your opinion on vaccines

[ckujoth]

Thank you to everyone who participated in this survey previously! I am looking for a few more responses if anyone has the time.

My name is Carrie and I am a nursing student at DePaul University. I would really appreciate your help in completing my project about influences on parental immunization decisions. If you agree, you will need to complete an online survey through the link provided below, which will take about 20 minutes of your time and is completely anonymous.

Please contact me if you have any questions.


If you agree to participate please go to this address http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/vaccine
Thank you in advance for your participation!

[Turquesa]

Hi Carrie. One of my wee little peeves is when I agree to participate in a research project and the researcher never shares the results. Or sometimes they claim that they will and then never follow through. Before we agree to participate, would you mind telling us when and where the results will be available?

[kotapop]

Describe the process you went through to decide whether or not to vaccinate your child(ren).

Hi, this is my first time posting on the MDC forums, not sure if this is an appropriate place to post so here goes. I was just filling out this survey and thought I'd share some of my reasons for indefinitely delaying vaccination that I posted to the survey. It is a bit rambling but was the best I could do while trying to be succinct.

Describe the process you went through to decide whether or not to vaccinate your child(ren).

I have a 14 yr. old stepdaughter who, until recently, I was not in charge of the medical decisions for. When my 7 month old was born, I hadn't researched vaccines, just assuming they were safe because the doctors all said so. But I was hesitant when told a newborn needed a vaccine for an STD, and asked if it was really necessary so soon and whether it could wait. The doctors and nurses I spoke with all insisted it was, and as I was a bit overwhelmed by having just given birth, I believed them and agreed to giving the shot to her. Then at her 2 month checkup she had a bad reaction to (I suspect) her DTaP shot, unable to sleep and screaming on and off for two days. Her pediatrician's office seemed unfazed when I called them. Shortly after, my stepdaughter was taken in for the HPV vaccine which she was told was necessary, but would likely make her faint at the very least. This brought back memories for me from the year before when I received the flu vaccine while pregnant, and began experiencing dangerous fainting episodes which I had to go to the ER for. My doctors said there was no way it could possibly have anything to do with the flu vaccine, and attributed the cause to my having eaten "only a bagel" for breakfast (which was an hour before I passed out and is what I have eaten for breakfast every other day for as long as I can remember, yet had never had any fainting issues in my life). I then began researching vaccines, and was alarmed by learning of all the potential adverse reactions they pose (as well as the unethical conflict of interest between the CDC and pharmaceutical companies). I tried to discuss their merits and risks with our pediatrician, who answered every question with a quote taken verbatim from the latest issue of Pediatrics, then told me the office would drop my children as patients if I did not follow the CDC schedule precisely and on time. I have since found a new pediatrician who I am happy with, putting my kids on an indefinitely delayed selective vaccination schedule that suits them as individuals.

[MountainMamaGC]

Here is my response to one of the questions

I also think you should have people elaborate more on the true flase questions. They are very open ended questions. You are setting up a trap. I know what the studies say on those questions, although I am not sure I agree. My guess is that you will use those true false questions to prove how misguided and stupid non vaxers are.

[bcblondie]

I participated. I agree that I didn't like the true and false thing. As if we're uninformed or something.

I'm not 100% sure if you are for or against. I'm assuming for. But by posting here you will get almost entirely "against" answers. Just so's ya know.

[amnesiac]

Please communicate directly with the OP via PM rather than posting to the board. Thanks!