Age: 15.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: HPV4
Symptoms: Somnolence, Visual impairment
Clinical narrative: A little over a year a half ago, my daughter received her first vaccination for HPV.  Keep in mind that for quite some time I was reluctant for her to get the vaccine because it was so new and I just wasn't sure about it.  Every time we went to the Doctor, they asked about her getting her HPV vaccine.  Finally her pediatrician told me that she strongly recommended that patient get the vaccine, that it was perfectly safe and that she had given it to her own daughters.  So, I finally gave in, thinking that it was in her best interest to get the vaccine, based on what the Doctors had said.  Shortly after receiving the vaccine, patient began having symptoms.  Firtst it started with extreme fatigue, headaches, then joint pain in her ankles along with a few other things.  These were symptoms that she had never had before, so we thought that maybe she was overdoing it and her ankle pain was because she was working out and maybe was an injury.  A few months later, 6/2010, we were at the Doctor and she was given her second HPV vaccine.  Shortly there after her symptoms got worse.  She had chronic fatigue, she had joint pain in arms and legs, neck, shoulders, back, her headaches were now like migraines, she had nausea and her whole body hurt.  She was so fatigued, she could barely stay awake.  We saw many, many different doctors, trying to figure out what was wrong. This went on for months. The Neurologist gave her meds for the Migraines and around September/October 2010, we were referred to Rheumatology.  The Rheumatologist diagnosed her with Fibromyalgia, something that I had never heard of.  I at that time asked if these symptoms could be related to her HPV Vaccine. I was told, No.  I also asked this question to her pediatrician and was told no, that it was not a side effect of the vaccine.  They said that the Fibromyalgia was probably the result of a car crash that we had been in, in April 2007.  We were desperate at this point for answers so we accepted this as the reason for the Fibromyalgia.  We tried many therapies to try to get her symptoms under control.  I still in the back of my mind was thinking about the vaccine.  Patient's Symptoms continue to slowly worsen.  Then is January of 2011, again we were at the pediatricians and they wanted to give her the 3rd vaccine.  I again brought up the possible side effects of the vaccine and questioned patient's symptoms. The doctor assured me that these could not possibly be side effects of the HPV vaccine and that it was in patient's best interest to get the 3rd shot.  I agreed, thinking that it was in the best interest of my daughter. After the 3rd vaccine, her syptoms got out of control.  Chronic fatigue where she could barely stay awake.  She would sleep 20 hours a day if we let her and still be exausted, she had muscle weakness, dizziness, joint pain, migraines, stabbing pains in every joint all over her body.  These sharp stabbing pains jump around all over her body.  She has numbness, tingling in arm, hands, legs, feet, and all over.  She has nerve pain. The stabbing pains are now in her extremeties and her torso.  She now at time feels like her body and legs are so weak that she feels that she is going to collapse.  She has extreeme nausea, dizziness, blotchy vision and now spasms in hands, arms and legs where her joints tighten up and she cant move them.  These spasming symptoms last for several minutes, then subside.  The other symptoms that I mentioned prior, are chronic.  She has missed alot of school and is very frustrated.  She at time gets depressed about her symptoms.  She feels miserable all the time.  Every time that I bring up the HPV Vaccine as the possible cause, the doctors dismiss my theory.  I am very frustrated and so is she.  This has affected our entire family.  I feel helpless and dont know how to help her.  I truly believe that the vaccine is the cause of her current medical condition.