Question by x_aimee: Who heard about the cheerleader that has weird symptoms now cause of the flu shot?
its so sad! ]: like she has to walk backwards just to talk normal and she has to run to look normal/talk normal. when she is walking and sitting, she has bad speech and sorta twitches. i would definitely sue the doctors/nurse/flu shot people lol. but omg that sucks! >:[
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Answer by Smith
yeah i heard that
:S quite weird
im not getting the h1v1 shot tho –
just like the flu shot your body gets used to having the flu shot every year – and when you dont get the shot – you become more prone to having the flu that year then
thus i dont wanna get more prone to the h1v1. so im just gonna take better care of myself and avoid it….+ i dont wanna take the risk of the flu shot..
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yeah i saw it on youtube and it rlly disturbed me
The person in that video reported receiving the flu vaccine in August this year, developed a flu-like syndrome ten days later, then seven weeks later developed a severe movement disorder and seizures. The time-correlation itself is suggestive but does not in itself prove that one caused the other to occur.
The diagnosis of dystonia was reportedly made by her physical therapist at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, while other news sources state that she was also diagnosed at Inova Fairfax hospital in northern Virginia, but there is no mention of what type of physician did the work-up, performed an exam or made a diagnosis.
What remains in question is whether this is physiologic or psychogenic in nature. (Recently, an emergency medicine physician in Maryland stated to the press that it appears to be psychogenic and intends to use it as a teaching case.)
If physiologic, this would be considered a secondary dystonia, which usually follows some kind of injury, stroke, disease state or drug administration. Toxic injury vs autoimmune reaction would be focused upon.
Popular speculation about how a vaccine could cause a specific / unique deficit(s) such as this centers more around autoimmunity. The idea is that introduction of a foreign material would trigger an immune response which would amplify immune cells and production of antibodies against one’s own cells, such as for instance, myelin (the insulating material on neurons), leading to severe disturbances in the transmission of electrical impulses in the brain.
Depending upon the area(s) of the brain that is/are most severely affected, different functions would become impaired. Changes/injury to the basal ganglia, for instance, would have an effect on several functions, such as the initiation and regulation of movement. Also, injury to the primary somatosensory cortex is believed to be related to walking difficulty. A particular subtype or combination of these kinds of changes in the brain, from autoimmune injury to myelin/ vessels/ other cells could lead to a condition in which initiation or regulation of walking forward is severely impaired while other functions such as walking backward and running forward are preserved.
So far, there is no accepted, definitive mechanism to clearly explain how vaccines and/or vaccine adjuvants/ carriers could induce an autoimmune response or bring about toxic damage that could cause the type and level of impairment seen in this person’s case.
There was reportedly some suspicion of tainted vaccine, but this has been dismissed by investigators.
There has been some mention of Guillan Barre Syndrome which was cited as a consequence of vaccination, but that hasn’t been credited since the mid 1970’s. Guillan Barre is an autoimmune disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system and usually follows an infectious illness, and shows an ascending paralysis (leg muscle weakness, loss of dtr’s, progressing to upper body weakness/ paralysis, respiratory failure) and none of the subtypes of Guillan Barre resemble this woman’s condition.
The physiologic and psychogenic considerations are both realistically possible, and in either case she needs medical attention– neurologic or psychiatric. Hopefully she has been appropriately evaluated by now. All that matters is that she gets well.