Gardasil - Vaccine - The Truth

[BamaE4U]

Came through the ole' in box today.

Seemed serious enough to share.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msoyRYSoSJk&o=1672350&u=53342066&l=1608440&g=6810

 

[aileen_c]

I will not give my daughter that. Her pediatrician was asking me to consider it...my daughter is 9!!! He states that it's approved for that age. I said,"I.. DON'T.. THINK.. SO! He asked me, "Why? Not my girl, right?" Like insinuating that I would be a mom that has blinders to teen sex, etc. I said to him, "Move on from the subject." with a stearn look...he moved on. Thank God Nina was none the wiser to what we were talking about.
I would never give her that nor would I allow any birth control that stops the function of her uterus. (What I mean here, is the stopping of her period, thank goodness we're not there yet!) I believe in birth control just not the ones that prevent menstruation for months. Somehow I don't think that's a good thing. Nor will I encourage tampons. I have so many women in my family and so many women in my life that have had problems due to using tampons. The uterus was made to expel that old tissue for a reason, why stop that??
I would hope to educate her enough on these subjects...the final decision when she's an adult is hers to make.

 

[felicityflowers]

I wouldn't take that vaccine if you paid me. Scare tactics don't work on me and especially when they are used so blatantly.

For about a year the HPV commercials started flooding the airwaves. Warnings against HPV and all of it's dangers were everywhere you looked. In magazines, on television and on the radio. I don't think many people even knew what it was until Merck started these ads. The "one less" campaign was nothing more than a scare tactic to make Merck more $$$. Now, where did I put that durn tin foil hat?

I bet my husband five dollars that there would be a HPV vaccine on the market in about a year. Sure enough, not a year later, here came all of the same commercials only this time, there was an alleged answer - Gardasil.

 

[crazy daisy]

Thank you for posting this Glenn.

I have never felt comfortable with the Gardasil vaccine enough to allow my 17 year old daughter to get it. I could never put my finger on why I felt like it wasn't a good idea, I guess I just had a strong feeling that Gardasil would do more harm than good. It suddenly popped into the spotlight out of nowhere and was heavily promoted on tv and in doctor's offices. Kinda made me wonder....

Thanks to Glenn, now I KNOW why I felt so uneasy about Gardasil....

 

[Dorothy]

I chose not to have my daughter vaccinated, even though the gov't pays for it. Here's an article for the Canadian audience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMsQqvU0z88&feature=related
However, my oldest daughter has been using the depo shot since she was 18 (she's now 25) and I worry about the long term effects of that (especially because she also has the First Nations gene...).

 

[Mocha Rose]

Well, I don't agree that any vaccine should EVER be mandated. However, I found this video to be very biased. She focused on how this is a "STD" vaccine and how it could encourage a child to have sex. I think that the education on HPV and cervical cancer has focused too much on the sexually transmitted side.

Maybe I'm just reading this on a bad day because my doctor actually just called me this morning to tell me that I had abnormal and precancerous cells. I now have to go in and see if it has progressed to cervical cancer.

Anyways, as a parent of a teenage girl, I think it is very important to educate yourself on the pros and cons of Gardasil from a non biased source (which is hard to find). I'm thankful to have a great friend that is a doctor who has given me a lot of info on the subject. Remember this is not just a sexually transmitted disease.

Would I give this to my 9 year old? No. Do I think it should be mandated? NO. Should the public be educated on the benefits and side effects? Absolutely.

 

[Connie]

My twins have both had the Gardisil shot. They had it last year when they were 25. One of the girls is an RN who worked for about 4 years on the Women's Surgery and Cancer unit at the hospital. She saw patients with cervical cancer every day. She now works on High Risk Pregnancy and Labor and Delivery. She encouraged her twin to have the vaccine also. Their OB-GYNS also strongly recommended it. They said that the shot did hurt, but they have suffered no side effects. The vaccine does not suggest that young girls will be sexually active, but one dr. told one of my daughters, "You may probably never know your husband's sexual history, and what if you get raped?"

Also, isn't the HPV that causes warts? Both my RN daughter and the OB-GYN said that some people naturally have the virus. They didn't contract it sexually.

 

[Mocha Rose]

My twins have both had the Gardisil shot. They had it last year when they were 25. One of the girls is an RN who worked for about 4 years on the Women's Surgery and Cancer unit at the hospital. She saw patients with cervical cancer every day. She now works on High Risk Pregnancy and Labor and Delivery. She encouraged her twin to have the vaccine also. Their OB-GYNS also strongly recommended it. They said that the shot did hurt, but they have suffered no side effects. The vaccine does not suggest that young girls will be sexually active, but one dr. told one of my daughters, "You may probably never know your husband's sexual history, and what if you get raped?"

Also, isn't the HPV that causes warts? Both my RN daughter and the OB_GYN said that some people naturally have the virus. They didn't contract it sexually.

Anyone can be a carrier regardless if they have had sex or not. Males are more likely to be the carrier, but they are not affected. Therefore, a female can get it from a male, even if that male has never had sex just because he is a carrier. A female can be a natural carrier without ever having sex. The risk does increase with sex. HPV is also not the only cause of abnormal cells and cervical cancer.

However, because of the media HPV/ Cervical cancer has been labeled as a sexually transmitted disease. Technically, yes it can be, but not always.

 

[Carol Bice]

Came through the ole' in box today.

Seemed serious enough to share.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msoyRYSoSJk&o=1672350&u=53342066&l=1608440&g=6810

I am still absorbing information about this drug and have not made up my mind either way as of yet. I like to get credible facts and then think it over.

Do you know anything about the "Health Services Insitute" that put this information out? I know nothing about them.

I do know that there are several health organizations out there that are not credible. . Is there anyway to check to see if this one has proper credentials? Who is behind this organization?
Who funds it?
Thanks,

Carol Bice

 

[Dick Adgate Florist]

Anyone can be a carrier regardless if they have had sex or not. Males are more likely to be the carrier, but they are not affected. Therefore, a female can get it from a male, even if that male has never had sex just because he is a carrier. A female can be a natural carrier without ever having sex. The risk does increase with sex. HPV is also not the only cause of abnormal cells and cervical cancer.

However, because of the media HPV/ Cervical cancer has been labeled as a sexually transmitted disease. Technically, yes it can be, but not always.

A sidenote:

Gardasil has also been approved for use by males. Merck,however, is not marketing it to boys. They say it is because they have not tested it enough on males. I suspect that because the anal and penile cancers men can get from HPV are rare and most people won't get a vaccine to prevent someone else's possible cancer, Merck does not consider it cost effective as yet.