Jun 20, 2008 01:12
When I last went to my doctor she urged me to get a brand new vaccine called Gardasil to prevent against cervical cancer and HPV. I was very interested, and made the appointments to get it. The Gardasil vaccine is a series of three shots, each a few months apart.
I got my first shot, and unlike other people, had a fine experience. Needles and getting shots doesn't bother me at all. But, I never went back for my other two shots.
The earliest literature of gardasil is dated in the early 1990's. There is NO long term studies of what this drug may do to women in the future. Anything that is having to do with only females, and essentially the cervix, can be potentially harmful to reproductive health in the future. Personally I want to have the option to have children in my own womb rather than in someone elses, or in a test tube.
I am interested to see what the effects of Gardasil are on my generation of women in let's say, twenty years or so. We'll wait and see I guess.