Age: 69.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Fatigue, Gait disturbance, Headache, Incontinence, Insomnia
Clinical narrative: She got her vaccine at 11:04 AM she stayed for the 20 minutes and did not have any reaction and felt fine.  Then at about 11:00 PM she started shaking uncontrollably like chills, which went on to body aches, nausea, headache and stomach ache.  She took her temp a couple hours later and it was 103.  She had a rough night and hardly slept.  The next morning she could not get up out of bed, and thought it was just a backache and was able to sit up on the side of her bed, and realized it was from her both kidneys.  Then it went on when she got up and was very weak and could hardy walk.  As she walked to the bathroom and got to the bathroom she had incontinence, and then for 2 1/2 days felt as if she had a UTI/burning and frequency or urination.  Every time she went to the bathroom she had incontinence again which she did not have an issue with that prior.   Then she felt kind of dizzy, lack of appetite, headache, joint pain.   She then felt much better on Monday, and it just kind of went away.  She did call a nurse hotline on Sunday and they kind of dismissed it, and they told her that she had COVID, and she informed them that she tested negative.  They told her if she got worse to go to the ER, but it never did, and was concerned about the reaction.  The kidney problems went on for about a day, and the UTI feeling went on for a couple of days.       On both occasions of getting her vaccines on the following Monday's it was like a switch went off and she was fine.  She gets her groceries on Friday nights and she was finishing her grocery shopping and standing in the middle of an isle and she could not move/walk.  Her legs were not able to move, and had to think about it, had  pain in her legs.  After a couple of minutes of standing in a daze and felt like they were lead.  It then stopped and then while pushing her groceries again it happened again in the parking lot, and then had to lift her legs one at a time into the car.  She then had to wait for a while in the car, was able to drive home, still had some symptoms, and was exhausted.  That reaction lasted for about 10 days on 3/14/21.  Then on Monday about noon she was fine.    The nurse hotline told her that she should see her doctor, that they felt that maybe it was MS and they dismissed that it was related to the vaccine.   The same thing happened after the 2nd vaccine again, exactly the same time, same place and exactly the same vaccine, also on Friday as well, lasting for 10 days also.    She went to her PCP and was tested in July and told her that she had no evidence of anything regarding MS.  Her legs also swelled and could hardly walk and was painful going up and down stairs which was about a week after the 2nd one.  She had x-rays and was diagnosed with severe arthritis in both knees, which she did not have arthritis prior to this.  The pain slowly went away by the end of September.  She is now almost normal other than very weak in her legs as she was almost unable to walk, had to use a cane all of the time and use objects to stabilize her to walk.    She is now afraid of falling as her knees would give out when they were swollen or what that was due from.     She is trying to figure out if she should have the booster.    She did have a really bad leg injury in February of 2020 when she fell on the ice and fell underneath her car, and landed on her knees and tore the muscles on her knees, and also hurt her shoulder.  It took about 6 weeks for them to heal.  She wonders if the pain after the vaccines were related to her previous fall, systemic issues.