Age: 20.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Electroencephalogram normal, Emotional distress, Exercise tolerance decreased, Exophthalmos, Eye injury
Clinical narrative: On Jan 6th around 12 noon, I was driving down a back road when I I pulled up to a construction worker holding a stop sign. After I was topped I looked to my side window and felt off and looked forward again. When I did so, the worker standing in front of my car start going far away and then slowly came close up to my car again. It wasn?t him moving but rather my entire vision was zooming in and out like a camera. I began to feel like I was passing out/fainintg. My hands and body shook uncontrollably, my head was pounding and cold while I felt like throwing up. I felt weak and my blood was rushing. My hands and feet were freezing. I was fighting my body from passing out and losing consciousness and sat there with emergency help lights flashing. After 5 minutes I had enough strength to roll car to side of the road. I sat in car for another 10 minters trying not to pass out. I slowly got out of the far and walked to passenger side to sit. After 30 minutes I was able to call my dad to come get m. As I waited, when I looked ahead and maybe a foot above my height at a tree branch near by, I couldn?t focus my eyes on it and it was moving like a camera lens. My dad came and drove me home. At home I felt better but something wasn?t right. I was still incredibly weak and suddenly my left arm was specifically not feeling right. I went to get a glass of water and as I held the glass and it filed with water, I found that my left arm was very heavy. It was too hard for my left arm to hold up the glass.  These are some symptoms that occurred the days following the event.  Day 2 ( 01/07/2022) -Speech issues -Unfocused eyes -Feel unbalanced (tripped a lot)  -left arm, hand, foot, and leg were weak and had coordination issues -Hard time swallowing  -extremely Noise sensitive  -Woke up memory issued  Day 3  ( 01/08/2022) -Still feeling off -Sudden rush of fainting -Eyes could not focus  -presyncope fainting episode lasted 5 minutes Day 4  ( 01/09/2022) -Unbalanced when I try to focus eyes on anything  -Speech issues  -Head pressure  ***Day 5 : DAY WHEN IT STARTED GOING VERY DOWNHILL:  after everything began on Jan 6 I hadn?t driven a car so I tried to drive again. I went on a calm drive to a coffee place to get hot chocolate to try and drive again. It?s a route I?ve taken for years, maybe 15 minutes there and 15 minutes home. I felt off but was ok in the beginning. About 10 minutes in, I pulled up to a red light and felt myself start to feel hot, eyes unfocused and head go spacey. I felt like I was passing out again. I pushed to get to the coffee parking lot and sat there trying to steady myself. Nothing helped but to sit there with open windows, breathe and wait. Here are my notes from that day/night Day 5-drive issues began  Better eyes - still issues with far away  Slight Light headed  Weak-slightly better  Pressure front of head  On the drive- heat rush, light hands shake - couldn?t finish train of thought  Eye bulging - couldn?t breathe  I called my mom and was slowly trying to drive my car home. It was very difficult as I kept feeling my eyes go unfocused and the heat of needing to pass out continued. I had to stop the car another time and pull over to the side of the road when it was really bad. After finally getting home I tried to drive my dads car around my neighborhood thinking maybe there was carbon monoxide or something coming from my car. I was still feeling completely out of it and always similar symptoms from when I was driving my car. But a new development came when I found myself thinking perfectly fine, but getting words off my tongue stopped working. I didn?t think anything of it until I was singing along to the song on the radio trying to get home. I?ve heard this song a thousand times and was casually repeating the lyrics which go ?ABCDEF - lyrics ?..?  and even though I know the lyrics by heart I kept going ABCDEFGHIJK?basically continuing the alphabet instead of just the few in the song and then lyrics. It scared me because it was so unlike me and not what I was trying to say. I got home and went to my bed to lay down and try to recover from how I was feeling. I was on my phone for about 30 minutes before I started feeling the serious urge to go unconscious. I sat up and had my head in my hands and called out to my parents as it wasn?t going away. When my dad came into the room was still trying to call myself down, but at a certain point my dad asked me a question about some thing my doctor had said. What happened was I knew who he was talking about I knew what he was referencing but I couldn?t get my brain to go down that path of remembering what he was referring to. My brain would not let me push to access the memories so it was all blank. On top of that I found myself unable to speak. I kept telling myself stop playing around and say something say something but it was like I couldn?t get my tongue to work that lasted for probably five minutes. The rest of my night was spent with the feeling of trying to slip unconscious and me fighting it. It is this event that perpetuated the next few months for me. All my ?episodes? and attacks stemmed from this moment and have had similar feelings to all the symptoms that occurred that night. I have become incredibly noise sensitive and definitely my eyes have changed and are damaged.  I?ve had cognitive decline and neurological problems. I?ve had moments of being unable to speak and or think. I was a very articulate person and after adverse event (Jan 6th,2022), I have to work extra hard to get certain words out. There have been moments where people listening have described my diction as almost phrases or childlike. I find that when I have to think or focus I start having minor symptoms. I was studying for school it takes me twice as long to recall basic information and definitions of pretty common words. It takes me especially long to be able to put the words together to make sense of sentences. My thumbs have always been weak and tingly but typing and gripping (mainly left hand) has become a lot harder. There is a significant weakness in my left arm and leg. It?s like I can feel the strain my left hand has to hold things and function.  I am definitely not as alert as before. I can no longer multitask and too many noises for me to focus on cause me to spiral. My eyes are constantly unfocused. I have glasses now but my episodes made my eyes worse and I feel minor episodes occur if I focus my eyes on one spot for longer than a few seconds  Overall Symptoms after over a year since adverse event: * numbness, tingling, pain, and/ or burning sensation in left arm, left hand and left leg /foot * Struggle of coordination or loss of reflexes (left side) * trouble with balance * Left side is noticeably weaker  * dizziness, fainting sensations but never fainting except at night  * trouble thinking clearly * difficulty concentrating * Extreme fatigue  * Extreme lack of endurance  * Unable to decipher if objects are either father or closer than they actually are * Every sound, even typically quiet sounds, seems loud and intrusive. * Eyes unable to stay focused * Unable to perceive breathing normally  * nausea * feeling paranoid  * constant talking with rapid speech patterns * Delirium  * World looks crooked  * Thick, blurry, blood red (shadow looking) and brown lines in my vision , above the throngs I?m looking at but also there  * Ringing in ears  * Pressure in ears / clogged  In terms of when they happen: The episodes really vary. During the day and evenings they can appear or worsen for minutes before I shake them off to 5-10 minutes. The bad ones have lasted hours. Had an incident where I woke up to me having an health episode that began at 3:30 and was at critical symptoms for about an hour and a half to two. In the ER it got slightly better but that was still big symptoms for another hour and a half. I would say by 4 hours after the episode /attack had occurred I was down to just weakness, tingles in arms and legs. I never stopped having symptoms all together. They just slightly lessened and many went away except for the consistently present ones. The other two big attacks that lasted long I would say lasted 4 hours or so if you include the amount of wake/sleep- conscious/unconsciousness through out the night.  My way of coping with symptoms is to forcing myself not to faint and through exhaustion of not being able to fall asleep, I finally sleep around 4 am once my body is to tired of fighting to stop fainting.  I saw my primary care physician and neurologist, and we did MRI, Heart Ultrasound, and bloodwork with everything coming back clear. Neurologist had me try Nortriptyline but I had bad side effects after taking one dose so we stopped right away. Primary Care Physician gave me Propranolol 10 mg to take when my symptoms induced panic. It did not always help but when it did, it did not stop symptoms but just took the panic and fear away as I experienced it. I had a CT at ER and that was clear. I checked with OBGYN to see if it was my birth control and that was clear. After all these tests and no results over 5 months, I was till suffering. I was not allowed to drive and barley functioning as a human. I spent months on my parent couch and then forced myself to do bare minimum at school. I found Dr. and got an appointment in May. After patient intake, evaluations, and looking at prior test results, he diagnosed me with a covid vaccine injury. He then had me take fluvoxamine 50mg once daily and ivermectin 10 mg twice daily. I was on them from May to October. I had a significant decrease in symptoms and slowly go somewhat better. Now, I am able to drive again and live a much more sustainable life, however, I still suffer from certain symptoms though they vary in degrees. My eyes are weak, I had to self rehabilitate my left armband,leg,and foot and even over a year later, they are still weaker than the right side and have issues. I still have pre syncope symptoms though they occur less frequently. My cognitive functions are less optimal and significantly weaker than before the adverse event. I have intense memory issues, noise sensitivity, and extreme fatigue requiring me to sit down after just three hours sometimes. Along with the physical outcome, my mental and emotional health have been shaken by this now chronic illness caused by the vaccine. My life has been forever worsened.