By Andrea Herlth from Higganum, CT
SaneVax.org
Misinformed about Dangers of Gardasil
If I could turn back time, I would go back to 10/1/13, the day before Korey received the 1st Gardasil vaccine for HPV. I would not have allowed the pediatrician to give her the HPV Vaccine just as I had refused it for the previous 4 years!!!!
But, I had not heard anything negative about Gardasil, and mistakenly, I thought she needed this vaccine. Why would our pediatrician give this vaccine if it was not proven or safe? Gardasil is a 3 dose vaccine. I have heard it is not recommended for those with asthma, but I was not told this when she received the shot. Korey has pretty moderate asthma, well-controlled but asthma, nonetheless.
If I could turn back time, Korey would not have received any Gardasil shots. The sad reality is that she received shots 1 and 2 of the 3 dose series. The first on 10/2/13 seemed uneventful. She received the 2nd booster on 12/2/13. This changed Korey’s life and ours as we had come to know it! She never received the 3rd shot since she became dizzy and nauseous within a few days of receiving the 2nd shot. The 2nd shot had triggered a downward spiral in her physical, mental, and emotional health.
Health Problems with No Answers
We brought her back to her pediatrician on 12/9/13 with complaints of dizziness and nausea. We got a referral to see a GI doctor at this visit. Our pediatrician offered a neurologist referral at this visit also, but we did not pursue this since she said she had not seen any other issues with the Gardasil vaccine. The dizziness became full blown vertigo and was constant and accompanied by vicious nausea.
It is now 2/18/15 as I write “Korey’s Story”, and the vertigo and nausea are still with her! There were also subtle changes and symptoms that now make sense. Korey reported visual disturbances such as blurred vision, floaters, and sensitivity to light. We mistakenly thought this new set of visual issues was related to Korey’s visual processing and went back to her neuro-optometrist. He thought her viscera had stretched causing floaters and also that her vision had become unstable.
Korey’s anxiety seemed to increase, and she no longer could sleep in her own room: She felt flutters in her heart and also reported a rapid beat. She could not get to sleep and when she did had terrible nightmares and “movies” that would play out in her head. This would terrify her.
A Different Life with Gardasil Injuries
At the beginning of her freshman year in September of 2013 (before Gardasil), she had signed up to take a trip to Epcot with the Concert Choir. By the time January, 2014 (after Gardasil) rolled around we tried to cancel her out of the trip, it was too late to cancel….it was also obvious that she could not go out to Florida with teachers and classmates without our support.
We decided to take the trip and travel by car and meet the group. Korey could not travel by plane due to increasing anxiety and increasing vertigo and nausea. She drove to Disney with us in April of 2014. It was a tough trip as she was unable to stay in her assigned room with three roommates, she was unable to stay in the Parks with MHS Concert Choir and Band due to the crowds, and she was afraid of passing out on stage when practicing for the performance at Epcot.
I had to give her medication for the choir rehearsals and also for the main performance. She was visibly unhappy on stage and so different from previous performances in Middle School and after when she had been able to sing a solo at a summer student Cabaret.
I was not sure what happened to “our girl” but was certain “something” had changed. Music and singing were her passions along with horses and animals which explains her applying for the VOAG Program. (It was not until months later we found out heat has a huge impact on people with POTS.)
Condition Worsens
When we returned from our trip to Disney in April, I began to try to find a professional to pull all of Korey’s information together and tell us what was happening to her. The panic attacks became more frequent. She opted out of singing at one of the required concerts for the Choir and chose to do a research paper instead!
During the past few months, we added many new complaints to Korey’s list of things that were not quite right: Fatigue, joint pain, muscle aches, tremors, tics, headaches, neuropathy, the feeling as though she would pass out. She would cry frequently and just be out of sorts….not the same girl she was at the beginning of freshman year.
On 2/20/15 she saw a Neurologist in NY City for a tilt table test and also for nerve conduction testing. The POTS was verified that day as well as demyelinating neuropathy!
(Editor’s note: Recent studies link POTS to the Gardasil vaccine. See: Cardiologist Comments on New Study Linking HPV Vaccines to POTS.)
If I Could Turn Back Time
If I could turn back time, Korey would still be happy and healthy. She would still be enjoying horseback riding at Ray of Light Farm and also at High Hopes. She would still be going to school and in the Vocational Agriculture Program at Middletown High School. She would be volunteering at Ray of Light Farm for her Supervised Agricultural Experience Credit: SAE coincides with the VOAG Program.
She was spending a few hours each Saturday helping to muck the stalls and tend to horses and other animals. Ray of Light held birthday parties on Saturdays, and Korey often led one of the ponies for the pony rides for the party-goers! The was the best of all worlds and a truly wonderful SAE placement for Korey as it gave her the animal / human experience, but also the interaction skill practice with both adults and children. She often gave Farm tours for those attending the birthday parties.
If I could turn back time, Korey would not have several syndromes caused by Gardasil. She would not experience extreme fatigue, pain, numbness and tingling, twitches and tics. She would not have constant headaches, dizziness, and nausea. She would not have blurry vision and floaters or the torture which comes with having PANS.
Korey would be singing in Concert Choir and proud of her beautiful soprano voice. She would be taking care of our own menagerie of animals at home. She has 3 dogs, 2 outdoor cats, 3 Peking ducks, 16 or so chickens and guinea hens, and of course, Snickers, her handsome calico rabbit that came from Ray of Light Farm! She would still be earning extra SAE hours for taking care of our animals and cleaning the coops and yard….That is if I could turn back time.
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Medical Doctors Opposed to Forced Vaccinations – Should Their Views be Silenced?
One of the biggest myths being propagated in the compliant mainstream media today is that doctors are either pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine, and that the anti-vaccine doctors are all “quacks.”
However, nothing could be further from the truth in the vaccine debate. Doctors are not unified at all on their positions regarding “the science” of vaccines, nor are they unified in the position of removing informed consent to a medical procedure like vaccines.
The two most extreme positions are those doctors who are 100% against vaccines and do not administer them at all, and those doctors that believe that ALL vaccines are safe and effective for ALL people, ALL the time, by force if necessary.
Very few doctors fall into either of these two extremist positions, and yet it is the extreme pro-vaccine position that is presented by the U.S. Government and mainstream media as being the dominant position of the medical field.
In between these two extreme views, however, is where the vast majority of doctors practicing today would probably categorize their position. Many doctors who consider themselves “pro-vaccine,” for example, do not believe that every single vaccine is appropriate for every single individual.
Many doctors recommend a “delayed” vaccine schedule for some patients, and not always the recommended one-size-fits-all CDC childhood schedule. Other doctors choose to recommend vaccines based on the actual science and merit of each vaccine, recommending some, while determining that others are not worth the risk for children, such as the suspect seasonal flu shot.
These doctors who do not hold extreme positions would be opposed to government-mandated vaccinations and the removal of all parental exemptions.
In this article, I am going to summarize the many doctors today who do not take the most extremist pro-vaccine position, which is probably not held by very many doctors at all, in spite of what the pharmaceutical industry, the federal government, and the mainstream media would like the public to believe.