The new cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, which protects against the HPV virus that evolves into cervical cancer in women, is given to young women in their teens as a vaccination against cervical cancer, and it is quickly gaining a bad reputation as being a painful shot that stings and even has some women passing out from receiving it!

Now don’t get me wrong, I think that this is a good thing, the fact that we have a vaccine against the thing that causes a deadly cancer in women and can be stopped in its tracks.  It’s a very good thing, it’s just a shame that it can’t be made a little more comfortable, especially for those young women who are afraid to get shots in the first place.  Lots of people don’t like needles and this knowledge might just add to their reluctance to get the important vaccination. 

While most shots discomfort disappear with the first few seconds or minutes after they are introduced to the blood stream via injection, some girls are complaining that they experience discomfort in the arm that got the shot up to twenty four hours after they received it.  I wonder if part of that may be the way they were given the shot, but it does seem as though enough reports are coming to make it newsworthy.

 

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