Age: 45.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Feeling abnormal, Grip strength decreased, Head discomfort, Hypersomnia, Hypoaesthesia
Clinical narrative: Within 12 minutes from vaccine I went from fine to my tongue starting to not feel right. I could feel one side of my tongue but couldn't feel the other side. My lip started to droop on that side too. My mom drove me and she looked at me and said that my left side of face was drooping downward. I was trying to talk but I couldn't, and it felt like all nerves on left side of face were gone. It went from that into my arm. I had a drink of water and I dropped the bottled water and it just fell. I couldn't even feel it. The doctor came over and checked and said that it's a response that he has seen before. It started in my tongue, mouth, lips, and above my  lip, and it was just heavy and I felt no nerves. It took me about an hour and they gave me some Benadryl and relaxed a little bit. One area would wake up and work and then another section wouldn't work. I felt like a broken circuit board and my brain went whacko on the left side. That lasted about an hour. My forearms broke out in a rash (both arms) and I still, on my arms, now have darker pigmented area and it's just a little bit oval shaped on both forearms and the top is darker. When it happened at first, it was red. The next day I started having really bad COVID symptoms, I couldn't taste anything, I could barely get up, I was sleeping a lot and this went on for about a week. The brain fog was really bad and I couldn't come up with words or visualize places I've been many times or even think about the inside of something. It was like the visualization was affected. There was a heaviness in my head, like something was squeezing. It wasn't a headache or sinus pressure it was just encompassing pressure on my head. If I get run down I have this happen. I lost taste, can't think right, sleep, and I call it my bad days. When it lifts, it just goes away, but it feels like pressure around my head in brain. I have hand numbing in both of my hands, and I thought I had carpal tunnel, and that's an on and off thing and that feels like its asleep and you shake it off and it wakes up, but I find it worse during my bad days. I had some missed periods, very scattered periods, which is unusual for me because I have endometriosis and they are usually heavy, and it was skipping and then having a heavy day and then nothing. I called my doctor one day because I felt like a surging circuit board and was wired, couldn't sleep and everything was intense and felt like I was drugged. I went in either the next day or two days later and at this point it settled down and I told her what was happening and she thought I had long haulers syndrome but I was feeling fine for months after having covid but the vaccine thing is what I'm struggling with and it triggered everything and won't go away. I saw her at least twice and I go back in November. I wonder what things would be like if I  went to the doctor when I was feeling bad and when it was happening. I can say that upping my magnesium and focusing on foods with potassium gives me better brain clarity and I snap out of things a lot better so that helps.