Teenage girl gets such severe bouts of vomiting during her periods that she gets HOSPITALISED – and her mum thinks the HPV vaccine is the cause
At her lowest, Holly, who was sporty and active before the vaccination, was vomiting up to ten times a day
A MUM says her teenage daughter vomits so severely every time she has her period that she has to be hospitalised - and doctors have no idea why.
Vicky Oakley, 44, of Bedlington in Northumberland, said it was heartbreaking to watch her 15-year-old daughter Holly battle nausea and exhaustion so chronic that it leaves her unable to lift her head from her pillow.
The 44-year-old believes the trigger was a HPV vaccine given to her daughter when she was at school.
"Holly was unstoppable, full of energy and very high achieving – then she had the vaccine. Now, it's like we've lost our daughter for the meantime," she said.
"Whenever I say I believe it was down to the jab, I'm seen as an anti-vaccine extremist, but I'm not. My kids have had all their vaccines.
"I'm not saying no child should have the HPV vaccine, but I want people to equip themselves with all the facts.
"All I can go on is my side of the story, and I'm convinced Holly's health problems are a reaction to the jab."
Before her dramatic decline, Holly was a fit and healthy young girl, playing netball, rugby, rounders and football.
She was a high-achieving student who dreamt of becoming a doctor.
But everything came to a grinding halt in May 2014, when she received the last of a course of three Gardasil vaccinations to protect her from HPV.
Her mum claims within a month, Holly began to vomit for no reason.
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She said: "We put it down to a one off, but as the months rolled on the vomiting got worse and worse."
Vicky noticed her daughter's health was particularly bad around the time of her period, leading her to believe the problem was hormone related.
After reporting this to the doctor, Holly was put on the contraceptive pill and anti-nausea drugs - but nothing worked.
Holly playing football before the vaccine
Then she was given an injection designed to stop her periods for 12 weeks – but Vicky, who has recently left her job as a finance director to be a full-time carer for Holly, said it had catastrophic effects.
"It was possibly the worst three months ever," she said. "Holly was in an episode the entire time. We were in and out of hospital because she was so poorly.
"She was constantly nauseous and couldn't get out of bed because she was so exhausted. Some days she couldn't even speak.
"She was tested for a lot of things, and it was even suggested she may be bulimic but I knew that wasn't the case. I knew it was hormonal."
At her lowest, Holly was vomiting up to ten times a day and her fatigue was so severe that she couldn't even speak.
For six months, Holly was routinely hospitalised during her period but her symptoms slowly began to emerge at other times of the month too.
In September 2014, doctors told her she had cyclical vomiting syndrome.
Despite having undergone a string of tests at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, doctors are still unsure as to exactly what's causing her devastating symptoms.
"Our lives are on hold. We're desperate for answers. The hospital have really looked after her, but we've hit a brick wall," said Vicky.
Holly has been off school since January and sadly, she will have to repeat year 10 – meaning her friends will progress through school without her.
Now, Holly's family including her dad Trevor, 47 and sister Danielle, 18, try and get her out the house as much as possible, but she is virtually bed-bound.
Mum Vicky has been finding support from The UK Association of HPV Vaccine Injured Daughters - an online group of other parents who also claim their children have had severe reactions to the jab.
She hopes her daughter's ordeal will raise awareness and push for a better understanding of potential side effects of the vaccine.
"I want to see proper discussion in government about whether this vaccine is safe, somebody needs to stand up and not to be scared to talk," she said.
"Somebody needs to do a coordinated study, and far more research. The world is waking up and I hope it's not too long before people realise the dangers of this."
A spokesperson for Sanofi Pasteur MSD, who provide the Gardasil vaccine, said: "These reports are taken extremely seriously and are used to monitor long term safety, however, they do not necessarily prove a causal relationship with the vaccine, but provide health authorities with a line of enquiry for further investigation, if required."
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What is Cyclical vomiting syndrome?
Cyclical vomiting syndrome (CVS) is a rare vomiting disorder most commonly seen in children, although it can affect adults too.
Someone with CVS will frequently feel very sick and will vomit for hours, or even days, at a time.
They will then recover from the episode and feel perfectly well, before experiencing another episode perhaps a month or so later.
These vomiting attacks are not explained by an infection or other illness.
CVS can affect a person for months, years or even decades.
Symptoms can be so severe that some sufferers may need to stay in bed and be treated in hospital during an episode.
Source: NHS