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Originally Posted by Riverwild
Ahem! Reading through this and happening to watch a PBS special on the polio vaccine reminded me of something else...
I have had 5 smallpox vaccinations. I have had both the Sabin and the Salk polio stuff. Twice. Each. I have had every shot known to man and most of them more than twice.
Wonder how I did that? My Dad was in the service for 38 years. Every time we were shipped overseas or returned overseas after a visit home back in the 60s, we spent a week getting shots.
I have my records from when I was a kid (not easy to find when you are a service brat!) and when I showed them to my doc, he was shocked at how many vaccines and preventative shots I had. He said it's no wonder my immune system seems to kill everything that I get within a day or two!
Too bad it didn't kill the MS!  |
I did get a vaccination about two weeks before I had my first experience with numbness in April of 2006. I had an MMR vaccine because the mumps were going around Nebraska and Iowa at near epidemic proportions.
Two weeks later, my right thigh went numb while on a trip to the Omaha Zoo. (boyfriend and I got to ride in the engine of the steam powered train that is at the zoo) Stood right behind the firebox where they burn the wood/coal, and it was a fairly warm day for April. It was really hot riding on that engine. After I got off the train (practically fell off, feet felt weird) I realized my right thigh and hip were numb. Got home and was in serious pain in the thigh. (apparently sprained it or something when I fell off the train...actually fell twice, getting on, and getting off)
I do think that MMR vaccine had something to do with the MS. I think I already had the MS, but the vaccine might have triggered an exacerbation.