<p>I went back to school a couple years ago and now I am transferring to a 4-year college. The 4-year college wants my vaccination records, but I don’t have them. My parents moved a lot when I was growing up (2 - 3 times a year) so everything always got lost. I’ve called a couple of my old schools and they don’t have them. I went to ten different schools growing up, and I don’t know if it is worth it to call all of them. I don’t even know the names and locations of all of them. Any thoughts? </p>
<p>I wanted to get a titer, but I can’t even find a place to do that. I don’t have a primary care doctor and all the clinics I have called don’t do titers. </p>
<p>If I have to get new vaccines it is going to result in a delay in registering for classes.</p>
<p>The only way I know to do this is to contact the clinics that gave the shots if your parents didn’t keep any records. Sounds like you tried your schools already. Our kids have had to provide the records for some summer camps, but I assume they don’t keep that info for a long time.</p>
<p>Regarding getting shots now, my ex-H wanted a flu shot when we had just switched clinics. The new clinic would not give him a shot because he was not an existing patient (yet). He had to schedule a physical with a doctor to get the shot.</p>
<p>I just talked to the nurse at our son’s school (he had to get a series of three shots over a period of six months with the first shot a few months before he started) and she said that he could start and followthrough on the other two shots and that he’d be fine for starting on time. Perhaps you could call your school nurse and get a provisional waiver if you can’t get a shot or series of shots in time for the starting semester.</p>
<p>Getting medical records transferred for new providers can be a real headache. I keep all of our kids’ records (medical, educational, etc.) in filing cabinets or records storage boxes as sometimes records are needed for one thing or another.</p>
<p>I called everywhere I could think of and finally found a place to get an MMR titer. It is an occupational health clinic. I actually didn’t think of it myself, when I called a family medical clinic they transferred me there. But in retrospect it makes sense.</p>
<p>So if anyone ever needs to prove immunity try occupational health.</p>
<p>Assuming that all of the schools you attended required proof of vaccination before you could enroll, it is possible that the last high school you attended would have a copy of all of your childhood records socked away in your old file. It might be worth giving them a call to find out. Or maybe they could write a note saying that while they don’t keep records, no student was allowed to enroll without proof of X,Y, and Z vaccination, and that since you were enrolled from this date to that date, as of whenever, you provided them with proof.</p>
<p>Just an FYI: you should all make sure you get a copy of your kid’s immunization records when they graduate high school. Many school districts discard immunization records after 5 years and the information is lost, plus pediatricians retire, close their practices, etc., and the records can’t be located later. I used to work in a university student health service and we had many students who had delayed admission after high school and could not locate their records anymore. Some opted to just get the MMR instead of having titers drawn, as the titers are more expensive than the vaccine.</p>
<p>Getting another MMR might not be all bad… when I was pregnant with D1, my ob/gyn discovered that my German measles titer was low in spite of having been vaccinated! He didn’t wan’t to revaccinate while I was pregnant. Just told me to stay away from people with German measles. I’d never met anyone with it, so figured it was no problem. Then someone who housesat for me while I was on vacation then mentioned when I got back that they had to stay home at my house for a week because they had been exposed to German measels! No measles resulted. But I did get a follow up shot later on. And it didn’t hurt me.</p>