I have a question...

[Chris55]

...how many of you diagnosed with MS took any kind of vaccine as an adult?

[EyeDoc]

not I

[catfreak]

Me Neither,

Cat

[scorpion]

nope

[Needled]

The only thing I had was a tetanus shot about 6 months before I was diagnosed.

[NHE]

There was a measles outbreak when I was an undergraduate in college (sometime around age 25 or 26). I couldn't produce my vaccination records so I had to get a shot. While I don't have any specific dates, I believe that this vaccination may have been after my initial symptoms.

I have always wondered about this since I have read some papers that speculate that the measles vaccine may be involved in the development of MS. I will have to double check the dates someday just for the fun of it.

Edit: I also a hepatitis vaccination when I was 16.

NHE

[scoobyjude]

none for me

[Bubba]

I took the hepititus vaccine (2 parts) in about 2000. They gave tham to us at work...

[Terry]

Hepatitus shot for me after a guy I worked with got sick. About 1997 or so. Diagnosed 2006.

[jimmylegs]

min travel vaccine (hep b) 2 wks before symptoms ramped up, 3wks before dx. statistically ms dx after vaccines is supposed to be insignificant overall. that's not to say i don't retain suspicions. esp when the immune sys is out of whack to start with. personally the timing for a trigger in my case, is a lot closer to the snowboard whiplash head-smash. but there's always the 'synergistic effects' angle...

[Chris55]

Just curious...my daughter's symptoms started immediately after a Hep B vaccine. A nurse who contacted me (mid-50s) was diagnosed with MS after a Hep B vaccine. She went to 150 million docs and ended up at a med univ. They diagnosed her with vaccine reaction ???(and I can't remember the exact verbiage.) But basically said her symptoms were a direct result of the vaccine.

I was wondering about this because my daughter is now pregnant and has been reading this great book about vaccines and children. The most amazing (and upsetting) things. When I had children, they received 3 vaccines. Apparently there were a total of 11 vaccines contained in the 3 separate shots. Now there are 46!

This all leads to nothing of course. Was just curious...thanks everyone for your input.

[scoobyjude]

Funny that you bring up vaccines. I have actually been thinking seriously about the swine flu vaccine and, if they decide to offer it to older women, the HPV vaccine. I have never even given them consideration before but lately I've become very fearful of viruses. Of course this could potentially cause more harm than good. I intend to ask my neuro next month for his opinion and input on the subject.

[Chris55]

My daughter will not go anywhere near a vaccine! And she is deciding now which vaccines her baby will have and when he/she will have them. She has even found a pediatrician that will support her choices.

There has been some reporting of some maybe potential (serious) problems with this H1N1 vaccine (just as in 1976 when they pulled it after 25 deaths). As an adult, I have never taken vaccines. When I was pregnant with my first child (1976), I never even considered the Swine Flu vaccine...AND I did get the Swine Flu (about 8 mos. pregnant.) And it was horrible! But I did fine...and so did my first child.

Good luck whatever you decide.

[LiquidSkin]

I had the chicken pox vaccine, cause i was 16 and still no poxs for me

and another vaccine I couldnt tell you what it was off had your suppose to get it when your a baby, I think it was three shots taking at different times.