Hey everyone! i have a huge question...as many answers would be helpful. I was diagnosed on March 19, 2009--it was about a week after I got the 2nd (series of 3 shots) shot of the HPV (guardasil). My mom will stand by it even today because she feels that shot attacked my pancreas. then yesterday I got my last shot of the series. Today my sugar has been running in the high 300s and even 400s. Since being diagnosed I have never seen this high of numbers before on my meter. all my doctors keep saying nothing has been proven to support the HPV causing diabetes. any ideas or opinions?
it could just be your body reacting to the medication. i'm assuming the doses are pretty powerful.
with that said, they don't have any proof of certain shots causing diabetes, so it's all speculation regardless of what we think as a diabetic community, until the research comes back to show it causes or raises the risk of it.
Maybe it was a coincidence? In my opinion a lot more happens in life due to coincidence than we want to give credit for. We always want to know the definitive reason. Sometimes it's no definitive reason.
I got that vaccine last year (long after being diagnose). I had no problems. I would guess that is just a reaction by your body, not likely to cause diabetes.
I was diagnosed about a month and a half after my measels, mumps, and ruebella immunization last year. Alberta was apparently given a "bad batch" of the immunization because there were a lot of people who had very severe allergic reactions to it. I was told that it was possible that the immunization triggered my diabetes, it may have been the same kind of deal for your HPV one.
I actually got the shots too and I found I did run higher then normal the days I got them. Similarily, when I was younger, I got the chicken pox vaccination, while my sister did not, and I ended up having diabetes, while she is perfectly healthy. Sure it probably is just my bad luck, but it is the only medical thing that happened to me and didn't happen to my sister. Makes me wonder if vaccines might trigger something!
I had all three shots after being diagnosed and it didn't affect my blood sugars at all so it's possible that's its a reaction to just your body or perhaps some other factor and it just so happens it's the day after the shot.
As far as immunizations and diabetes... I have heard that they are thinking having immunizations too early can cause the body not to build up it's immune system therefore when a virus does attack the pancreas, it causes diabetes because the persons immune system isn't strong enough to fight it off.
I think that medicine is exactly what it is called, a "Practice"! Doctors and medical companies hurt people every day and honestly vaccinations have been in the hot seat for a very long time. As well as other injections like Cortizone... I know someone who is positive that that is how his diabetes onset happened...
As far as immunizations and diabetes... I have heard that they are thinking having immunizations too early can cause the body not to build up it's immune system therefore when a virus does attack the pancreas, it causes diabetes because the persons immune system isn't strong enough to fight it off.
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that makes sense. with some things ive read, that makes perfect sense
As far as immunizations and diabetes... I have heard that they are thinking having immunizations too early can cause the body not to build up it's immune system therefore when a virus does attack the pancreas, it causes diabetes because the persons immune system isn't strong enough to fight it off.
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This is what I believe. Although diabetes is not the only autoimmune
disease that is thought to be triggered by immunizations. I should
mentioned again that none of this is proven, just a belief of mine, and
some others here.
It would be nice if your mum could get in touch with me. I have a daughter as well, who has been diagnosed with diabetes after she had the hpv jab. Mothers gut feelings, I have a feeling this might be what triggered it. It would be nice to chat and compare notes. I am desperate for some answers.
I had my HPV shots over a year ago (at least a year before I was diagnosed), but I had a regular flu shot a month before I was diagnosed and I was told that that could have caused it! I, personally, don't believe it though.
My daughter was diagnosed 4 months after her last immunization in the series. She had been ill for three months. It bothers me the timing between those occurances, but I always come back to the same thing. If she was predisposed to getting diabetes from a viral attack, it would have been one sinus infection or flu or......... etc. When I search HARD for any positive aspect to our circumstances I consider that being diagnosed at 16yo has given her the advantage of being immersed in family support and learning to live healthy before she goes off to college. Hey, its something.
I cannot say definately that it is what caused my daughters diabetes, but not long after starting her round of HPV vaccinations, she developed some rather persistent warts (took 12 months of initially 2/week visits, then 1/week visits to doctor to have them burnt off). Most of my daughters illness/problems started following the start of her HPV vaccination schedule, hence I am now rather sceptical of all vaccines. Who knows what triggered her diabetes, but I have a gut instinct that the HPV vaccine had something to do with it.
I have just joined juvenation and read your question on the correlation between the HPV and Diabetes, my daughter is 12yrs old and was diagnosed aug 09, a month after her HPV vaccination and have often thought it was a trigger. I queried the doctors and they just laughed it off saying "no way", she also had her Hep B and I have done some research into that. In New Zealand since the introduction of the Hep B vaccinations T1 diagnosis has doubled. I have always been a supporter of vaccinations but I will not be letting my younger daughter have the Gardisil or Hep B. I know she was probably destined to get T1 but it might not of been for years, now she has to go through her teenage years which can be difficult enough without having to deal with the emotional and physical demands of this disease. Its time we really think about whether we really need some of these vaccines and not just blindly let the medical profession use us as guinea pigs.
hey--thanks for posting on here about your thoughts...haven't been on for a few weeks so i apologize for not getting back to all of you.
lilly---if you send me an email on here with your email i'll definitely give it to my mom...she would love to chat about it. she feels very strong on this topic.
My daughter had her round of shots for her 12 year old visit. Shortly after she was dx with D. Going into the appointment I had a bad feeling about the shots---moms have that sixth sense. I can't say that the vaccinations caused her D, but it seems too coinsidental!!
My daughter was diagnosed 4 months after her last immunization in the series. She had been ill for three months. It bothers me the timing between those occurances, but I always come back to the same thing. If she was predisposed to getting diabetes from a viral attack, it would have been one sinus infection or flu or......... etc. When I search HARD for any positive aspect to our circumstances I consider that being diagnosed at 16yo has given her the advantage of being immersed in family support and learning to live healthy before she goes off to college. Hey, its something.
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That was my thought as well. We have no proof whether any vaccine does / doesn't cause auto-immune diseases, but your body would already have to be predisposed to act that way. I wonder if there's any research going on about this. Anyone know?