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chicken pox vaccine / facial tic connection?

by JJ8234, Sep 13, 2009 05:04PM
I have been blessed with four physically and emotionally healthy children. We routinely immunized our first two children with no issues.  I learned more about side effects before the birth of our third child however, and decided to immunize at a slower pace with her.  At four she was given the varicella vaccine along with 3 others during a routine well check to begin preschool.  Three weeks later she startled us with her sudden onset of an eye blinking tic.  She seemed to have no control over it.  When I shared my concern with the possible connection to the immunization I was told there was NO connection.  It has been a year now and she still has the issue although not as severely.  I figured I was wrong in my thinking that there may be a connection to the vaccines.... So we took our completly healthy three year old son in to give him two very tardy vaccinations.  I now felt ready to move forward on his now that he was older and we would be traveling out of the country with him next year.  He recieved the Varicella and Hep A.  I kid you not... three days later he developed a terrible eye tic and nose sniffle.  I am sick about it,  my pediatrician is perplexed &  his Sunday school teacher is concerned.  
Is there any remedy?  Is this temporary?  Were their healthy little nervous systems damaged forever?  These are not nervous, anxious children.  No anxiety has been present along with their tic's and there intellect is as amazing to me as ever.   My husband and I are truly perplexed and just want to educate ourselves on what to expect and what to just let go of.
Thanks so much for your time :)
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by schellingster, Nov 05, 2009 04:21PM
To: jj8234
Hi - did you ever get a reply??? Our 4 year old just had a bunch of immunizations and the constant blinking began immediately. What have you learned? Please reply  

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Thanks,
B. Schelling
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