Is the HPV Vaccine Safe?

[Dojo]

Is the HPV Vaccine Safe? (FOX 11 News Los Angeles)

http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/...n=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1

 

[M House]

Is this to answer the question or comment on the news? HPV is more or less genital warts. It comes in dozens of strains of virus and is related to certain types of warts you can get in other places of you body mouth etc. Something to remember with all the oral encounters. It's extremely common in sexually active women today looking at maybe 25 plus percent. Women are likely to get it from their first sexual partner. Women are more likely to get it, but it is also common in men as well. You can clear the virus yourself, it can take years, or you can have it for life. By the time you die you will likely have been exposed to it, had it, in one strain or more. I'm no doctor but I'll continue commenting you can research the validity yourself.

It is definitely damaging to female reproductive track and may very well lead to certain types of cancer. Considering all this a vaccine sounds great right? The logic behind giving yourself a STD to counter a STD is dubious, and how do you make the vaccine inert, effective, and capable of covering multiple stains? Anyway if your a women best bet is to get a cervix smear after every other sexual partener. If your a man there's alot of surface area to cover so I'm not sure any test is really deemed effective. For all those anal specialists you can get it on your ass as well. How do I know all this just researched STDs after my ex girlfriend mentioned she had Herpes II and didn't feel it was worth looking into viral suppressors.

 

[Dojo]

Thanks for your input

Many family members are considering it. But I think the fact that cervical cancer is one of the few cancers where early diagnosis is easy, affordable and uninvasive, not to mention a high cure rate...........makes the risks of this vaccine outweigh the benefits, ESP after watching that news segment

 

[M House]

Your a female I assume kinda surprised you don't view testing for it as invasive. Whatever, I think women should just get tested after having a sexual partener for HPV and stop having sex if they get confirmation, treat it, clear it hopefully and move on. Good sign some people aren't looking at vaccines to cure potentially permanent, easily transmitted, but preventable STDs.

 

[Dojo]

I guess by noninvasive I mean nonsurgical, Yes I am a women but I never considered a pelvic exam anymore invasive than going to the dentist..I hate both... LOL

 

[steve005]

Is the HPV Vaccine Safe?

Is ANY Vaccine Safe?

 

[Sandra]

My OB/GYN is not comfortable with it. It was only tested for a year and a half before market.

 

[Cinderella]

this vaccine may cause sterility....eugenics anyone?

 

[Working Poor]

I would not submmit myself to this vaccine and if I had daughters I would want to present the possible cons and have her throughly understand the risks before she decided to take it. I would let her decide for her self.

 

[yongrel]

Yes.

The evangelical community is pumping out a lot of bad information about the HPV vaccine, hiding their fears of "promiscuity" and "sexualized young girls" behind junk science and fearmongering.

 

[Sandra]

Yes.

The evangelical community is pumping out a lot of bad information about the HPV vaccine, hiding their fears of "promiscuity" and "sexualized young girls" behind junk science and fearmongering.

How can you say "yes" when a drug is supposed to go through several years of testing, Gardasil has had only 1. Do you have a source othar than a physician? My source is a progressive OG/GYN.

 

[Working Poor]

I found this video made by a dr who has been researching vaccine. Some of it is a little complex but I think most here can understand what he is talking about. It is kinda of long so you might want to wait until you have time to view it uninterrupted.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6890106663412840646&hl=en

 

[heavenlyboy34]

IMHO, all vaccines are dangerous. OP, you should avoid vaccines if at all possible! It's a symptom of the medical/industrial/government complex.

 

[M House]

I think alot of you are missing the picture entirely. Please simply just research the vaccine itself and make an informed decision. I finally decided to bother doing for the you, since I don't like seeing these kind of responses. I'll walk you thru it...
Go to www.gardasil.com
-Click on health care professionals
-Select Yes, I am. Please take me to the online information for GARDASIL.
-Click Perscribing information-save pdf it's the study that will probably be controversial for awhile justifying the validity of the vaccine.
-Proceed to be annoyed as it tells little about the vaccine contents themselves usually that information is provided here
Step 2 go to RXlist.com
-perform search Gardasil
-click on link but in case you mess that up (http://www.rxlist.com/gardasil-drug.htm)
-read...
Note Gardasil doesn't contain mercury or preservatives. Please use a similar process to look up other medical perscriptions as well before watching some TV. I would comment more on my opinion of it but after reading all this I think you should bother to take a look first.

 

[M House]

Also note before anyone attacks me on this I am not in favor of the vaccine as well but would wish that you'd actually read about it for yourselves.

 

[tmosley]

I think alot of you are missing the picture entirely. Please simply just research the vaccine itself and make an informed decision. I finally decided to bother doing for the you, since I don't like seeing these kind of responses. I'll walk you thru it...
Go to www.gardasil.com
-Click on health care professionals
-Select Yes, I am. Please take me to the online information for GARDASIL.
-Click Perscribing information-save pdf it's the study that will probably be controversial for awhile justifying the validity of the vaccine.
-Proceed to be annoyed as it tells little about the vaccine contents themselves usually that information is provided here
Step 2 go to RXlist.com
-perform search Gardasil
-click on link but in case you mess that up (http://www.rxlist.com/gardasil-drug.htm)
-read...
Note Gardasil doesn't contain mercury or preservatives. Please use a similar process to look up other medical perscriptions as well before watching some TV. I would comment more on my opinion of it but after reading all this I think you should bother to take a look first.

Nice post, thank you.

Most vaccines these days don't contain mercury.

 

[M House]

That's not entirely accurate either but you can once again look it up for the vaccine. You should be pissed if the doctor refuses to tell you both the brand and what vaccine it is preventing you from performing this process.

 

[M House]

Okay well someone PMed me about this and wanted to know more about it.
So since there's wasn't any replies after I posted, I gave her an opinion about it and told her she could post it if she wanted too. Here's my summary since I didn't hear back and well she seemed to think it was really important.
Things to expect from Gardasil (reading mainly just their own prescribing information)

1. Doesn't substitute for cervical screening.
2. You will probably have a reaction to the vaccine.
3. It'll probably be mild but there's a warning about anaphylactic shock.
4. Some people died during trials most were discounted(automobile but there were a few weird ones) however to me there's not like a valid reason to risk much of anything like that.
5. Provides partial protection against 4 strains of HPV compared to the fact there's dozens of strains.
6. Content and research seemed lacking in the information. There's a post marketing review already by page 7

I'm not a woman or a doctor but I'd pretty much avoid it entirely. So that leaves regular cervical screening (yeah you know after doing things) and I'm pretty sure you out to specifically request HPV testing aswell and the results before engaging in any sexual activity between the tests.

 

[M House]

Bump.

 

[Wendi]

I am curious why anyone would risk severe allergic reaction to the vaccine (which does seem to have higher rates than normal) when abstinence would prevent the same thing as the vaccine much more effectively and without risk of reaction?