The primary purpose of the rubella vaccine is to prevent congential rubella syndrome. Affecting about 85% of early-term fetuses whose mother catches rubella, it causes deafness, brain damage, miscarriage, and other serious problems. The disease is not so good in infants either. Would have made more sense to vaccinate you before you got pregnant, but maybe they were protecting any future children. There's no reason it would have interfered with your future fertility.
Rubella vaccine and arthritis, eh? It's well established that catching rubella can cause arthritis in women, and adult women (not men or children) do sometimes develop joint pain after getting the vaccine. The vaccine induced arthritis usually goes away in a matter of weeks, though rarely it doesn't.
Alisaviola, it's most likely not possible to say at this point why your arthritis came back when it did, since pregnancy and childbirth also change the immune system.
Lindaru, since there's no evidence that the vaccine can cause arthritis in little girls, and since you didn't have an adverse reaction at the time, I think it highly unlikely that your current joint problems are related. If it's regular osteoarthritis, then no way, because disease or vaccine induced arthritis are inflammatory.
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Originally Posted by Lindaru  There is some ongoing debate about vaccines versus autism and I wonder if they might not be including other disorders (like ADHD) in that debate. |
Please, as a personal favor to me, don't go there. There's little to no evidence for the vaccine-autism link, but many people believe in it anyway. Please don't start wild rumors linking vaccines to another disease, not unless you have some evidence to back it up.
There's plenty of evidence to show that ADD is familial. I have it and, you know what? I was hyper from the day I was born, before a single needle entered my veins.
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