remember when I tried to get an HPV shot and my OBGYN told me no because “that’s a shot for hoes!”
turns out you can just go to the grocery store and get one at the pharmacy
HPV vaccines are approved for women up to age 45 in the USA & significantly reduce the risk of cervical cancer!
turns out you can just go to the grocery store and get one at the pharmacy
HPV vaccines are approved for women up to age 45 in the USA & significantly reduce the risk of cervical cancer!
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Also, it reduces spread of HPV when males are vaccinated.
https://publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/january/no-cervical-cancer-cases-detected-in-vaccinated-women-following-hpv-immunisation/
...be safe
1) women over a certain age are more likely to have been exposed already
2) HPV takes a significant amount of time to turn into cancer, and by the time you reach a certain age, SOMETHING gonna kill you, might as well be this
But I think they just haven’t studied it!
I wish HPV were a horrible horrible virus to be avoided and not viewed as some divine punishment.
The "Why would she need this?" sentiment is why I got one more jab than I otherwise would have had I got mine before 15.
A- Even people without cervixes should get the HPV because it prevents several issues in addition to cervical cancer.
B- There's a 3-shot course over like a year to a year and a half so be sure to complete the whole thing.
Yay for HPV vaccines!
I don't know if she would have changed her tune after that.
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*Except cost. It's always about the costs.
The idea that it's "less likely to be effective" means those *for whom it would be* are dismissed as statistically irrelevant. Is that me, or you? Possibly.
both to protect themselves and to prevent transmitting it.
(Or older, if you have sex with multiple partners.)
I haven't gotten it, but I'm in my 60s, married, and monogamous.
My doctor would not prescribe it because it was not approved for women over 45, though she said she wished she could.
There are still some vaccine side effects, right? And it does protect against sexually-transmitted viruses, right? So, zero sex means it’s probably safer at this point not to get vaccinated?
I kind of think of it like life insurance. You hopefully will never need it, but you get it anyway
Keep being awesome :)
And I was like maybe my wife wants a hoe phase have you thought of that
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/recommendations.html
Every institution that credentialed those idiots ought to have its permits revoked.
Sign of the times.