Do you have all your shots? Hepatitis vaccine question.

I've never seen this topic discussed, so I wanted to open the forum.

Even the most careful of us can't plan for accidents and enemas can get a little messy sometimes. So I'm curious to know how many of us have been vaccinated against hepatitis.

I was vaccinated for my work several years ago and it seems irresponsible to play without being vaccinated. If not for your health, then for the health of those you play with.

Have you been vaccinated? If not, have you ever thought about it? Does the risk of hepatitis concern you?

Egirlky,

I travel all over the world so I've been vaccinated to the hilt for that reason. You bring up a good point though. I'm curious about the responses you get. Good poll!

Arianna

The criteria we had was:

10 or more sexual partners

body piercing

tatoos

blood transfusion

or in country Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war.

Its been more than several years so I hope I got it right.

Let us be clear on this issue.

You can only get hepatitus or other sexually transmitted disease from someone is IF THAT PERSON ALREADY HAS IT...those diseases are not naturally found in feces of a healthy person....

Some of the information on vacines that i have found lately is very scarry,,most recently was:

1- live bird flu mixed with live regular flu 'mislabled' as vacine,, the result was people died when they received the injection..

2- mercury used in vacine causing brain damage!

the list goes on and on

You should always investigate for yourself!

One source is the National Vacine information center

http://www.nvic.org

Some nine years ago, I gave a pint of blood and received a letter from the Red Cross informing me that I'd tested positive for hepatitis 'C'. I wasn't engaging in any high-risk behavior (other than having lived most of the previous two years in a hotel I was managing that had a high proportion of both military personnel and the local rough trade).

But after going through a battery of tests and my first colonoscopy, I was informed that I carried the antibodies, but all functions were normal ... a status I've been able to maintain, so far. I then got immunized against Hepatitis 'B'.

From what I've been able to learn, medical knowledge about the fine points of hepatitis is expanding rapidly. Hepatitis 'C' wasn't even separately categorized until about twenty years ago.

And as I dug a little deeper, I also learned of some possible exposures during major surgery I underwent as a child, and quarters shared for a time with a relative who'd previously contacted Hepatitis 'A'. The disturbing part for me is that I had donated a fair amount of blood in earlier years without incident or knowledge of my own condition.