Are you planning to get your daughter vaccinated against HPV.....?

why or why not?

My daughters will be vaccinated as soon as they are old enough.

No, I would not. It is way too new, there is no way of knowing how long it lasts or any possible long-term side effects. It also contains questionable ingredients, such as polysorbate 80, a know carcinogen. And, like all vaccines, it is not tested or carcinogenic or teratogenic properties, or effects on fertility.


There are more than 100 HPV types and 30-40 can be sexually transmitted, with 15 HPV types associated with cervical cancer.
The majority of women clear HPV naturally from their bodies.
It is treatable and can be caught early with routine pap smears, between 1955 and 1992, cervical cancer deaths in American women dropped by 74 percent due to routine pap smears.
Most cervical pre-cancers develop slowly, so nearly all cervical cancers can be prevented with regular pap smear screening and prompt treatment.
Survival for women with pre-invasive cervical cancer lesions is nearly 100% with early diagnosis and appropriate treatment.

Probably. If it was available when I became sexually active I would have wanted to reduce the chances of genital warts and cervical cancer.

I was, one of the BEST decisions ever made. I feel so much more protected now! Even if it is a little pricey, I wanna be ONE LESS

O-N-E-L-E-S-S, I WANNA BE ONE LESS

100% yes! I have 2 boys but am hoping for a girl this time. I can't understand why parents would be against it. It's not telling your daughter its ok to have sex. It' ssimply protecting her against a deadly disease. Out of my group of close friends (about 7 of us) 3 of my friends have HPV. NOT from sleezy one night stands but from long term relationships where the men had no signs or symptoms. One of my friends just had her 2nd culposcopy and it's been really hard on her. The stress of worrying about having cancer is so hard on her family.

Parents that won't get their daughters vaccinated are selfish and ignorant.

i just had the HPV vaccine and it hurt a lot worse than other shots! After i got it, i was sick for 4 days from the side effects!

For my daughter, no. It's my personal belief that giving her the vaccine will only encourage her to think having sex before she's an adult is acceptable and it's not in my home. Some people will think differently, but I don't want to give my daughter any means to have sex before she's an adult/married. Teenagers are humans. Humans have self control. Teenagers are not animals with uncontrollable urges to mate, they have the capacity to wait and use self control. My daughter (and my son) will both be expected to exercise self control until they are at least legally adult or preferably until they are married. I'm not going to help my daughter or son into thinking they cannot control themselves and spend my money on preventatives that should be reserved for mature adults. If she chooses to have the shots she can get them once she is an adult and she can pay for them. The vaccine does not protect against cervical cancer, it protects against a very preventable sexually transmitted disease that can cause cancer. I can see the positives to it, but it's use should be for mature adults, not for young girls and teenagers. That's just my personal take on the matter.

*hh: First of all my daughter made the poor choice to get drunk or drink in the first place. Again that is totally preventable and she could have demonstrated self control not to drink. A 17 year old should never have been drinking. I don't look down on those who want to give their daughter the shots, but it's my personal choice not to for the reasons I gave above here. She will be expected not to go and drink at a party like that.

*hh: I was not referring to you there, just to the scenario. I am truly sorry for what happened to you and in your situation I could see why you would benefit from the vaccine after an attack like that, but for me just to get it for my daughter because it protects against an STD I will expect my daughter use self restraint/control and wait to have sex. I do know how the disease is carried and that men do not usually, if ever show signs. A good friend of my has HPV and contracted it from her husband who had many partners (another reason why sex should wait until marriage/adulthood). Again I apologize, my intent was not to offend, but just to make a point.

I had the 3 series shot. I was exposed to HPV and being treated for it. I am not sure if it was the shot or the one treatment I recieved in the doctors office. But they said I tested negative the last time they checked and didn't see any signs of it.
I will let my daughters get the shot when they are old enough.

my only concern about the HPV shot is that it is relatively new so there hasn't been time yet to evaluate possible unexpected side effects. when it has been used in larger populations, assuming no major downsides have been discovered, i'd be totally in favor of giving it to my daughters.

edit -- one of my kids had a new-to-the-market rotovirus vaccination that was subsequently recalled when it was discovered that it had dangerous side effects in some people. i'm all in favor of vaccinations, but i don't automatically think scientists always get everything right on the first try.

one additional edit -- how anyone would think that giving their daughter the vaccination would encourage sexual activity is baffling to me. do your kids actually even know what diseases their vaccinations are to protect against? do you really think the doctor will say to your 10-year-old, well, now you're protected against an std so sex is safer for you? or do you really think a kid considering whether to have sex will make their decision based on whether they had a vaccine against one (of many) stds?

ok, for those of you that say no, let me give you a scenario: a seventeen year old girl drinks too much, she gets into a car with her best friend and another (older) mutual friend. one thing leads to another, and she ends up in the back seat, undressed. she changes her mind, but she is in and out of consciousness. she's crying quietly, but it's too late. and the guy (21) didn't use protection. fast forward five months, she's at the gyno, and the doctor sees something unusual. the test comes back positive for HPV, severe displaysia and abnormal cell growth. lucky it was caught in time.
that is my story. it happened to me. and this is why i believe all girls need to be vaccinated. sometimes things happen, one bad decision leads to much greater, much worse consequences, and it's not always their fault.

*HonestMommy - so because i made one bad decision, it's ok for someone to rape and pass on a disease? that's flawed thinking, and that's why a lot of rape victims don't come foward. i was a virgin before that night. everyone makes mistakes, unless you and your children are some new breed of perfect human that no one told me about.
also, men don't usually know they have, no obvious signs, so your precious daughter could get married, and contract through unprotected sex with her husband. just a thought.

I got vaccinated for it.

My mom knows that as soon as I finish getting the shots I'm not gonna take that as permission to go out and do every guy I see.

My mom especially wanted me to get it because they had found an early stage of that cancer during those routine checks when she was in her twenties (after she was married...so she wasn't out doing every guy she saw either)

My daughter is only 4 but when she is old enough, yes I will.

I knew nothing about HPV until I went for my yearly check up. Going to the gyno just gives me this awful feeling and because of that I put off going for over 3 years. When I went I came up with my first abnormal pap smear in my life and I am 30. I went back for a retest 6 weeks later and saw a different doctor in the practice, who said to me "Did Dr. ******* tell you that you tested positive for the HPV virus?" I thought "Oh my gosh! What is that and no he didn't?!?!!?" I found out that this was a disease that is transmitted through sexual contact and that in many people it can remain dormant and cause no problems, but in some people it can start causing cervical changes and could possibly lead to cervical cancer. Now, I was told that I need to be checked every 6 months and once I have 3 normal pap smears in a row, I can go to once a year. However that was a total scare to me. Just the thought that something that got passed onto me through sex, could one day cause me to develop cervical cancer unless I and my doctor keep a very close eye on it, scares me to death. And I NEVER want my baby girl to have to deal with that. Luckly by the time she is old enough, many years of use and testing will have passed and there will be more research to show how safe this vaccine is.

Fact is, every medicine and vaccine we have nowdays had to start somewhere. Penicillin, the small pox vaccine, menengitis vaccine, etc. They all had to start somewhere and someone had to take a chance on them, in order for the future generations to benefit from them.

Never.

There are way too many side effects that have been related to it already including deaths. Not worth it.

http://www.nvic.org/Diseases/HPV/HPVrpt....
Additionally, Merck notes that vaccine ingredients include 225 mcg of aluminum

Here are links to the side effects:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007_doc...

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007_doc...

Edit: The vaccine is NOT 100% effective either.

Yes, I would do anything to prevent cancer

No, that's the one vaccine I don't believe in. My daughter will be taught morals just as I was, and I never had the need to worry about a sexually transmitted disease. It's possible to pass on those very same morals to children growing to adulthood.

People say that they would do anything to prevent cancer. This is a cancer spread by a sexually transmitted disease. How about not sleeping around with everyone? It doesn't prevent all types of cervical cancers. It won't prevent the kind that isn't spread by a sexually transmitted disease.

I will. I just have to hope that it doesn't appear that I am condoning unprotected sex. I can't imagine not having it done, cancer is no joke and preventing the papiloma virus can prevent most kinds of cervical concer. I will have an open dialogue about sex with my girls.

My mom made the mistake of only talking to me about sex in the context of facts and the obvious physical consequences. She left out all of the emotional stuff. I am now married and have one daughter and I think I am having another in July (the baby wouldn't cooperate fully for an u/s, but they think girl) and I will approach sex the way my friends mom did. My friend waited much longer, had very few partners and never "used" or misunderstood the seriousness of sex. I was shocked when we were sitting in her room talking and her mom walked in and she said "oh mom, I had sex with Jeff." Her mom sat down and started asking how she felt, was she ok, did she feel ready, did she use two forms of bc, etc. This Jeff was her second partner (we were already 20 at the time) Anyhow, I was shocked and SOOOO envious. How come I can't tell my mom this stuff??? Why didn't she tell me how I might feel if I have sex too soon or with the wrong person? My 2 cents

I only have a son but if I had a daughter I'd get her vaccinated. Just another shot at a checkup - the kid would not connect it with sex or permission to do so without consequences.

My momma's not even thinking about getting that vaccine for me on the fact that she knows that I'm not sexually active. I know some say "Better safe than sorry," but it's only against that one STD. What about Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, AIDS/HIV, herpes, etc? They don't have vaccines for those STDs and I also forgot pregnancy. Sure, you can use the pill, condom, and other various forms of protection, but they all have a fail rate.
Though, it's for the HPV strands that can lead to cervical cancer, but still, it's a STD.
It's a waste of insurance money for me to a get a vaccine to something I'll never contract.
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NO. Too new (look what happened with the Lyme Disease vaccine!). I'm not anti-vaccine, I'm anti-lets vaccinate for every thing because we can. My kids didn't get the hepatitis vaccine nor the chicken pox vaccine.

Besides, my daughter can choose what to do with her own body when she becomes sexually active.

Yes,I'm glad it's available to her. I like knowing that she'll be protected form at least one kind of cancer. I just wish it was around when I was younger.