Age: 51.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Skin wrinkling
Clinical narrative: I got my JAB around 2:30 on Wednesday, August 25. Yes, I was a little anxious not in a good way, but I did it. First sign of trouble may have been when I got up from the chair after the JAB, I had a splint second of dizziness, but brushed it off as normal, because this does happen to me when I get up too fast due to low blood pressure.  *(1) I was brought to waiting area for a 15 minute watch period. I set my phone for 15 minutes and felt ok during this time, just anxious to leave, concerned about what I have done. Was it smart or not.  As I walked out of the building to my car, I started feeling tingling in lower face. As I drove out of town it got worse but not overly concerning yet. I had numbness/tingling on both sides of lower face. During this time he called me, and I told him I was considering staying in town, but decided to drive home, and if it continued or got worse, I would go the ER. The sensation lasted for about 30-40 minutes I kept checking my smile for any changes during this time. It felt like after a dentist numbs your mouth for dental work and it's wearing off, just before you can eat again without biting one's lip or tongue. For the rest of Wednesday night, I can't say if there was a strange feeling or not, but I was a bit anxious.   Thursday morning, I woke up about 5:00am and knew something just didn't feel right with lower face, especially right side. When I finally checked in the mirror I noticed two reddish spots on the right side of my face near the mouth, one of these spots had a slight indentation, plus from nose to the mouth region I noticed wrinkles that were more defined. I took pictures to see the changes. Finally, at 7:20am I decided to go to Urgent Care before work instead of waiting to see if feeling subsided and face changes would reverse themselves. But I thought I remembered from my previous Bell's Palsy episode (at the time I couldn't remember date, but now I know it was 2002 diagnosed by Dr.) that treatment needed to start soon after episode so that damage would not be permitted (that episode was more severe affecting my smile.)  When I got to the hospital, I went to Urgent Care but was sent to ER. I was very anxious at time and being sent to ER made it worse (see my experience with ER to why my anxiety was high), it was obvious because I was not thinking clearly (but your staff wouldn't have known that), I kept my foot moving, and kept moving my hand cause beeps with oxygen, pulse monitor. I did mention to the nurse I was having anxiety issues over this.   I am grateful I took pictures, because it keeps reminding that it wasn't just in my head, because I had the feeling that is what the staff thought, especially seeing it was hard see the difference.   Later when I was able to review what the ER wrote I began angry, that's when I decide to take report on my own. They wrote information of events wrong, ER doctor stated he told me it wasn't due to vaccination. He never said that to me. His notes stated because symptoms began 2 hrs after vaccination  (which was wrong time frame).  Reason I'm upset, because CDC site even states side effects can take up to 48 hours to happen.