Jessica’s Story  (USA ) – as told by her mother Malinda

My daughter, Jessica, had the Gardasil Vaccination between August 2006 and April 2007.  She had her first one before she left for college. Shortly thereafter, she started calling us and telling us that she was losing a lot of hair.  Next came the stomach aches.  Soon, she had such bad stomach aches.  Soon came issues with constipation. We had gone to a few doctors that tried her on Irritable Bowel Syndrome medicine and probiotics for stomach acid.  Nothing seemed to make a difference.

Over the next two years her symptoms progressively got worse. Also, in the meantime we went from one doctor to the next.  We even went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Their final diagnosis was Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Why?  What caused this to a girl that used to be perfectly normal, healthy, athletic and super bright?

Her symptoms have progressed  to extreme fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, inflammation, achy muscles, sores in her nose, bladder infections, yeast infections, abnormal pap smear,  insomnia, heart palpitations,  foggy concentration, headaches,  extreme stomach bloating and stomach pains, horrendous menstrual cycles,  and an overall ill feeling.  Never really feels good.  Some days are worse than others.  Jessica can get a good night’s sleep and then feel like she has a hangover in the morning.

Some of the issues I am concerned about with her is did Gardasil push her body into menopause?   Will Gardasil cause her cervical cancer? Will Gardasil cause her to have infertility issues?  Did Gardasil push her body into an auto immune disorder which causes this overall general ill feeling she has??

We are currently using food supplements and vitamins to try to make her feel better.  It seems like she may have a better day and then boom, the next day is not soo good.

Elif (Australia)

My condition got worse after the second and especially the third vaccination (2008 July). As nobody informed me of the adverse side effects, I unfortunately kept having the last shot. Simultaneously, I also had a gynaecological problem which ended up being a chronic inflammation and chronic pain condition.

My first symptoms were numbness, pins and needles in the extremities, nausea, extreme fatigue, dizziness, confusion, depression, seizures, trembling, metallic taste in the mouth… I also had a major Candida outbreak, which is still present. It is unfortunately getting worse and worse, although I’m on a diet and I tried taking some antifungals, nothings working, my immune system is falling apart. I am currently diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Vulvodynia, and my recent test results show that I am also developing an autoimmune disease, in addition to chronic inflammations in my body.

For treatment and management, I’m having a rest and avoiding food allergies to speed my recovery. I have visited at least 10 doctors and none believed that the vaccination was the cause of this. This broke my trust and made me vulnerable as I don’t know where to seek help from. Even though I’m convincing myself that maybe there is nothing to do but wait, I am developing new symptoms and not knowing how to deal with managing and treating them. I recently developed an inflammation in the back part of my head with severe pain and burning sensation, this is a new symptom and again, confusing. This whole experience is very difficult to deal with, both emotionally and physically. I do believe that things would be easier with less damage if medical professionals were informed properly and careful with what they are doing. I really feel like a victim and still hoping to find a solution and help.

Check background information for critical Editorial by Charlotte Haugh in the Journal of the American Medical Association stating what a lot of critics have said: HPV vaccination has a lot of adverse effects and its efficacy is unproven

Megan’s Story (USA) – as told by her mother Karen

I’m writing this about my daughter so that anyone who may read this will know what happened to my beautiful daughter Megan.
Last November 15th 2008 my daughter Megan had made plans with the family to paint the outside of the home. We live in New Mexico, USA and it can still be pretty warm in late fall.
She had called that morning and asked what time I wanted her over and I had told her that she could come at any time. It was early in the morning, still a little cool and I had told her she could come and we would get started after it had warmed a bit. She said,  “OK Mom I’m going to get in the shower and then I’ll be over.”
Megan lived about 6 miles away. She was going to college and had her own place. She was 20 and would be 21 in a week and a half, Thanksgiving Day.
The family started painting, we broke for lunch, no Megan yet. We finished up lunch and went back out to continue painting. I thought about her not showing up yet but I figured she changed her plans, forgot to call, or her boyfriend and she decided to go do something. Not a worry. Kids, right?
I got the call, come quick. I did. I got there to see emergency vehicles everywhere so I just stopped my car and ran. I saw in her room the EMTs working on her. It was too late she had been in the shower for about two hours. My beautiful daughter was gone.
The pathologist told us that there was no cause of death to be found. We had asked about the Gardasil as we knew Megan did not drink, do drugs or smoke. The pathologist said that they could not find a cause to her death. We still have no answers and still continue to search. They did say however that her lungs were filled with foamy fluid. Many of the parents who have lost their daughters and who have had the Gardasil vaccine have had this same diagnosis. Not that this is the cause of death. Could it be a seizure? Could it be some kind of breakdown of their lungs?
At first we thought she had fallen in the shower and hit her head and drowned but that was not the case. The showerhead was found turned toward the wall and she had gotten herself on her knees and laid her head on the edge of the tube and passed away, the water was not in her face.
Megan had some of the symptoms that other young women who passed away have experienced. She was extremely fatigued. We thought it was just her classes etc. She had had a rash on her face. Migraine headaches. Megan also had severe pains in her stomach. She had these pains the night before she passed away. She also had told me she felt like she was getting the flu.
We all need answers: why are these young women having these symptoms after the Gardasil vaccine? The symptoms are all similar but these girls are being told that the medical field does not know what is happening and they also tell them it is not the vaccine that has caused their injuries. Why is it that no one is helping to find out what the problem is? It makes us all wonder what the Government is up to when they will not help in solving this problem and yet more and more girls are coming down with these same symptoms who have had the Gardasil vaccine. Not just here in the US but there are reports of these same symptoms worldwide.
If you are a parent or a young woman reading this and are thinking about having the Gardasil vaccine, please research it yourself before you make your decision.

Marian’s Story (Australia)

Most of my adult life I have lived with the knowledge that I am at increased risk of cervical cancer. As a DES Daughter I have a lifetime risk of a rare clear-cell cancer of the cervix/vagina. This cancer, causally linked to in utero exposure to DES, is aggressive, symptomless and the usual Pap smear will not pick it up. I have to have an annual “DES examination” that involves colposcopy.  (For more on the DES story: www.desaction.org.au )

In addition, also because of my DES exposure, I have a 4-fold increase risk of squamous-cell cancer of the cervix – the cervical cancer the Pap smear is designed to detect.
Since first finding out I am a DES Daughter (nearly 30 years ago) I have learnt to live with this risk, to put it into perspective and get on with my life. Part of this process involved becoming informed about cervical cancer by reading medical journal updates. More important, however, was the sharing of experiences with other DES daughters. In this way over the years members of DES Action have built up a unique knowledge base and “expertise” of cervical cancer, from the consumer perspective.
So when there was news of a “cervical cancer “vaccine being developed, we naturally were very interested and read up on it. However, the more we read, the less sense it made. It wasn’t a “cervical cancer” vaccine but a part-vaccine for HPV. The unanimous consensus we came to was “Why bother?” [As outlined in ‘Gardasil: All cost and no benefit.’]
We were very concerned about the “hard sell” the pharmaceutical industry was using to put pressure on the Government to have Gardasil listed on the National Immunisation Program.
But our greatest concern, based on our DES experience, was the lack of evidence of long term safety of the drug. Could Gardasil, like DES, be a time-bomb with serious, unforeseen adverse outcomes emerging months, years or even decades after the initial injections?
Here is an extract from DES Action’s newsletter DESPATCH, March 2007:
Gardasil: Hype & Hard Sell
by Marian Vickers
Last November saw the most extraordinary example of manipulating the media for commercial gain when CSL, which shares Australian marketing rights for Gardasil with Merck, orchestrated the listing of this new cervical cancer vaccine on the National Immunisation Program.
CSL’s initial proposal was rejected by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) because of “uncertainty about the duration of effect and unfavourable cost-effectiveness.”
All hell broke loose and the first casualty was informed public debate. What followed was emotive, sensational lobbying and political opportunism, culminating in political interference from the highest level when the Prime Minister, John Howard, intervened and effectively vetoed the PBAC decision.
This “decision-making by media” has compromised the PBAC and potentially Australia’s drugs safety system.1
The lack of informed public debate has made decision making difficult on a personal level. Many parents will be wondering whether to recommend the vaccine to their daughters. Given that the vaccine is targeted at young teenage girls, there is an issue of informed consent. Next month the school immunisation program commences and consent forms will be sent home. How are parents meant to make an informed decision on behalf of their daughters? Just how effective and safe is this vaccine?
Because of the DES experience, I’m most interested in looking at drug safety. A concerning aspect of the debate on Gardasil is the lack of information on its safety, particularly long-term safety.
In the media, any mention of ‘safety’ is in fact talking about ‘efficacy’ – i.e. will the vaccine work for a lifetime, or is a booster necessary? Worryingly, in the government “fact sheet” for health providers, there are only 2 sentences relating to ‘safety’:
“Gardasil is generally well tolerated, with a small increase in reports of injection site reactions and fever compared to aluminium containing placebo (injection site reactions 83% vs 73%, fever 13% vs 11%). Very few serious adverse reactions were reported in clinical trials.” 2
There is no information on how long the clinical trials went for, and whether any large-scale trials were conducted on 12-13 year old girls.
Given that there is going to be wide-scale immunisation of thousands of young girls starting next month, the health authorities better be very sure there will be no unforeseen, unexpected side effects in the future. It would be truly tragic if the young girls receiving the vaccine faced an increased risk of, for example, infertility or autoimmune disease in 5, 10 or 20 years hence.
Hopefully animal modelling studies have been done to rule out this possibly.
References:
1. Gina McColl: ‘Health care’s sticking point’, The Sunday Age, News Extra 12, February 25, 2007
2. Fact Sheet ‘Human papillomavirus vaccines for Australians: Information for GPs and immunisation providers’, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, page 4, September 2006
From DESPATCH #54, March 2007, page 1
At the time of writing this my 2 daughters were aged in their early 20s and therefore not part of this school vaccination program. I might have mentioned in passing that I thought they didn’t need Gardasil, but I didn’t make a big deal of it.
What I didn’t realise was that the “hard sell” had been extended and was directly targeting all young women. During 2007 every time my daughters went to the doctor for some other reason, they were urged (one could almost say harassed) to have their Gardasil shots. They each received letters from various medical centres they had attended in recent years. These letters were sent out to all “eligible” young women urging them to have Gardasil while it was free. [I only found this out later as my daughters were not living at home but sharing a unit a couple of suburbs away.]
My younger daughter, aged 24 years, had the first 2 shots of Gardasil in late 2007. In March-April 2008 she had to take a number of sick days off work due to extreme tiredness and lethargy. She had a test for glandular fever (it was negative) and upped her intake of vitamins. Luckily she didn’t get around to having her 3rd shot of Gardasil and, after seeing what happened to her sister, she gives a serve to any doctor who suggests it!
My elder daughter Zoe was fit and healthy in May 2008 when she passed a thorough medical examination. Two months later – and one month after receiving the 3rd Gardasil injection – she was a housebound invalid: she couldn’t walk, drive or work.
I bought her a “health diary” and she recorded her symptoms, what she ate and what medication she was on. Looking back over this diary I don’t know how we got through those following weeks. I’m just so impressed with Zoe’s strength of character.
Her symptoms started off with a terrible rash (urticaria) which she had every day for 7 months. Her face would swell up (angioedma) so she looked like a boxer who had lost a fight. Her tongue had strange bald patches on it. She was having weekly blood tests. Initially these were normal but then her CRP levels (an indicator of inflammatory disease) were elevated and getting higher by the week. Her wrists and hands were swollen like severe rheumatoid arthritis. They ached and she had trouble holding things. Her knees and ankles were swollen and aching. The soles of her feet were so swollen she couldn’t walk and could only hobble short distances. There was inflammation of connective tissue and more tests were ordered looking for Lupus. By the end of July she started getting indigestion, gastric problems, severe abdominal pain and gastric reflux. She had 3 episodes where her throat swelled up and she had trouble breathing. In early September, while being examined by a Rheumatologist, a suspected heart murmur was picked up and she was sent for more tests. When she’d had the medical 4 months previously in May there was no heart murmur present.
Any one of these symptoms is painful and difficult to deal with.  To have them occur suddenly, all at once, and with increasing severity was distressing and very frightening -particularly when the treatment (high doses of antihistamines) wasn’t working.
During this time Zoe’s younger sister was put under enormous stress as she had the responsibility of looking after Zoe on a day to day basis.
A breakthrough, in terms of understanding what was going on, came mid- August when we were given information on Ketotifen, a mast cell stabiliser. Apparently people with chronic urticaria and angioedma do not suffer from specific allergies, but rather an unstable mast cell system. According to the fact sheet, the unstable mast cells leak histamine, prostaglandins and leucotrienes, which result in other associated symptoms. For example, due to the release of these chemicals, patients also suffer from headaches, tiredness, lethargy, irritability and difficulty in concentration. It can also affect the gastro-intestinal tract causing cramping, bloating, indigestion, regurgitation, flatulence, intermittent diarrhoea and constipation. Many patients suffer from joint pains and muscle pain. These symptoms are due to the inflammatory properties of leaked histamines, prostaglandins and leucotrienes.
As the Clinical Immunologist we saw in October explained, unstable mast cells underlie autoimmune responses. So finally we had a diagnosis of Zoe’s condition that explained the symptoms – chronic uritcaria/angioedma, an autoimmune response due to an unstable mast cell system.
Having a diagnosis was only the beginning of the journey. Doing a rush job on reading up on the immune system and autoimmune disease left my head spinning.
Quite by chance the ABC TV program ‘Catalyst’ ran a special on ‘The Immune System’, 7 August 2008. The gist of the program was that our immune systems are fantastically complex, responsive and adaptive. Science is only now starting to unravel the wonders and complexity of the immune system.
Even more complex is the autoimmune response: this is when the body’s immune system defences turn back on itself and start attacking healthy cells and tissues. Autoimmune diseases include asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis. What triggers this autoimmune response is unknown. Why some people get it and others don’t isn’t understood.
That’s why I get so angry when I think about Gardasil. Here we have a vaccine which deliberately meddles with the individual’s immune system. It is a new type of vaccine never used before. It uses new technology – recombinant DNA technology (which is like cloning) – to trick the immune system and artificially rev it up. No thought of triggering an autoimmune response, all they look for are injection site redness and fever within 24 hours. How dare they! Talk about irresponsible cowboys. Boys with their toys!
I think the diverse and varied adverse reactions to Gardasil may be immune responses. Our immune systems have evolved over eons. We are programmed with primitive survival reactions. Everyone has heard of the “fight or flight” reaction. However it appears there may be a 3rd primitive programmed reaction: “freeze”. When studying humans under extreme duress, researchers have found that people often become lethargic, they freeze up, shut down, becoming limp and still. This may be a primitive survival response – playing dead may discourage a predator from attacking. [Refer to ‘The Unthinkable: Who Survives Disasters – And Why’ (2008) by Amanda Ripley]
So maybe the many reports of girls fainting or experiencing temporary paralysis can be explained as an immune response – a response to the assault on the immune system by Gardasil.
It’s time to start asking questions of the drug manufacturers and the drug safety authorities. Specifically, exactly what studies were done prior to its release to show Gardasil is safe, that it doesn’t trigger immune/autoimmune responses? Where is the evidence of its safety?
Marian Vickers, Convenor DES Action Australia

Zoe’s Story (Australia)

I went to the doctor in January 2008 with a cold and was asked if I had had my Gardasil shot.  There was no discussion about possible side effects and I was urged to have it while it was still free. So I had the first shot then, just before my 26th birthday. I had the second shot at the end of February.

I was healthy, fit and enjoying life.  I was working in retail and there was talk of promotion and management training.  My long term plans included a career change so I was training at the gym regularly to get my fitness level up. I passed a thorough preliminary medical examination in early May.
Around this time I broke out in a rash. Originally I thought it might have been bed bugs but it persisted and the doctor thought it was an allergy of some sort. I was put on antihistamines but the rash continued. One day my eyelid was swollen. Another day my lip swelled up. It seemed random and puzzling.
In June I had my third Gardasil shot and then things really started to rev up. The rash was all over my torso, legs, arms and sometimes face. It would sometimes come up in great welts. One night my thighs were blood red and so itchy I thought I’d go mad. One day I woke up and my entire face was so swollen I could barely recognise myself. My hands and feet would swell up and be so painful I could barely walk. My wrists and ankles ached and I had trouble sleeping because every time I moved I was in pain.
By this stage I had to take time off work, ran out of sick leave and went onto sickness benefits.
I had so many blood tests I felt like a pin cushion. The GP tried to get me an appointment with an Allergist and the waiting time was 8-10 weeks. In the mean time I went gluten-free and cut down on processed foods. Nothing worked.
One day in late July my tongue started to swell. My mum drove me to the Emergency Department of the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. I thought it will be just like on ‘House’ or ‘All Saints’ and the doctors will solve the riddle, provide a diagnosis and cure me. But no such luck.  I was told I had “idiopathic urticaria / angioedema”.  They couldn’t say what caused it and all they could do was try to control the symptoms. After spending hours there I was eventually sent home with a script for high dosage antihistamines – I was on 4 x 24 hr strength tablets a day (i.e. 4 times the normal dose). The doctors assured me this would control my symptoms. It didn’t.  I had 2 further episodes of my tongue and throat swelling so much that I had trouble breathing.
So I spent months on high-dose antihistamines and intermittent short courses of cortisone. It didn’t stop the rash or the swellings, and all it did was make me feel sick and really tired.
Eventually my GP found information on a drug – a mast cell stabiliser – that seemed to explain and (hopefully) treat my symptoms. However the drug, Ketotifen, is not available in Australia and we had to send to New Zealand for it.
I cut down on the antihistamines and started on the Ketotifen at the beginning of September. Gradually the swellings became less frequent. The rash remained but became more “normal”.
I finally got an appointment to see a Clinical Immunologist in October. He diagnosed severe chronic urticaria. In terms of severity, it was in the top 5% he had seen. The recommended treatment was a long-term course of cortisone. He explained that long-term cortisone use had some nasty side effects but he was confident it would get rid of the rash. He couldn’t say how long I would have to stay on cortisone. I was to think about the pros and cons of this, and decide whether to start the cortisone when I came to my next appointment in December.
In November I saw a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner and had acupuncture. The rash disappeared. I don’t know whether it was the acupuncture or a combination of acupuncture and the Ketotifen, but something finally worked. I stayed on the Ketotifen for another 4 months and remained rash free when I stopped taking it.
However this whole experience left me exhausted and depressed. I feel as if my life was put on hold for months. It is only now, more than 12 months later, that I have my health back. I’m slowly building up my fitness to what it was last year.
I had to take over a month off work and could only work part time after that. Not only did it cost me a lot financially in terms of being off work, I had to spend a fortune on antihistamines, Ketotifen, painkillers, indigestion tablets, and assorted other drugs.
However when I read some of the other stories, I realise that it could have been much worse. I just don’t understand how something like this could be allowed to happen.
My advice to other young women: SAY NO TO GARDASIL!!!

NEW BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Gardasil: All cost and no benefit

Marian Vickers, Convenor, DES Action Australia.
http://www.desaction.org.au

and

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9112

Gardasil: The Denial Continues

June 30 2009

Dr Renate Klein

Karen’s Story (USA)

Our lives have been turned upside down after Gardasil.

My daughter had a 3.8 GPA without even trying.

She failed all her classes since Gardasil.

My daughters health has been in serious decline since she received her Gardasil injections. Within hours she was vomiting, feverish with a terrible headache. She could not get out of bed for almost 3 weeks. I called the doctor regarding her illness she said she must have received a bad flu shot. She was vaccinated with Gardasil at the same time as the flu vaccine.

She now passes out with any exertion, a simple walk will put her out. She suffers from weakness in her both legs. Soon after the second shot she was crying because her feet were hurting she was diagnosed later with peripheral neuropathy. She could barely walk and was put in 2 com casts to keep her feet from hurting.

She is still experiencing more then 4 migraines a month. She did have continual migraines for almost 3 weeks before they started to taper off.

At the age of 12 she was diagnosed with Poly Cystic Ovary syndrome. The doctor prescribed birth control pills so she would not constantly have her period. The pill was to regulate her because the bleeding was terrible. Will we no longer have that problem because she has not had a period since her first vaccination in November of 2007.

I am sending a list of the symptoms that my daughter has had or is currently suffering from. The good news is that she has only been to the ER twice In the last 2 months.

I attribute these bizarre symptoms and her illness to the Gardasil vaccine. This is a human experiment on our daughters and they have been injured.  I don’t want any other mother to go through what the Gardasil mothers are going through.

Tremors: hand
Migraines at first were almost constant.
Stomach Pain
Chest Pains
Leg Weakness
Brain Fog
Depression
Bronchitis
Numbness in her feet
Pins / Needles feelings through extremities and stomach
Possible heart issues has been referred to a cardiologist
Light Sensitivity
Diarrhoea
Fatigue: this is so bad she can barely move
Weakness
Rash
Fever
Blisters: never had them before but now she gets them sometimes.
Warts: not genital
Sore Throat: she had her tonsils and adenoids removed November of 2008
Vision Loss
Paralysis: in arm, temporary, after 3rd Gardasil injection
Fainting: once or twice weekly since third vaccination in June of 08, with slurred speech and loss of feeling of legs. However in the last 2 months she has only had two episodes. Maybe there is hope.
Severe flu symptoms: after 1st shot. High Fever chills. Could not get out of bed for 2 to 3 weeks
Wheezing
Aching Muscles: constantly in pain
Menstrual Cycle Changes
Peripheral Neuropathy both feet.
Bloody stool
High blood sugar: before it was always low
Sleep apnea
Degenerative disc disease: this was recently diagnosed

Raindrop’s Story (USA)

My daughter, Kristyn, received her first Gardasil shot on January 9th, 2009. Her doctor practically forced it on us and scared my daughter into getting it. My daughter was 15.

Shortly after receiving her first shot, she almost passed out while we were in Wal-Mart.

I thought it was from not eating, so I bought her a candy bar. She had a couple other times where she felt like she was going to pass out after that.

Her second shot was on March 9th, 2009, just one day after her 16th birthday. It was after the second shot that she started complaining of odd things.

Before getting the Gardasil shots, she was a healthy, happy, energetic 16 year old teenager.   After receiving the second shot, she was up all night one night with terrible leg pains in both legs. I figured it was just ‘growing pains’. Then after a few days, she was very dizzy and couldn’t walk straight. I did not realize what was going on until March 20th, 2009.

It was that Friday morning when I received an email concerning Gardasil and what it was doing to other girls. I got an email with a link to a young girl’s video on Youtube. The young girl’s name is Holly. (Her and her mother are both in a yahoo group called Let’s Talk About Gardasil that I’m a member of.) After watching that heart breaking video, I started researching and made the connection with Gardasil and my daughters’ problems.

It just so happened to be that same Friday that we ended up in the Emergency Room with my daughter. She was having leg pains in both legs, tingling in both legs, numbness in both legs and also her left arm. She had terrible weakness all over and just felt like she had no energy. She was in tears with the pain so I took her to the ER.

They did a CT scan and some blood work. They could not find anything ‘wrong’ with her but she kept saying that something was not right. The doctor advised that we not get the third Gardasil shot because she was obviously having a reaction to the vaccine.

I called her doctor’s office on Monday, March 23rd to tell them what was going on and what I had found. They said to bring her right in, so I did.

At first the doctor did not even want to discuss the link that I had found with Gardasil and the 10,000 plus reports that had been reported on VAERS. She dismissed it all and said that it couldn’t be Gardasil. I told her that there was no way that she could positively say that since this vaccine is SO new and had only been clinically tested for 5 years and not on girls from ages 9 thru 15 (that clinical study was stopped before it was concluded).

She did more blood work the next day (Tuesday, March 24th) and said it would be a week before we got the results back. I told her that all of the other girls that are sick or have died (47 deaths the last I checked), all of their tests seem to come back ‘normal’.

During this week, Kristyn got worse. She began to have back pain that went from her neck to her feet, terrible pressure in her head, involuntary muscle jerking, nausea, diarrhea, weight loss, severely tired, chest pains, rib pain, heart racing, I can’t even remember all of her symptoms.

She’s been back to the ER since then (by ambulance because of problems breathing) and has been unable to do her class work since this started. (most of the girls have had to drop out of school because they are SO sick!).

Now she is having problems with her vision and the light hurts her eyes.

I received a call from her doctor’s office telling me that she was diagnosed with Rheumatic Fever. They called in Penicillin for her to take. They basically have started acting like they aren’t interested in her.

Kristyn took her full round of penicillin. During the course of the medication, she seemed to feel better. But now that the penicillin is finished, her symptoms have started coming back.

Since this diagnosis, she’s been to other doctors.  Several of them have told me that diagnosing her with Rheumatic Fever would be very hard to do just based on her blood panel results.  So I don’t know if she has/had Rheumatic Fever or not.

Oh I forgot to mention, on January 9th when she got her first Gardasil shot, they also gave her Menactra (which I did not know they were giving her). Since I started researching this I found that Merck only tested Gardasil with Hep B vaccine. The reports of these side effects are off the chart when mixed with Menactra!

Some of these girls are having grand mal seizures, paralysis, pancreatitis, all sorts of STRANGE and unusual diagnosis and symptoms. We’re talking very healthy, active (some even very athletic) girls before Gardasil…now these same girls are very sick and nobody can find out what is going on.

I have an idea of what is going on but I’m no doctor. The Gardasil shots have 225 micrograms of reactive aluminium in each shot. 1 microgram is considered to be toxic!

My daughter has been allergic to nickel since she was born.  Maybe this is why my daughter is suffering, because of the aluminium that’s in the vaccine? A lot of the other girls that are having these types of symptoms are also allergic to costume jewellery, metals, etc.  Maybe THIS is another link?

Why have the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries chosen to experiment with the first ever, large scale application of a new, unproven, genetically modified, inter-species gene mixing vaccine technology on the female youth of an entire generation?

Under the ruse of attempting to eradicate cervical cancer, Merck is actually engaged in the first large scale, real world deployment and testing of genetically modified DNA, genetically engineered proteins and genetics produced by the combining of genetic material from more than one origin or species in a vaccine.

We just want some answers. They need to pull this vaccine off the market and do some further research! Gardasil was fast-tracked through the FDA and is now a mandatory vaccine in several states, with other states following suit.
It is an outrage what is happening to our daughters!

We have had several girls that have been interviewed by the media in several states, and some have been interviewed by their local newspapers. We are trying to get the word out as fast as we can because these doctors are dispensing this GardaHELL like candy every day…and every day that passes is that many more girls that will become very ill.

I did not know of any of this when I allowed that doctor to inject this poison into my daughter’s body. They said it was safe and that she even gave it to her own daughter.

I’ve since found out that most of the girls’ doctors that are sick said the same things to them!

One more thing…the last time we checked VAERS, there was almost 16,000 reports…that’s up from 10,000 since March 24th and they are backlogged, so that number isn’t even correct. And it’s estimated that only 1 to 10% adverse effects are even reported.

My daughter was taking a low dose birth control pill because she was having a ‘heavier than normal’ discharge.  Her doctor put her on the birth control to try and regulate this.

After she started having all of these side effects/reactions, she decided to throw the birth control in the trash.  She didn’t want anything going in her body.
Two weeks after throwing them in the trash, she got pregnant.  Now she is having to go through high risk doctors.  Her health is not good and now she is carrying a baby that could possibly be affected by the Gardasil.

Merck states that Gardasil is not recommended for pregnant women.  They have set up a registry on their site to follow women that get pregnant or are already pregnant and didn’t know it while having the Gardasil vaccine injections.  There are reports of spontaneous abortions and fetal abnormalities in women that were injected with Gardasil.

So not only are we dealing with all of the symptoms that Kristyn has… we are also worried about the baby.

I’m just sick of trying to talk to doctors about the links to Gardasil and hearing ‘it’s not the Gardasil’.  How can they be so certain?  This vaccine is NEW and was only tested for 5 years.  It would just be nice to finally find a doctor that would really look into this!  The doctors just seem to not want to deal with any of us if we even mention Gardasil to them!

I just want my healthy, happy and energetic teenage daughter back!!
Please educate before you vaccinate with the HPV vaccine Gardasil!
Gardasil is hurting and killing our beautiful daughters all over the globe!
My 16 year old daughter is one that has been hurt by getting vaccinated.  And I did not know the dangers beforehand.
Please get informed first!  I wish I had!

Barb’s Story (USA)

My 12yo daughter, my only child who has received the Gardasil vaccinations is now suffering from a neuromuscular disorder as a result of the vaccine.

She received the Garasil vaccine after our paediatrician recommended it, stating that it was time to start her on the vaccine and it was safe. I only knew that it protected you from several forms of cervical cancer and was also told it was mandatory in some states for girls ages 9-26 and was part of the recommended vaccinations that young girls her age should get.

My child’s reactions started around the 3rd dose. She began losing her balance while performing kick-jumps in karate class in which she had been in for 4 years. I just thought she wasn’t doing the kicks correctly and told her to try harder next time. The loss of her balance continued. She complained of severe cramping in both legs, tingling, pinpricking and nerves jumping in her hands and legs. She started experiencing headaches on and off. Tylenol sometimes minimally relieved the pain.

She had had a growth spurt over the last 3-4 months and I associated the headaches with the onset of puberty. She fainted in that 3-4 month window when her symptoms first began and continues to have weakness and near fainting episodes. She has had pain in her upper back and chest.

Within a couple weeks she started walking oddly. This walk became more prominent and more severe with her swaying from side to side, needing to spread her feet out for a wider base of support in order to carry her body.

I requested the paediatrician to refer my child to orthopaedics, thinking possibly she had a fractured ankle or foot. The paediatrician looked at her feet and ankles only, did not test reflexes or much of anything. The paediatrician flatly refused saying, “Oh no, its nothing more than a podiatry issue; something simple.” I disagreed telling the paediatrician it had nothing to do with podiatry – her feet looked OK, the problem was inside the ankle/foot where there was possibly a broken bone or fine hairline crack. I also mentioned that no x-rays had ever been taken to look for anything.

The paediatrician referred us to a podiatrist. We saw a podiatrist for the next couple of months who moulded her feet for shoe inserts in which insurance did not cover and told her to do foot exercises. He also took x-rays which showed no fracture. My child wore the shoe inserts and did foot exercises but did not get any better. Her ability to walk became worse and the kids at school began making fun of her calling her ‘penguin’.

I would tell my daughter to please try and walk straight as possible putting one foot before the other thinking that somehow she had developed a peculiar walking habit. I bought her better shoes with good soles and support, but nothing seemed to help. Then one day I happened to look at both legs, side by side, not just looking at her feet and ankles. It was quite obvious that one leg was wasting away – the muscles were shrinking and much smaller than the other leg. I knew then that this was serious.

I took her back to the paediatrician and showed her this. At this point, the doctor agreed she needed an orthopaedic referral. Was I ever furious! When we finally did get into to see the Chief of Orthopaedics at the Children’s Hospital he took one look, examined her, watched her walk and told me she has a neuromuscular illness and needed a specialist.

On Christmas Eve we were getting a spine MRI to see if possibly a lesion or something operable was causing the problem. The MRI was normal. From this time, 2 weeks before Christmas, we waited another month just to get the first appointment with a specialist. The appointment actually happened a couple days sooner than the actual set date once I emailed the specialist and asked, “Could my child’s illness be caused from HPV vaccines?” It was almost like a light had been turned on! He immediately phoned me, directed me to bring her to the clinic and plan for admission into the hospital. This is how we got the ball rolling and started figuring out the relationship to Gardasil.

She has had numerous tests to include a spinal tap. My child has now been hospitalized twice since Jan 09 and will be readmitted within the next few days again for another 2-3 days infusion therapy of immunoglobulin. It is thought the HPV vaccines caused her immune system to go into overdrive attacking the peripheral nervous system. The damage so far is in both legs – not just the covering of the nerves called the mylin sheath; but the nerves themselves, called axons.

The diagnosis initially was Chronic Inflammatory Demylinating Polyneuropathy in Jan 09 which is a chronic form of Guillian Barre syndrome. In Feb 09 the discharge diagnosis was similar to the month before being Mixed Axonal Inflammatory Demylinating Polyneuropathy.

This illness resulted from a so-called harmless recommended vaccination that has caused great devastation for my child and family. She doesn’t run or jump, nor does she move very fast at all anymore. She misses school because of the numerous medical appointments or is unable physically to attend.

The medication has side effects as well. I’m blessed that she still has an appetite, but on the other hand she’s gained weight because she’s more sedentary and that puts more strain on her legs.

Every morning I put thick long socks and braces on both of her legs and she holds out her hands so I can pull her up to a standing position so she can walk. In the evening when the braces come off I inspect her feet and legs for pressure points or blisters starting. Some days its too hard for her to carry her backpack to school, so I carry it in for her. The backpack has to be a certain kind with a long strap to place over her head in order to distribute weight evenly or else she’ll fall. She can’t come into the living room which is sunken down one step without falling. We’re working on accommodating for that. I have to constantly remind her to put her stronger leg first when stepping because she falls. She drags her feet and moves slowly. The braces cause fatigue and blisters. She’s recently been remoulded for a second set and hopefully they will work better.

The hospital stays are not the most enjoyable either even though the staff and doctors are great. It is not fun at all for a child to be stuck with needles at all hours, constantly forced to take medication and being woken up from her sleep, not to mention the side effects of the medications. Her life and mine have been devastated.

I blame myself for allowing the paediatrician to give her the HPV vaccines. I didn’t sign a consent form or anything, but I should have stopped them. I just plainly didn’t know the dangers. I thought it was like any other immunization. Had I known, read about it or been told that girls or young women have experienced side effects I surely would never have allowed my child to get this vaccine! Why wasn’t I informed? I’m mad, I’m really mad about that!

I saw the many, many commercials with the young girls, telling us to get the great vaccine that would prevent us from having cervical cancer. I thought, well that’s one disease that I won’t have to worry about my daughter getting. Little did I know that the same vaccine would practically rob her of her legs; and we still don’t know if the disease has stabilized or what else it will bring.

The CDC and FDA need to continue to pay close attention to the numerous serious side effects this drug has caused. They need to investigate it further, and stop the use of Gardasil until further research has been performed and this drug deemed absolutely safe to administer. The research appears to be very limited in the age group 9-14 year olds. Merck should make the research of any drug readily available to all parents and have a completed questionnaire by the parents prior to administration of the HPV vaccine. There should be black box warnings for anyone with a strong history of allergies, environmental allergies, asthma, ezcema, multiple allergies, etc., even if the parent feels their child has outgrown the allergy and meds are not being used anymore.

Parents should be thoroughly informed of risks/benefits and also provide consent in writing prior to administration of the HPV vaccine. We live in the United States. The greatest country in the world. You don’t expect this from the U.S., you might expect it from a 3rd world nation but not the U.S.!

My daughter unfortunately still suffers from this illness and the doctors cannot tell me if she’s going to get better or worse. All we can do is hope and pray, and get the word out. My daughter is beautiful, green eyed pre-teen with long blonde hair who loves all people and living things. She’s fascinated with all animals and insects; lady bugs, cats, horses, and even ants. She can hear a bird chirping when no one else can. She loves art and can sketch perfectly anything she sees. She’s compassionate and always wants to give money or food to the homeless.

She’s asked many times, “Why did this happen to me?” Please make sure you don’t have to answer your child when she asks this difficult and heartbreaking question.

My child is currently being followed by a team of specialists. Hopefully if she’s up to it, she will be attending a summer camp for special needs kids this year. Thank you for your concern and you may contact me for further posts or questions. We’ve got to make people aware of what is going on.

UPDATE:

My child just got out of hospital after 5 days getting IV immunoglobulin(IVIg) and high dose IV steroids.  They are trying her on a diabetic drug that has had promising results in patients with motor neuropathies, along with continuation of the steriods for several months and every 30 days she’ll go back into infusion center for IVIg.

Unfortunately she is worsening: the illness is moving upwards, affecting her thighs and hip region now.  The doctors have told me that they don’t know what she has and can only try and treat the symptoms.  They speculate it’s a fast progressive form of ALS; again they’re not sure. ALS (Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease) is an extremely debilitating disease which causes overall body paralysis then death.

The girls that had the HPV shots and are affected with ALS have a fast progressive form of it. Merck should be ashamed. How can they sleep at night knowing they are harming and killing little girls and women?