Age: 50.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Arthralgia, Back pain, Blood pressure increased, Cardiac stress test normal, Chest discomfort
Clinical narrative: My first two doses of the Covid vaccine were the Pfizer vaccine and were received on 4/6/2021 and 5/10/2021. My third dose was from Moderna and was received on 12/29/2021.   About 10-14 days after each dose, I began to have significant fatigue. I documented my symptoms relative to the first dose, but did not do so relative to the second dose because I assumed my second dose would be the final dose.   My recollection is that the symptoms after the first dose lasted about 2 weeks and that the symptoms after the second dose lasted about 4 weeks. My symptoms from the Booster are ongoing.   I rarely felt short of breath, but people described that I seemed to be gasping for breath during conversations and I obviously was in recordings during that time.   Description after first dose compiled 4/26/2021:  April 6 ? First dose of Pfizer vaccine received around 10:30 AM. I had no noticeable reaction to the vaccine on this day. April 8 ? I believe this was a day I was fatigued and laid around all day. I assumed this was an effect of the vaccine.  From April 8 to April 17 I do not recall anything notable.  Saturday April 17 ? Woke up around 8 AM. Was feeling very tired. Laid around all day. Sunday April 18 - Woke up around 8 AM. Was feeling very tired. Did yard work. Cut down and cut up small tree with hand saw. Dug our root. Refastened gutters on detached garage. Did laundry. Etc. Was very tired in the evening. Monday April 19 ? Slept. I estimate that in the roughly 36 hours from Sunday night until Tuesday morning I slept about 28 hours. I occasionally felt hot and then cold. My temperature never registered above 90-F when measured. I had no chills (shaking). Occasionally woke up with a headache and joint or muscle ache. I think I took 4 Tylenol during this roughly 36 hour period. Note when I get a significant cold it is not unusual for me to sleep an extreme amount and then quickly recover. At the time I sort of thought this was what was happening, though I had no cold symptoms.  Tuesday April 20 - Woke up around 9 AM. I was tired. Laid around. Took a couple of naps. Received first negative Covid quick test result. They also did a PCR tests which came back negative on Thursday. Wednesday April 21 - Woke up around 8 AM. Laid around. Answered a couple of emails. No naps. Thursday April 22 - Woke up around 8 AM. Laid around. Answered a couple of emails. Did a little bit of work. Took a Zyrtec. No naps. Friday April 23 - Woke up around 8 AM. Went out into yard pruned some bushes. Answered a couple of emails. Did a little bit of work. Took a 10 mg Zyrtec. Saturday April 24 - Woke up around 8 AM. Sat around all day. Took a 10 mg Zyrtec. Sunday April 25 - Woke up around 8 AM. Did laundry. Cut up and ?bagged? branches from pruning Friday. Friday evening after a short drive, I hung a ceiling light in the garage. This was pretty light work. It involved making some small cables to hang the light and then climbing a small step ladder and hanging the light. As I was up on the step ladder hanging one end of the lamp I began to feel especially tired and a little light-headed. I determined I was okay to finish the job and so hung the other end. I felt increasingly fatigue, a little light-headed and was perspiring profusely. I measured my blood pressure. It was 126/87. My pulse was also 87 bpm.   Monday April 26 - Woke up around 8 AM. When I woke I felt considerably more fatigued than I had from April 21 - April 25 but not as bad as I did April 19 ? April 20.  I had noticeable aching in both knees but more so in my left knee.   Since at least April 17 I have: ? Been fatigued. ? Slept later in the morning than usual. I normally wake between 5:30 AM and 6 AM. I usually go to sleep between 10 PM and 11:00 PM. ? Have occasionally felt warm or chilled, but have never had a fever when my temperature was measured. ? Had occasional headaches from approximately Sunday April 18 to Tuesday April 20.  ? Occasionally been slightly congested. ? Occasionally felt nauseous from approximately Sunday April 18 to Tuesday April 20. Sometimes with mild heartburn and increased burping.  ? I believe I had one bowel movement sometime between Sunday April 18 and Tuesday April 20 that was loose, but probably would not be considered diarrhea. I have otherwise had regular bowl movements. I have NOT: ? Had a cough. ? Had shortness of breath or difficulty breathing. ? Lost my sense of taste or smell. ? Had a sore throat. ? Vomited. ? Been confused or had trouble concentrating (other than that the time I can work is limited). ? Had any pressure, tightness, pain, or a squeezing or aching sensation in my chest, arms, neck, jaw or back. I have a ruptured disk in my neck and occasionally have pain from this, especially when I am sedentary, but have had remarkably little such pain during this time especially considering how much time I spent in bed.   Description after booster compiled 1/25/2021:  12/29/2021 - Received Moderna booster. 12/30/2021 ? 1/5/2022 ? I do not recall having any symptoms beyond perhaps feeling a little tired 1/1/2022 1/6/2022 ? In the evening I began to feel odd. I had mild ?pain? in my knees and felt fatigued. 1/7/2022 ? Similar to 1/13/2022. 1/8/2022 ? About noon I began to feel fatigued and spent the rest of the day resting. 1/8/2022 ? About 11:00 AM I began to feel fatigued and spent the rest of the day resting. 1/9/2022 ? I woke feeling fatigued and spent the entire day resting. 1/10/2022-1/24/2022 - I work some in the morning until about 11:00AM. Around 10-12 I begin to feel fatigued and spend the rest of the day resting. My symptoms: ? Fatigue: I am not tired as I would be from lack of sleep or after physical effort. Instead, I find that when I attempt to do something ? work at the computer, walk, talk, anything at all it is as if my body resists the effort. On the rare occasions I have pushed past the resistance I become light-headed, out-of-breath, and somewhat panicked.   ? I have some intermittent ?pain? in my joints - especially in the knees and elbows. It is not always pain, but rather is an odd feeling ? a tightness or pressure.   ? I am sleeping more than usual. I am typically waking between 7:00 AM ? 8:00 AM, which is late for me. I am not sleeping as much as I was with the first two doses.   ? I occasionally have back pain at the quarter-width of my back near the bottom of my rib cage.  ? My breathing seems to be shallower than normal. Usually when I consciously breath deeply I am able to with no issues. Occasionally when breathing deeply my chest feels constricted in the lateral direction from arm-to-arm at about the mid-depth of my rib cage.   I will also state that I am typically a bit of a workaholic. I have two long-term contracts and take on additional work periodically. One of my long-term contracts is based on the assumption that I will provide 60-80 hours of consulting each month. My symptoms, which I believe may be related to the vaccines given that they occur in each case about two-weeks after receiving the vaccine and have not otherwise occurred, have interfered with my ability to work. This is demonstrated below (graph cannot be provided due to constraints of reporting system) where it can be seen that my hours are significantly diminished in April and May of 2021. They recovered greatly in June only because I worked a lot of additional hours at the end of June when my symptoms had subsided.     I have some plots of my blood pressure readings that I can make available. Higher blood pressure seems to be associated with more severe symptoms, but this relationship is not perfect.  My highest reading was at a doctor's office and was 160/100.