"the insurances *should* pay for titers..... then they wouldn't have to pay for 3-4 doses of each vaccine.... the cost would be lower to the insurance companies anyway"
feeling like I am repeating myself.....
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if it doesn't make the insurance company money (i.e. they will be spending more than making on a given service) they won't offer it.... no matter the demand.
for example... MMR titer is more expensive than two x the vaccination... and if you titer after the first, and get a second shot, and titer after the second... it gets cost prohibitive"the insurances *should* pay for titers..... then they wouldn't have to pay for 3-4 doses of each vaccine.... the cost would be lower to the insurance companies anyway"
feeling like I am repeating myself.....
Thanks for all your feedback.
My spirit is very uneasy about this shot and so perhaps it would be best to not get it for now.
The problem is, I'm not very assertive ...maybe I can call the ped and talk to him over the phone or set up a meeting to talk about it. If I go in and talk about it when I'm supposed to be getting the shot, I'm afraid we'll walk out having had the shot. :o
I agree. You should go together and make it clear that you are doing what you feel is best. Don't let them bully you. They're your kids, not the docs.Is your husband more assertive? Either way, maybe if you go to the appointment with your husband may give you more confidence to stand true to your convictions for you child and present a united front to the doctor. I had some trouble finding my inner voice as a mother in the beginning and my son's first pediatrician made some rather rude "jokes" about my son. My husband had no qualms informing the doc that his comments were inappropriate (made the doc's face red! and mine as well...lol). I have since discovered my inner voice.
What I did was change the way I looked at parenting. Parenting is God entrusting us to raise His gift to us. There came a point where I had to choose between the comfort level of the adult in question or my child's well being and I felt that my child's well being (who is completely dependent on another human being) is a more valuable than if I "offend" a stable, functioning adult.
Good luck to you and good on you that you are honoring your convictions!
Is your husband more assertive? Either way, maybe if you go to the appointment with your husband may give you more confidence to stand true to your convictions for you child and present a united front to the doctor. I had some trouble finding my inner voice as a mother in the beginning and my son's first pediatrician made some rather rude "jokes" about my son. My husband had no qualms informing the doc that his comments were inappropriate (made the doc's face red! and mine as well...lol). I have since discovered my inner voice.
What I did was change the way I looked at parenting. Parenting is God entrusting us to raise His gift to us. There came a point where I had to choose between the comfort level of the adult in question or my child's well being and I felt that my child's well being (who is completely dependent on another human being) is a more valuable than if I "offend" a stable, functioning adult.
Good luck to you and good on you that you are honoring your convictions!
Yes uh sorry for derailing.... I have that problem too.... I don't like to be assertive with doctors. Other situations I feel fine but I feel intimidated at the doctors. I am very nervous about it!!!
Thank you! Good idea about my hubs coming along. My husband and I are in the same boat as far as assertiveness goes but I do tend to gain more confidence when I have someone who is supportive there with me.
I totally hear you and feel this way inside, though when it comes down to the nitty gritty with a doctor it can be SO hard because they can tend to make a person feel like they have no clue what they are talking about.
Yes, very understandable. Is it just this doctor or all doctors? Maybe you should try a Doctor of Osteopathy, they are more open to a delayed vaxing schedule (that is what I use for my son). It definitely sounds like God is using this situation to refine you as a mother.
I know people will say that there is no medical study showing this link or in regards to autism, but for those of us on the "other side" of adverse injection, studies mean absolutely nothing, as we are the "living proof" that these things are not safe to everyone. And there in lies the delemia. Not everyone is going to have these adverse reactions, and so we are written off as a minor libility to the case for having injections.
my dearest friend may not be the child of my womb, but it's not "the other side".Well, from my point of view, that is easily said from "the other side". Remember I had 6 children with no problems before my seventh got sick. So I know that they don't cause this in everyone, but that it can and does happen. Personally I think that it will be a "cold day in hell", before the medical fraternity ever "find" a link between MMR and other diseases. Personally I am not going to wait around for it.
My cousin was a healthy baby until the day she received her childhood injections. Had temps, sickness, then everything went wrong, got swelling of the brain, etc, and she has lived in a mental insitiution from the time she was too strong for her mother to handle, and her brothers came in to find her beating up her mother.
It's not about sides. It's about education. I just insist on support for ideas, and not just assumptions. Like flies being magically made from rotting meat (that WAS the prevailing theory) but it just wasn't true. Proof. That's all I ask. (though science in general is not 100% anyway)I am the parent of a child on the autistic spectrum and I agree with you. I've not seen evidence of a link either.
i am in the same boat.There are also those of us with children on the spectrum who know that it wasn't caused by the MMR. My son was "different" before he recieved the vax. He was born this way.
Current medical thinking is that his particular ASD is caused by a combination of several genes from both parents. When one considers broader autism phenotypes that makes a lot of sense. I can see some traits in many of the neurotypical members of my family and my husband's.
I wish I could say a vaccination of combination of vaccines caused this. That would be a lot less frightening than gambling with genetic combinations.
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