Post here if you, your dc, or someone close to you has been injured by a vaccine.

[dalia]

I'm not sure if there is another post like this but I am interested in hearing from those whose lives have been affected by vaccine injuries. Would like to hear what the vaccine was and the nature of the injury, if you feel comfortable sharing specifics.

[EviesMom]

Sure, but I am a delayed vaxer, not a non-vaxer.

My mother died from breathing complications with post-polio syndrome. She had polio as a child, generally considered by the local doctor, her parents, relatives, etc. to be from an issue with the oral polio vaccine as there were no wild cases of polio in the area at that time.

There also was no reasonable way for my grandparents to sue or make complaint to the vaccine manufacturer at that time. (Now, 50 years passed between her having polio and her death, and there were other obvious health issues as well in her life.)

Edited by EviesMom - 3/9/11 at 2:27pm

[Xerxella]

Alright...

My nephew missed his 2 months shots, so at the 4 month visit they caught him up with all the 2 month shots and the 4 month shots and the flu.  He immediately ceased babbling and just lay there for days.  He wouldn't take his bottle and when he did he would throw the whole thing up.  He became dehydrated and listless.  He was commited to the hospital and given iv fluids and diagnosed with the flu (didn't he just get the vaccine for that?).  He got a little better, but continued to be in and out of the hospital.  He couldn't keep anything down for any amount of time.  They tried every formula, food, etc.  As his weight fell off the charts, my sister in law got desperate.  They finally diagnosed him as essentially allergic to every food.  His disorder, an autoimmune disease called eosinophilic esophagitis, causes his body to reject virtually all food. The only thing he can eat is these pre digested drinks.  There was finally a doc at Childrens that admitted it could have been caused by the vaccines, but they say there's no way to know for sure. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophilic_esophagitis 

http://www.eosinophilicesophagitishome.org/ 

[MountainMamaGC]

My friends baby started getting bloody diarrhea after her 4 month shots. She thinks its from the shots, because they have bovine serum, and it was discovered that the cow milk proteins were causing the bleeding, when this was not an issue before the shots.

My DH's cousin regressed after his MMR over 20 years ago. He has been diagnosed with aspergers.

[tea_time]

My friend's 1yr old son had a seizure after the flu shot this year.  He had to go to the ER but is doing fine now (no apparent brain damage).

[WantRice]

My cousin died as a toddler, from a vaccine reaction. This was back in the 70s and I'm not sure which vaccine it was:( 

[miriam]

My favorite Aunt had anaphylactic shock from a smallpox vaccine.  She was weakened from it for the rest of her life and her ill health challenged everything she did. She never married and never learned to drive a car.  

My niece has juvenile arthritis; she has been hospitalized many times for it; the medicine for her condition has burned her esophagus and she cannot speak well. 

I had a friend from high school develop Guillan-Barre syndrome from the swine flu shot. She died in 1994 from complications. 

A little girl in my and my son's mommy'n'me class had a reaction to a childhood vaccine on the way home from the doctor's office while her mom was driving; she went straight to the ER; she has severe epilepsy and brain damage - the little girl was not that way before that day, as I had taken care of her and my son while her mom ran errands.

My BIL told me that he always felt assaulted and sick after any and all of his vaccinations.

BTW, none of these people ever sued or were compensated for the damage done to them.

[miriam]

Originally Posted by EviesMom 

There also was no reasonable way for my grandparents to sue or make complaint to the vaccine manufacturer at that time. (Now, 50 years passed between her having polio and her death, and there were other obvious health issues as well in her life.)

mmm, ever hear of Melvin Belli, attorney, the King of Torts?  He wrote product liability law in the 1940s and 1950s, and got his reputation by suing the early manufacturers of the polio vaccine because those vaccines caused polio. Lots of people sued, and won. 

Read The Cutter Incident, by Paul Offit

www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864181-1,00.html

And then ask yourself why Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin never won a Nobel Peace Prize for their work.

[EviesMom]

Originally Posted by miriam 

mmm, ever hear of Melvin Belli, attorney, the King of Torts?  He wrote product liability law in the 1940s and 1950s, and got his reputation by suing the early manufacturers of the polio vaccine because those vaccines caused polio. Lots of people sued, and won. 

Read The Cutter Incident, by Paul Offit

www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864181-1,00.html

And then ask yourself why Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin never won a Nobel Peace Prize for their work.

uh, okay. My grandfather told me late in his life that he thought the vaccine injured my mother and my aunts all say that my grandmother and grandfather thought so when my mother was little, but that they didn't know what to do about it. Perhaps as you say they could have done something if they'd been in the right place and had the right contacts. Nonetheless, they didn't seem to have ever known that, and they never sued.

Although that article is fascinating, so thanks!

Edited by EviesMom - 3/11/11 at 11:22pm

[sosurreal09]

My DD after ANY vax has blood in her stool (with immense pain), and gets multiple infections (ear, bronchitis, sinus ect). She also after her 4 m/o shots started screaming in her sleep and shaking (Dr. thought it was mini-seizures)..that and the rest of the problems lasted until she was almost 1 y/o, We stopped vaxing at 9 m/o and magically she had no problems since then until we tried to JUST vax for HIB (2 months ago) and she had the blood back in her stool, has had 2 ear infections, bronchitis, a sinus infection, and a virus...

The dr's say it's all one big coincidence...I think it's awfully coincidental that no one could diagnose WHY my baby's intestines were inflamed and bleeding (and told me to just not worry about it(this is after I eliminated all foods except a few varieties of veggies and beans)) They were going to knock her out and do an endoscopy and a colonoscopy, but I was scared and kept putting it off. But MAGICALLY a few months after we stopped vaxing her, her gut healed and for the first time in her whole life she had no blood in her stool. (and trust me we had tested weeks worth of stools at a time) She also only got 3 colds in 6 months...well all that until I was scared and just got her the last HIB shot. Now she's sick, sick, sick...again. I am kicking myself and know now I WILL NEVER GIVE HER A VAX EVER AGAIN or any of my future kids for that matter.

[dalia]

 Wow. I just want to thank everyone who has posted here. These are hard stories to tell, but we must continue to tell them to remind ourselves and others that vaccines can cause harm. My heart goes out to all the children who have suffered, and to the parents of those children. Shame on those doctors who invalidate parents' claims and call reactions a coincidence. Parents know their children better than any doctor!

[rebecca_n]

Originally Posted by Xerxella 

Alright...

My nephew missed his 2 months shots, so at the 4 month visit they caught him up with all the 2 month shots and the 4 month shots and the flu.  He immediately ceased babbling and just lay there for days.  He wouldn't take his bottle and when he did he would throw the whole thing up.  He became dehydrated and listless.  He was commited to the hospital and given iv fluids and diagnosed with the flu (didn't he just get the vaccine for that?).  He got a little better, but continued to be in and out of the hospital.  He couldn't keep anything down for any amount of time.  They tried every formula, food, etc.  As his weight fell off the charts, my sister in law got desperate.  They finally diagnosed him as essentially allergic to every food.  His disorder, an autoimmune disease called eosinophilic esophagitis, causes his body to reject virtually all food. The only thing he can eat is these pre digested drinks.  There was finally a doc at Childrens that admitted it could have been caused by the vaccines, but they say there's no way to know for sure. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophilic_esophagitis 

http://www.eosinophilicesophagitishome.org/ 

that doesn't sound right even for "normal" vaccinating. if they caught him up its my understanding they would just do the first set of vaccinations... did they give him double doses?? and the flu vaccine isn't supposed to be given to children younger than 6 months old. whoever his doctor is sounds like they really screwed up. i'm sorry about your nephew
 

[Turquesa]

Originally Posted by dalia Shame on those doctors who invalidate parents' claims and call reactions a coincidence.

In the event that doctors get dismissive, parents (or anybody else) have the right to report the reaction to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).  Unfortunately, I fear that a lot of parents are unaware that they have this right, which could lead to the problem of under-reporting. 

[miriam]

Originally Posted by Turquesa 

In the event that doctors get dismissive, parents (or anybody else) have the right to report the reaction to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).  Unfortunately, I fear that a lot of parents are unaware that they have this right, which could lead to the problem of under-reporting. 

This is estimation and speculation that as few as 10% of all vaccine reactions are ever reported to VAERS.
 

[miriam]

Originally Posted by EviesMom 

 Perhaps as you say they could have done something if they'd been in the right place and had the right contacts. Nonetheless, they didn't seem to have ever known that, and they never sued.

That is always the case....right time, right place, right contacts.  There was also plenty of information in the news as various states halted the polio vaccine distribution in the early and mid 1950s as Massachusetts and Idaho because of reactions like the Cutter Incident throughout the country.  Many polio cases that you may have heard of were caused by the vaccine and other environmental factors as DDT.

And please note, that the manufacturers of the bad vaccines went out of the vaccine business back in those days.   

Now, with VAERS, there is no incentive to improve their product as the taxpayers are picking up the tab on vaccine damage, so instead of spending money on quality control, money is spent on making more vaccines with little attention paid to quality - just quantity.

[Turquesa]

Originally Posted by miriam  

Now, with VAERS, there is no incentive to improve their product as the taxpayers are picking up the tab on vaccine damage, so instead of spending money on quality control, money is spent on making more vaccines with little attention paid to quality - just quantity.

I think you mean NVIC, National Vaccine Injury Compensation.  Too many acronyms, lol!

That's interesting about only 10% of cases being reports to VAERS (the other acronym ), but as you implied, that must be difficult to quantify.

[miriam]

No.  I mean the national reporting system for vaccine reactions. Only 10% of reactions are estimated to be reported.

[Marnica]

Originally Posted by miriam 

No.  I mean the national reporting system for vaccine reactions. Only 10% of reactions are estimated to be reported.

I think 10% is on the generous side. It's been estimated by the former head of the CDC that only 1-10% of adverse events are reported.

 

[Otto]

Originally Posted by Marnica 

I think 10% is on the generous side. It's been estimated by the former head of the CDC that only 1-10% of adverse events are reported.

I thought this was the stat usually quoted for the British reporting system, possibly from Am. J. Public Health. Do you have a citation handy?

[3TsMom]

My son had a severe vaccine reaction last spring.  He was given incorrect vaccines by a nurse at the pedi and while we do not know 100% what he was given (his records don't match up) we and his doctors believe he received an incorrect dose of:  MMR, Varicella, DTap and Hep A.  All of which he'd already had and was not due for.  We are 9 months in and it has been a long, scary road to say the least.  He's doing well now and it hurts my heart to think of the living hell he went through.  In chronological order, his symptoms included:

·     Frantically shoves hands in mouth.  Pulling outward on his teeth.

·      Seizure like activity - eye tics, progressed with slight head jerk forward / eyes rolling to the side

·      Severe exhaustion, able to stand/move 1-2 hours a day

·      Demyelination

·      General look of being brain damaged, vacant stares, feeling ill (sick eyes)

·      Mild fever, always below 100

·      Severe screaming - 10 hours plus at a time

·      Arm Swinging

·      Spinning

·      Toe Walking

·      Gait changes, difficultly walking

·      Slurred speech

·      Repetitive speech, getting stuck on one word for 50+ times while ticking

·      Loss/change in vocabulary and associating words (around 60%) ie, broccoli was peas and the color wheel was backwards suddenly

·      Stuttering

·      Repetitive speech – stuck on one word 50ish+ times

·      Repetitive Self Injurious behavior

·      Head banging

·      Severe Aggression

·      Light sensitive

·      Motion sensitive

·      Noise sensitive (severe)

·      Red bumpy rash on his back, complains of back pain/bug bite

·      Full body rash – red and bumpy

·      Pink splotches in his urine

·      Pain (ears, chest, legs)

·      Complains of “bugs in his ears” constantly

·      Changes in sleep, cries out, longer transition time from awake to asleep

·      Complains of a headaches

      After time, many therapies (OT, speech, auditory listening programs), changing our diets and toxic exposures, he's close to making a recovery.  To look at him now, you'd never know the hell he went through, truly.  During the worst of it he looked brain damaged and vacant.  We've done a lot of biomedical treatments with help him, vitamins, minerals, anti-virals, focused on methylation and detoxification.  His myelin sheath was severely damaged for several months but we've worked hard to rebuild it.  We are very thankful to his (new) doctors who are neuro immune specialists and his OT for pulling him through.  He's doing amazingly well and has been discharged from all therapies.  He is still *extremely* chemical sensitive.  He has to have all organic, non-gmo food, certain water, very low toxic exposure, no pesticides, very natural living in order to not regress.  We tried to travel with him once and he regressed within days.  We have no long term idea of how long that it will last.  His immune system is fragile.  We will always fear the regression will return.  If you want you can read more of his story on our personal blog (link in siggy).

Edit:  I also wanted to add that the local children's hospital and several specialists told us to go home and wait it out.  They said in 6 months we'd have a better prognosis.  We ignored then and turned to alternative medicine.  That choice saved him.  I can't imagine where he would be otherwise.  We were told there really was no hope for reversing what had been done to him.  They were wrong.  I just wanted to add that in case another momma comes across this post and her child suffers from a vaccine.  There IS hope for recovery.