Should I take the HPV vaccine?

[lemonbeam]

I am 17 years old and I’m not sure if I should take the HPV vaccine. I do not plan on having sex before marriage but what if my future husband has had sex before marriage, will I not catch the HPV virus from him? Thanks for your replies.

 

[thistle]

I am 17 years old and I’m not sure if I should take the HPV vaccine. I do not plan on having sex before marriage but what if my future husband has had sex before marriage, will I not catch the HPV virus from him? Thanks for your replies.

Why would you think having this vaccination would be a problem? Seems like a sensible precaution. You are right. It could be possible your future husband may have this virus.

 

[hellopeople]

I am 17 years old and I’m not sure if I should take the HPV vaccine. I do not plan on having sex before marriage but what if my future husband has had sex before marriage, will I not catch the HPV virus from him? Thanks for your replies.

Yes. Take it for sure. It helps prevent cervical cancer.

 

[SwedishX]

My advice is absolutely not. Vaccines have never been proven to be 100% safe, and in recent years, it has become more mainstream in understanding that they may cause autism and many other problems. Vaccines often contain mercury, squalene, viruses, and carcinogens. Are you talking about the Gardasil vaccine? If so, this vaccine has been particularly linked to a wide variety of problems in many people - death, blood clots, seizures, paralysis.

youtube.com/watch?v=yfU6y6KhEOI&feature=player_embedded#

My advice to you and all on this board is to know the facts about vaccines before making a decision.

Thanks of your time!

 

[hellopeople]

My advice is absolutely not. Vaccines have never been proven to be 100% safe, and in recent years, it has become more mainstream in understanding that they may cause autism and many other problems. Vaccines often contain mercury, squalene, viruses, and carcinogens. Are you talking about the Gardasil vaccine? If so, this vaccine has been particularly linked to a wide variety of problems in many people - death, blood clots, seizures, paralysis.

youtube.com/watch?v=yfU6y6KhEOI&feature=player_embedded#

My advice to you and all on this board is to know the facts about vaccines before making a decision.

Thanks of your time!

This is a conspiracy theory, and a DANGEROUS one at that. And you can’t just develop autism when you are 17. Maybe you should get your facts straight and actually look at studies and look at the facts. 99.9% of the medical community know that vaccines are extremely important. Actually, in California there is a rise of diseases like whooping cough and polio because stupid parents buy into the bs you are spouting without realizing “hey, these things my child is getting a vaccine for are pretty dangerous.” Children are DYING because of this misinformation you are spreading. Please stop!

EDIT: apparently 29 people have died from receiving gardisil. I would be interested to see how many thousands of lives that the vaccine has saved.

 

[SophiaLector]

The only way to get HPV is through sexual contact. So you don’t need the vaccine. And if you’re planning to wait until marriage anyway, why wouldn’t you and your fiance (when the time comes) go for a full medical exam before marriage? That’s pretty standard nowadays.

Besides that, there is a moral reason not to get the vaccine – it can be used as a crutch. Sort of like going on the pill when you’re not sexually active just to “clear up your skin” or “control PMS” – if you ever get into a sketchy situation, you’re more likely to sin because you know you have a “safety net”. Trust me. It’s not worth it.

And if your fiance gets a clean bill of health, you don’t have to have a vaccine. HOORAY!

P.S.

My advice is absolutely not. Vaccines have never been proven to be 100% safe, and in recent years, it has become more mainstream in understanding that they may cause autism and many other problems. Vaccines often contain mercury, squalene, viruses, and carcinogens. Are you talking about the Gardasil vaccine? If so, this vaccine has been particularly linked to a wide variety of problems in many people - death, blood clots, seizures, paralysis.

youtube.com/watch?v=yfU6y6KhEOI&feature=player_embedded#

My advice to you and all on this board is to know the facts about vaccines before making a decision.

Thanks of your time!

Love your concern, but that is absolutely false. There was just a headline in the news about the fraud perpetrated by head of the study linking vaccinations to autism – specifically MMR. He decided vaccines could be linked to autism because he falsified much of the information and used sloppy reasearch methods to get published and to receive grant money. No study has been able to replicate his findings since. Hope this puts your mind at ease regarding the safety of vaccinations. It is true that some people have adverse reactions, but it is incredibly rare. Best to you!

allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017704226?Medical%20Journal%20Retracts%20Study%20Linking%20MMR%20Vaccine%20To%20Autism,%20Author%20Denies%20Misconduct%20In%20Research

 

[Newbie2]

This is a conspiracy theory, and a DANGEROUS one at that. And you can’t just develop autism when you are 17. Maybe you should get your facts straight and actually look at studies and look at the facts. 99.9% of the medical community know that vaccines are extremely important. Actually, in California there is a rise of diseases like whooping cough and polio because stupid parents buy into the bs you are spouting without realizing “hey, these things my child is getting a vaccine for are pretty dangerous.” Children are DYING because of this misinformation you are spreading. Please stop!

EDIT: apparently 29 people have died from receiving gardisil. I would be interested to see how many thousands of lives that the vaccine has saved.

The OP is in a much different situation than what you describe with parents in CA…not to mention that different vaccines carry different risks of side effects. I do agree with you that overly protective parents are making a mistake by foregoing vaccinating their children for childhood diseases.

Yes, it would be interesting to see how many lives have been saved by the use of the HPV vaccination. Might be hundreds, might be thousands. No possible way to tell, especially since only an unknown percentage of women affected by the HPV virus actually develop cervical cancer.

Anyway, to the OP’s question: Why get vaccinated now if you are going to wait until marriage? (Unless you’re thinking about getting married very soon)

1. The vaccine could be improved over time to lessen the probability of side effects.
2. There could be an HPV treatment developed for your hypothetical HPV infected future husband.
3. There could be a reliable HPV test developed to test him, sort of like with the other pre-marriage STD testing.

To me, getting a vaccine at this age under the OP’s circumstances is like having an appendix removed to prevent appendicitis later in life.

 

[Jermosh]

You can get HPV from your spouse in the future, so talk to your Dr.

 

[smswife]

My 2 cents:

1. There is no reliable test for HPV in men, so getting your future husband tested will not protect you.
2. HPV is the #1 most common STD in the US. If your future husband is not a virgin, there’s a 1 in 4 chance he will have this virus.
3. In the US, you can get this vaccine for free on government funded programs unitl age 18 or 19, but not afterward. It costs several hundred dollars for all 3 doses. Private insurance will probably pay for it, but you may not be covered on your parents’ insurance after you turn 18. So it may be less expensive to get it now.
4. There is some evidence that the vaccine works better in younger women.
5. If you leave your primary doc’s area to go away to college, it will be harder to get home for all 3 doses.
6. Currently, it is only licensed to be given up to age 26. What if you’re not married yet?
7. The “29 deaths” from the vaccine quoted by someone here is misleading. There have been NO deaths known to be caused from the vaccine. Young women have died around the time of receiving the vaccine, but so have many other young women of the same age who didn’t receive the vaccine. None of those cases have been found likely to be due to the vaccine. Millions of doses have been given with very few significant side effects. There is an increased risk of fainting after this vaccine than with others and it apparently does sting more than most. ANY medication can cause untoward side effects which are not always predictable. This vaccine has been and is being studied well.

HTH!

 

[SwedishX]

This is a conspiracy theory, and a DANGEROUS one at that. And you can’t just develop autism when you are 17. Maybe you should get your facts straight and actually look at studies and look at the facts. 99.9% of the medical community know that vaccines are extremely important. Actually, in California there is a rise of diseases like whooping cough and polio because stupid parents buy into the bs you are spouting without realizing “hey, these things my child is getting a vaccine for are pretty dangerous.” Children are DYING because of this misinformation you are spreading. Please stop!

EDIT: apparently 29 people have died from receiving gardisil. I would be interested to see how many thousands of lives that the vaccine has saved.

Sorry - do not agree that this is a conspiracy theory. The safety of and long term results of vaccines are NOT agreed upon within the medical and scientific community.

A good example is the swine flu vaccine. It was not even tested on humans before it hit the market. While some of them did not contain mercury and other adjuvents, the majority did. One could find on the inserts a warning that the vaccine contained mercury, squalene, and other components. It also warned of side effects including paralysis and death. Not sure if these exist in the HPV vaccine, but the point is that vaccines may, and often do contain these poisonous components.

 

[graceandglory]

I am 17 years old and I’m not sure if I should take the HPV vaccine. I do not plan on having sex before marriage but what if my future husband has had sex before marriage, will I not catch the HPV virus from him? Thanks for your replies.

Why not do this on an as needed basis? When you are engaged, if your fiance is not a virgin, he should get tested, out of his love for you and desire to be your protector. If he has a disease, you could decide together if it is prudent to have the STD vaccine.

 

[kage_ar]

Too new, too untested.

I would not want any woman I care about taking this vaccine.

 

[momor]

Hey, do those of you “of a certain age” remember playing with mercury and lead toys when you were a kid? I remember in grade school the nun who taught us in 4th grade even had a lesson plan around the properties of mercury and we had great fun playing with it. By the time we were done there was none left because we had spilled it all over ourselves and the floor. I doubt any of us washed our hands before we held our sandwich at lunch afterward either. Now a mercury spill where I work (hospital) is practically an all out haz-mat emergency.
Were we just tougher then (tongue firmly planted in cheek)?

 

[PRmerger]

Hey, do those of you “of a certain age” remember playing with mercury and lead toys when you were a kid? I remember in grade school the nun who taught us in 4th grade even had a lesson plan around the properties of mercury and we had great fun playing with it. By the time we were done there was none left because we had spilled it all over ourselves and the floor. I doubt any of us washed our hands before we held our sandwich at lunch afterward either. Now a mercury spill where I work (hospital) is practically an all out haz-mat emergency.
Were we just tougher then (tongue firmly planted in cheek)?

There is no mercury in the HPV vaccine.

 

[vera_dicere]

My advice is absolutely not. Vaccines have never been proven to be 100% safe, and in recent years, it has become more mainstream in understanding that they may cause autism and many other problems. Vaccines often contain mercury, squalene, viruses, and carcinogens. Are you talking about the Gardasil vaccine? If so, this vaccine has been particularly linked to a wide variety of problems in many people - death, blood clots, seizures, paralysis.

youtube.com/watch?v=yfU6y6KhEOI&feature=player_embedded#

My advice to you and all on this board is to know the facts about vaccines before making a decision.

Thanks of your time!

Oh. My. Gosh!

Seriously?

OP, ignore this fear mongering!

If you got off your backside and did some real reasearch you’d find that no deaths have yet been directly attritbuted to this vaccine, in fact, the reaction rate to this vaccine has been lower then that of the flu vaccines, MMR and a few other common ones.

Gardisil hasn’t been around long, yes, I’ll give you that, but there’s no big conspiracy out there to poison girls with this.

We’re not supposed to give medical advice on this board, which is fair enough too, but OP, if you think its a good thing for you, get it, you seem to have the common sense to admit that your future husband could bring home something.

Gardisil has also been found to reduce rates of other diseases and even “normal warts”. So it has its benefits. And I saw a study the other day that said the rate of herpes has dropped as well.

I don’t agree with sex outside of marriage. But I don’t agree with girls dying of cancers that we could prevent.

As for the fear mongering, seesh, the information on this vax is out there, and certainly don’t take anything seriously if you find it on YouTube of all places. :takethat:

 

[vera_dicere]

The only way to get HPV is through sexual contact. So you don’t need the vaccine. And if you’re planning to wait until marriage anyway, why wouldn’t you and your fiance (when the time comes) go for a full medical exam before marriage? That’s pretty standard nowadays.

My friend contracted HPV.

She was raped.

It may seem like using a sledge hammer to take out a fly, but there’s no way to guarentee the faithfullness of one’s husband.

That’s what I don’t like about some of the arguments against this vaccine, its seems really misygonistic, people are saying “Oh, it will encourage girls to have pre-martial sex, those dirty tarts”, when no one is focussed on how many women and girls pick up STDs from their apparently “faithful” partners or the prospect of rape.

Its another tool against a rather nasty cancer, can people really denounce that?

 

[OraLabora]

Sorry - do not agree that this is a conspiracy theory. The safety of and long term results of vaccines are NOT agreed upon within the medical and scientific community.

A good example is the swine flu vaccine. It was not even tested on humans before it hit the market. While some of them did not contain mercury and other adjuvents, the majority did. One could find on the inserts a warning that the vaccine contained mercury, squalene, and other components. It also warned of side effects including paralysis and death. Not sure if these exist in the HPV vaccine, but the point is that vaccines may, and often do contain these poisonous components.

Virtually all medications have some risk factors associated to them, usually fairly low. Some have very high risk factors like chemotherapy drugs.

But you have to balance the risk against the value: a swine flu pandemic killing thousands, or an infinitesimal risk of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Without vaccines deaths from common diseases like mumps, rubella, etc, would be in the thousands per year.

 

[graceandglory]

Hey, do those of you “of a certain age” remember playing with mercury and lead toys when you were a kid? I remember in grade school the nun who taught us in 4th grade even had a lesson plan around the properties of mercury and we had great fun playing with it. By the time we were done there was none left because we had spilled it all over ourselves and the floor. I doubt any of us washed our hands before we held our sandwich at lunch afterward either. Now a mercury spill where I work (hospital) is practically an all out haz-mat emergency.
Were we just tougher then (tongue firmly planted in cheek)?

I did. Broke a thermometer on my dad’s dresser top.

 

[graceandglory]

My friend contracted HPV.

She was raped.
?

Was your friend raped by a stranger?

 

[Just_Lurking]

The purpose of Gardasil is to prevent cancer, not HPV. There are hundreds of types of HPV, but Gardasil only innoculates against four of them. So don’t count on Gardasil preventing HPV.

From Wikipedia (see here):

Gardasil (Merck & Co.), also known as Gardisil or Silgard,[1][2] is a vaccine to prevent certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV),[3] specifically HPV types 16, 18, 6, and 11. HPV types 16 and 18 currently cause about 70% of cervical,[4][5] 26% of head and neck[6] and many vulvar, vaginal,[7] penile, and anal[8] cancer cases. HPV types 6 and 11 cause about 90% of genital warts cases.