The labeling for Gardasil has been updated to include more prominent warnings about fainting that can occur following administration of the vaccine. According to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), some Gardasil fainting victims have suffered from tonic-clonic (jerking) movements and seizure-like activity, and some have fallen resulting in traumatic injuries.
Gardasil was approved by the FDA in June 2006, at which time Merck & Co. said clinical trials had shown the drug to be between 90-100 percent effective in preventing the transmission of some strains of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) that cause cervical cancer. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a recommendation that all young girls age of 11 and 12 receive the Gardasil vaccine. Gardasil is approved for females age nine to 26.
Gardasil has been controversial because of attempts by Merck & Co. to make it mandatory, and because of continuing questions about its safety. In January, we reported that there had been 9,749 adverse reactions and 21 reported deaths since 2006 in young girls following Gardasil vaccination with side effects that included 10 miscarriages, 78 severe outbreaks of genital warts, and six cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that can result in paralysis. Side effects were reported to the FDA and CDC via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
According to a posting yesterday on the FDA website, roughly 13% of Gardasil side effects reported to VAERS describe fainting. In some instances, Gardasil fainting has resulted in serious injuries from falling. Such injuries often occurred while still in the healthcare provider’s office, and other fainting episodes resulted in motor vehicle accidents. Fainting has been listed as a possible side effect on the Gardasil label since 2007, but because of continued reports of this occurrence, the FDA has decided to raise the prominence of this information.
The FDA has asked Merck & Co. to move information on fainting risks to the “Warnings and Precautions” section of the Gardasil label. The revised label reminds healthcare providers that recipients of Gardasil should be closely observed for 15 minutes after vaccination. Gardasil recipients should be encouraged to remain seated or lying down for this length of time and be alert to the following warning signs and symptoms that may happen before a person faints: paleness, sweating, dizziness, ringing in ears or vision changes.
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June 13th, 2009 at 6:47 am
They also need to add death, peripheral neuropathy and fainting with paralysis. These symptoms are not temporary. Gardasil needs to be pulled now. I like the adding of the mediastinal disorders. Does lung cancer, tumors and lymphomas sound like a good idea to you. Lets protect against cervical cancer by causing neurological problems and possible lung tumors, and heart issues. Thanks Merck, FDA and CDC for poisoning our children. Merck CEO’s heads should fall literally. They have unleashed a WMD on teen girls and young women all over the world.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:07 am
My daughter, Victoria, has been ill since February 2008.
Here is some history. My daughter had her first Gardasil vaccination November 2007. Her second vaccination was in the beginning of February 2008. Immediately after her second vaccination, Victoria experienced severe diarrhea, vomiting and was nauseous for about eight weeks. She had blood work done many times and the pediatrician thought she had a virus. On March 31, 2008, she had her first seizure. My daughter has treated with many neurologists, all of whom have not related her seizures to Gardasil. Meanwhile, there are quite a few hundred people that I have found over the internet through my numerous postings and through Erin Brockovich, and their daughters are all experiencing the same symptoms, which occurred after the Gardasil vaccination. We have actually formed a group and share our daughters’ stories, symptoms and information. My daughter has had CT scans, MRI’s, MRA’s, EEG’s, blood work and was hospitalized at an epilepsy center in the video EEG monitoring unit for two separate weeks in May 2008 and September 2008. She was put on many different seizure medications. After the normal EEG results, she was taken off all medications. Her SED rate has always been high and she does have protein in her urine, but doctors do not seem concerned. I was told that her red blood are small, but this apparently is not concerning either. She is also slightly anemic.
My daughter has been seen by several neurologists, a psychiatrist, psychologist, several neuropsychologists, an immunologist, several infectious disease doctors, and also treated a at Wellness Center for a period of time. Wellness Center physicians believe that my daughter may have Lyme disease that was dormant until she was given the Gardasil vaccine. Infectious disease doctors differ. Which doctors are correct? I have no idea.
My daughter currently experiences the following symptoms: non-epileptic seizures, migraines, fainting, tremors, twitches, numbness, intermittent leg paralysis and facial paralysis, tingling, staring or blank episodes, eye pain, joint pain, neck pain, back pain, memory loss, confusion, brain fog, regression, mood swings and chronic fatigue. She continues to have bouts of nausea and diarrhea. She has not been in school since April 2008. My daughter can never be left home alone. She can’t go to school, go out with her friends or work or has little “normalcy” in her life. She has very few good days and always says she doesn’t feel good.
I do not know which way to turn for help. We have seen so many doctors and I can’t seem to find anyone willing to help my daughter. There are so many other young girls who have the same exact symptoms as my daughter and the one thing that all of the girls seem to have in common is the Gardasil vaccination.
We are on a fixed income, as most people, and we have expended many thousands of dollars in an effort to seek medical opinions and assistance. Although we do have medical insurance, it is very difficult to find doctors willing to treat my daughter who will accept our HMO. Also, there are no “traditional medical doctors” who will relate my daughter’s symptoms to Gardasil as I am told “there is not enough information available” about the vaccine and doctors believe it to be “safe” . Most recently, a neurologist informed that he does believe that my daughter’s symptoms were brought on by the vaccine, just not in a way that he could test or prove.
The vaccine has been available for less than three years. Meanwhile, there are some doctors who are making the correlation between Gardasil and many of the girls’ symptoms. However, the only doctors I know of right now are in California and Kansas. Other doctors are willing to “try” treatment, most of which is “homeopathic” in nature and extremely costly. Once again, I must reiterate that there are so many other young girls experiencing negative symptoms.
Each and every night, I check on my daughter many times in the middle of the night to make sure she is still breathing (like we ALL did when they were babies). I have a chime on her bedroom door so that every time she opens it, I know she has walked out of her room. I had a deadbolt put on the front door of our home with a key that can be removed from the inside. I never leave the key in the door for fear that Victoria will be confused after a seizure or when she has memory loss, and leave our home. (This has happened many times and she has been missing). When she is in the shower, I have to either stand outside the door and/or keep asking her “are you okay?”
Each and everyday, I cry and wonder if Victoria will be next one to die from adverse reactions to Gardasil.
We are in desperate need of medical treatment for my daughter. I have run out of ideas, doctors to treat with and finances have dwindled. I do not know which direction to turn. Any thoughts are most appreciated, especially from the medical community.
The National Vaccine Information Center is in the process of circulating a petition to have Gardasil investigated by the government. There are more than 16,000 reported cases of adverse effects from the vaccine which have been reported to the NVIC (many of the adverse effects are extremely serious) and approximately 38 deaths have been reported.
Please feel free to forward this information.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Jodi Speakman
(267) 939-0591
Jodispeaks@aol.com
P.S. Victoria’s story recently appeared in Philadelpia Weekly Newspaper
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/Shot-Through-the-Heart.html
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/14/investigate-gardasil-vaccine-risks-now
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/posted.php?id=547704835&share_id=76759221290#s76759221290
September 29th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
I want to thank the two mothers who posted about their daughter’s experiences. Now I know why I’m sick. I’m so sorry to hear about your daugthers. Gardisil should be pulled.