LEIXURI ALCAIDE

Vaccinated with Gardasil

City, Community and Postal Code: Santurtzi (Vizkaya) 48980 SPAIN

Symptoms: pain, deformity and functional impotence on fingers of her hands; stiffness of both wrists and pain when they are mobilized, elbow deformity; muscular stiffness and contractures, tightening of extremities, loss of consciousness, jerking, seizures, dizziness, syncope, feeling sick, parenthesias, blurred sight, angustia, ataxy, hemiparesy, tiredness, chest pain, problems of concentration, impossibility to walk, loss of strength, incapacity to do physical exercise.

Emergency Door Visits: From 6/25/09 to 11/19/09:  12 visits to emergency doors and admitted to hospital between 11/2/09 to 11/5/09;  9/12/09 and 9/14/09

Dates of Vaccination:  1^st Shot 10/21/08;  2^nd Shot 12/2/08;  4/27/09.  HPV vaccine was given along with Heptatitis B

Duration of Illness:  From the 11/10/08 to present day.

Not Recovered

Doctors say that it is psychological. The mother relates she is a normal girl and she has not had problems before being vaccinated.

ANA TERESA GARCIA Age 27

Town, City, Postal Code:   05004 Avila. Spain.

Previous medical history: Complex comicial crisis (Epilepsy)

Vaccinated in June 2008

On 14th November 2008, Ana was admitted to hospital for dizziness, nausea, blurred eyesight, feeling of syncope without losing consciousness and having great difficulty in using her legs.  The medical tests that came back were all normal. She had episodes of being unable to connect with the doctors and reply to any of their questions and then could not remember any of this later.  On 15th November 2008, she had an episode of parasthesia on right side of her face and this was followed by Ana having a migraine. On 16th November, she received word from the neurologist that the neurological test was normal.

Diagnosis:  The doctor explained to Ana that the symptoms she was experiencing did not have any connection with her existing medical problems and that he was finding it difficult to try and establish why she was feeling so ill as all the tests he had carried out so far all came back negative.  After this Ana was moved to another Hospital in Madrid, where after being subjected to more medical tests they did not find anything wrong and for that reason they advised her to go to see a psychiatrist.

After one month, Ana was discharged from hospital without a clear diagnosis. She went to a private neurologist, and was given CMP forte (rebuilder of myeline) but nobody gave her a diagnosis. Some spoke of a possible Guillain-Barre disorder, others considered she might have polyneuropathy (immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system) but nothing was conclusive.

After being discharged from hospital she started rehabilitation, at first she could not move her legs at all but little by little she recovered mobility and strength. Ana was in rehabilitation until September 2009. In one year she spent most of her time in a wheelchair then she used crutches. By August when she was practically recovered, she still had balance problems and walked very slowly. During this period of time she felt her body was very funny (strange sensations). She had no menstrual cycle for more than four months and was experiencing vaginal infections and swelling of gums and hypersensitivity (when somebody touched her legs they hurt her very much) on her legs. She eventually recovered sensitivity and mobility to her arms and legs, the worst part was recovering sensitivity to her feet.  She also had breathing infections, infectious mononucleosis, a lot of colds, urticarias, and blurred eyesight which seemed to occur mainly in the afternoons.

On 18th October 2009, she was admitted again to hospital as she was experiencing loss of sensitivity on the left side of her face and then to the right side of her face. She could stand up but walking was difficult. The investigations which were carried out by the doctors were all normal, no neurological problem was discovered. .She again was encouraged to see a psychiatrist.

After suffering her relapse, she has turned back to rehabilitation and has all these symptoms: cramps affecting her legs and hands, vertigo, hallucinations and not able to taste or smell things. Her left leg has recovered and this happened before her right one.

On 18th October 2009 she had another relapse and she could not walk for 15 days, on 26th December Ana had another one and again on the 9th January 2010.

She has been admitted in hospital 5 times.

IRAIDA RUIZ

Age when she was vaccinated: 14 years old

City, community and postal code: Cantillana (Seville) Andalusia- Spain

Diagnosis:  We have not as yet been given a diagnosis by the specialists following all the investigations and tests which have taken place.

 Incapacitated: Yes

 Symptoms: Bad headache and bad pain in her right ear, deafness in this ear, blurred vision on the right eye, deviation of the mouth towards the right side, lost feeling and  sensitivity in her right arm and in both legs. She cannot walk and she is in a wheelchair. Nowadays she is under a rehabilitation programme and goes sometimes to school in an ambulance.

 Visits to Emergency Doors: to the doctor’s office of Cantillana innumerable times and to hospital 5 times .

 Hospitalizations: 3; 1st from 02/02/09 to the 02/20/09, 2nd  from  03/07/09 to the 03/24/09, 3rd from10/14/09 to 11/18/09

 Dates of vaccination: 1st Shot 10/21/08;   2nd Shot12/01/09

 Vaccinated with Cervarix: 1st Batch AHPVA015CM;   2nd Batch: AHPVA019BD

 Duration of the disease: From 10/21/08 to present day and getting worse progressively.  Iraida became ill immediately after her first shot but it was after her second shot that her condition deteriorated.  It started with pains in her ears, then with paralysis of her mouth, then on one side of her face until other parts of her body lost sensitivity and she was unable to walk.  She is still unable to walk as at today’s date.

 Not Recovered

 My life has changed with the vaccine.

 I did not know that a simple vaccine could spoil my life and that it could cause me so much damage. The worse thing of all is that doctors tell me that I am pretending and I feel so bad. This is a nightmare that I cannot see an end to.

Update as at 28th March 2010:         

 Iraida is still having serious problems and pain in her right ear which extends on to the right side of her face – she can only hear loud noises.  Her ear specialist has decided not to see her any more.  She still cannot see out of her right eye.  It has to be noted that Iraida did not have any visual problems prior to vaccination.  She is recovering a bit of sensitivity in her right arm and both her legs but still has no strength in these limbs.  She has an appointment with a specialist in three months’ time.

 Iraida’s mother was informed by a doctor when her daughter was first admitted to hospital that he knew her illnesses were due to Cervarix.  Like in the UK, the Health Ministry in Spain advised all doctors that Cervarix has no adverse effects but yet this doctor knew differently.  Like many of our doctors also they are too frightened to speak out.  Why would a young person like Iraida pretend to be this ill from October 2008 until the present day?  This child took seriously ill immediately after vaccination, why will this not be recognised as significant.  Why would anyone try and make this child out to be a liar as that is exactly what is happening when they say she is “pretending”.  All that requires to be done is check her medical records prior to vaccination and see if there is any history of this type of psychotic behaviour.  I guarantee you will not find anything.  I can provide you with a contact who can verify if there is a history of these types of illnesses prior to vaccination if you should wish to follow up on this.

Mª CARMEN TAPIA

City, Community and Country:  Moraleja de Enmedio- Madrid – Spain

Diagnosis: Convulsive crisis.

Symptoms:  Seizures, tiredness, headaches and pain in her legs

Hospitalizations: She was admitted to hospital for 7 days (From 6^th November to 13^th November 2008)

Dates of Vaccination: 1^st Shot 10/09/08; 2^nd Shot 12/9/08. The seizures began between the two shots.

Vaccinated with:  Gardasil

Duration of the Illness:  From 11/6/08 till the present day

Not recovered

On 6^th November 2008, she got up and suddenly she lost consciousness, she began throwing foam from her mouth and having very strong seizures. She moved all her body and she lost bladder control. We called an ambulance and she was admitted to Hospital. Doctors made all sort of tests because she was unconscious for 6 minutes. She was seven days in hospital. Doctors diagnosed convulsive crisis but they did not know the cause of them.

Since 13^th November 2008, when she was discharged from hospital, she has treatment with Depakine, an anti-convulsive treatment which is controlling her seizures. Carmen still does not feel very well, has headaches, pains in her legs and she is very tired.