Age: 42.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Impaired work ability, Influenza like illness, Insomnia, Lip swelling, Malaise
Clinical narrative: She got her vaccine, (booster), she started to feel flu like symptoms around 8:00 PM that night, feverish, achy.  She took some Tylenol and went to sleep and rested.  She took the day off on 3/10/22 as she did not feel well with flu-like symptoms, some diarrhea as well, loss of appetite, drank a lot of fluids.  At around 6:00 PM on 3/10/22 started feeling better and went back to work on 3/11/22, she is a truck driver.  Had the same reaction with the first and second vaccines, one day fever.  The next week, 3/16/22 was in Idaho at 8-9:00 AM started coughing an hour before delivering her load.  She coughed all the way to her drop.  She felt tightness in her throat, chest was sore, and thought it was due to changing environment as she went through Wyoming, Utah and into Idaho but it did not stop.  She knew she was having an allergic reaction, also had some wheezing.  She has a history of allergies and knew what was coming on, but did not feel that it was bad enough to go to the ER.  She had some eye swelling and some lip swelling.  She took some Benadryl when she stopped, was already taking allergy medicine.  She went and laid down, coughing stopped and then had a sore throat and the wheezing subsided.  She then took the next day off to see how her symptoms were, and took a 36 hour recess.  She monitored herself and ate good and hydrated.  She then was fine and went back to work on 3/18/22, started driving and by that evening noticed hives here and there.   As each day progressed she was having to take more and more Benadryl as her symptoms worsened and then was taking the medicine during the day, having swelling of the lips to keep the symptoms down.  She then noticed more hives in various spots.  Then by 3/19/22 she noticed tarry stools with diarrhea, and was scared.  She was thinking that perhaps it was due to blueberries, etc., and was not too concerned, but this continued for days and knew it was not the fruit.  By 3/24/22 she knew something was wrong and the clusters of hives were popping up and not going away, and was concerned of this.   She went to the ER due to the reactions including the tarry stools, and was told to watch her reaction to the Losartan, and stopped that a few days later.  She then had angioedema with swelling of her eyes and widespread hives and she was uncomfortable to the point where she could not sleep and taking Benadryl  which was making her wide awake.   She was given Prednisone and it worked until she stopped the dose pack.  She went home on 4/9/22 and the hives had started coming back, and by 4/11/22 she went back to the doctor.  She had hives all over her back that were not going away.  She was managing them with alcohol rub and the cortisone cream.   She was told to come off of all her medicines, was given an antibiotic Z-pak for 5 days.  She took that and by 4/16/22 her reactions.  She was switched to Allegra and if that did not work they would try something else.  The hives, itched, hurt and they were painful, big clusters that were all over.  She was given a steroid shot and Benadryl cocktail shot, which worked for only a week.  By 4/23/22 she was back with hives all over her again, neck and they are itchy and painful.  She describes them as angry hives and she is hurting, her skin hurts.   She has been on Benadryl pretty much only.  She has stopped all other medicines and was told to go back to the Zyrtec and a 7 day supply of Prednisone and Famotidine and has had the GERD since the coughing episodes which has been controlled by the Famotidine.    She just wants to know if anybody else is having this reaction and what was used to treat her reaction.