Age: 47.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: HEPA, TYP
Symptoms: Panic reaction, Paraesthesia, Skin exfoliation, Stress
Clinical narrative: I received the typhoid injection in the left upper arm and felt a burning sensation in that area immediately; I did not have the sensation in the right arm where I was given the Hep A shot, which seemed much smoother and faster. I told the nurse right away, but she did not respond to it. When I got up, she asked me how I was doing, and I felt ok otherwise and left. I seemed to feel ok all afternoon aside from the pain in the upper left arm; a few hours later in the evening, I developed pain in the entire left upper arm, and could barely raise it until I could not fully lift it anymore; a short while later I had a tingling sensation in my left middle finger; some in the left ring and index finger tips; it also felt at one point as if the fingers were going numb, and as reaction. It was scary, especially as my 'condition' worsened progressively and it felt almost as if the vaccine 'got stuck' in my muscles and nerves, especially the spine. Having practiced yoga for many years, I am very aware to changes in my body, and felt prompted to stretch and practice yoga to loosen the tightening muscles ... and to keep 'everything flowing'. I thought it may help my body to work through the reaction, especially the spine, and it did. I had to lift my left arm with my right hand into the positions so I could do downward dog, etc.. I did simple back bends to maintain the mobility and fluidity, to get the spine 'unstuck'. It helped me feel better, but I had to continue doing it the entire evening/night until I went to bed. Unfortunately, the situation worsened. I probably should have gone to the emergency room when the breathing problems began, but I was very stressed out and afraid I would not be able to handle any more or other chemicals in my body having such a strong reaction. I kept my body moving and applied other self help methods. I also probably underestimated the kind of reaction I had. The breathing problems began with a sensation of a weight or something sitting on my chest and I thought my whole body was affected and very weak suddenly. I began to do deep breathing exercises, which helped a little; as well as being in a prone position, but I was panicking. I had problems sleeping that night; when I lay on my left side, breathing problems were worse. Also could not lie on the left because my left upper arm was hurting so much. Lying on the belly was ok; it took the pressure off the heart and breathing was easier.  The next day, or two/three days later the tingling sensations up and down my spine must have started. Breathing was easier but there was the heaviness on my chest that remained; of something sitting on the chest. I got headaches now, too. Started on the right side; moving to the left side the next day. I remember the center of head pulsing like crazy for at least one afternoon following the vaccination; that must have been during the first few days. I spent the day after the vaccination in bed, unable to do anything but rest and trying to get back to my normal self, which did not happen. On the second day after, I went to an acupuncture clinic thinking that may help, and I felt a little more balanced afterwards, but still really weak and I went back to bed when I was back home. I also had to spend the entire third day in bed. I experienced absolute and total physical weakness, I had no muscle strength left. Headache into Saturday. I took most of the above notes on 10/8/14 and wrote also: weakness continues until today (vaccination was on 9/30). The weakness continued longer, and practicing yoga became difficult because I was so exhausted, had no energy, muscle strength a real issue; I was just a shadow of who I was before the vaccination. I had felt very strong and healthy all summer and wanted to travel this December, which I had to cancel. I had given notice to move and had began packing, but was not able to do this. Whoever reads this probably does not believe in homeopathy, but I tried a number of things hoping they would help, and "Arnica Montana" did; breathing became easier immediately. It was amazing and surprising. Also around then, in the evening I felt like getting sick with sore throat, cold symptoms; felt a little better going to sleep. The next day, worse again; weakness continues and was worse; like the entire week, impossible to wake and get up before 10am; 10/8 ice cold chills and tingling up the spine to the scalp; I had those for about 2, 3 days. I have never had anything like that before, it was horrible. Ice cold chills, not comparable to cold/flu symptoms. Every symptom felt very violent and aggressive. Overall, I wish I had not gotten the vaccination. I felt I would die for at least the first ten days following it and as if I was seriously impaired physically after that. As result, my immediate plans have unraveled completely. Another symptom I had and that has improved, is sudden onsets of feeling extremely weak along with sweating for no apparent reason; an emotional symptom that I had a few times was that almost without reason, I collapsed emotionally, internally and I was close to bursting into tears unable to manage any situation that was even only minimally stressful; talking to someone was enough to trigger it. I also had moments of disorientation, which was frightning, and a sudden forgetfulness and memory lapses. Both have improved and I think I am probably back to normal with that. There was very uncomfortable pressure in the area of my liver/gall bladder, which passed over time, but lasted several weeks in varying intensity. Muscle aches on and off, the last big wave was Sunday 10/19; joint aches and cracking (which was a symptom I had right away the same evening following the vaccination; my joints made clicking noises when I moved- most notably hips, lasted several days early on); Sensation of feeling 'hot', which has been a symptom for almost the entire time I had symptoms. I am usually on the cool side, having cold feet and hands, but that seemed to be completely turned around and I suspect the vaccination screwed up my endocrine system. Seems ok now. The 'sweating without reason' has stopped again. Another symptom was that my skin suddenly was very dry and flaky on my lower legs during the first 10, maybe 14 days; there was a sensation of weakness especially in the shins; that has normalized by now, too. It's been about 2 months now, and I think by now I am pretty much back to normal; or so I hope. It was a very scary experience. I don't have the exact time line of the symptoms re dates they occurred, but most of the above is chronological except for the the last few points on the list. I tried to be as thorough as possible. I hope it helps.