Wichita Teen Suffering After Gardasil Vaccine
Cervical cancer runs in the family, so Wichita teen Gabi Swank asked her mom for the vaccine Gardasil. Swank says the series of shots ruined the life she knew.
This week, new research shows 12,424 girls have had adverse effects to the vaccine. Of that, 772 or 6.2% were considered serious like Swanks.
The kitchen table at Swank’s house is covered with pill bottles. The teen takes 15 prescriptions a day to treat her autoimmune disease lupus. “I get nauseated, I take all of them in the morning and most at night,” Swank said. It wasn’t always like this for the 16-year-old. “After my third shot, that’s when I collapsed and started having chest pains. Dramatically everything changed,” she said.
That was last year after taking the Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. “I wanted to protect her, I didn’t want to potentially kill her,” said her mom Shannon Schrag. But Swank is now fighting for her life and spends a lot of time in the hospital. “This should not be happening to me, this should not be happening to anyone else.,” Swank said.
Her neurologist Dr. Dwight Lindholm blames the vaccine for her potentially fatal condition. “I recommend not getting a vaccination. It’s not worth the risk,” said Dr. Lindholm. His opinion is only stronger after seeing that 6.2% have had serious adverse effects. “That’s a serious high percent, a high risk,” he said.
It’s a risk Swank wouldn’t have taken if the research was available earlier. “You used our children as guinea pigs,” Schrag said.
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