I think my daughter may be having a reaction to the Gardasil shots.
Before she started her series of shots my 17 year old daughter was a very outgoing young girl. She attends the local high school along with taking 3 classes at the community college. She is on the swim team, she is an editor for the yearbook, and she is the president of the drama club. And in her spare time when she gets bored she writes a book. She has managed all this in spite of the fact that she is Dyslexic.
She had her first shot in October 08 and sometime after the shot she was complaining of headaches and stomach aches but I dismissed it as stress because of all her activities at school and getting ready for midterm exams.
On 12/22/08 she had her second shot and the complaints increased along with sudden periods of extreme nausea. On 12/29/08 I watched my daughter fall to the ground and have convulsions in front of me as we tried to take our Christmas tree out of our house. It did not last long but it sure did scare me. She has no family or personal history of seizers. My husband and I took her to the local ER and after around 8 hours of tests, the Dr. in the ER told me not to worry about it because healthy young 17year olds do not just start having seizers. They told me she was perfectly healthy and wrote it up as a fainting spell.
After the seizure the headaches became almost constant and her stomach always hurt. When Christmas break was over she was unable to make it to school because she felt so bad. I kept trying to push her back to school. She called me from the school clinic in tears and I took her to her family Dr. By this point my daughter was also complaining of blood in her stool. The doctor ordered an EEG and MRI because of the seizure and made an appointment with a gastro enologist and sent her home with medicine for an ulcer. The Gastro Dr. ordered outpatient procedures to check her stomach and bowels. Again all tests came back normal and we were sent home.
After a while she started feeling better and most days she was making it to school. This week she is home on the couch again. She can barely walk and has complaints of back pain. After everything that has happened over the last couple of months I don’t know what to think. I guess it is possible that she moved wrong and pulled something, but I just can’t help but wonder if this is yet another unexplained medical issue that we are going to have to deal with since her Gardasil shots.
One thing is for sure: she will NOT be getting the third one.
Hi Gertrude,
Your daughter’s symptoms sound like my daughters except for the nausea. My daughter has been diagnosed with eplilepsy since being vaccinated. She had 2 of 3 shots. Take a look at the yahoo group ‘let’s talk about gardasil’. There are many girls who have been adversely effected by this vaccine.
Good luck to you.
Nina
Hi Nina,
Thanks for your comment. I am only the editor of this blog, and posted this story on behalf of Pam. Terrible to hear about your daughter’s condition. It would be wonderful if you could send me your story via email to post on the blog. For details on how to do this, see the page on Submission Guidelines.
Thanks, Gertrude
Hi my names mary-ann and i recently had the Gardasil vacsine. Ever since i have got the first shot i have stoped my cycle completly, had nausea stomach cramps and blerd vission. At first i though i was preganant so had on going prgnancy and blood tests, But all came back negative. I then hurd from a friend of some side affects that came from this shot, One was it messes up your cycle, Im confussed wether to get the 3rd one.