Age: 60.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Swelling, Tongue discomfort
Clinical narrative: She got her vaccine, she started to develop a soreness under the armpit and within a few hours it protruded where she could see it.  It grew out/popped out.  It was sore, turned purple/bruised and that was the first thing she noticed.  She did not think a whole lot about it, tried to see her doctor which she could not get in right away.  Then she started getting contraction like reactions in her abdomen.  It was nothing like she had never felt before, spasm like/labor pains.  They would come very intense, squeezing and then would release, which went on for 3 days day and night.  She could see that it would start to subside, not come as frequent but continued.  Intense and painful but would subside.  She could feel it coming on in waves.  She then went to the UC and they basically told her that it was her body reacting to the vaccine and that it was working, which she did not know about that as what she felt was nothing normal.  They did not give her anything, and just made her feel that she was OK, and that she was going to be OK.  The following morning the pain was gone,  The bruising did eventually come down and go away about a couple of weeks.  She was feeling  back to normal until the beginning of January and she started having sharp pains in the stomach and up towards the chest.  This lasted throughout the night and by the morning it stopped.  These were hard pains towards the chest, and she felt that she was not having a heart attack, just upper part of her body.  The following doctor she went to see her PCP where they did an EKG and said that she did not see anything going on with her heart.  Then by February she was starting to have very bad bloating, pain in her stomach, pain on the sides of her stomach so they sent her to a GI doctor.  They did the scope and found gastritis with GERD.  They put her on some medicines, and changed her diet to eating nothing acidic, and was not getting better, was getting worse.  She went to the local Clinic, they repeated the endoscope and had lab work done for Celiac in September of 2022.  Prior to this she had no stomach issues or anything, and after the vaccine her health changed.  The previous doctor told her that it was just inflammation and after changing her diet/etc. she changed her doctor.  She has been gluten free since then, still having some issues but not as bad, but still has a lot of burning in her stomach like heartburn sensation, it comes all the way up to her tongue, feels like a bottle of Tabasco on it and cannot have any pepper and has to eat bland food, no seasoning's at all.   This year has been a total turn-around for her.  The only thing that she could think of that was different which could have triggered her reactions was the vaccine.     Her whole life has flipped upside down and she cannot even taste the food and will not eat what everybody else is eating due to how she feels, her esophagus feels like she cannot breath and swells up.  She gets episodes of burning in her mouth, tongue, palate and she's just on fire.  When she has these episodes last for about 2 weeks.  She has to eat cold foods, cold watermelon to soothe the symptoms of the burning sensation.    She has been an ENT, and many other specialists who cannot pinpoint anything.  She is going to have an another endoscope to have some biopsies done of her intestines.  They also want to test to see how much acid is coming up as her heartburn gets worse, and has been to the ER a few times, which they tell her to go back to her GI.