Age: 57.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Pyrexia
Clinical narrative: Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine EUA For the first days following my 2nd shot my side effects where pretty standard.  I tinfoil taste in my mouth after the shot, I had numbness in my left arm during the first night, I felt light headed on the 13th and had a fever over 100 F that evening.  The 14th I was just sort of "floaty" and unfocused. I was fine while sitting, but if on my feet for more than a few minutes I got light headed and had to sit down.  By Saturday the 15th I was pretty much back to normal and felt normal on Sunday the 16th.  I went to work on Monday the 17th and worked a full shift from 5:00AM to 4:00PM without any noticeable side effects (maybe a bit higher fatigue than normal). On Tuesday the 18th everything went to (Bleep)  I had a normal start  arriving at work at 6:00AM and felt fine until about 7:30AM when I noticed that the panel I  had just taken out of my machine looked bent.  I grabbed a straight piece of wood to check it and it was straight.  I then noticed that the line of holes also seemed to bend, that shouldn't happen.  I raised my head and looked around a bit and noticed that everything looked a bit bent, sort of like looking through a fish-eye lens.  It was a mild bending, but there.  I took off my safety glasses thinking maybe they had gotten warped somehow, but it didn't change anything.  Shortly after this I started feeling dizzy and unsteady on my feet.  I reported this to my supervisor who told me to sit down and make sure to drink some fluids and rest during my 8:00AMbreak.  I took a granola snack bar during break and drank half of my thermos of water.  I sat for a good 10 minutes and started feeling better.  I walked rather unsteadily back to my station and finished the job I was running at the tool, sitting down after starting each piece and then standing up to pull it off when it was done cycling.  I got the job finished but still felt light headed and slightly dizzy.  My supervisor told me to go home and I clocked out just before 9:00AM  I went out to my car and rested for a few minutes then went over to the cafeteria to pick up my lunch and rested some more, then went back to the car.  I waited awhile to see if I still felt dizzy and then left at about 9:30.  The drive home is only 5 minutes, so I felt confident I would be OK as long as I took it slow and kept my vision fixed on the road directly in front of the car.  I arrived at home and checked over my Covid-19 EUA and decided to call my vaccination/healthcare provider.  They scheduled me to come in at 1:15PM and see the PA.  I had a light lunch at 11:15AM and then took a nap until 12:30PM.  My son drove me to my appointment, I was fine walking out to the car, and I didn't have any nausea or dizziness while in the car.  When I was first led in the assistant took my weight, pulse, and BP.  Surprise my blood pressure was 164/110!  I've had slightly high blood pressure before, that is why I am on Lisinopril, but it is very mild, this surprised me!  It apparently surprised the assistant as well since she took my BP again to be sure, and got the same result.  I then stayed seated and waited for the doctor.  She showed up a few minutes later and checked my blood pressure again.  This time it was normal.  Weird.   She checked my eye tracking and heart rate and looked in my ears.  General consensus is that it is high blood pressure and possibly inner ear.  Most likely related to my covid-19 vaccine.  She gave me a blood pressure monitoring sheet and told me to go home, rest, and drink lots of fluids. She sent a prescription for some nausea medication to my pharmacy (I haven't been to the pharmacy yet to pick it up). She will call me back to check up on me on Thursday after 4:00PM.  In the meantime, I am to check my BP three times a day and anytime I am having an episode, and write it down on the form she gave me.  I have a BP cuff at home, so no problems doing just that.  I wrote about my symptoms on my Facebook page and got a reply from my daughter that said she had blurred vision issues after her second shot that lasted for almost the whole week.  It may be something genetic.  My son had his second shot on the 16th at 12:45PM.  So far, other than a sore arm, he has shown no side effects at all.  He had the Pfizer vaccine, while I had Moderna.  It may have made a difference.  I am just glad he is doing well.