My child's vax reaction: Well Baby visit 4 to 6 years - Page 2

[angelpie545]

This wasn't a well-baby visit, but I thought I'd share my daugher's reaction. When my oldest was four, she was outside playing and came in screaming with a bloody foot. I freaked and went outside looking for what she had stepped on, but couldn't find it. I knew that tetanus is often fatal and just sort of lost it and took her into the ER for a vax (they have me a fact sheet on the DTaP, and I believe that also gave her tetanus immune globulin-I was just so scared that the whole thing was pretty much a blur). In hindsight I realized that tetanus probably wasn't likely at all since her wound was GUSHING blood and it wasn't that deep. It's just that you hear tetanus associated with puncture wounds, especially on the feet, so that's why I tripped out like I did.

Anyway, I had orginally not vaxed her because I had this inate sense that she was more sensitive to things (chemicals, medications, ext.) like I was, and that she might be at risk for SIDS. I don't know why I thought those things, maybe paranoia, but I just felt like vaxing her as an infant wasn't the right thing to do. However, I figured that now that she was older if she had a reaction it would be rather mild. I was right that she had a reaction-she spiked a fever, vomited, and was out of it for a couple of days afterwards. Thankfully she recovered with no lasting side effects, but now I am wondering just how bad that could have been had she been a baby bombarded with multiple vaxes. She had a near-SIDS like even once when she was about four months old (well sort of-she was napping and I was watching her breathe when all of the sudden she stopped-I waited for a few moments to see if she would breathe again, then panicked and moved her, and she sighed and started breating again) so I wonder if it would have been much worse if I had vaxed her.

[LavenderMae]

My daughter reacted to the 2 month vaccines. I'm not sure what all the vaccines she received were but I know she got the DTP (at the time they didn't routinely give the DTaP) and the dead polio vax (because I wouldn't let them give her the live one). She had the high pitched/non-stop scream, actually right after the vaccines she fell asleep as soon as I picked her up but not much later maybe 20 minutes she woke up and had the high pitched scream. The ped said it was a 'normal' reaction of course. :rolleye I don't recall any unusual reactions to the vaccines after unitl her 5 year old shots (right before I found Mothering and stopped vaccinating), again I would have to find her vaccine records to know exactly what she received but I know she got the chicken pox vax (can't remember the name of it). Anyway her upper right thigh swelled up to almost twice it's size and was hot to the touch for probably a month (again ped said it was normal). She still periodically has pain in that thigh.
My daughter was an extremely high needs baby and is a very spirited child. She has behavioural issues, impulse control issues and is hyper ect. I am convinced that her issues are from vaccine damage. We don't plan on getting any diagnoses(sp?) for her issues though, we homeschool so we don't need one for school or anything (she is extremely intelligent and doesn't appear to have any learning disabilities).
I am grateful it wasn't worse but I don't believe I'll ever forgive myself for vaccinating her. My instincts were screaming at me not to but I didn't think I had a choice. I did question the ped a lot about vaccines and read what I could find , which wasn't much. But not once did I read or was I told I could decline them, I can only imagine what that information would have meant for my daughter.

[Tracy]

Originally Posted by Sheacoby

My daughter reacted to the 2 month vaccines. I'm not sure what all the vaccines she received were but I know she got the DTP (at the time they didn't routinely give the DTaP) and the dead polio vax (because I wouldn't let them give her the live one). She had the high pitched/non-stop scream, actually right after the vaccines she fell asleep as soon as I picked her up but not much later maybe 20 minutes she woke up and had the high pitched scream. The ped said it was a 'normal' reaction of course. :rolleye I don't recall any unusual reactions to the vaccines after unitl her 5 year old shots (right before I found Mothering and stopped vaccinating), again I would have to find her vaccine records to know exactly what she received but I know she got the chicken pox vax (can't remember the name of it). Anyway her upper right thigh swelled up to almost twice it's size and was hot to the touch for probably a month (again ped said it was normal). She still periodically has pain in that thigh.
My daughter was an extremely high needs baby and is a very spirited child. She has behavioural issues, impulse control issues and is hyper ect. I am convinced that her issues are from vaccine damage. We don't plan on getting any diagnoses(sp?) for her issues though, we homeschool so we don't need one for school or anything (she is extremely intelligent and doesn't appear to have any learning disabilities).
I am grateful it wasn't worse but I don't believe I'll ever forgive myself for vaccinating her. My instincts were screaming at me not to but I didn't think I had a choice. I did question the ped a lot about vaccines and read what I could find , which wasn't much. But not once did I read or was I told I could decline them, I can only imagine what that information would have meant for my daughter.

I think there are many people who still have no idea that they can decline.

sigh.

Thank you for your posting.

[Tracy]

What do I think happened? I think that between the DPT and the flu shot, the camels back was finally broken, that it was too many shots and one shot too many. I think that by taking him off of a standard diet and putting him on one that contained way more whole living foods combined with supplements, it gave his body a chance to heal most of the damage. I say most because we are still dealing with issues that we had never had to deal with before. His neurologist ( who we have since fired) is still baffled. He flat out refuses to admit Gabe was vax injured. The PIS is pretty open to the possibility that the vaxs did this to him, however, we have no way to prove this other than anecdotal evidence and common sense. He was doing very well before the vaxes, and crashed and burned after them. So this, in a nutshell, is how my son was vax damaged and how I came to make the choice that my kids will not be vaxed anymore.

I just reread your post again and I am shocked that your ped would not give gabe at least the thimerasol free shot. Honestly, who was she saving it for???

[Tracy]

bump.