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In reply to the discussion: If you don't vaccinate your children. [View all]astral
(2,531 posts)if a 70ish year old in good health gets a flu shot, the next day is sick with bronchitis, five days later paralyzed on one side, it it a coincidence? doctor hollered it can't be from the shot because the symptoms would be completely different. so they refused to even see if they needed to treat for that. there was no recovery. it is my family and I will cry for the rest of my life whenever I think about it which is practically every day. I don't care to discuss it much here bc of all the rabid people who don't allow there to be another side of the story. julienne barre syndrome however you spell it matched the symptoms and it was treatable. it just tears my guts out to know I could not make the doctors do the right thing. I won't be going on with any arguing about it because it is hard to talk about and I don't particularly want anyone to know all about my personal life. prior to this, yes I was just opposed to shots but now I know firsthand it is not worth the risk for me. I don't get the flu and don't want to make anyone else sick but getting the shot and risk ruining my life a second time will not be an option for me. btw if you feel tingly and weird like you had a mini stroke after a flu shot, not necessarily the same day, I have also heard that story before, you probably were lucky it wasn't worse.