Age: 35.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Acoustic stimulation tests abnormal, Asthenia, Audiogram, Brain stem auditory evoked response abnormal, Condition aggravated
Clinical narrative: Date of Vaccination: 12/10/2021, 3:30 PM  Date Adverse Event Started: 12/10/2021, 3:40 PM  Allergies: Clindamycin, Celebrex, Theraflu, Gabapentin, Polysorbate 80  Medications: Nortriptyline,  Imitrex, Percocet, Klonopin, Testosterone, DHEA, Pregnenalone, Finasteride, Flonase, Medical Marijuana, Levsin, Compazine, Flexeril, Nystatin, Diazepam, Omeprazole, Famotidine, Metoprolol, Melatonin, 5-HTP, Ibuprofen, Acateminophen, Benadryl, Excedrin Migraine, Lidocaine Pathes, Salt Capsules, Vitamin D, Magnesium Malate  Chronic Conditions: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type), Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Migraines/Chronic Vestibular Migraine   I received my Moderna COVID-19 booster shot on 12/10/2021. I had received my first two doses of the same Moderna vaccine on 3/9/2021 and 4/6/2021; those both gave me extraordinary pain, muscles aches, headache, fever, and fatigue for about 48 hours, but then the symptoms started calming down. After a week or so, I was back to normal.  I had those same reactions after the booster shot, but even more intensely. Those symptoms did resolve after a week or so. This time, however, beginning just 10 minutes after the shot, I developed the most extreme dizziness and light sensitivity that I have ever experienced.  The nurse took my blood pressure, which was 150/100 ? the highest it has ever been. I have struggled with dizziness and what we suspect are chronic vestibular migraines since September 2013, but never of this intensity. The dizziness began to subside after a few days, but then came back even stronger ten days after the shot on 12/20/2021, and unfortunately the elevation in dizziness has stayed with me ever since. I can barely look at screens, I can?t watch videos if the camera is in motion, and even changes in temperature are enough to render me incapacitated for hours at a time.  Then on 12/23/2021 ? 13 days after the shot ? I woke up with profound tinnitus in both ears. This is the second time this has happened, the first being in 2015, which was suspected at the time to be Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease. Fortunately that abated over time, however, and I never had a severe episode like that again until now. I went to the ENT immediately on 12/23/2021, and my hearing test showed that I had diminished hearing in both ears, particularly in the upper frequencies (which is where my tinnitus was as well; prior tinnitus had all been at lower frequencies). The hearing loss in the right ear was far worse than the left, however, and an Auditory Brainstem Response test showed slowing on the right side compared to the left. I am a professional musician and composer, so this severe tinnitus (accompanied by hyperacusis) has prevented me from doing any of my work in the six weeks that have passed since.  I was put on 60 mg prednisone every day for two weeks, with a 15-day taper after that. This recovered some, but not much, of the hearing loss in my left ear, but not in my right ear. And I continue to have debilitating dizziness, tinnitus, and hyperacusis to this day.