Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab
5 days ago by VetOfTheSeas to c/upliftingnews
My neighbor won't let her kids get it because of a weird mix of antivax sentiment that sprang up when Biden became president - and also because HPV can be sexually transmitted and she doesn't want her kids having premarital sex.
Could you imagine getting cancer because your mom is a moron? Those poor kids.
Yeah, I wonder about that though. Do you know what childhood vaccines you got? Does your current doctor have a record? I feel like when I was an adult and established care, I had to fill out some forms myself and just say "yeah I got the standard vaccine schedule." If my mom had objected to some random vaccine and didn't tell me, I probably would have no clue.
The logic there is insane.
"Oh cool I got a vaccine. I suppose now I'll live a life of promiscuity!"
"Nooo, the potential HPV was supposed to scare you into modesty!"
I was actually disappointed when they did the initial rollout and it wasn't available to boys (see, those without uteruses). Cause, like, that's how vaccines work best. You get it to protect everyone, not just yourself. But I guess that's not how the medical industry is designed.
I was 12 at the time and confused why I couldn't get it. Anyways, I got it the first year it was available to me. Hurt like all hell, especially that last shot.
Yes, I'm aware that humans are prone to flights of fancy. Doesn't change the fact that I'm disappointed that a science field doesn't listen to science when making decisions.
I think they needed to do more testing and such before rolling it out for boys and men. Because they could prove the cervical cancer link more easily and they could get it approved for girls first.
It's disappointing, but it's available now.
Because they felt it would give permission for girls to have sex without consequence. And you know how much conservatives love for there to be punishments for girls and women having sex.
I had a three-parter shot. The first one and the last one were fine, but the lady who did the second one seemed to have mistaken giving a shot with pitching a baseball. She hit me so fast and so hard it left a goddamn bruise. And I mean, not the kind you might get from an injection site - it was big.
I have no problem getting shots. I was an adult at the time, it's not like she had to do it quickly for a squirming kid. I have no idea why she did it so fast and violently.
I knew very little about HPV until I became symptomatic last summer. I had just turned 39 and had an extremely painful and difficult few months dealing with it. I'm now vaccinated and see a proctologist every few months to manage minor ongoing symptoms.
Talk to your doctor about getting the vaccine if you haven't already! It's super common and can be extremely unpleasant to catch. And if you care about the AFAB partners in your lives, get the vaccine to protect them! There is no test for men to determine if they have HPV unless they are symptomatic, and you can be a carrier for years before symptoms show, if they ever do!
It's been available for males for 20 years
It took about 20 years to get to this point. I almost lost my sister to this shit about 30 yrs ago. God I hate antivaxxers.
The HPV vaccine has also been linked to preventing throat cancers in men and woman linked to oral sex HPV transmission.
I work with a lot of MDs and they are urging everyone they know to get this vaccine. One of those colleagues personally treated two different cases of throat cancer in a span of months. Both of those cases were related to HPV and unfortunately both of those patients died from a potentially preventable disease.
This was the same conclusion as as a decade ago. We waste millions in this research just to deal with antivaxers and church types.
"Women should be punished for having sex" is a common repressive patriarchal structure, yep.
i had a horrible fight with my mom when i went to the gynecologist for the first time (age 20) and found out that she should have given me the shot as a teenager. i begged her to get my little sister vaccinated and she freaked out on me because she had been told by all her medical church frieds it was "unnecessary" because they are deep into purity culture and thought she would not have sex until she married her virgin husband. they also convinced her it was dangerous, years after that was debunked. i dont think she ever got it, and when my sister was 18 i talked to her about getting it and she was not interested..
p.s. i would like to add that the same purity bullshit is why my mom refused to take me to a doctor when i had white-knuckling period pain and had learned that birth control can help. she said "that will just make you fat" and did not take me. 12 years later i found out i have severe endometriosis and actually got a doctor to give me a hysterectomy when i was under 30 and had no kids. added bonus there was some gender euphoria, so thank you Endo. lol
I remember waaaaay back in 2007, when Texas Governor Rick Perry tried to include the HPV shot in the standard school vaccination requirements. And the party turned on him like a rabid dog. It haunted him all the way into his 2012 Presidential campaign.
The GOP was hopping on that anti-vax bandwagon decades earlier than a lot of people realize.
I think this vaccine was especially upsetting for right wing folks, since it is for a sexually transmitted virus, and works best if given to people before they become sexually active. Telling God-fearing Christians that they need to vaccinate their pre-pubescent girls for sexually transmitted diseases was always going to be a tough fight.
I wish I had access to it when I was a kid. I think the first time I saw an ad for it was well into my 20s. And IIRC in my late 20s when I asked a gyno about it, she said it probably doesn't make sense for me to get it as I'm "too old".
From my understanding, the potential protection is lowered, depending on which strain one has already encountered/been infected with.
Not the person you replied to, but I viewed it on my phone where I don’t have an ad-blocker, and I got bombarded by ads. There was a full-screen ad that hid the page when the page first loaded, and then there are full-height ads embedded in the article every few paragraphs. I’m sure it’s a lot cleaner if you have an ad-blocker.
Research has shown that the HPV test may lead to inconsistent results with men. This is because it is difficult to get a good cell sample to test from the thick skin on the penis. Most people will not have visible symptoms if they are exposed to HPV. Therefore, for most, the virus is subclinical (invisible). This is especially true for males.
If a male is exposed to the cell-changing types of HPV, he would be unlikely to have symptoms. If there are no symptoms for males, it is hard to test for it. https://www.ashasexualhealth.org/...
Getting vaccinated is the best option for men for a variety of reasons.
I was right at the cutoff age when it was first rolled out. 23 or 24. I basically ran to my gyno and was like. Now.
She was like. "Can do."
I just wanted to lower my chance of cancer.
Who can afford cancer in this economy ?
Would love If these shilled news sites wouldn't use the negative terms like jab, though this is fantastic news
Huh? The BBC is a UK news site (not really sure what 'shilled' means, but anyway.) In the UK "a jab" is perfectly normal and not remotely negative vernacular for getting a vaccination. As in "I'm going to the doctor to get my jabs for my holiday to Timbuctoo" or "damn that scratch is deep, lucky I've had my Tetanus jab", or whatever.
Since the start of covid it has gotten larger use in negative light stateside. So seeing it I immediately jump to, oh god jabs here we go again with negative vaccination terminology. I wasn't aware of its use though in UK, that's good to know. I appreciate the clarity on it
I've never had any negative associations with it. I always assumed it was a common British word like boot or crisps.
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Love to see it! The HPV vaccine is available for boys now as well!! Everyone should get it if they can
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