Age: 51.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Headache, Lymph node pain, Magnetic resonance imaging, Malaise, Oropharyngeal discomfort
Clinical narrative: I now am certain that these symptoms in my case are due to MRNA covid vaccines. 2nd shot with Mod created the same reactions. Current unresolved symptoms include tender nodes and awful pressure in head and throat, and TINNITUS, and 1- I feel pressure in my head, behind my ears, and pressure, on and off, at different nodes/locations around my head and throat. The nodes are very tender. This increases and decreases with intensity and can make me feel sick and dizzy. 2- Sharp pain comes and goes in my head. Bad headaches. 3- I hear a very high frequency sound that I can best describe as "old tv static", heard from both ears, from inside my head.  4- Light sensitivity which lasts approx 1 week. 5- Fatigue. Brain fog. Having now experienced this adverse reaction twice, as a 51 year old, who was pro vaccine, now there is no doubt in my mind that the MRNA vaccines are causing unacceptable adverse reactions in a small percentage but SIGNIFICANT number of people.   I believe, as a statistician, that these adverse reactions are significantly underreported due to this climate where doctors, in my experience, seem to want to believe and convince patients that it was a coincidence and the highly unusual and awful things going on in your body must be something like late onset allergy (at the age of 50) or tell you to stop eating gluten rather than give any weight to the highly unusual event (receiving an MRNA vaccine) that you feel caused the highly unusual to you reaction which is occurring in your body. For me it took over 9 months for the Moderna side affects to just start waring off. I was maybe 65% better when I took the Pfizer vaccine (3rd dose) which threw me back to the same awful side effects created by the Moderna vaccine in my body. This made it clear to me that the head pressure / head tenderness/ headaches/ high frequency static Tinnitus/ fatigue were a direct cause of these vaccines in my case. My body (unlike I understand my husbands and many others has a terrible negative response to these vaccines which I have never experienced with any other vaccine)  I don't have any allergies to regular foods etc that I have experienced my entire life. This reaction was foreign to me and took away my ability to do much of what is required to live as I had been living. The constant pressure and buzz and headaches are debilitating and feel never ending.   As a statistician I was open to the small possibility that it was a coincidence early in 2021 when I first experienced this, even though my gut felt what was going on in my body was absolutely directly caused by the MRNA covid vaccine. I am pro vaccine. I took the booster because I believe in the greater good and trusted the advice given and the fear in my mind was overcome by the medical community and doctors dismissing a connection, the general environment, and the idea that the Pfizer vaccine will be different to the Moderna ( which I was too fearful to take again), not knowing anything about it, but hopeful that it was different.  However now I believe it is unacceptable to allow, whilst some may argue is a small percentage but still are a significant number of people, to be dismissed and the obvious (really awful which takes away any normal life) adverse reactions  not to be taken seriously.  (There must be a significant statistical bias where the real number of adverse reactions in the MRNA / and or covid vaccines are substantially underreported due to the environment and medical professional dismissals of any connection) . If the obvious is continued to be dismissed I fear for the long term consequences of loss of trust by the general public and the anti vaccine community growing due to people like me losing any trust and confidence in the system.