Category: Health and Wellness
Have any of the ladies here received this vaccine for the HPV virus? Do any of you know anyone who has? What are your opinions/thoughts regarding this vaccination? I haven't yet received this vaccination, and I honestly still don't know what to think about it. What do you guys think?
I have not received and have no intention of receiving it. Mostly because there are such a wide variety of strains of the HPV virus and the vaccine only protects you from a few. Also, I hold minimalist beliefs about vaccinations in general. I mean, I'm not opposed to being vaccinated against the deadly diseases, obviously, but I think the medical profession is getting a little vaccine-happy. I mean, there's a chicken pox vaccine now, and I just think that's crazy, especially since there's still a risk of getting chicken pox when you have the vaccine anyway... JMO. Sorry for the ramble.
I haven't had it but wouldn't be against it if my doctor suggested it. It's just that I avoid doctors...well I used to before all hell broke loose and my body started rebelling against me.
I've received two out of three doses in the series of vaccines. just one more. I noticed after every time I get the shot, i tend to break out in zits a lot more often. I insisted I didn't need the shot, but my mother insists on trying to control my life. Gur'r'r! She's like, "Well, my friend's daughter got it, and so should you." I'll be so bloody grateful when i'm out from under this roof and on my own two feet, so to speak. And, a vaccine for the chicken pox? Good lord.
Well, the claims state that the vaccine is supposed to protect against several strains of HPV, including those that account for about 70% of cervical cancers, as well as the strains that account for about 90% of genital warts. It has also been approved to help prevent vaginal and vulvar cancers, which can also be caused by HPV.
i think the vaxenes make more of the diseases pop up, and make it worse, but that's in my oppinion
I've personally received all three in the series of shots, and they seem to work just fine, and I've had no lasting or perminent effects.
I've had 1 out of 3. Can't say anything for how well it protects, I just do what my doctor says like a good girl lol. But... it didn't hurt. Not as bad as the meningitus shot. ouch. and don'tcha love my spelling?
I've had two out of the three shots so far. I receive the third and final one in January or February. For me, the shots are kind of painful. Needles don't bother me, but when they inject the vaccine, my arm starts to hurt. It goes away after about a minute. I just move my arm around, and that seems to help.
Yes, I've got all three shots. After each one, my face broke out in zits. yuck ... but, at least that's done now.
As for post 2, there's always been a vaccine for chicken pox, that's one of the baby shots, which is the reason that most people get it when they're little kids. My brother and nieces and nephews never got any baby shots, and none of them have gotten any of the ailments that are notorious throughout small children.
As for post6, vaccines do make more cases of diseases pop up. They inject you with the disease, so you're more likely to have symptoms of it.
My family is strongly against vaccinations, and my second-oldest sister and I are against medication. I am moreso than she is. I don't even take it for pain.
The entire medical field is getting out of hand. They're coming up with medication for everything, and any kind of behavior now is matched to some disorder or another. ADD shouldn't even be a disorder. They just like coming up with more ways to make money. It's not even about health anymore.
I'll never get the vaccination for any kind of disease. If people controlled themselves sexually, we might not have as many problems.
I'm done ranting.
I agree that the medical field is getting out of hand when it comes to medications. A lot of times the side effects cause more problems than the original problem.
I also agree that things would be better if people kept their legs closed and stopped sleeping with anyone and everyone just for the hell of it, but I also think we can agree on the fact that even if more people did control themselves, it wouldn't eliminate everything. There's other ways that things are spread. Having said that, it is a shame that people don't take better care of themselves, and just stick their noses in the air when it comes to health issues, dangers, warnings, etc.
I agree with much of post 11, but I disagree with the part about not vaccinating kids. The reason these childhood ailments as well as other diseases such as smallpox and tuberculosis are not wide spread anymore is because of the vaccinations. However, some of these conditions are coming back again because of people refusing to be vaccinated or having their kids vaccinated. Polio and other conditions thought to be banished for good will come back, and some already are, because of people not getting vaccinated.
I don't think you're understanding. A vaccination is basically being injected with a milder form of the disease. So in truth, if you get vaccinated, you have it. And these vaccinations only treat certain strains of diseases and viruses, not all of them. And sure, it's possible some obscure diseases can return, but the way things are turning out recently in the medical field, I wouldn't get any of these vaccinations. I'm now hearing too many stories of people being injected with used syringes and such, so how healthy is that? Will that protect us from disease? No way!
Those are just scare tactics made up by people who are afraid of vaccines. If there really are people getting vaccinated with used syringes, they are not going to good doctors or reputable clinics for their medical care.
I don't see why anyone would be afraid of vaccinations. And I don't think it's a scare tactic at all. I think it's very true, very real, and this is what the medical field has come to, unfortunately.
I think that vaccinations are being used or are going to be used to try to solve the problem of overpopulation. They just want money, and as time progresses, the population is going to get way out of control.
lYou're injected with the virus so your immune system can build up antibodies to it. That's how I think it works. Anyway, I agree with becky on tihs. As far as I know, there is no corolation between the vaccines and known disorders ilke autism. just because it happened to your next-door neighbor's friend's son or daughter, certainly does not mean it will happen to your hild, but do as you wish.
omg, typos. gees, sorry about that. I'm using a laptop, and am still getting used to this blasted keyboard.
Unfortunatly more and more clinics are becoming disreputible because nobody can afford health care. Mostly the lower income college students and new parrents which means that they take the kids to what they can get cheep. Inturance qualifications seem not to mean much anymore, and prices for inturance itself are going up and up and up. I think that it's up to discression. No I'm not getting this vaxene. I don't sleep around, and it's so new nobody knows what it will do in fifteen years or so. Maybe by the time my daughter is at the age for sexual activity we'll know more, but at the moment I have no daughter, and would advise her against it until there was more research about the long term affects.
Ok so going to share personal information on a public board.
I would highly suggest that everyone who is sexually active get the vaccine.
Unfortunately they didn't make it in time enough for me.
HPV is small enough to travel through a condom.
Many men are carriers and will never know unless tested because they show no symptoms.
So it isn't about whether or not someone is being careful or responsible. I was and am all these things. I've been through 4 rounds of cervical cancer ending in a hysterectomy.
It is a very scarey and horrible thing to go through. Having your dreams ripped away is a very difficult thing to recover from. Not feeling like a real woman anymore is hard.
I will never have the experience of carrying my own child. And before August of 2008, I wasn't sure if I would ever be able to adopt or anything.
If the vaccination had been out a year earlier, I could have possibly been spared from all that I went through. So I encourage all women to protect themselves. I don't wish the hell on anyone and if this is a way to prevent even just a few women from suffering, then its well worth it.
Wow. Pipi, I'm so sad for you. I can't even begin to imagine what you have gone through. I would be devastated if it came to a point where I couldn't carry my own child. I don't know if I ever will have children, but it is a dream of mine, and I hope that it will be fulfilled one day.
I know that you have a baby girl now, and I'm assuming it's through adoption. Even though you have gone through a terrible experience, in the end, you have also been blessed with such a gift, and I'm glad that you have been given the opportunity to become a mother. Even though you were not able to carry her inside of you, and go through all the ups and downs of pregnancy, you were given a gift. I know that people say that adoption isn't the same as carryign and giving birth to your own child, and I imagine that, to some point, that is true, but you have taken in a child who needed you. Thanks for sharing your story.
Women can get this vaccine all they want, but I still don't support. it. And I totally agree with post 19. If a woman is monogamous, she really has no reason to go through all the crap that could come with that vaccination.
But monogamy won't guarantee safety from infection. There are other ways one can get it. I do agree, though, that vaccines are not a good idea. But that's just my personal preference because I believe that mainstream medication does more harm than good.
Becky
Leanne,
Yes I do have a precious little baby girl now, and while it isn't the same as carrying her myself, it's an amazing thing to be a mom finally.
Raven, you should read before you say things. Monogamy doesn't protect you. abstinence will. I don't and never have slept around and that didn't protect me. Condoms didn't protect me. You can be a virgin until married and just happen to have a husband who carries hpv and he wouldn't know it and there you go, infected.
Becky i respect your opinion on not getting the shots yourself.
Becky, I agree with you one hundred percent!
And also, I very well know that one's husband or boyfriend can be a carrier of a STD or STi. But my main point is that one is less likely to get STD's or STI's if one remains monogamous. A woman who has multiple partners is more so a candidate for STd's or STI's than a woman that is monogamous.