Would you take the Gardasil shot?
By lilisor
@lilisor (205)
Hungary
December 5, 2008 7:58am CST
I know cervical cancer is very dangerous and doctors have come up with a vaccine meant to protect women from 4 types of HPV that could lead to cervical cancer.
But what if that vaccine is not that good? What if on long term you could experience some nasty and irreversibly side effects? I'm a bit confused :)
What is your opinion on this? Would you take the vaccine?
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
6 Dec 08
No, I would not. Gardisal is not without problems, including "pain, swelling, itching, bruising, and redness at the injection site, headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, and fainting." Those can be some pretty severe side effects, as reported by the news media. Gardisal does not guarantee that you won't get cancer, it just supposedly reduces the risk.
"GARDASIL will not protect against diseases caused by other HPV types or against diseases not caused by HPV." (Taken from http://www.gardasil.com/)
@peavey (16936)
• United States
6 Dec 08
Why would they make it mandatory? I don't know, unless it has to do with money and power. There were instances of those young girls dying because of this vaccine, did you not hear of that? Several reports were of them fainting and having all sorts of problems. But who cares when they can make money.
@MysticTomatoes (1053)
• United States
21 Apr 09
No. This vaccine has not been out on the market long enough to justify it's use. Anytime anyone hears the words "cancer" and "prevention" people rush to start doing it without even considering the treatment's effects down the road. I know now schools are trying to get this vaccine mandatory just like all the other toxic vaccines they pump our kids full of. I have opted not to vaccinate my DD against anything. I can enter her into school here by signing a vaccination waiver and I plan on doing just that when she's old enough.
@cobra1368 (702)
• United States
22 Apr 09
Good for you! I plan on trying for a religious exemption in my state in order to evade vaccinations when I have kids. In Georgia, we have only medical exemptions or religious exemptions. I don't see how you could claim a medical exemption unless a child was already vaccinated for something and had a serious adverse reaction to it.
I'm still researching how I'm going to get around it! LOL
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@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
5 Dec 08
I would if you can afford it or your insurance covers it. I should of had it done when I had the chance, but now I can't afford it. NO one in my family has had HPV but three of us have had abnormal cell changes. The doctors say they the shot would help prevent cancer. My sister and my cousin both have had it and both or pregnant.
