Miscarriages after H1n1 vaccine – coincidences???
by Richard Seah
I am so upset. I was so excited to be pregnant after trying for a year. As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I joined this birth club and I was due June 25th. We have two healthy boys with no history of miscarriage. Everything was going great. Last Monday, I got the H1N1 vaccine thimerosal reduced (mercury reduced for pregnant women). On Tuesday morning, I started cramping and on Wednesday I started bleeding heavily. My hcg (a glycoprotein hormone produced in pregnancy) was 50 on Wednesday and I was almost 6 weeks along so it was low. They still thought that I might be pregnant but on Friday my hcg was down to 22. I am an emotional wreck. I feel like I had a healthy baby and I caused this by getting the H1N1 vaccine. My doctors pushed it. I researched online and there have been many miscarriages after the H1N1 vaccine but they haven’t been reported since it is hard to say what caused the miscarriages. I hope that I did not cause this. I wish everyone the best.
My heart goes out to you as i recently miscarried as well and was due in june. i had a healthy heart beat at 6wks. then at 7.5 wks my son got the h1n1 mist vaccine which has live vaccine in it. the nurse said to be careful b/c it could technically spread if he rubbed his nose and touched a surface etc. the next night i miscarried and 5 days later was diagnosed with h1n1. i work from home, kids are home, hadnt been anywhere during that time. so the chances that it is all related are very high. the flu mist vaccine warns for immunocompromised patients (which includes prego) to stay away from recipients of the flu mist for 21 days.
I got the flu vaccine (regular not H1N1) at 8 weeks pregnant. Three days later I miscarried. I am not going to get the H1N1.
I got both vaccines on Thursday. I was 9 weeks pregnant. I miscarried on Sunday. I was told by several doctors to get these vaccines. Now I wish I followed my gut feeling and not get them at ALL!
i work in a hospital like setting and was told ‘the benefits outweigh the risks” 1 a.m. I got the vaccine, 3 a.m. i started bleeding and craming, 3 p.m. miscarried. you decide
And so on. And so on. Lots of personal stories such as these have been appearing in blogs and online forums across the United States – and most probably in other countries as well. This lot was compiled by Organic Health.
The details vary. Some miscarried early in their pregnancy, some miscarried late and gave birth to still borns. Some miscarried within hours of receiving the H1N1 (or seasonal flu) vaccine. Some miscarried a few days later.
Yet the common themes are all too clear. ALL miscarried shortly after receiving vaccination. ALL were told by their doctors that the miscarriages had nothing to do with the vaccination. They were just “coincidences”.
Yet how do doctors know??? that the miscarriages were not linked to the vaccines when none of the vaccines had been tested on pregnant women. On what basis do doctors assert that the miscarriages were not caused by vaccination? Just because they learned in medical school that vaccines are safe?
As long as doctors dismiss such cases, they will never get investigated. And there are lots more cases that go unreported and unvoiced. With the victims just suffering in silence. It has been estimated that for every one reported case of adverse vaccine side effect, there are at least another 10 cases that go unreported.
And so any reports linking vaccines to miscarriages will forever be classified as “anecdotal”. They will always remain “unscientific”. Because science never got involved. Only the pig-headed refusal to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, there are too many “coincidences”.
Yet there is a point in reporting. Whether you miscarried or suffered any other adverse effect, whether or not your doctor believes it was caused by the vaccine, as long as you believe so, you are strongly encouraged to report it to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Or tell us. Or anybody else.
TELL THE WORLD. In the past, if your doctor brushed you off, that was the end of the story. You go off and cry in bitterness but there was nothing much else you could do. Today, with the Internet, YOUR STORIES WILL BE HEARD. By someone, somewhere. You could help save a few miscarriages. And a few lives!
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