Does any one have post anthrax vaccine medical issues?

2015-10-27T18:11:34-04:00

I'm undergoing many medical exams due to this shot. Army didn't own up to it but V.A. is doing other tests. I was to deploy to Iraq in last push 2010. After receiving the shot I started having fierce migrains, throwing up food and left arm limitations, which also was injection site. They say temporary yeah right its 2015 and I'm still having same problems. While in 2015 I went to e.r. I was looking on my cell phone came across anthrax reactions lo and behold my light bulb came on. As I was researching more I came across a Dr. Meryl Mass trying to stop congress from giving troops this untested stuff. I also came across anthrax vaccine is to be given to military personnel if they are under doctors care, low immunity and taking steroid meds. Now here this Army gave the anthrax vaccine and failed to inform my doctors to stop my treatments two days later after anthrax shot my doctor not knowing continued with steroid treatment I've been jacked up ever since. Thank God I saved all my documentation. So there's my spill, let the class action law suit begin. What's your story?

Response by SPC Donald King made Oct 27 at 2015 6:17 PM

2015-10-27T18:17:57-04:00

Correction: Leading expert on vaccines is Dr. Meryl Nass. Read her online. She's great she had me call her.

Response by 1stSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 27 at 2015 6:18 PM

2015-10-27T18:18:25-04:00

None so far.

Response by SSG Michael Scott made Oct 27 at 2015 6:33 PM

2015-10-27T18:33:29-04:00

My right leg will have muscle shakes, like a cell phone is vibrating.

Response by SPC Donald King made Oct 27 at 2015 6:36 PM

2015-10-27T18:36:22-04:00

Thank to you too GySgt Ekblad All we have are (U.S.) veterans never leave a battle behind. They trained us I mean what do they expect? I love my country we do and say out of Honor. Hence I will never stop the old saying. For GOD AND COUNTRY.
Thanks in advance to all that responds.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 28 at 2015 1:16 AM

2015-10-28T01:16:05-04:00

I had my vaccines in 2004 and 2005. I don't know if what I have is related to the Anthrax vaccines, but this post just made me realize that maybe I should go see a doc. I did some searches and most said it can be cancerous but that's a slim chance so I haven't thought about it. Plus it's a bit embarrassing to have to tell someone what it is.

Response by MSgt Doug P. made Oct 28 at 2015 2:52 PM

2015-10-28T14:52:24-04:00

I can't prove any form of causation or directly attributable effects from getting the anthrax shots but I do have strong coincidental notes.

I received my 5-shot series in 1999 for a PSC to S. Korea (during the "take the shot or go to jail" era). At the end of that 1-year assignment, I started having weight and memory issues. All of the medical checks afterwards only did basic blood-work labs which showed everything as normal (got lots of the eat less, run more, quit complaining feedback). In 2007, I was diagnosed with hypothyroid disorder via a private doctor but the USAF refused to accept those results. Finally in 2010, I managed to convince a new primary care manager to run a full thyroid panel of tests and they found I had auto-immune thyroid failure with some of the known side effects.

The coincidental part of this is that one of my First Sergeants and I were discussing auto-immune disorders (he was a diabetic) and we both came to realize that our issues started about a year after getting the anthrax shots. My younger brother was med-boarded out of the USMC after he became a diabetic during his 2nd year. As I said before, can't prove causation but there is a consistent coincidental link.

Luckily for me, I kept copies of all of my medical records which I submitted to the VA when I retired (the VA came through for me on that). Not sure if any other the medical issues I've been having lately are related but who knows...

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made May 2 at 2016 10:59 AM

2016-05-02T10:59:28-04:00

No long-term adverse reactions, but I've received many shots and I'm about to go in for a Typhoid shot...why? No idea. But at least 30 of the military shots I've gotten are from "unknown" manufacturers or lot numbers. There is no accountability/traceability with whatever it is they are giving us. I know at least one of the shots I got contained aborted fetal tissue. Your best bet is to try to get exemptions when possible through AR 40-562. Here's a study recently released that shows how 9.9% of HPV vaccine recipients ended up in the ER shortly after and how that's a pretty low figure (patting themselves on the back) comparatively. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X16002036

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Response by Cpl Matt Bailey made Jul 19 at 2017 7:00 AM

2017-07-19T07:00:25-04:00

I took the last one of five in 2000 and I've done nothing but get worst

Response by PO2 Levi Chambers made Feb 11 at 2020 9:58 AM

2020-02-11T09:58:23-05:00

I get the migraines really bad, I never had any before 2002 but after the series I get them twice a week or more for the past 18 years VA says stress but they don't have a clue

Response by Cpl Tamara Ziegenbein made Feb 11 at 2021 9:09 PM

2021-02-11T21:09:08-05:00

Add me to the list of coincidences, I got the first of the 5-shot anthrax vaccine at a pre-deployment briefing in 1998, the subsequent 4 shots while deployed. When I returned from Japan and was doing the S-shop check-in sheet, I actually passed out in my XO's office (point being just over a year), got basic bloodwork done and they diagnosed me with thyroid issues, gave me synthroid and I leveled out to some extent but still never felt quite myself.. fast forward, 10 years, I find out, it's not the thyroid condition 90%of people get, its hashimoto's an autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid, fast forward another 10 years as many other health issues arise and I am still feeling horrible and on top of the hashimoto's, I have a rarer add-on that stops me from producing T3 also. Synthroid (is only a synthetic T4 hormone, your body is supposed to convert that to T3). They have me on a synthetic T3 and things are somewhat better but I still feel there are issues. I also have bone degeneration, joint pain, and memory/focus issues. Do you happen to have any of those also?