Gardasil
Posted By: TravelinMT on 2009-02-16
In Reply to: sorry for typos . . .I'm upset. - MTTOMANY
As far as the Ped. ordering you out of the room for the rest of the exam...Was there a nurse in the room? Alot of Docs do try to speak to teenagers out of the parents presence because often times teenagers do not want their parents to know what they are doing. I would have no problem with that as long as he had a nurse present while he was examining her and was not in the room alone with her. I would rather have my daughter tell a doctor, nurse, school counselor than not tell anyone. No matter how close we think we are to our kids there are things they will not tell us. Think about it did you ever do something and not tell your parents about it? Pushing a medication or vaccine on them they do not want is not right nor is it legal if they are under the age of consent but maybe he was talking to her about it because she disclosed something you know nothing about and he thought she might be at risk and would benefit from it. There are "many, many" good girls who have found themselves pregnant whose parents were shocked.
As far as the slight scoliosis, it will quite possibly get worse with age and when she is 60 she will find herself humped over or worse. It is most likely still correctable and I would let him do the x-rays. X-rays today are not like they were years ago, they are all computer generated and the amount of radiation is the lowest dose possible to get a good picture.
Just my take, you lumped everything in together and freaked out. Take it one thing at a time and maybe you won't be so stressed out over it.
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from tthe WebMD website about Gardasil...
The 7,802 adverse events reported to VAERS for Gardasil include 15 deaths and 31 reports of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a potentially paralyzing, life-threatening condition in which the body's immune system attacks part of the nervous system.
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