in aug '99 i got my 1st hep b vaccine , jan'00 i had a stabbing pain in my head and went to er, since i had a long history of head aches the said it was my normal thing , gave me a shot and sent me home. may'00 i developed central retnal vein. acclution and lost my eye sight in the right eye, after many test the doctors told me that they had no idea what happened, just that it couldnt be fixed. the doctor had took me out of work for awhile so i lost that job. a few months later i developed bell's palsy , no lasting effects thank god. in march'04 i went back to nursing home and they asked me to do a titer for the hep b vaccine, it showed that the 1st vaccines didnt take so i needed to do it again. i started the shots , after 4 months i had to go back to the doctor for a major head ache, he took me out of work again and put me on different kinds of meds , my legs would hurt and tingle and go numb so bad that they would hurt and wake me up all night. the doctor said it didnt have anything to do with the meds , i went through this for a few weeks. now my legs cramp like crazy, im tired and weak all the time, like no energy. needless to say i was out of work again, and since i couldnt go back within 6wks i lost my job again and not able for rehire. recently i went to a nurse staffing place and got a job, i was reading the hand books and all and they had a thing about the hep b vaccine, as i read it , it scared me more. it told the side affects that could possibly happen, even the 1%. then i came home and looked up more info on the dangers of the vaccine, i was shocked. so many things i've expienced and didnt know it could be coming from the vaccine. no one, until now had ever given me any information on what could happen. all i was told was that i MIGHT run a fever, be SORE a couple of days, and my arm COULD SWELL, nothing else. why don't they give you all the information? i fell like i was miss guided, and uninformed. now im thinking what happened to the "informed concent"? all day today i call the health dept, my doctor, the job where i got the vaccines, no one could, or would tell me anything. what can i do? i want to know what else has happened to me that could be the result of the vaccine. if anyone has a complete fact sheet or something with the "RARE" side effects listed please send them to me....thanks so much in advance