Is Anyone Considering the Cervical Cancer Vaccine?

[NappyBison]

I've already been given the vaccine (soon to be receiving my 3rd and final shot) and I didn't know much about it when my doctor informed me of it last year. I was just going in for a routine check-up and to start my "college shots" up so I'd have them out of the way. As far as I know, the particular strains of HPV it is supposed to help prevent, will soon be replaced my new strains I guess technically my generation is the guinea pig for this vaccine and who knows what will happen to "us" after we've been introduced to it. I heard a few states were going to try and force parents into making their children get the vaccine. I'm not that worried about the vaccine itself though. I just see it as another form of protecting myself from any other disease: measles, mumps, chicken pox etc.

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

No. In order to get the HPV, I have get some ding-a-ling first, and I'm not having that much luck in that department as for now. Plus, I don't like taking vacs period, I don't even take the flu-shots.

While this was said in a way that only Dionysus can so I can't claim the exact wording, I'll ditto it anyway. While I know that sex isn't the only way to contract the virus, it's a big part of it and that's not an issue for me. Plus, I've been a little anti-vaccine lately. I've never had a flu shot and do not intend to get one--every time my parents get a flu shot, they end up with the flu. Not the mini-flu that comes with being injected with the virus but the full-blown-knock-down-drag-out-this-is-what-was-trying-to-avoid flu. Vaccines don't always work, not even with decades of research and trials behind them. I'd rather take every other precaution and just leave the weird injections to someone else until there's more proof in the pudding.

[ladygreek]

My daughter is outside of the age range, but even if she wasn't I wouldn't want her to get the vac. There are too many disclaimers and qualifiers.