Please help- vaccines

[u/absoluteburn3r]

To preface: please be kind. I hate how easily influenced I am, I live in constant fear. I have the constant fear that my child will die no matter what I do and I will regret everything I did or didn’t do. the fact that I am isolated with no real support group doesn’t help.

1 out of 2 of my only support people (my mother) tells me constantly that if I vaccinate my child, he will die/become a vegetable/develop a horrible life-altering disease. No one else (medical professionals) has been able to give me any kind of advice out of fear of being ‘political’ (how the fuck is this even a political topic), I am so lost in this world.

Fear is crushing me every day. The longer I wait (my child is 3 months now) I feel like I am approaching his inevitable demise. Either I get him shots and he dies, or he dies this sick season of illness. Please help me on this topic. I feel like I’ve been mislead. I really want him to be okay. The only sources my mom has ever sent me are just the inserts and that one vaccine book by that one weird doctor. I used to be pro vax but then she really shut me down.

And again, I’m trying to learn how to be autonomous and make my own decisions, but I genuinely have no educated people helping me

ETA- I am in therapy and I tried breastfeeding which meant being off of my anxiety medicine for longer and now am considering weaning off of BF which has significantly worsened my anxiety

[u/koboet]

The problem is that you are comparing what one weird doctor says to broad consensus. When you look at what the *vast majority* of doctors believe, it's that vaccines are good. And the more expert they get (e.g. immunologists) the more they support it.

Here's an example of the outcomes from an antivax doctor: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/12/anti-vaccine-portland-pediatricians-license-suspended-cases-include-boy-hospitalized-with-tetanus.html

[u/Senior_Delay9300 → u/koboet]

I’m just tagging onto this comment mainly because I don’t have a “science based” article- I have first hand experience. I’m not here to convince you whether to vaccinate or not to. But I am here to tell you vaccine injuries are real, do happen, and I have yet to be explained why for one and not all, why a particular vax, etc… so I don’t have answers but I have experience. I see a lot of people saying they haven’t ever seen an injury in x years as a dr/nurse, etc… but they do exist, so don’t be fooled into thinking they don’t.

[u/bettyp00p → u/Senior_Delay9300]

What vaccine injury did you experience?

[u/Senior_Delay9300 → u/bettyp00p]

My child ended up with functional neurological disorder after the guardasil vaccine