Saturday, January 24, 2015

How this all began....

I just realized I never told the story about how this all began. Krista is rarely sick. (We hadn't been to our pediatrician since we moved here in June and that was for a well check up.) We went to the OBGYN because she was having heavy menstrual cycles, really heavy. They had her tested for anemia and she was fine. While there the doctor insisted we get the Gardasil vaccine, even to the point of taking instruments out to "scare" Krista. I asked the doctor if there was any possible side effects bc she had been through enough that day and the doctor said none. I told the doctor I'd read horror stories about Gardasil online and I wasn't sure. The doctor assured me she'd given hundreds of vaccines and never had a single issue. I gave in and that's a decision I will regret forever. I almost told the doctor forget it, she's been through enough today, but I didn't. I hate myself for allowing that poison in her body. After krista first received the Gardasil vaccine she started having symptoms on the car ride home. Her lower back, around her spine, hurt really bad. She also had a headache, joint pain and a slight fever. I called the doctor and they said it was normal. 
The next day, the fever was gone but she had severe joint pain. I told her it would be ok, gave her Advil and she went to school. That after noon she texted from the bus to say her head hurt really bad and she had to go to the nurses office during 8th period. She said it still hurt now along with her joints. I again called the OBGYN office, they said this wasn't normal and the pain shouldn't last that long. I decided to get her in to her pediatricians office and made an appt for the next day. Krista then texts me from the bus saying her leg won't stop moving. "It's shaking and won't stop". I told her it must have fallen asleep and to relax. It stopped and I forgot about it. I was more concerned about the constant joint pain and headaches at this point. 
The next day we go to her pediatricians office bright and early at 8:30am. While in the room waiting for the doctor she has her first shaking episode that I witness. Her left foot starts shaking, then her leg. I get the nurse and try not to freak out. The nurse sees it and 
says the doctor will be in shortly. By the time the doctor comes in, I've gone to get the nurse three more times bc her arms are shaking as well as her legs. Krista is freaking out bc this is new and has never happened before and I'm really worried too but trying to keep it together. The doctor examines her and tries to calm her down but we are way past that now, she hyperventilates and an ambulance is called. 
At the ER they calm her down, check her out, do a brain X-ray and then tell me the joint pain is from the gardasil vaccine but the shaking episodes are psychopathic. The Brian X-Ray was perfectly normal. I,of course lose it because I know that this is NOT psychosomatic! They get two ER doctors to talk to me, tell me this is a good thing and refuse to let me talk to a neurologist. After I raise hell, insisting it's the gardasil vaccine and this isn't normal for her or psychosomatic, they send us on our way. 
Monday morning we are back in the pediatricians office with brand new symptoms. They run a ton of blood tests (all of which 
end up coming back normal) refer us to a neurologist and set up an EEG appointment. 
Since all of this started, new symptoms have appeared daily including seizure like full body spasms, the eye flutters(she can't see until these are over), jaw  /tongue twitching and the head vibrations with the neck paralysis just to name a few. I'm praying the EEG found something, we figure out what is causing this and fix it! We won't get the results until a week from now. I will be calling daily. I pray she has no new symptoms and this whole thing either stars to get better or plateaus. I've been sleeping with her every night keeping an eye on her for any new symptoms and to make sure she's ok. The episodes seem to be worse at night and in times of stress for her. Anyway, that's the whole story and where we are now. Hopefully we get answers soon.

2 comments:

  1. Quite the scary story. It's crazy all the times the doctors still just don't agree with you. They think they are always right. How old is Krista?

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