I am really scared to get my daughter vaccinated against MMR?
I have been doing tons of research and I am scared to give my daughter the mmr vaccine. She will be two in May, so she's a little but older, we missed her 18 month appointment. I am just so nervous. I read that there is no link, then you read these horror stories, and I know that it could be that it's just the age that you can really see the child is autistic. I just don't want my daughter to be hurt. She is so talkative, she sings, she can count to 12, she does so much and I am afraid that if she gets the shot she is not going to be the same funny little girl. She plays jokes and plays with her dollhouse and I have this deep fear that I will be one of those people that after she gets vaccinated she becomes autistic and then I am the one saying no to vaccines. My son who is ten, was vaccinated and he's fine. I am sure I am just being paranoid, it's in my personality, I am just nervous. I want to get her vaccinated because I know the diseases are so much worse, but it still terrifies me!
2010-03-25T11:09:25Z
I know it's me being paranoid, I have an anxiety disorder and I hear something and I just fixate on it. I know this, but sometimes it helps to hear other peoples opinions. I am going to get her vaccinated, i am also going to speak the pediatrician about it to let him know that I am nervous. Thousands of babies get vaccinated, I know this. I just need to convince my brain of it. Thanks for being nice and understanding and not bashing me. I am no way anti-vaccine, she has had every other vaccine on schedule, we just missed this one because I had shingles when she was due and the dr said to wait to make sure she didn't get chicken pox.
Lisa2010-03-27T17:04:28Z
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Just think--wouldn't it be devastating to you, if in addition to all the other heartbreak that is involved with autism, the doctors refused to believe that the MMR had anything to do with your daughter's regression into autism. Imagine you witnessed your daughter become autistic following the MMR, you knew it was from the MMR, and the doctors wrote it off as coincidence because "this is the typical time for kids to become autistic."
Why not wait until age 3 1/2 or 4 or even later to give the MMR? Then, at least the doctors wouldn't be able to use that excuse to not believe you. And you would have extra time to do more research and decide if you want to give the vaccine at all.
1 in 110 kids in the United States has autism. About 60 people in the entire U.S. get measles per year. In 2008, during the measles outbreak, 131 people in the U.S. got measles. Nobody died or had any lasting problems. What do you think is the greater risk? Autism or measles?
Telling your pediatrician that you are nervous will not change a thing in regards to how the vaccine will or will not affect your daughter. Keep in mind that plenty of people who don't have anxiety disorder are very nervous about this vaccine. Don't make the mistake of confusing your sacred motherly instinct with paranoia.
By the way, you can most likely blame your shingles on the chickenpox vaccine. Because there are fewer kids getting chickenpox these days, adults are not getting the natural immunity boosters that nature intended, and shingles is becoming a lot more common.
Sophie, you've confused mumps with diphtheria. So I question your claim that you've looked over vaccines "a hundred times."
afterthestorm, you asked G*star how she would feel if her daughter got rubella. Most likely, she would have no idea if her daughter got rubella, since as many as 50% of the cases are so mild they don't show any symptoms at all.
I plan to vaccinate my little girl. I haven't really done research, but where I live in NC, they cannot start public school without them. So anything that is a MUST she will have. As for the MMR, I do plan to have that done as well and this is why. I had to have it done around the age of 19/20 because I work in the medical field, and you MUST have had it in order to graduate from school and work the EMS field. I got it and for about 2 days it made me very sick, but as I was told by my mother almost every vaccine made me have flu like symptoms when I was younger. I would rather get them done at an early age, done at once, be sick once, and then move on and not have to have them again. But again this is just me. Honestly no I did not realize it was so many vaccines. Also you are looking into other countries. Are you in the US? If so you cannot use the UK's or anyone else's protocols on vaccines. Every countries CDC is a little different, and therefore so are the vaccines. If you have a population that has a higher chance of getting something, then that vaccine is altered a little to fit that population better.
I have the exact same thing going on right now. I have a 4 yr old son he was 9 lbs when he was born and I hadn't heard all the things about the mmr vaccine that i've now heard so he had it on his 1 yr checkup. My daughter is 16 months I told the doctor i wanted to wait a few more months before she got the mmr vaccine because I've heard it's good to wait..In japan they say you should wait until your child is 2. I'm waiting until she turns 2.
I know the feeling sometimes when you research it just makes you paranoid and more anxious.My children have had their vaccinations with no problems but I guess that's no comfort to you.I have put off my son getting vaccinated for swine flu because I looked a lot up on the internet and I didn't know what to do and was terrified.He has asthma so I have had to think and think.I think I've thought too much and he has not had the vaccine.It's in my personality too to just worry and worry I think you should go in to the clinic and discuss this with one of the doctors or nurses and see if they can ease your fears.It might help and good luck your daughter will be fine I'm sure.
hi i completely understan how you feel my daughter is 4 next month and i kept cancelling her appointments for the mmr, i left it till my son was 4 before he had his mmr, i think with the horror stories symptoms of autism seem to come out about 18mnths to 2 yrs so it is coiincidental. i have a autistic brother in law that was one of the reasons for the delay and i have always thought that the mmr and autism were linked!! as there has been no research either way. i dont think u will ever know 100%. but you need to ask yourself the question of wat if your lil girl doesnt havent it and she catches a severe case of measles!! because of not havin the mmr she would not be protected against these serious illnesses in worst case the measles can cause brain damage or even death i know that i would not be able to live with myself. i finally plucked up the courage and yesterday my daughter had the MMR she wasnt happy about n was distressed about the needles but at the end of the day i want her healthy. i know its a hard decision to make and good luck but think long and hard b4 you make ur decision xx