Age: 41.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Malaise, Memory impairment, Migraine, Nasal congestion, Nausea
Clinical narrative: The first day after vaccine I was fine, but by the 2nd or 3rd day I was bed ridden again. I had a headache, flu-like symptoms, and pain. The migraine and flu-like symptoms lasted a day or two, and the pain lasted probably 6 days from onset. It wasn't as severe as the first vaccine but it was not pleasant to deal with.   My covid symptoms started on 11/27/2021. I had stuffy nose and very mild what felt like seasonal allergies, and scratchy throat. I had just tested negative on 11/26/21 and by 11/28/21 I woke up and felt like I had been hit by a train. I had bad flu symptoms, I was unable to breathe through my nose because of congestion, excruciating migraine, horrible cough, and I think I was awake for 4 hours that day and that's it. I struggled to breathe and I just laid in bed, didn't have an appetite, and the migraines got much worse. I had a virtual appointment with my Doctor and she called in a rescue inhaler that I took every 4 hours, and I also had Albuterol Flovent  that I was on in the morning and night. I was taking a regimen of over the counter medications as well. The severity of the symptoms lasted 10 days, but it was a long time for me to be able to stand up just fine, and I always felt like I was going to pass out. My pulse ox would drop low, my heart rate would be extremely fast standing up, and I felt like I was going to pass out and would have to sit down. Usually after those incidents I believe I would fall asleep for hours. I couldn't drive myself for at least a month because I didn't feel safe or well enough to do it. I would start driving and I would get lost in areas that I know and drive all of the time and I would get confused. I lost my ability to talk, or it would come out very jumbled and wouldn't connect from my brain to my mouth. I would struggle with my oxygen and that dropped really low and my heart rate would go extremely high and there are still times this will happen. If I visit someone I can't leave for hours. It's not what it used to be but it's still bad. I can't tolerate bright lights, loud sounds, or multiple sources of stimuli, so if people are talking I get confused and overwhelmed and it feels like someone puts me in a spinning chair. Right now words are getting tough, and I'll get headaches and sleep for hours. I'm still having brain fog, but I'm learning ways to prolong the onset of them. I drive with my GPS on even if it's a place I'm familiar with because the less I have to think about where I'm going, the less I have to pay attention to the road. I don't listen to music so I can focus, and I close my eyes to avoid visual stimulation of seeing things, and sometimes it'll just go to where I'll talk and all of a sudden not know why I'm talking, or if someone is talking to me I won't hear their words anymore and it's just noise and nothing is registering or processing. It's not as often as it was but I find it I have a good day it's because I limit what I do and I'm less with brain fog, but if I've overdone it, which is really not doing much at all, everything seems to not go well at all. The brain fog will be bad, my heart rate will be very high sometimes even just laying down, my oxygen goes very low and I'll sleep a lot and usually after a day I've done too much. I'll have 3 or 4 bad days and I'm usually averaging 1-2 days a week that I consider good days. I get very fatigued, and today I went for a 20 minute walk and from that I needed my rescue inhaler. I've been tired all afternoon and my heart is racing, so just the littlest bit tends to make it hard for me for quite some time. Mid March I'll be going to a Covid recovery center to be evaluated for the different symptoms and I'll have an appointment with pulmonology and cardiologist, and this Friday I'll start seeing a speech therapist to help with cognitive problems. I still get the headaches and it's hard for me to remember everything. I have shortness of breath, low oxygen saturation, heart palpitations, headaches and migraines, sensory sensitivity, brain fog, heartburn quite often, nausea with some of the other symptoms whether it be migraine or when there's too much sensory overload like noise or visual. The other night I had a few incidents of chest pain and tightness, and two nights ago I had a very rapid heart rate, shaking, blurry vision, and that's all I can remember and I believe I passed out at that point, woke up in the middle of the night and tried to get up and my heart race and I don't remember anything else until the morning. Yesterday I rested all day, I was extremely tired and weak, feeling unable to drive, and I couldn't do too much. My body had had enough and just kind of gave out for the day.