cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to be taken off the market after it may have left her paralysed and partially blind.

Kristin Clulow was 26 when she received two doses of the human papilloma virus vaccine. Within months, her eyesight began to fail, she became ‘extremely nauseous’, she could not sleep and the right side of her body became partially paralysed.

Today, Ms Clulow, 27, struggles with paralysis, lack of fine motor skills, tremors, slurred speech, fatigue, sickness and a compromised immune system. A member of the Gardasil Victims Campaign, Ms Clulow has urged the Federal Government to further investigate the vaccine before it was administered to other young women.

Ms Clulow received her first Gardasil injection

in May 2008. Two weeks later, she lost her balance and fell.

“At the time I didn’t think anything of it, I just thought I was clumsy,” Ms Clulow said.

“I had the second needle in August and about four weeks after that all of the symptoms began. I lost some of my eyesight, I started to feel nauseous, I was extremely tired but couldn’t sleep.”

Then she became paralysed on the right side of her body.

“I couldn’t walk properly, my ability to write went within a week ... the whole thing was rapid and slow all at the same time. It was like I had had a stroke,” she said.

Ms Clulow sought the help of a neurologist who had seen 15 other young women with similar symptoms.

But between February and July last year, Ms Clulow showed further decline, forcing her to give up her job.

“Before all of this I was just so healthy. If I had gone for my third dose of Gardasil I don’t know if I would even be here and, if I was, I’d be in a wheelchair,” she said.

During the past 18 months, Ms Clulow has been treated for multiple sclerosis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, neurological disorders caused by damage to the myelin sheath that covers nerves.

However, Ms Clulow’s illness remains a mystery and she has not officially been diagnosed with either disease.