Please Tell Me Your Experience with Adverse Reactions to Vaccines?!

Research Wakefield (he is no longer a doctor, he had his license pulled) and you will learn the truth about what started the talks about the MMR and Autism, how it was one mans attempt to make money on his own recently patented measles only vaccine.

As for the others, research each one and the disease it is meant to lesson or prevent and see if you can reach a compromise with the father, getting only those shots that have the best risk to benefit ratio.

As a nurse, and mother to three children I am going to be very blunt with you. I am one who 99% of the time will back my patients decisions. However, I believe that children should always be vaccinated. I wish you had the chance to speak to the parents of a child who suffered irreversible nervous system function and brain damage because they thought that they were protecting their child from any of the nasty adverse reactions of vaccines. Had they known better, they would have vaccinated. Or how about the mom who decided that the MMR was not for child. She took her child, whom had contacted measles ( she was not aware) to the park and infected 3 children, 2 of which died, because they were not old enough to be vaccinated. She now goes to bed every night not only knowing that measles can be lethal, but that she was responsible for the deaths of two very small children. I honestly think you are being very selfish, and really need to think about the irreversible damage that can be contacted from diseases that can be prevented. Yes, there are risk (very very tiny percentage) that can occur from vaccines. But your child has a bigger chance of being struck by lightning.

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Are you and your family vaccinated? Do you believe this has contributed in any way to your immunity from childhood diseases?
Look, we've had decades of vaccines in this country, so most of us don't remember kids dying from polio, whooping cough, scarlet fever, measles, or mumps. But vaccines saved countless lives, and continue to do so. Cholera outbreak in Haiti stopped? Thank you, vaccines! Childhood deaths in Africa reduced from measles? Thank you, vaccines! I had mumps when I was little. Those diseases are still out there, but they are no longer common, thanks almost entirely to vaccines.
But I live in West Palm Beach and we don't have those here, you say. No immigrant population nearby, or in your public schools? The chance of any non-immunocompromised child getting one of those diseases in the US is unlikely, with the exceptions of rotavirus, varicella, and tetanus. Lots of kids get those. So your daughter is at low personal risk for getting one, until the no vaccine crowd reduces herd immunity and kids start dying again.
It concerns me that you are asking for personal anecdotes to refute scientific data. The big study that the anti-vaccine crowd pointed to was proven to have been based on falsified data. So basically you don't believe in science. You clearly believe you and your family are superior to your husband and his family, so you are not inclined to believe anything he says on anything. In this case he is right and you are dead wrong.
A vaccine hurting her brain cells? Where did you get that one? Very few molecules cross the blood-brain barrier and that isn't how antibodies work anyway. Do you not believe in western medicine at all? My family eats well and exercises, but we live and travel in the third world, so we're exposed to a lot. Why does your "holistic" approach not include a common sense approach to health care, instead of this tinfoil hat belief in irreparable brain damage? Also, infertility is not a lifestyle ailment, by the way, and most of the health ailments in your husband's family have a strong genetic component that is exacerbated by lifestyle.

It's obvious that you love your daughter very much and really want what's best for her. The thing is, you're not basing your opinion of vaccines on fact. Rather, you have a heard a couple of stories and assumed they are true.

Your daughter's father showed you links to the CDC website. Can you think of a more reputable source on this issue? What does the Center for Disease Control have to gain by misleading you into thinking vaccines are safe?

You have a theory that eating healthy and organic (which is not the same as healthy) means you don't need vaccines. Do you have research to back up this theory?

Your daughter's father has a friend who is a pediatrician and is encouraging vaccines. This pediatrician is a doctor who went to medical school and has been treating many children. Can you really say that you have the education and experience to say that this person is wrong?

Vaccines are perfectly safe and they save lives. Any evidence to the contrary has been fabricated by individuals and organizations looking to make a financial gain. It's really sad, because many parents of autistic children are the true victims of the scams. Many parents were desperate for answers. They were told that vaccines were to blame for their children's misfortune. The children who did not receive life saving vaccines are also the victims, as if their parents didn't believe the lies they would have received the necessary protection.

Please. I urge you to reconsider the scientific evidence. Vaccines save lives, period. Please get your children vaccinated.

You do get people used to die! of this stuff before vaccinations! Die! not sick, not fighting it off, DIE!

My son has autism spectrum, he already had symptoms before he got his MMR because I didn't have time until he was almost two! There is no link.

You need to get a grip because your rant here sounds stupid and I hope to god the courts force you to immunize your kids!

I'll share a personal story...my bests friends daughter was a perfectly healthy 9 month old baby, my friend also did not vacciniate. Well next month will mark the 2 year anniversary of her daughters burial. This perfectly healthy baby died from something that can be prevented. Pertussis.

Yes, as Mandy's example illustrates, pertussis and whooping cough are actually making a comeback, and it is because of the lack of vaccination. Keep in mind that you may have trouble finding a school because of the fact that schools require proof of vaccinations, and that there has not been any proven link between vaccines and autism. I was vaccinated and so was my daughter, my co-workers, sister, etc., nephews, nieces, and none of us became autistic nor did we end up with any other adverse effects. Good luck with whatever you choose to do, though, and hopefully you and your husband can find some common middle ground.

I completely understand where you are at. I don't have an adverse reaction to share with you, but my son is diabetic and I get a lot of grief from the Doctors field about giving him a flu shot. We eat healthy just like you describe and my son rarely gets sick and when he does, his blood sugars stay in tack. I wish I could have known about the bad things in vaccines when my kids were little, but purely by the grace of God they did not have any problems. I did some research on the diseases that they are being vaccinated against, and my husband is set that our kids must have the Tetnis vaccine, so I let my kids get that one the second time around but only with one other vaccine, not with the 3rd one (they only split it that way). Anyway, I had to compromise with some of it as they are his children as well. They have supposedly taken the mercury out of the vaccines, but I am still concerned about them. It is a tough road anyway you look at it, so do your research so you can be sure yourself and not just working off fear, but facts and, in addition, it will help others to be convinced! Good Luck!