Hi Cheryl ~ To answer your question.....I would have asked that nurse what TM was.... I guess it would have depended on her answer at the time. If she had told me it was a paralyzing event....then my answer would be, "No way do I want the shot." Bill and I were discussing all of these emails this morning regarding whether or not to get these shots (Bill is my significant other of 20 years and has been through it all with me)..... anyway....he said, "Honey, I don't think it was the Thimerosol that caused your TM..... it was the half dead virus in that shot that caused your TM. Your immune system went crazy trying to erradicate that virus and attacked your spine and killed nerves and caused your lesion." So now I'm wondering..... is there a half dead virus in the swine flu vaccine..? I'm scared for my five grandbabies. ~ Lynn In a message dated 9/2/2009 2:56:02 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, rn11...@yahoo.com writes:
Hi Lynn, I have a question.Since you had never heard of tm at the time of the flu shot,do you think you would have refused the shot? ( By the way,that nurse was an idiot; NO vaccine prevents all flu strains.) I was an RN for 22 yrs before getting tm,and I had never heard of it.I worked in a hospital respiratory care unit and got a flu shot every yr.I always read the paper they give me prior to getting the shot.Mine had never mentioned tm,just Guillain-Barre syndrome. I got a pneumonia vaccine several yrs ago,and a repeat about 3 yrs ago.I also get a flu shot every year.Since I have diabetes as well as tm,I'm at higher risk of complications if I get the flu.Plus,the tight banding around my trunk makes it very difficult to deep breathe or cough. I'm terrified of getting a simple cold,nevermind the flu. Cheryl in Easthampton,MA. --- On Wed, 9/2/09, roseofr...@aol.com <roseofr...@aol.com> wrote: From: roseofr...@aol.com <roseofr...@aol.com> Subject: Re: [TMIC] Swine flu vaccine To: jan...@centurytel.net, cakal...@embarqmail.com, tmic-list@eskimo.com Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 1:21 PM I am totally convinced it was the preservative (Thimerosol) in the vaccine that caused my TM....and my neuro concurs. It's a very difficult thing to actually prove since there are so many things that can cause TM. I remember the day I got the shot....the nurse was extolling the virtues of that vaccine...telling me how it was going to prevent me from getting ALL of the strains of flu viruses out there . After I got the shot she handed me a copy of the paperwork I had signed......when I got home I read it and one of the side effects listed was Transverse Myelitis. That day I didn't know what TM was so didn't think much of it until I was hit, paralyzed and diagnosed. Wish I'd read the paperwork FIRST but we tend to believe whatever our health care providers tell us. My suggestion to anyone considering getting the swine flu vaccine or the seasonal flu vaccine is this: insist on a preservative-free vaccine. ~ Lynn In a message dated 9/1/2009 7:46:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jan...@centurytel.net writes: Lyn, Are you saying that your flu shot gave you TM? Have they proven that? Janice ----- Original Message ----- From: _roseofr...@aol.com_ (http://us.mc581.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=roseofr...@aol.com) To: _cakal...@embarqmail.com_ (http://us.mc581.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=cakal...@embarqmail.com) ; _tmic-l...@eskimo.com_ (http://us.mc581.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tmic-l...@eskimo.com) Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [TMIC] Swine flu vaccine I'm with Laura and Candy. I wound up paralyzed from the flu shot I received 12 years ago so I won't be getting the swine flu vaccine either...! By the way, I haven't had the flu or a cold for 12 years. I take supplements and really keep up my levels of Vitamin D3....that stuff is a gold mine and it's not expensive. The reason people get the flu in the winter is not because of the cold weather....it's because they don't get enough sunshine....that's what it takes for our bodies to make vitamin D3. Hugs, Lynn ____________________________________ ____________________________________