Date of Vaccine Reaction: 11/29/2004

Originally Written October 3, 2007; Updated March 2, 2010
If you do any reading online about what parents fear most about vaccinating thier child, they’ll tell you their deathly afraid of the MMR.  and. they. should. be.  But, I believe Nicholas’s issues started way before the MMR and the MMR only complicated his issues and recovery – and to this day cannot believe I allowed his pediatrician to even give him these shots.  Mommy instinct.  Listen to it.  I wish I had…..

When Nicholas was a month and a half old, he received 2 actual shots, but vaccinations for Haemophilus b and seven strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae. He got the HbPV (Hib) and Prevnar vaccines – and he screamed and screamed and screamed for over 24 hours straight.  Called the pediatrician the next morning to which I was told that was “not a reaction”  — Sure, my child who doesn’t scream screams for 24 hours just for the heck of it.  The phrase “no reaction” is one that flows quite well off of my son’s pediatrician’s tongue.  I can still hear him saying it as he’s writing down which shot(s) he had that day with a dash no reaction next to it.  Bullshit.  If that wasn’t a reaction, then clearly he was just enjoying hearing himself scream. 

The reaction my son had to these vaccines this day haunts me, even today – over 5 years later.

He was given Prevnar from Wyeth Lederle Laboratories, lot number A67180B or A67180D.

He was given Hib from Sanofi Pasteur, lot number 07817S or 07R17S (number is a bit hard to decipher on my copy)

A search in the VAERS database shows that other children had the same screaming reaction these were administered. My son’s reaction to this vaccine was never entered into VAERS as our pediatrician wrote his reaction off as being “no reaction” – this is commonplace amongst pediatricians. Had I known at the time that I could have it entered myself, I would have. How many other children had this reaction to this vaccine and like us, their reaction was not entered into VAERS either?