Age: 80.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: FLU3, FLU3
Symptoms: Injection site joint pain, Injection site pain, Injury, Insomnia, Irritability
Clinical narrative: I am suffering personal and physical trauma ever since I was vaccinated with Sanofi's FLUZONE HI-DOSE (4x greater antigen) flu vaccine, on Dec 7, 2016, made especially for people over 65 years old. Difficulty swallowing, loss of appetite, nausea, total body muscle weakness, pain in (R) shoulder and (R) arm muscles from shoulder to elbow with streaks of pain down to my wrist, intense (R) shoulder joint pain, unusual body weakness, unable to lift bedcovers off arm, unable to turn in bed to get out of bed. Someone devised a hoist system with a clothesline attached to heavy furniture in front of bed for me to hoist myself up or turn over, unable to reach horizontally, vertically, or behind my back requiring I need help to get dressed, unable to hold a 64oz size apple juice, need to use 2 hands to hold onto coffee cup, sudden onset of blurry, itchy eyes are preventing me from doing my crossword puzzles, sudden dizziness requires I reach for wall to steady myself, labored breathing for periods of time, flushing, shivers, chills, hands frozen even with electric blanket (when waiting to have bone scan 1/24/17, I had to wear someone's ski jacket under my own jacket and the secretaries behind the desk had to put 4 blankets over me,) ankles are swollen, muscles are stiff and limbs don't hold me up, some wheezing, unable to urinate during the day, urinate every hour at night, losing weight, exacerbation of spine, lower back and leg pain, muscle cramps in legs at night. Mood swings: anger, shouting, screaming, (screamed at another patient in waiting room telling her to "shut up", cursed at woman sitting on end chair in waiting room who would not agree to let me put my coat down next to hers on the table next to her chair, cursed at cab driver, hyper-demanding, hypercritical, obsessive, crying, loss of patience, insomnia, irritable, periods of continuous yawning, exacerbation of spine and leg pain for which I've been treated over two years (5 pelvic fractures, 1 still not healed, spondylolisthesis). When  brought into bone scan room for nuclear injection, I was yelling at everyone not to let their parents take the flu shot, I was dizzy and had labored breathing and difficulty walking to the scan room from the waiting room (3 steps-then stop). I asked the nurse to take my blood pressure..it was high. I told the  nurses to get me a doctor and after a venting session and a small bottle of water, my blood pressure went down and then I learned he LISTENED. He put some connections together: one adrenal gland, one flu shot 4x greater than I ever had in 45 years, and one shoulder injection of "cortisone" from my shoulder orthopedist on Jan. 6th. He surmised that all these factors "could" cause the reactions I was suffering. One nurse, introduced herself and I heard myself speaking to her in another language. I couldn't stop crying and yawning and freezing. Medications: BENICAR 5 mg, Naproxen 500 mg 2x day, Vit D 1 x weekly, CRESTOR, Oxycodone 500/325 up to 3x daily, VALIUM 10 mg if needed, multivitamin powder in daily green health drink. Dates: 12/7/16 Flu shot, 1/6/17 Shoulder Orthopedist, 1/6/17 hip specialist, 1/18/17 Internist, 1/24/17 total bone scan experienced shortness of breath, raised BP, refused nuclear injection for bone scan until cleared by MD, 1/26/17 right shoulder and arm/muscle MRI, 1/28/17 Emergency: Police gave Oxygen, First Aid Squad took BP 192/98, Ambulance drove to hospital: labored breathing, difficulty walking/standing, 2/2/17 MD total evaluation.