Age: 59.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Feeling abnormal, Flushing, Glossodynia, Hyperacusis, Impaired driving ability
Clinical narrative: She got her vaccine, she did not notice anything until she was taking a bath and went to dunk her head in the water and got her head up and was swirling with dizziness, and felt that maybe she had water in her ears as she swims every day.  She was thinking it was vertigo as she was having sensitive to light and sounds, which went on and on, and was not going away.  She was going to her ENT because she had already gone to the dentist because she had vertigo and then had unbelievable pain in her tooth and went down to her jaw and into her gland, and went from being pain free and then excruciating.  They did x-rays and said there was nothing wrong with her teeth.  The PCP coul dnot find anything wrong with her.  She went to the ENT and sent for ear test to see if she had fluid behind her ears, etc. She went to her diabetic doctor went from 6.4 to 8.9 and could not get her sugar regulated and di dnot know why.  She had a bad feeling, started panting really bad that night, her BS was completely out of control and did not know if it was high or low as she had not test strips.  EMS was called and it was 600 and they realized she was having signs of CHF.  They told her that she was very very sick and took her to the ER at the first hospital.  They had her in a room and trying to do an assessment and the next thing she knows everybody went crazy and grabbed her bed and took her down the hallway where a team started working on her, put things in her arm, and she had a massive panic attack because she could not breath and nobody was telling her what was going on.  They put a breathing machine over her face, and she was worked on.  She was then taken to ICU at another hospital and was there for 4 days.  She had double pneumonia and was going into CHF so they transferred her.  She had 2 liters of water on her lungs and the vertigo was her drowning with the fluids.  The doctor came into her room that night and he looked at her, confirmed her information and she confirmed who she was, and told her that she looked pretty good as a dead person.  She did not know that she was that sick at that point as everything went to so fast.  He told her that she was very very ill, and he expected her to be unconscious and told her that she looked as good as she did for being sick on paper.  Her EF was only 24%.  The next day they took her to the cath lab to do a catheterization because they figured that she had a blockage somewhere as somebody her age does not get that sick.  They hope that she can heal for 3 months and come back.  She has to wear a lifevest as her heart is so weak that by the time somebody got to the defbrillator she would be dead, so she wears the external defibrillator and then will see if she has to have a permanent defibrillator.  She is on a diuretics and taking all of teh fluid out of her joints and cannot hardly stand up as her knee has arthritis in it.  She lives alone, she is self employed and is a seasonal work up and feels that she is ruined.   She does not feel that there enough blood circulating to keep her alive.  She cannot perform her job which is 2 hours away and has to pay somebody to take her as she cannot be in the car by herself.  She started reading about the vaccine when she got home from the hospital and realized that she had all the symptoms.  The lifevest is heavy and is riping her trapezius muscle in her shoulder.  The battery pack is about the size of the handheld cassette players, and it's heavy.  She is also on Entresto, Metoprolol, potassium, Furosemide, Trazedone, Aspirin 81 mg, as well as her diabetes medications.  She was otherwise healthy prior to the vaccine other than her diabetes.  She is a chronic pain sufferer, but has not had this kind of problem with her knee until she started the diuretic.  This pain is unsurmountable as she cannot take other medicines due to the CHF and has to get through the next 2 months with the lifevest.   She has seen 2 cardiologist, the one in the hospital was not paying any attention to her when she said that she had just had a COVID shot.  He changed to a 2nd doctor and he realized that it was a COVID related thing.   Her cardiologist now is Dr. She just went to the doctor and he told her that she was only a little bit better.   She was flushed so bad that her tongue was green turning to black, painful and feeling hairy and everything was terrible tasting.  She had been on nystatin for thrush which was really bad, and had to have nausea patches on continuosly as the nausea was so bad.  It has played a very hard metal toll on her emotionally and physically.