Cirvical cancer shot?
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its an intramuscular shot they give it to you in your upper arm. It burns and is a littel sore after, you could get a littel fever but thats not likely. I'm not gunna lie it is painful your arm will be sore after bc they are putting it in the muscle. I got it and it takes like 3 secs to give the shot the pain goes away in a few hours and then your done and you are protected against cervical cancer. Believe me the shot is much less painful then cancer. So don't chicken out. There are three shots in total you have to get in a 6 month period i believe i had 2 and its nothing bad. It actually feels like the tetnis shot i'm positive you've gotten that so don't worry. Just take a deep breath and ask your dr if you have any questions about the shot. Knowing about it will make you less worried.
It was my understanding that this is not availbale til the end of this year - and its cervical cancer PREVENTION, btw.
OH! in the arm.
You must be talking about the HPV Vaccine. It's intramuscular, and can go in your arm with no after effects.
HPV Types 16 and 18 cause 70% of cervical cancer cases, and HPV Types 6 and 11 cause 90% of genital warts cases.
Hi, The shot is in the arm. I assume you have read up about the vaccine and made the most appropriate decision, based on your own circumstances. If not, you may be interested in reading some of the atached articles and for what its worth my opinion on the matter.
As far as I'm concerned it is really a bit of an issue, particularly with respect to young school age girls where the Gardasil vaccine is also being promoted strongly. This vaccination cannot be taken lightly and although it is said to provide protection for upto 85% of HPV, there seems to have been an insufficient length of time (approx. 5 years) of trials to determine any likely side effects. This and the fact that the trials where conducted by the manufacturerers themselves (Merck and GlaxoSmithKline) and not an independant body, is of concern in itself! Further the age of the study group was 15 -26 years, and yet it is being promoted to girls under 15 that have yet to reach puberty. What effect is this likely to have? Who knows?
There are numerous articles on the safety and possible side effects and indeed the long term effectiveness of Gardasil to raise sufficient doubt in ones mind as to the necessity of having this particular vaccine. In all it appears that this drug was rushed through before full approval and in fact the FDA have stipulated for Merck to continue the monitoring and long term trial for girls under 15 years to confirm its safety. For us as parents there is sufficient doubt as to the safety that we postponed getting the vaccination for our daughter, until further studies and information comes to hand.
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