Age: 37.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Pain, Paraesthesia, Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, Seizure, Sleep apnoea syndrome
Clinical narrative: At first I felt a tingling feeling from the vaccine, which to me created an image of very small metal balls going into my body. They travelled along my arm and throughout my body, in a tingling sensation that spread. Then I sat and waited to make sure I was ok. I went to drive home, thinking everything was ok and as I was driving I began to get dizzy and felt a vertigo coming on. I went home and went to sleep. The first shot seemed to just cause a poor reaction, and a lot of sleepiness. Sadly after the second shot, the vertigo was much worse and I slept even more. The day after the second shot I fell asleep during a lunch break working remotely and I didn't wake up for several hours- I woke up and contacted my employer to let them know I was having a reaction to the vaccine. After that was all over, feeling a little better- I went on with my life assuming this was just an unexpected side effect and got a lot more rest. Sadly my period was then effected in the months following- and it became more and more severe. I had a very normal light period before that lasted only about 4 days. It was never heavy prior at all. My periods became regularly heavy, long, and lasting up to seven days. The pads could no longer contain the blood, and I had to wear adult underwear or change the style of pad to something that was almost a double pad. I tried period underwear, a cup, and anything that seemed useful including adult underwear. My periods changed completely, and were a lot more hormonal, lasted longer, came on with hormones for days before and days after. A year later, I started having seizures where I had never had seizures in my life at all- and my sister has had epilepsy my whole life. I eventually had to seek out a geneticist and neurology help- and they were not able to catch the seizures on any tests. I got long covid during that time, 2022, and it seemed to clear up gradually- but never completely go away. Currently I have been off of work on leave since Nov. 27th of 2024 and I haven't been able to concentrate enough to be working productively. I now have a very disrupted sleep cycle, and sleep apnea came on hard in long covid several times but I could not get a CPAP issued no matter how bad it was on the tests. Right now I am just very out of it with severe brain fog everyday, very disrupted sleep, can't wake up properly wether I have an alarm and get up early or sleep later into the morning. No matter how much sleep I get it, it's never quite enough, and nothing is working. My overall intelligence seems mostly intact, I am simply a lot more forgetful- and several MRI's have been done before and after covid. I'm bogged down with a lot of body pain, but most noteably the numbness always comes back really bad. Sometimes the numbness takes over my face, on the left, and sometimes it takes over my legs when trying to stand or walk- and my left leg will be slightly dragging. I have major spine problems I didn't have before. I have a lot problems I didn't have before covid or the vaccines. My memory and overall concentration are getting very bad. My balance is getting very bad, and I'm shaky for no reason sometimes now. My eyes are getting more and more blurry. I burn out much faster while working, even from home. Socially, I can only take so much interaction, and I get tired real easy now from normal interactions. I get vertigo very easily now from even the smallest triggers. I have arrythmia's that I just didn't have before the vaccine, including a potential heart problem that just wasn't a problem at all before.