off market. Then wait- people aren't getting the shot because they don't like needles (lost money) and now the mist has reappeared.

Clearly you do not understand how vaccines work -- most vaccines are not 100% effective. That means that even though any one person who gets a vaccine can develop the vaccine-related illness, their chances of developing that illness are much lower. Vaccines have a second effect creating "herd immunity". Herd immunity is the idea that not every cow in the herd needs to be vaccinated to prevent the vaccine-related illness among cows in the herd. If you get a high enough percent of the cows vaccinated, but not all of them, none of them will get sick or even if one gets sick they will not spread it or spread it to fewer cows. Herd immunity works among humans. This is why you see in places where whooping cough or measles vaccination rates are low (Marin County, CA or NYC in some communities) that community can be subject to outbreaks of illnesses like measles and whooping cough that we normally don't see anymore in developed nations.

It is very rare to be "injured" by a vaccine. What was the "injury" you know about? Injuries are usually very unusual, so it would be a phenomenal spot of luck that you know two vaccine injured persons. Go buy lottery tix now!

Flu and other vaccines (like Shingles) do cause some symptoms -- mild fatigue, achiness, sore injection spot, etc. -- these are not considered "injuries".

ok

[Anonymous]

Sweet Jesus. Vaccines are NOT big money makers for pharmaceuticals. They make more money on drugs to treat illnesses. If they really wanted to screw people to make money they'd make meds to control not cure or prevent illness. I mean vaccinate your kid or don't but don't be upset when your daughter in law gets cervical cancer or your son gets throat cancer. I mean I cannot anymore with you people.

[Anonymous]

Guys - this is the only anti-cancer vaccine out there.

How pissed will your 20-something if they found out mommy didn't want them to have it? And now they are at risk for dying from a cancer that could have been prevented.

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Anonymous wrote:
OP I so agree w you. My daughter is 12 and I asked Ped if I could do some research on this before consenting. Our functional practitioner says she sees many kids after vaccine injuries.

The fact that you see a functional practitioner in the first place already means you don't trust actual science based medicine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_medicine

The fact that you use Wikipedia for information means you are very short sighted 😬

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Anonymous wrote:For those that already had their kids get them, did they experience any side effects? Oldest is getting theirs in a couple weeks so I want to know what to expect. Thanks!

My three sons received the vaccine. No side effects. No complaints other than being annoyed that they had to wait for about 20 minutes in the doctor's office to make sure they didn't have any issues. They felt fine. I am glad I got them vaccinated.

That is the type of thing which gives pause to parents, don't you think?

They do that because fainting is a common side effect for teens and vaccines. They aren't making you wait because they expect something dire to happen in 20 minutes.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/fainting.html#:~:text=Fainting%20can%20be%20triggered%20by,HPV%2C%20MCV4%2C%20and%20Tdap.

Yes, that is why my three sons had to wait, the fainting issue. None of them fainted or felt like they were going to faint. The HPV vaccine was the only vaccine that our doctor required us to wait 20 minutes. We knew about the fainting issue before asking for the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

my boys (18 and 15) both got vaccinated, as did girl (15) No side effects. Elder got the version with three shots, others had only two shots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Got it for both my son and daughter. Males are carriers of HPV. I had a college friend who died of cervical cancer after she graduated/ married. Her husband remarried, second wife also died of cervical cancer. Vaccinating your daughter and son should substantially decrease the possibility of that occurring.

Wow. I would never be the second wife of a guy whose first wife ended up with a strain of HPV serious enough to kill her.

I also know a chronic bachelor who died at 44 of throat cancer. Ew.

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Anonymous wrote:Sweet Jesus. Vaccines are NOT big money makers for pharmaceuticals. They make more money on drugs to treat illnesses. If they really wanted to screw people to make money they'd make meds to control not cure or prevent illness. I mean vaccinate your kid or don't but don't be upset when your daughter in law gets cervical cancer or your son gets throat cancer. I mean I cannot anymore with you people.

How many drugs do you know of that cure disease? Besides antibiotics for acute conditions, a vast majority of pharmaceuticals do control and do not cure. Many many oncologists will be happy to share examples. Vaccines are in fact money makers.

I don’t think anyone on this thread is anti vax ... I think it’s just some intelligent people wanting information and doing their own research instead of just blindly trusting the establishment. It’s okay to be an informed consumer for our health and our kids. In fact, we should be. Then you make calculated decisions based on unbiased evidence that you’ve weighed - cost benefit analysis. If you don’t, that’s totally cool too. And most likely that’s fine. But don’t get defensive or angry at people that want more information. It’s okay.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sweet Jesus. Vaccines are NOT big money makers for pharmaceuticals. They make more money on drugs to treat illnesses. If they really wanted to screw people to make money they'd make meds to control not cure or prevent illness. I mean vaccinate your kid or don't but don't be upset when your daughter in law gets cervical cancer or your son gets throat cancer. I mean I cannot anymore with you people.

How many drugs do you know of that cure disease? Besides antibiotics for acute conditions, a vast majority of pharmaceuticals do control and do not cure. Many many oncologists will be happy to share examples. Vaccines are in fact money makers.

I don’t think anyone on this thread is anti vax ... I think it’s just some intelligent people wanting information and doing their own research instead of just blindly trusting the establishment. It’s okay to be an informed consumer for our health and our kids. In fact, we should be. Then you make calculated decisions based on unbiased evidence that you’ve weighed - cost benefit analysis. If you don’t, that’s totally cool too. And most likely that’s fine. But don’t get defensive or angry at people that want more information. It’s okay.

+1.. True: yes vast majority of vaccines are safe and absolutely save lives. That is obvious. One of the best things to come out of modern science. Also true: Vaccines are a huge money maker as are medicines that "control" diseases but don't cure. You actually didn't know vaccines are a billion dollar industry? And you can't with "what people"? People who don't blindly follow anything the government says without ever asking a simple question? Did you get your kids the flu mist for the years it was out? "They" said it was safe and great, then OOPS, never mind it doesn't work.


I said multiple times, I vaccinate, believe in them, blah blah blah was curious what the controversy was about with HPV vs say the polio vaccine.

[Anonymous]

PP- that was reply to the poster who started off with "Sweet Jesus" LOL

[Anonymous]

Was very hesitant about the side effects but gave it to my older teen this summer and first dose didn’t cause any bad effects

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sweet Jesus. Vaccines are NOT big money makers for pharmaceuticals. They make more money on drugs to treat illnesses. If they really wanted to screw people to make money they'd make meds to control not cure or prevent illness. I mean vaccinate your kid or don't but don't be upset when your daughter in law gets cervical cancer or your son gets throat cancer. I mean I cannot anymore with you people.

How many drugs do you know of that cure disease? Besides antibiotics for acute conditions, a vast majority of pharmaceuticals do control and do not cure. Many many oncologists will be happy to share examples. Vaccines are in fact money makers.

I don’t think anyone on this thread is anti vax ... I think it’s just some intelligent people wanting information and doing their own research instead of just blindly trusting the establishment. It’s okay to be an informed consumer for our health and our kids. In fact, we should be. Then you make calculated decisions based on unbiased evidence that you’ve weighed - cost benefit analysis. If you don’t, that’s totally cool too. And most likely that’s fine. But don’t get defensive or angry at people that want more information. It’s okay.

Perfectly stated- thank you.