Age: 74.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Fatigue, Gait disturbance, Impaired work ability, Joint swelling, Laboratory test abnormal
Clinical narrative: He got his vaccine, he was tired for the first couple of days.  Then about the 3rd day could not move his legs without pain.  His thighs were hurting like crazy, his shoulders were hurting and his wrists were hurting.  It was hurting from the hip to the knee.  It started hurting so much that he had a hard time walking.  He could not stand up from his chair.  He ended up having to get his wife's walker (she is deceased), he used that to help him get up as he could not put a lot of pressure on his wrists as he could not push up without a lot of pain.  He would use his forearms to get up.  He ended up going to the ER and was admitted for 2 days, they had an OT who told him to put a lot of quilts in his chair to get him up higher to make it easier to get up.  He had some short term memory issues to the point that his son came down to help him for a while as he could not stand up from the floor and trouble with stairs, which was painful.  For some reason he could not get into his bed, he would try to fall into it but would slide of and would have to crawl to get into his bed, and then his son or a friend who would come over and help and they would move his legs so that he could be in the bed.  After he went to the ER he went to his PCP, and she gave him a SED test just to rule out any abnormalities.  It showed his blood to be 78 which is very high, normal being 1-20.  She put him on 60 mg of Prednisone, and that knocked it down, but she also referred him to a rheumatologist, had to go to his cardiologist, an endocrinologist.  He would loose words that knew and then would remember them later, but he could not remember the name of his medicine for 6 months, and then remember what it was.  He is a professional and he could not work due to this issue.  He would then fall as his muscles were weak in his legs and if he would bend forward he would fall.  He was taking PT at the time for his rotator cuff surgery in February and he could not due to the PT because of the painfulness of it.  Even today if he sits down and drives somewhere like to his office 3-4 blocks away he has a hard time getting out of his car and then a hard time walking for about 15 minutes and then he could walk better.    He went to his cardiologist for a routine FU and was told he looked like him old self, but said that he was not quite there, but he can walk to his car, and to his office as long as he can wait a while to get his balance right and then continue waiting on his legs to work right, kind of like they went to sleep.     He is a professional and he did not have any issues with his legs or limbs prior to the vaccine.  He could walk 3-4 miles and walk fast until he had the vaccine.  He is not able to work a whole day and not able to work at all to start with, and was on the Prednisone 60 mg, and then reduced to 15 mg and then raised back to 20 and was able to play pickle ball and do his full body PT to get back into shape and could walk from his car and walk to the pool at the gym, and once he got down to 5 mg tapering to 1 mg, and then sent him for blood work and showed that he was within the 1-20 range for C-reactive protein.  She gave him a protein test due to his hands as all the joints were swollen and could not move them, and felt that he had PMR.   He did have a cognitive test and they ruled out dementia and Alzheimer's.    He did get COVID about 6 weeks after the 2nd vaccine.  He does feel that this has taken a year and half out of his life.    He is very upset with the FDA and CDC as they are keeping some of the very rare AE as somebody is doing research on it, and that he could have taken something that would have been better for him and without the problems with that.   .