Age: 49.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Decreased appetite, Disturbance in attention, Dizziness, Dizziness postural, Eating disorder
Clinical narrative: On Friday August 27, 2021 at 10:15 am I received the Johnson and Johnson covid vaccine from the County Health Department.  I returned to work and finished my work day.  On Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 12pm I started feeling fatigued and fuzzy and by 2pm I started feeling dizzy, nauseated and unsteady with heaviness in my legs.  Later that evening I developed a sore throat, headache and generalized achiness.  These symptoms have continued,causing me to be unable to work this week and so far I have missed three days of work.  I cannot be upright without dizziness and if I remain upright I become nauseated.  My thought processing is slow and difficult when upright.  If I am lying down I feel much better.  My stomach is upset and eating causes abdominal discomfort.   I was instructed by my acting Manager to call the workmans comp number.  After calling and reporting my reaction to the vaccination, I received a call from employee health informing me that it had been reported that I was having covid symptoms or had been tested for covid.  I reported the above history to her and informed her that I had not been tested for Covid, exposed to Covid or had any symptoms of Covid until the day after my covid vaccination and had just filed a report as instructed.  She asked me to call the COVID Hotline to make a report.  I called the covid hotline and was told to leave a message for call back.  I did this immediately after speaking to her.   She called me again a little while later and informed me that workmans comp had approved me to see my primary care physician to be evaluated to make sure that ?nothing else was causing my symptoms? including covid.  I did assure her that as a nurse practitioner I was very aware of my health and feel certain that these symptoms have been caused by the vaccine.  I called my primary care physician and was given an 11am appointment for tomorrow morning Thurs, Sept 2, 2021.    Primary Care video visit with Dr.  Documentation of symptoms and labs were ordered.  Dr. noted that these symptoms are likely a reaction to the vaccination.  I went to the hospital to have the labs done.  No change in symptoms:  still dizzy and hot sweats and chills, fuzzy thinking, no appetite, nausea if upright and stomach ache if I eat anything and achy all over.   I am continuing to hydrate well with electrolytes and fluids, taking meloxicam, vit C, vit D, and zinc along with tylenol.   Friday, September 3,2021, test results from yesterday show negative Covid test and routine labs show normal blood count (no signs of infection) and normal electrolytes and normal thyroid.  These ruled out other causes of my symptoms.  I called Employee health and she noted my updates and asked for me to have Dr. office fax her a copy of the visit for workmans comp claim.  I have still not been contacted by the Covid Hotline which I called 2 days ago.   I am filing a Vaers report today.    Yesterday afternoon for a brief period I felt better but then within an hour my symptoms worsened again with soaking sweat, nausea, stomach ache, dizziness, headache, sore throat and generalized aches, and brain fuzziness/fog.  I still cannot sit up in a chair for long without worsening of symptoms, I must be lying flat. Today is still the same.  I have tried to exercise for less than 30 min a day the last 3 days to maintain my muscle strength with superhydration before activity and I made it through the activity but with severe dizziness and malaise.