Gardasil (HPV vaccine) can lead to MS

lovelisaz · Getting to Know You... Joined: Aug 05, 2008 Posts: 10

I suspect that my daughter's inoculation with the HPV vaccine has caused her, a previously healthy, active 15 year old, to develop MS (at first thought to be ADEM). Any thoughts?

cheerleader · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject:

Dear love-

SO sorry for your daughter's diagnosis. There have been reports made regarding adverse reactions to gardisil. Thoughts are with you during what must be a difficult time in your family. There have never been any conclusive findings on any specific vaccines "causing" MS. Folks have linked their MS to hepatitis vaccines and their flare ups to flu shots. It appears that there is a viral connection to MS...my husband had mono and EBV as a young adult. But as with all things MS, as you will learn...there is nothing definitive (yet.)

This is from the vaccine safety group regarding gardisil...

"Out of the 385 individual GARDASIL adverse event reports made to VAERS, two-thirds required additional medical care and about one-third of all reports were for children 16-years-old and under, with nearly 25 percent of those children having received simultaneously one or more of the 18 vaccines that Merck did not study in combination with GARDASIL. NVIC is calling on the FDA and CDC to warn parents and doctors that GARDASIL should not be combined with other vaccines and that young girls should be monitored for at least 24 hours for syncopal (collapse/fainting) episodes that can be accompanied by seizure activity, as well as symptoms of tingling, numbness and loss of sensation in the fingers and limbs, all of which should be reported to VAERS immediately."

http://www.909shot.com/diseases/HPV/pr022107HPV.htm

Please come here and ask any questions, any time.
We're all with you,
AC
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cheerleader · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:36 pm Post subject:

PS-
Gardisil has been linked to Guillane Barre syndrome, which can look alot like MS-
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/gbs/gbs.htm
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Loriyas · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject:

lovelisaz
What is it that makes you think Gardasil is connected with your daughter's MS? I am concerned about having my daughter be given the vaccine. She is 15 also.
Lori

notasperfectasyou · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject:

Has your daughter ever had Pneumonia?
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lovelisaz · Getting to Know You... Joined: Aug 05, 2008 Posts: 10

Her spinal tap results for mycoplasma pneumoniae "suggest recent infection..." with a 1.6 where a normal range is <=.90. The neurologist also said she tested positive for EBV but the actual report from the Mayo Clinic is very confusing. This is how it reads:
EBV EA-D IgG NEG [NEG]
EBV EA-D IgM EQUIV [NEG]
EBV EBNA-1 IgG POS A [NEG]
SEROLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF EBV INFECTION
AE-D EA-D VCA VCA EBNA EBNA
IGM IGG IGM IGG IGG
SUSCEPT/
SERONEG NEG NEG NEG NEG NEG NEG

ACUTE/
CURRENT POS POS POS POS POS NEG

CONVAL/
TRANSIT NEG POS P/N POS P/N P/N

PAST INF NEG NEG NEG POS NEG POS

REACTIVA NEG POS NEG POS NEG POS

EBV EBNA-1 IgM POS A [NEG]
EBV VCA IgG POS A [NEG]
EBV VCA IgM NEG [NEG]

I'm sorry this is so long and detailed but I am hoping maybe someone with some knowledge can help me make sense of this. She had some blood work in January (before the onset of symptoms in May -after her second HPV shot) and the Heterophile, Mono Screen was Negative. Isn't this the same? The neurologist said these lab results are not as thorough as the Mayo Clinic, which makes sense. It just seems odd to me that she was never really sick with mono and now suddenly they want to say this is what caused her MS?

Also, they originally thought she had ADEM. This was all so sudden. About two weeks after her second shot of HPV she started complaining of double vision and progressively worsened to the point where she could barely walk.

If you go to medalerts.org and search the VAERS database for HPV4 (gardasil) and ADEM (in the symtom tab) there are six other reports, if you search HPV4 and multiple sclerosis there are also six reports very similar to my daughter, who is going to now be diagnosed with MS.

There is one story that has made it to the news about a girl in Jacksonville with very similar reaction:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=95517

gibbledygook · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:38 am Post subject:

And this vaccine is for what? Genital warts?! I can't believe the amount of unnecessary vaccines that are forced on unsuspecting parents these days. If I had a child due to have this vaccine I would withdraw her/him and just talk to them about sexually transmitted diseases. It looks like a very dodgy vaccine.
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robbie · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:44 am Post subject:

cheerleader · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:58 am Post subject:

yeah, word Robbie.
HPV is the human paploma virus, it's really common...I've had it for over 20 years. No warts or symptoms, just some strange looking cells on pap smears. I don't have the type of HPV that causes cancer.

My doc just pushed the meningitis vaccine, menactra, for my teenage son...I did some reading about the association with guillane barre and said "no thanks." He said I was being irrational. ha.

menactra warning

the doc hadn't even heard of problems. argh.
AC
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lovelisaz · Getting to Know You... Joined: Aug 05, 2008 Posts: 10

All the docs I have mentioned this to have brushed my suspicions off with a laugh, but I know deep down that this had something to do with her medical problems. I guess you could call it a mother's instinct, it is just what I know to be a fact regardless of what they say.