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Last edited by teaze; 09-24-2012 at 06:59 AM.
If it was so harmful they wouldnt offer it. If you google the contraceptive injection the ammount of bad side effects people have wrote about it had me literally convinced it was an injection garanteed to make you infertile, but I know people who have had it an have kids(this was just an example I know its not exactly relevant). Its just silly, People love to spread venom lol.
I've had it and I'm fine.
I haven't gotten this vaccine but I happened to be on youtube today and some stories about Gardisil were on there (strange because I wasn't looking up anything even remotely related) try going on youtube and searching Gardasil. Maybe don't get all of the shots if you are worried.




um, I just got this a few weeks ago. My doc NEVER mentioned side affects and made it seem totally normal too.
Was it like strangely painful when they did the shot for you? My damn arm was bruised for like 5 days after!!
Now you have me scared.
I dont think Im gonna get the other two either.
*just watched some of the videos about warnings...deffinately not getting the other two shots.


I had it and felt sick. Went to the hot springs and ate really light for a bit. There is a ton of aluminum in the shot, which is bad for you, I guess one of the things that can bind to it is Cilantro, you can get pills or tincture, also charcoal pills.
There's also something else weird in it. Forget what its called. Easily googleable.
I'm fine.
I only had the one shot. I was not having any more after that. I don't sleep around.
I've read of women getting HPV after the shot ... they probably already had it... but then they got warts after they had the shot. Bleck.


I got the Gardasil shot years ago, never had any problems with it. I do remember having a pretty bruised arm but then again I bruise easy. I always say though, if your not comfortable with something don't let a doctor make you do it.
AKA: Kimber
Yeah, it depends on you.. and your terms. But I decided not to due to personal reasons and such... I had a bad exp with a shot one time where I got sick for a week or 2, this was about 7 years ago, from then I never decided to get optional shots.. But research your stuff, then decide.. I cannot help you more, sorry!
I've gotten all 3 like right after it first came out and I'm fine (well at least I seem to be)... When I was pregnant I discovered that the internet can be evil- I thought I had ever sort of pregnancy complication and I was self diagnosing all these 1 in a million type things... Chances are more likely than not you will be fine- just go to the doc if you notice anything out of the ordinary.





I got my gardasil shots in the military, and in a few months later, most of the girls that got it (including myself), got warts.






This was a big thing a little while back. There some rather horrible side effects to it but not everyone may get any of them ya know. Shame on your gyno for not telling you any and all side effects with it like they are supposed to. Just be careful and don't get stressed about it. Discuss it with your doctor before continuing.




the serious side effects are extremely rare and it it not designed to protect against all strains of HPV, only the ones they have found are most likely to cause cervical cancer.
it is bad that the doctor did not give you all the side effects, but then, i dont remember the doctor telling me all the "rare" side effects of any shot or procedure i have had done, and i have survived.
please dont freak out over some internet video and all the assorted random stuff you find online. Dont forget, people believed that doctor in england about the link between autism and vaccines, until his work was shown to not only not be good, but to be falsified and his license revoked.
A little knowledge can be a bad thing.
Go talk to your doctor if you are worried, and listen to them with an open mind. Ask all the questions you want.
I got all three shots and was warned that the third one especially would bruise and burn a bit afterwards which it did. I'm fine, and would discuss your specific concerns with your doctor.

I have to agree with two of the posters above. I was to have the shots right after I gave birth to my son and made sure before hand that I completely clean. I had one shot, no pain no burning no bruising, but was told when I was supposed to go back that they had ran out of the shot. Soon after, my insurance was cut off.
I stayed celebate for quite a while, but after noticing a bump I continued to go back for GYN appointments, only to find out I did in fact have a wart. 4 years later, I have full blown HPV and the beginning stages of cervical cancer.
I would NEVER get that vaccine. I didn't even want it in the first place.
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Bexxx - I have to disagree. Just because it's available to the consumer doesn't mean it's safe. The FDA pushes out thousands of products that reach the bare minimum for human use and consumption. Why? Because big business is cheap. You'll never get perfect, just good enough. Just because the complaints & side effects for some products aren't the majority doesn't mean they're invalid or not a possibility. A good protion of today's illnesses exist because of the poor condition and quality in/of things are manufactured. But that would be a novel length rant by itself.
xoscarletox - I am very sorry to hear that! Your post has me very concerned now. I got my first Gardasil shot back in April of last year and since I don't live in my hometown anymore, I wasn't able to go back and get the second (and third). I thought it was a good idea to get the vaccination done specifically to reduce my risks (even though I've been monogamous for 3 years now). I would hate if it somehow increased my risk.Stay strong.



I would NEVER get the Gardasil shot. The pharmaceutical companies rush these vaccines onto the market without really testing the long-term effects of the drug. It's really scary, I would be freaking out, too. I'm sure you'll be fine, though. Like someone else said, the really nasty side effects are rare.
Oh my.
While getting as informed as you can about health issues is certainly a good thing, you need to take most of the stuff you find on the Internet (particularly about vaccines) with several grains of salt. 99% of the things you find about vaccines haven't been vetted by anybody who both knows what they're talking about and doesn't have some sort of axe to grind.
It's not at all unusual for people to have various non-specific symptoms with no apparent explanation (trust me on this). Purely by chance, some of these people are going to be having those symptoms after they've had a vaccination, and some of them are going to show up on the Internet claiming that the vaccine caused their symptoms. But such claims are meaningless unless they are compared to the incidence of similar symptoms in comparable people who haven't taken the vaccine.
Unlike pharmaceutical treatments, vaccines in and of themselves don't have long-term adverse effects (there have been some claims in past about the preservatives that were used in certain vaccines, but none of them have panned out). The active component of a vaccine is something that resembles an infectious agent closely enough to get your immune system going but not closely enough to give you the disease in question.
Unlike medications that you keep taking over an extended period of time, the active components of vaccines are cleared from your body very quickly. So quickly, in fact, that getting them to hang around long enough to have an effect is one of the biggest barriers to making effective vaccines. This problem is one of the reasons why some vaccines require multiple doses.
The only real dangers from a potential vaccine are that it either won't work (which is by far the most common problem in vaccine development) or that it will give you the disease in question. Neither of these questions is particularly difficult to address, so the testing that has been performed with vaccines before they are released is perfectly adequate. As far as Gardasil itself is concerned, it doesn't even contain complete viruses, or anything that ever was a complete virus, so it can no more give you warts than an (uncontaminated) saline injection can.
Now, it's certainly true that rare individuals can have idiosyncratic immune reactions to vaccines (something similar to an allergy). Such reactions are more common with the later doses because your immune system has had more time to ramp itself up in response to the vaccine components (which is what you want it do to). But any medical treatment involves some sort of balancing of uncertain risks with uncertain potential benefits. For any sexually active young woman, the potential benefits of HPV vaccination so outweigh the risks that it's as if someone is offering to sell you a lottery ticket that has a 50/50 chance of being the super jackpot for a dollar. Experience with literally billions of doses of various vaccines (and they all work basically the same way) backs this up.
Even if you don't want to get vaccinated yourself, please don't go totally off the deep end and refuse to get your children vaccinated (if you have or ever will have them). It's one thing to pay attention to Internet cranks when it comes to your own health, but it's hugely irresponsible to do so where your children are concerned.




How is it irresponsible to take in all of the information provided from a doctor and from internet information and use this to make your judgement call on what it is you vaccinate your own children with?
Sounds a bit harsh don't you think? Everyone is going to do what they believe is best for their children based one the information they receive. We all do it for ourselves as well. Nothing wrong with that.
Also the real smart thing for people to do, (which would make them incredibly responsible) is to call the company and request the MSDS sheets before actually taking these things. We can do that, they are available to the public.
No indeed. But the devil, as they say, is in the details. Any pediatrician with a license to practice medicine is going to recommend the full schedule of childhood vaccinations in the overwhelming majority of cases. The overwhelming majority of vaccination sites on the Internet are going to recommend exactly the opposite. When the rubber meets the road, a parent is going to have to decide which of these sources of information to believe. Quite frankly, I do think it irresponsible to listen to Jenny McCarthy (as sincere as I'm sure she is) rather than the American Academy of Pediatrics when it comes to a child's health.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all in favor of people being skeptical about new pharmaceuticals (if only because of they disgraceful way they are marketed). But vaccines, by their their very nature, really are inherently much safer. I've always thought it strange that some people have chosen vaccines, which are administered only two or three times total, to demonize rather than medications that are taken two or three times a day for weeks or months. Perhaps it's because, to quote Homer Simpson, "We're always spending money buying vaccinations for diseases the kids never get."
I had it when it first came out, and no side effects, even these few years later.
You can find horror stories for just about anything if you search long enough. I saw this TV show one time that showcased a girl who had half her ear eaten off by a virus from an ear piercing she got that became infected, and another lady who now has permanent hyperpigmentation of half her face from a tanning bed that malfunctioned while she was in it. Yet I'm willing to bet that the majority of us using this forum wouldn't have been scared off of getting an ear piercing or using a tanning bed based on that information - just perhaps more cautious.
The best way is probably to bring up all your concerns with your doctor (or even more than one doctor), and then make an informed decision based on those conversations - not random stuff from the internet.



had the 3 shots n i am perfectly fine no side effects.
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