I have a 7 year old son who had problems after getting one of his MMR shots. I know there has not been any link to the shots and autism or other problems but there was way too many coincidences for it not to be linked. My son got his at 15 months and about 8 days later (he had 25 words) he lost all speech, he started gettting night terrors (would wake up in the middle of the night screaming bloody murder for hours and nothing would comfort him). This went on until he was almost 4. That was when he got his speech back and we started from beginning as if he was a baby teaching nim all over again. At the same period of time across the country a friend of our had a child the same age who got full blown autism. There were others in NC (we lived in Utah at the time) who were same age getting some form of Autism around same time. Yes it was hell and I now will not give him a flu shot unless it is the preservitive free one. I do not know what caused his problems but if it was the shot I do not want to risk it again.

This being said the shots have been changed to preservitive free and I have a son who is 22 months behind the first one and I still got all of his shots on schedule. Also have a baby now and she will get all of hers on schedule. No problems in the other 2 all is well.

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