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Old 05-27-2008, 09:55 PM   #1
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Question about the Rubella Vaccine and RA

I have had problems with my joints for years now, I was watching tv last night and saw something about the Rubella Vaccine causeing Athritis in women...I recieve a shot after I had my son 22 years ago. I had Juvenal RA when I was a child but went into remission. About 1 month after I had my son and recieving the shot I started having back problems and have had for years now along with joint pain. The Doc said I have athrtis. I also breast feed my son and he had ADHD and was on meds most of his child hood. The nurse did not ask me if I wanted the shot she just gave it to me. I ask what it was and she told me Rubella Vaccine, at the time I didn't know any better. I was never able to get preganent again. I was just wondering is anyone on here has had this shot and now have athritis and if this shot could be the caused for all my problems along with my sons. Now he is fine married and happy. I thank God for that, but I would like to know if this shot may have activated my Juvenal RA again.
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PS sorry about the spelling never could spell very good.

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Old 05-27-2008, 10:39 PM   #2
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Re: Question about the Rubella Vaccine and RA

I had the shot when little and at age 48 (three years ago) developed arthritis in both shoulders and my neck. I am not sure if that could be from the shot or just a natural part of my aging process.

All I know about the rubella vaccine (German measles) is not to get it while pregnant and I would well imagine it would not be a good idea to get it while breast feeding?

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Re: Question about the Rubella Vaccine and RA

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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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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Old 05-28-2008, 02:46 AM   #4
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Re: Question about the Rubella Vaccine and RA

[QUOTE=Lindaru;3585260]

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.

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Sorry, I also have to have my little comment about this ;-)

There is absolutely NO reputable scientific evidence to support that any form of vaccines cause autism or any other forms of disorders.

Regarding autism, it took just 1 scientist to say that there is a link when every other scientist in the world specialising in that area said its complete rubbish and there is no link. Who did the media listen to, the one scientist and now people have a false misconception that there is disagreement in the scientific community about the saftey of vaccines.

Because of the hysteria surrounding the subject, particularly the uk there has been an increase in the number of deaths in children relating to diseases that could have been vaccinated against.

And to the poster, what janewhite1 has posted are excellent comments. I agree, just like other scarmongering with vaccines, it is highly improbably for your arthiritis to be caused by the vaccine.

 
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Re: Question about the Rubella Vaccine and RA

Janewhite and Geezgeez . . . I have edited my post to remove that portion. Sorry.

Lindaru

 
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