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Elle · Hermes

RE: HPV vaccine

Aurora · Marc Jacobs

My doctor's main thinking was in line with yours - the whole further down the line if something could have been prevented by this shot I'd wish I would have gotten it type thing.

I am on the edge of the age bracket (I'll be 26 in Sept eek!) so I figured I'd better start it now. It wasn't too bad of a shot. I had brief numbness in that arm for about 2 minutes and then arm soreness for the rest of the day but that was it. Nothing like that darned tetnus shot that kills me for days after getting it.

Kelly · Hermes

I just got this the other day. The weird thing was when it went in I felt a sudden surge in my arm. Not exactly painful, but severely unpleasent. I figured the nurse was just really violent with the shot, but when I looked over I saw that it was spring-loaded!

I thought about this today, though: my last pap was this past July. My BF wanted to wait to have sex in the beginning, so we didn't have sex until August. But before the shot, my gyno didn't ask me if I'd slept with anyone new or anything. My BF hadn't slept with anyone before me, so I know personally that I dont' have a problem there, but my gyno never asked or anything. I mean, I could've slept with 100 different HPV-infected guys between my last exam and when I got the shot. Did anyone else have to get a new pap right before the shot?

-- Edited by ttara123 at 01:36, 2007-04-10

Aurora · Marc Jacobs

Nope to the new pap. Basically my doctor said the chances of someone having all 4 strains of the HPV disease in this shot is slim so while it might not be completely effective if I had a strain I would still get some protection from it. I did have my annual pap that same day and just got the results yesterday (normal) but I thought you couldn't tell if someone had HPV from a pap anyways.

Kelly · Hermes

Aurora wrote:

I thought you couldn't tell if someone had HPV from a pap anyways.

crap, you're probably right. I don't know why I always think that...every few months I think I relearn the fact that a pap doesn't test that, but I always keep forgetting. Blech!