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

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Got it myself at 13 when it first came on the market. No fertility issues in my early 30s now. Even if it’s not effective long term, I’d be happy for my kids to have some HPV protection in what is likely their most promiscuous years.

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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.

https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/vaccine-technologies.asp

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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

Functional practitioners seem to diagnose many more vaccine injuries than traditional practitioners. Like, a lot more.

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All three of my teens got it.

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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.

There is significant research out there about the effectiveness and safety of the HPV vaccine. Unfortunately, there is also plenty of misinformation about it, which is perpetuated by functional practitioners and anti-vaxers. I wish people would just believe the science.

Also curious what are of the HPV industry one of the PPs was in....seemed to miss some important points.

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What part of the HPV industry

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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 😬

Okay. Which part of the Wikipeda entry is incorrect? Please cite sources that you deem credible so that I may educate myself.

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Of course. My sibling is an ENT cancer surgeon. What he sees is horrifying. This is literally a vaccine against cancer.

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My 13 yo DS got the vaccine. The whole family also gets flu shots every year. FWIW I am a physician.

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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 😬

Okay. Which part of the Wikipeda entry is incorrect? Please cite sources that you deem credible so that I may educate myself.

The entire entry. My integrative MD has resolved more than our regular MDs.
Just a couple of examples:
- Had Hashimotos for 17yrs. Bloodwork always fine but I felt like crap. My Ivy LEague educated endocrinologist admitted they don’t learn about nutrition in medical school (ok fine 5 hrs) so he didn’t have the scientific research to back up how diet could affect my auto immune. Went to integrative MD who changed my diet and has me switch medications and guess what - I feel amazing. And I decreased my meds....meaning my thyroid is functioning much better than it has since I was a teenager.

- one of my DD has serious constipation issues for years and Childrens specialist put her on Miralax indefinitely .... do some reading, that’s horrible for kids. OUr integrative MD changed her diet and guess what, been perfectly regular ever since.

- one of my other DD got cliff at 18mos old after 1 round of antibiotics for an ear infection. Ended up hospitalized. Then got it again. At that point we’re talking scary - perhaps part of her colon needs to be removed. This time saw head of Infectious Disease at Childrens and got recs but again, she ended up with another cliff infection. Totally changed her diet, healed her gut, and she’s thriving.

- my husbands MD had put him on Zyrtec years ago for contact dermatitis ... seems harmless until he realized hes taking a medicine every day for inflammation and that maybe he should just address that inflammation. Integrative MD figured out why his skin was in inflammatory state, and no more daily Zyrtec.

So yes, instead of popping pills every day and feeling like crap, I want better for my family, so yes I do believe in functional medicine. B/c it often works beautifully for issues that western medicine cannot figure out.

You don’t need to buy into it. But don’t use Wikipedia to back up an ill informed opinion.

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My daughters are still to young but my mom had cervical cancer at 28 when she was pregnant with my sister. They caught it very early but even so encouraged my mom to abort / start treatment. The doctors were flabbergasted that she somehow conceived me. (They scraped away a portion of her cervix I believe). I would be happy to help prevent them from facing that type of circumstance.

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OP, serious question— when the covid vaccine comes out, will you get it? Will you let your kids get it?

As for HPV, I got the vaccine while in college with no ill effects either then or on my fertility now (got pregnant easily when I wanted to). Get the shot.

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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.

+1

[Anonymous]

One of the hpv vaccines was developed by a company in MD. I knew someone who worked there while it was in development. She told me about some scary stuff they discovered but defended that the pros outweigh the cons. She has not given the shot to her kids.

A relative got very ill after the first shot. The doctors said there’s no way to prove the shot caused his chronic health issues. Google hpv and chronic headache.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the hpv vaccines was developed by a company in MD. I knew someone who worked there while it was in development. She told me about some scary stuff they discovered but defended that the pros outweigh the cons. She has not given the shot to her kids.

A relative got very ill after the first shot. The doctors said there’s no way to prove the shot caused his chronic health issues. Google hpv and chronic headache.

Ok sure, but you need to provide more information than "scary stuff."