Age: 69.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Housebound, Hypertension, Impaired work ability, Mobility decreased, Pain in jaw
Clinical narrative: I took the shot on the 8th, and I was almost bed ridden 2 days in my bed around the 10th or 11th. I still didn't feel good which is odd for me, and I thought about cancelling plans, but I didn't. on April 14 I had a gynecology appointment and at that time they took my blood pressure and it reported normal 120/81 or 120/71 and I still haven't felt great but felt fair and I needed to keep that appointment. The next day was good Friday and I had wonderful Easter and good Friday and then I really started to feel bad. On April 19, I was so dizzy I almost fell in the sink. I had my handy man and housekeeper here or coming that day and I told them I couldn't walk or talk, and I was dizzy, and they had a key and they came in and checked on me and said I looked white and ashen so they took me immediately to the Doctor and I got in that afternoon. I went to see the doctor and she was most concerned and thought the discrepancy in high blood pressure was due to using a cuff, but even she was getting high readings. When I went to see the GYN the BP reading was done by hand by nurse puffing cup up and not done by me at my house, but I felt normal blood pressure and wasn't dizzy but didn't feel good. I started feeling bad, but I kept that appointment. On the 19th, she told me to take 4x the dosage of lisinopril. I was fearful I was having stroke and I started taking baby aspirin. At 4 pm, that day using my new blood pressure kit (I went out and purchased a new $70 kit) and using that my blood pressure was 157/90 with pulse of 93. I took lisinopril then and another at 11 PM and my blood pressure was then 156/96 with pulse of 89 (April 19th). April 20 at 2:40 AM, I thought I was having a stroke and couldn't breathe right. My blood pressure was 164/93 with pulse of 91. I took 2 hydrochlorothiazide and aspirin. The hydrochlorothiazide worked better and quicker. I didn't result to lisinopril. When at rest and at 9:15AM that day April 20 it was 151/97 with pulse of 93. I continued to feel badly and worse to the fact that I retained a housekeeper to stay with me because I was fearful. At that time at 11:53AM April 21, my blood pressure was 173/109 with pulse of 93. I then called my Doctor and she said to come in and they increased lisinopril to 20 mg a day which I started doing. The next day my blood pressure at 12:09PM April 22 was 134/86 with pulse of 88. On April 23 at 2 PM, It was 145/82 pulse 90. 04/25 at 3 PM, it was 148/89 with pulse of 87. I have never had numbers like that before, much less a sustained period of time. Needless to say, I notified them about taking the Moderna shot since I took it at Pharmacy instead of the office and I took the shot because of my concern over breathing and since covid effects the breathing and and I've had pneumonia 3 times and almost didn't make it many years ago. I assume I have breathing concerns and I'm always very careful. The last blood work I had that was fasting was below 7. I don't know if the diabetes is because I was inside like everyone else and ate everything you could find, didn't exercise, didn't see people, just stay cooped up. That is what I know about. I've never been this dizzy before in my life and I was a scuba diver and I had one episode of manières and it was not anything like this, but know they told me when my bloodwork came back that the number that related to histamines was elevated big and was reading in the RED. I've had weird things like dizziness, jaw pain, hot flashes, flashy, I can't work, and every time I try and look down like brushing my teeth, I get dizzy. I can't do my job when that happens. They performed an EKG on Tuesday, and it was normal and was In line with previous EKGs. I physical feel awful and have slept most of 2-3 days and only been up 4-5 hours. It's hard to even fix anything to eat because of the dizziness. I hired my people to come be with me and take me to the Doctor which is an additional cost when I can't work. I thought about going to the hospital to the ER but we have a lot of Covid right now, but I might've made a mistake in not going, but my Doctor saw me every single day when I thought it was critical, and they did not make me wait and got me in pretty quickly. I may have made a mistake and should've gotten to the ER, but I thought them doing EKG concerning the heart because problems I'm having are left sided. I've never had this before with numbers like this and being this dizzy with vertigo. They've taken lisinopril from 2.5 to 20 mg a day that is 800% more and that's a significant increase. They have me on a rescue drug and I've never been on a rescue drug before in my life and it's called clonidine 0.1 mg every 6 hours as needed if BP is 180 over 100 bp or higher. If they thought I was well, why would they put me on rescue drug. They don't know what's going on, but I did tell them about taking Moderna. Also, because they are concerned that I'm so dizzy, they put me on meclizine 25 mg, and I'm to take it by mouth 3x a day for 5 days as needed and I'm to start that anytime. I may have a fall in the sink, fall on the floor and break my hip. I don't think they'd do all that If they didn't have some overriding concerns. I think someone somewhere needs to know this. Its not just because my blood pressure is up, my histamines are at the highest it's ever been. I took allergy shots for 30-40 years and never have anyone telling me that before and thought it was under control and never had an episode where I had to go to ER because I couldn't breathe or that I was so swimmy headed that I was going to fall and break a hip or something and I'm house bound. I may have permanent damage from this. I've never felt this crummy before even with pneumonia. Previous 3 vaccines were Pfizer.