Oh boy. Late 90s. Clinton stroked off some bullshit pharmaceutical company and required all deploying troops to get inoculated even though said vaccine wasn't even approved by the FDA.
In hindsight, turns out the vaccine was totally ineffective to anthrax and it had lasting side effects. Double awesome!! For approximately ten years I would get debilitating joint pain (sometimes locking my elbows or knees) and fever with no other symptoms. At first it was monthly, sometimes weekly, but at the 10 year mark it finally started to subside.
Not shockingly when I would have episodes and I told my boss, I suspect these are side effects from an anthrax vax I was forced to take when I was in the military, he didn't believe me and thought I was faking it.
Again, can't stress this enough, I'm not an anti-vaxxer. Got my flu shot 2 weeks ago. But I've talked to other veterans from the same period who have had similar side effects. One lady I worked with, former pilot, swears it's the reason she and her husband had trouble with pregnancy. All anecdotal but somewhat reassuring because in my late 20s I thought I was going crazy.
Wait what's this anthrax vaccine? I'm ignorant about this
Oh boy. Late 90s. Clinton stroked off some bullshit pharmaceutical company and required all deploying troops to get inoculated even though said vaccine wasn't even approved by the FDA.
In hindsight, turns out the vaccine was totally ineffective to anthrax and it had lasting side effects. Double awesome!! For approximately ten years I would get debilitating joint pain (sometimes locking my elbows or knees) and fever with no other symptoms. At first it was monthly, sometimes weekly, but at the 10 year mark it finally started to subside.
Not shockingly when I would have episodes and I told my boss, I suspect these are side effects from an anthrax vax I was forced to take when I was in the military, he didn't believe me and thought I was faking it.
Interesting. I've looked it up on Wikipedia and it turns out that the vaccine was deemed safe by FDA in 2005 and is still mandatory for some troops.
Maybe I'm misremembering (I'm ok with being wrong). But my side effects were very real.
A lot of approved medications have horrible side effects. I guess it includes vaccines.
Again, can't stress this enough, I'm not an anti-vaxxer. Got my flu shot 2 weeks ago. But I've talked to other veterans from the same period who have had similar side effects. One lady I worked with, former pilot, swears it's the reason she and her husband had trouble with pregnancy. All anecdotal but somewhat reassuring because in my late 20s I thought I was going crazy.