Age: 61.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Tenderness
Clinical narrative: ADVERSE COVID VACCINE REPORT - Male, 61 years old Both my first and second Covid vaccines were administered at the hospital. First vaccine: (4/3/21) Pfizer, Lot EWO150 Second vaccine: (4/25/21) Pfizer, Lot EWO171 Both my first and second Covid vaccine shots were administered with the clinician NOT having performed syringe aspiration. I have cell phone video footage to confirm this.  Several seconds after the 2nd vaccine injection, I told the clinician that I could taste the vaccine (it tasted ?metallic?). The clinician replied that one or two of others to who she had previously administered the vaccine reported the same.  What followed was a hellish, ninety-day rollercoaster ride through a cavalcade of disconcerting and painful inflammatory issues. Some of these issues persevere more than a year later. The day after vaccine #2, I was overcome with flu-like symptoms, aches, serious fatigue and a profoundly sore arm. The flu-like symptoms began to fade after the 2nd day.  However, because most of the symptoms reported herein did not appear immediately after the injections, I did not put all the pieces of this vaccine injury together until several months after the injections.  ? Heart issues ? Starting about one week after vaccine shot #2, I had 4 episodes (spread out over 12 days) of 150-160 BPM tachycardia (measured with a pulse oximeter). All 4 of these episodes would start with one quick cough and loss of breath, followed immediately by normal breathing as the heart continued to race. All 4 incidents lasted approximately 2 minutes in duration.  When I was Champion athlete in my teens-twenties, a professional sports psychologist trained me to slow my heartbeat using breath work, meditation, and biofeedback training. But during these 4 incidents, I could not slow down my heart using those techniques. Each time, my pulse returned to normal after 2 minutes. Throughout all 4 episodes, I had no chest pain or other symptoms. I went to my General Practitioner, who listened to my heart with a stethoscope, but told me I did not have to get my heart more seriously tested. Much milder, infrequent heart flutters have persisted to this date. Several months later, once I had connected with 2 other friends who had the exact same of health challenges after getting vaccinated last year (in their circumstances the syringes were also not aspirated before injection), I sought review by a heart doctor. Having seen other patients with this same set of symptoms after getting the Covid vaccine, the heart doctor suspected that, had we tested my heart shortly after the initial four incidents, we may have found a small degree of myocarditis. By the time we tested my heart in November, there was no evidence of myocarditis but there was (and still is) still evidence of electrical fluctuations. ? Chronic Fatigue ? Starting on the day after my 2nd vaccine, I have experienced serious fatigue, which, for the first 90 days, required me to take a 1+ hour-long nap every afternoon. A year later, while it is still evident, I am down to 30-minute-long naps 4-5 afternoons per week. ? Sleep ? Both the duration and quality of my nighttime sleep cycle was also dramatically affected by the 2nd injection. This has endured. ? Headaches & Brain Fog ? Rising in intensity over the first few weeks that followed the 2nd injection, and then slowly diminishing over the next 6 months, to a level that is still noticeable but now manageable, I?ve had what might best be described as brain fog. At first there were non-migraine headaches, but those subsided over the first month. ? Gastrointestinal Issues ? The only major health issue I had going into this was an occasional inflammatory GI condition, which flared up profoundly, with debilitating cramps in the 90 days following the 2nd injection, but has since gone away almost completely. I already had an anti-inflammatory (no grain/gluten/dairy/sugar/alcohol) diet before I got the 2 vaccines injections. ? Musculoskeletal Issues. To this day I have pronounced Myalgia in my left arm?starting with a knotty tenderness in the left shoulder in the area of the vaccine injections and emanating downward to the wrist. I cannot use a shovel, lift weights, or drum, thereby substantially affecting my long-term work, health regimen and quality of life.