Age: 15.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: HPV4
Symptoms: Oedema peripheral, Pain, Pain in extremity, Protein total increased, Protein urine present
Clinical narrative: 48 hours after the vacination of Gardasil, I has a reaction. My legs swelled and I had small red bumps all over my legs. I couldn't walk because of the pain and large amout of swelling in my knees and ankles. About 8 days after I had severe abdominal pain with vomiting and fever. I went to the doctor about a week after the shot because my legs were swelling all over and so were my elbows. The dots were spreading and they stung. She looked and examined me and we concluded I had HSP. It's an autoimmune desease that causes the blood veins to pop and leak. It is supposed to go away after 4-8 weeks. I have had it since Sep. 11th of 2008. We went to a skin doctor to make sure and he took a biopsy of my leg in 2 places and it was in fact HSP. About a month or 2 after we found out what I had, we started noticing I got sick very easily. I had my blood and urine tested and the doctors saw that I had an extremely high level of protein and blood in my urine. In the blood they took they saw that my iron was low and I had a low white blood cell count. We kept testing one or twice every 2 or 3 weeks. The protien and blood went up and down but was never at a normal or healthy amount. We then went to a doctor. He looked at my urine and blood and decided to preform a kidney biopsy. He saw that I had scarring on my kidneys and found that I have an IgA protien that causes my kidneys to overwork. I was put on blood pressure medicine and bottomed out so we stopped that. We are still to this day trying to find out what to do about the situation. We've also been to an allergist. She saw that the ingredients in Gardasil along with the protien in my body are reacting. I can't take any medication because I might have a reaction. Plus it goes to my kidneys which could cause damage. I might be put on steroids but we aren't sure. I just hope more people know about Gardasil before someone else gets what I have or worse.  8/17/09 PCP medical records received DOS 8/12/08 to 7/13/09. Assessment: Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura. Patient presents with palpable purple bruises around ankles and lower legs. Mild respiratory virus. Injury to right Achilles tendon. Sudden onset abdominal pain. Constipation. Significant flare of HSP with multiple purpura on buttock, lower legs, ankles, and feet. HSP continues to persist with lesions on forearms. Swelling of legs. Cough and congestion. Orthostatic proteinuria. Chest pain. Inflamed pustular lesions on face. Pneumonia, wheezing. dysmenorrhea and premenstrual syndrome, acne. UTI. ADHD. Herpetic infection. Insomnia. Blood in stool. Anal fissure. Placed on oral contraceptives. HSP Nephritis with IgA nephropathy. Cold intolerance, hands and feet cold. Sunburn.  8/17/09 Consultant records and labs received DOS 11/18/08 to 8/10/09. Assessment: Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura. Patient presents for evaluation of purpuric leasions consistant with Henoch-Schoenlein pupura. Also had pain in both ankles which were swollen. Skin with purpuric lesions distributed over both buttocks and lower and upper extremities.