HPV vaccine is dangerous?

The HPV vaccine was tested in over 20 thousand young people before being marketed, with no significant safety signals that I am aware of.

In this case, the internet is not the best source of information. Nevertheless, check the FDA website itself for a more accurate representation of what was needed to get this vaccine approved by a very stringent and safety-focused agency such as the FDA.

 

Internet pro-tip: If it says "The truth about..." assume it's a lie!

 

That's the one vaccine I refuse to have. Back when it first came out there were a lot of adverse reactions. Knew a person who was given the shot, stood up, and promptly passed out.

 

The chances of getting HPV are low in any case; using protection will lower it substantially more. No one can say you won't get it (I know, this can make some people nervous) but the chances are very, very low when using a condom.

 

Michelle Bachmann spread lies about Gardasil during her run for the republican nomination for president, including it will cause retardation in young children, trying to scare people away from taking the HPV vaccine. These are all lies, and the vaccine is completely safe, and I suggest you take it, because HPV is a really bad thing if you get it, but even worse for women.

 

The HPV vaccines sole purpose is to protect against vaginal and rectal cancers, as well as genital warts. Its literally why it was designed. There is no such thing as a drug that does not offer possible side effects. It is highly implausible that you would gain cancer from receiving any of these vaccines, nor does there need to be more time before evidence of that is discovered because that is simply not how cancer operates.

When you are in doubt of any health issue, always talk to an actual health professional. Everything on the internet is not a reliable source.

 

Without knowing the finer details, it's hard to be definitive, but maybe it was just because the person isn't good with needles, whether they know it consciously or not?

 

+1.

Especially since a reaction to the drug that quickly would be physiologically impossible...

 

I said it above, but I will elaborate a bit more in hopes that it might make more sense. Drugs, vitamins, and supplements are products that can result in long term and future damage to the body. This is because these products alter the bodies natural chemical distribution, or even introduce entirely new elements that humans don't naturally produce. Hypothetically, this is how a long term side effects would arise.

A vaccination is not a drug regime. I'm clearly not going to claim anything to be impossible, but there is near zero percent chance that you could receive a vaccine today and show signs of damage in twenty years. And I mean as near zero as possibly possible. A vaccine is most commonly a cocktail of the live, or nearly dead, organic cells of the virus or disease it is meant to protect you from. Once the cells have entered the blood stream the immune system begins to attack it, and through it's success is how the body gains its immunity.

So, you have to understand; if a vaccine was defective, the only possible period that negative effects could arise is within the incubation period of that disease. You are not going to receive a faulty influenza vaccination and die as a result in twenty years. Again, I don't like saying things are impossible.....but that pretty damn impossible.

If you don't want to get a vaccination directly after its release, that is perfectly reasonable. But we have long passed the incubation period for the HPV vaccine. It is ultimately your choice; I only want to make sure that you are making an educated decision and not simply listening to inaccurate speculation.

 

According to them, it was the only vaccine they'd had issues with.

Not according to the CDC. Vaccines: Vac-Gen/Side Effects Scroll down to Gardisil/Cervarix

"Life-threatening allergic reactions from vaccines are very rare. If they do occur, it would be within a few minutes to a few hours after the vaccination." Then it goes on to mention fainting.

If I recall correctly, it was her second shot of gardisil. First one went fine, second didn't.

 

Definitely. This is why at my previous employer, when they provided flu shots, it was required to get it in the first half of your shift, so you wouldn't be driving home if you had a reaction. (They had people on standby those days, and there were a lot of people with various allergies at that workplace)