My granddaughter, a 15 month-old baby, has received a flu shot in Oct 25, 2016. Within 2 weeks she developed arthritis in her knee. As she was so small at the time, we couldn't know if she was in pain prior to the onset of swelling in her joints, but we did notice that she was not walking the same way as before the vaccination. She was a perfectly healthy child prior to the vaccine, very energetic and strong. Just days before the vaccine, we took her for a long walk to a park, and she couldn't stop running, we had hard time keeping up with her! After the vaccine, not only she had 5 joints swollen, but as septic arthritis was suspected, she had a knee surgery (as the knee was the first, as most obvious), and other joints discovered afterwards. It seems the vaccine triggered the start of the autoimmune disease, as her antinuclear antibodies are now elevated and she is diagnosed with juvenile arthritis, which is an autoimmune disease. To have such a burden for the rest of her life, starting from a vaccine, is just devastating for the whole family. We had very hard time even getting it reported, so it is recorded for any further research showing the connection between the vaccine and autoimmune disease. As we live in Canada, we'll never get any compensation, as Ontario doesn't have vaccine injury program. In any case, I just hope that all of you who reported your case here will be reporting to vaccine reporting program, as this is the only way to show and prove the connection, as it is currently being denied by the standard medicine. Good luck to all of you here, and I hope your problems will go away. After 5 steroid shots, the baby is now doing ok, and we have assembled a whole team of specialists to get her better. We'd like her to be perfectly healthy again, but how much this is possible, only time will tell.
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My granddaughter, a 15 month-old baby, has received a flu shot in Oct 25, 2016. Within 2 weeks she developed arthritis in her knee. As she was so small at the time, we couldn't know if she was in pain prior to the onset of swelling in her joints, but we did notice that she was not walking the same way as before the vaccination. She was a perfectly healthy child prior to the vaccine, very energetic and strong. Just days before the vaccine, we took her for a long walk to a park, and she couldn't stop running, we had hard time keeping up with her! After the vaccine, not only she had 5 joints swollen, but as septic arthritis was suspected, she had a knee surgery (as the knee was the first, as most obvious), and other joints discovered afterwards. It seems the vaccine triggered the start of the autoimmune disease, as her antinuclear antibodies are now elevated and she is diagnosed with juvenile arthritis, which is an autoimmune disease. To have such a burden for the rest of her life, starting from a vaccine, is just devastating for the whole family. We had very hard time even getting it reported, so it is recorded for any further research showing the connection between the vaccine and autoimmune disease. As we live in Canada, we'll never get any compensation, as Ontario doesn't have vaccine injury program. In any case, I just hope that all of you who reported your case here will be reporting to vaccine reporting program, as this is the only way to show and prove the connection, as it is currently being denied by the standard medicine. Good luck to all of you here, and I hope your problems will go away. After 5 steroid shots, the baby is now doing ok, and we have assembled a whole team of specialists to get her better. We'd like her to be perfectly healthy again, but how much this is possible, only time will tell.
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