Now this is interesting or should I say pretty damn scary…
Imagine going into get your flu shot. You don’t notice much more than the usual symptoms. 2 weeks later you go the Emergency room because you think you’ve hurt your back. Your arm feels a little numb and before you’re finished you can’t get up from the doctor’s examination…you’re paralysed!
Well it’s true… Richard Ryan should know, it happened to him.
Ryan, a 44 year old man, was paralysed for 5 months 2 weeks after to having his flu shot. He has contracted this condition from having a flu shot.
This condition is called Guillain-Barré syndrome and it is linked to the vaccine.
Even though the chance of developing this disease is one in a million Ryan had the worst 5 months of his life. Unfortunately for Ryan it has become a life long illness.
Others have complained of tonsillitis, mini-stroke, weeks of bed rest, etc
I don’t know about you but is it really worth it? Hmm, personally I think not… but hey you can make up your own mind.
My mother got Guillain-Barré syndrome the same way, only we don’t know which inoculation caused it. We all had several shots before we were supposed to move to Korea.
From what I understand, Mr. Ryan is unlucky to be affected so badly, yet he is much luckier than my mother was. She had to be put in an iron lung because she couldn’t breathe on her own. She is still paralyzed from the chest down, 37 years later. She recovered to the point where she could breathe and eat on her own, and roll her own wheelchair around. Mr. Ryan is doing much better.
The doctors gave my mother the same “one in a million” figure. They also told her she wouldn’t live to be 50. She is now 80 years old and still hanging in there!
I don’t get flu shots. I never even got my full compliment of childhood shots. I think I’ve only had one shot in the past 25 years, and that was for tetanus. That “expired” a few years back, so I should get another one, but the idea doesn’t thrill me.
Doug S, I’m so sorry about your mother.
Thank you for sharing.
The first time I heard of anything “bad” about inoculations came from my friend’s grandmother 10 years ago. She out right refused to let anyone in the family have them.
Then again a few years ago when I helped a lady who’s not only confined to a wheelchair but also had mental disabilities. And another man who as a child had an inoculation, became really sick and started having seizures leaving him mentally disabled.
Wow, it’s amazing that more information about Guillain-Barré syndrome and other symptoms aren’t more readily available.
Thank goodness information is starting to get out.
I have recently been diaganosed with GBS and I have to say this is one of the scariest things I have ever experienced. I have fought cancer so I can truly speak from already having some serious health issues. I am so fortunate to have a very mild version of this syndrome. I cannot even imagine going through a worse version of this and I could not be more symathetic to those of you who have and are still going through this.
Half of my face is paralyzed and my arms and legs are so weak that this is even tough to type. The thing that drives me nuts is the unknowns…..how long will it last and how bad will it get? I was in the hospital for 2 days and they told me it should not progess from what I have but my symptoms can fluctuate. I am not being treated because I am allergic to IVIG. I am trying to function as usual but it is a struggle because I get these waves of weakness that are pretty rough. I have decided that taking things one day at a time is the only way to go.