Age: 39.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: VARCEL
Symptoms: Lymphadenopathy, Migraine, Mood altered, Muscular weakness, Nerve injury
Clinical narrative: Onset of most symptoms approximately 3 weeks after vaccination. Frequent/chronic colds, chronic ear pain, pain in ankles, knees, elbows, spine, fingers. Ulnar nerve damage. Migraines. Inflammation of muscles and joints. Fibromyalgia. Vasomotor rhinitis. Trigeminal neualgia diagnosed July 2003. Shingles diagnosed 2003. Fibroid tumor and cysts in 2003. Heart palpitations (previous history of MVP). Follow up 02/09/05: No experimental vaccines received. Varicella viurs vaccination benefit and risk information was given to patient or guardian. Mother had no complications, or vaccinations shortly before or during pregnancy. Patient had no personal history of significan health problems before vaccination. Patient had some WIBS before injection and has abdomial pain all the time now. Had medication allergys prior to vaccination.  Has chronic fatigue now all the time. Had depression prior to vaccination and now has it all the time form illness. Had frequent diarrhea before and after. Rarely had ear infections before and now has them always. Never had fevers and headaches before, now sometimes has fevers and always migraines. Some irritability before, now has chronic pain and fibromyalgia. Has frequent nausea all the time. Had some throats before, now has many. Started spitting up green mucus and still does to this day, mucinex helps relieve but it never goes away. Now when weather changes, like when cooler, head is foggy and hard to concentrate. Experiences: Memory loss (some before), mental confusion and migraines (never had before), which got worse than ever after shot and shingles. Had allergies prior to vaccination, worse after injectiion. Diagnosed with shingles 05/03. Developed muscle weakness. Mood changes increased after illness began. Lymph nodes are now usually on the left side of throat.  Following the vaccination, by the next months ( 3 weeks I'd estimate), I was in the emergency room complaing of ears clogged, head colds, congestion, over all sorenesss to my body. The person who gave the vaccination was not told within 30 days of the health problems, because I did not know if the vaccination was causing them. An Allergist diagnosed as: vasomotor rhinitis with one or many unknown allergies creating havoc with my health. Rheumatoidologits guesses Fibromyalgia for body pain and other new symptoms, because my blood tested negative for arthritis. Migraines could be Trigeminal neuralgic and shingles that just happened very fast. Condition is bad today and concerned about relation to the Autism in my son. Self medicated with OTC sinus drugs and doctors medications almost killed me. Famvir helped me when I had shingles. I feel I have say much to say about Autis and vaccinations. I have witnessed living with a sister with Autism and a son. I feel with the experience my family has had due to this condition there is a need to pursue the reason for Autism. More than any other known neurological damage to man autism is on the rise. My mother is very old now and in a nursing home but without a dout has suffered the worse grief known to any human. Both emotional and physically. Pure torture in trying to do the right thing by my ister's life in raising her. When all others never provided the help my sister needed early on my Mother did. I will say with certanity that my mother has bared the worst possible life in trying to alwas take care of my sister needs and by far the least selft person I have ever known. My goal, dream, hope of my lifetime was to be able to tell my mother before she passes on whoat happened to my sister and m y own son. Either iwth genitics, our child's birth in the hospital, similar medications we both had during labor, enviromental factors or diseases that run in our family history that perhaps contributed to our children both being Autistic. My son has been diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental disorder for life.  I have learned that my Grandmother had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and my mother. My mother sister had enormus problem with OCD. My sister had extreme OCD, my other sister and brother somewhat (mild) OCD and myselft OCD. I have a cousin that is slow and considered retarded on my father's side. Plus many other diseases like lups, Merry-Tooth disease, Arthritis, Heart conditions, High blood pressure, to name a few. The head pain from that fullness feeling and congestion that just stays with me. The pain, popping sounds to ears, teeth and head. The movement of congestion I feel. How do I describe such things as the tumping and pounng of la truck sound in my head. When in fact there is no truck bumbling by it's what I now hear in my head som edays when mucus is so heavy ( I guess) and sinus infections never cease. How I catch a cold so easily and I live in sunny warm Florida now. If I simply forget a sweater to bring into air conditioned buildings whatever the heck's wrong with my immune system I end up with a cold and bad sinus clogging my ears, head and nose. The the nostril swells and the Trigminal Nerve (Neurologist claims I Have wrong) that's never damage somewhere in the right side of my face acts  up. Most day's pain to my body areas of ankle bones, knees elbows, spine, fingers is so unbearable. But, I've tried medicines too help with inflammation and because I have too many allergies to medications I cannot take them to help with inflammation. Even my immune system was compromised when taking some inflammation drugs prescribed. So I live with chronic pain. This letter has taken me days to work on because only so much can be typed in day's time. Then I have to stop and continue when I have a good day. I'm only 42 but fell 80 most days. After I had that chicken pox shot as early as the next month I was already visiting an Emergency Room. Complaing of aches, chronic ear pain and now feeling clogged head pain. I told them my head feels heavy at times and stuffiness all the time. Before I moved Ohio to Florida my visits would increase. I often complained of chronic colds that just come on every month. Even in months like May, it wasn't even cold in Ohio anymore to keep catching these frequent colds all the time. Then by November 2002, I was only 40 years old and went into Menopause. No one in my family history has had this happen this earlier. All head pain worsen and then horrible migraines. I had never had on migraine in my whole life. The sinsu problems surmounted to unbearable and chronic colds all the time. Ears and head felt congested and clogged all the time. Eventually, I would start to have chest congestion too and inflammation of all muscles and or joints or whatever! Upon doctors trying so many different drugs to reduce inflammation and all pain they brought my immune system down to an all time low. Course to get these same doctros to admit this and compare records of my history of complaints of what all of them did to make me worse rather than better. All of their tampering with my health to try and treat me only ened with them causing shingles im me at age 41. Through age 40-42 since the chicken pox shot I have managed to be dragged through seeing doctor after doctor to get well. I've been through many tests and huge enormous bills to figure out why my health went downhill so very fast. On doctor who shouldn't have given me Vioxx because he almost killed me has even labeled me a fruitcake. I'm highly allergic to Septra and Vioxx is a cousin to it. I've ended up in ER Five times in six months over the next stupid drugs doctors handed out to cure either allergies they thought were causing it, to cure congestion, to cure chronic musle and or joint pain. All had horrible effects on my body. My immune systerm had enough. Now I try to avoid doctors and read how to treat my own health with good things in my body. I' say I know that chicken pox shot made my health go down hill so fast and it did contribute to new symptoms and all new horrible pain my body now is in day in and out. I don't give a dame if anyone buys this or beleives what I' say. I know that chicken pos shor (viral) still makes me ill to this day, I will die knowing this shot did this to my health and swear to the fact of how I feel before God. I also feel that God is guiding me and for some reason unexplained to me I'm suppse to be doing the exact things I feel he sees me doing. Trying to seek help, warn others about vaccination, and prtect the health of future generations is my goal.  For the last two years of my life I have spent countless effort and money to figure out why my health went down the tubes so quickly so fast after that chicken pox shot was given to me. I know I had sinus troubles and this trigeminal neuralgia. Those moments one never forgets pain. I should have never been given that chicken pox shot with the kind of health problems I had. He and all doctors should be made to go over health history thorougly of anyone getting vaccinations. Before those live or not so alive vaccinations are injected into a perso's arm forever! I must live forever with congestion in my head, fullness to my head and ears. The migraines I still get when congestion is at it's worse. My horrific facial pain only in the right side because of sinus swelling. No one can give me my health back. No one cares. But , I care. I want our goverment agencies in charge to care too. I want people at the CDC and immunization saftey review committie to know someday unless you do your jobs and care this could be your child, your grandchild begging you to look into what thousands are trying to tell you now.