Immunizations: Chicken Pox, when did you get them?

[sageofages]

I had ALL the usual childhood illness as a child...german measles, red measles, mumps, chicken pox...I also received the small pox vaccine and polio immunizations. Dad was military and traveled world wide. His family was required to be uptodate all the time.

Fast forward a bunch of years and now Sageofages is a mom...

Daughter # 1 has had the chicken pox THREE times. She had all her regular immunizations except for the CP shot. She now has Crohn's disease and must avoid everyone with a communicable illness and her immune system is considered very compromised.
Everyone around must get the flu shot etc. Grandson had to stay away for 7 days after getting his immunizations to protect her.

Daughter #2 had chicken pox twice. Once at about 6 months and then again around 3. Her immunizations caused no difficulty otherwise.

Sons all have had Chicken pox. One broke out two saturdays before Christmas, and the other two broke out right on schedule 10 days later .

Son #3 did get the red measles from the shot. Caused a HUGE stink with our local health department, especially when my husband broke out with them at the right incubation period later. The Health Dept was in a dither over it. Dr said "yes it is the measles." when the health dept wanted to shush it up. I guess fed money depends on them not having cases. Made me crazy.

My boss had a daughter die from complications of vaccines, so every time the kids/grandson gets their immunizations I am on pins and needles for the first few days.

All in all it is worth the risk.

[9dstpm]

I had chicken "pops" at 3. I remember this b/c my mom was 19, and my uncle was about 13-14. I was in Headstart at the time and it was the day before our big trip to the zoo in Jackson. I had to miss the trip. I cried (and itched) for days and days. My son got CP at the same age. I had to stay in the house with him while he scratched and cried for about a week or 2. I thought I would go crazy. He is current with all of his shots and I got my tetanus shot 3 years ago when I started working at the hospital.

We've gotten very concerned about those childhood shots since Hubby and I found out that our son is autistic last year. I've read about the link between the shots and autism but reserchers say that nothing has been confirmed. I never gave shots a second thought b/c Hubby and I got our shots and we didn't become autistic. When we have our next child, we will be watching him or her like a hawk for anything wrong.

[Professor]

I was in college with chicken pox at 21. it was not that bad. my doctor gave me something and for the most part i had no discomfort.

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
I was immunized against Chicken Pox when I was a child. I even had a very mild case of it initially. But why did I get a VERY BAD CASE of chikcen pox @ 21! On my birthday no less.......

[Ideal08]

I've never had chicken pox, mumps, or measles. I'm scared to death to get any of them.