Age: 58.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Neuralgia, Pain, Pain in extremity, Poor quality sleep
Clinical narrative: After I received the vaccine, about 4 to 5 hours later where I was sitting I discovered that my left thigh was kind of weak when trying to stand. The right leg has minimal pain. The most pain is in the left thigh. I thought it was due to muscle pain from my whole body. My arm was sore. I had a headache. The whole body pain disappeared on the 3rd day, but the thigh pain in my left leg didn't go away. I started walking two hours a day throughout the day. That didn't help with the pain in my thigh. I thought maybe it was due to getting the vaccine so I thought I needed to walk on it. I would walk for some minutes then rest for a few minutes and then repeat. After that week has gone by noting got better. Then I tried walking again about 3 or 4 times a day for about a month. Still nothing has improved. I still only have the pain around my left thigh. When the summer months came I decided to start walking inside because I didn't want to get hot and tired outside. I switched to indoor walking. After about an hour of walking inside it still didn't help anything. At that time I had difficulty lifting my leg or feet up on the left side. Bending down is also hard to do without any help. It also takes me awhile to put on socks or pants. I tried exercising with light impact while in bed, but that did not help at all. Around summer I started asking a few friends about it, and they said they had it too. They said it then went away after about a 1 month to 6 months. I started doing low impact exercises in the pool. I did 90 minutes of aerobic exercises in the pool. That still didn't help at all. I kept doing it. I started doing it every other day. Then I switched to five days a week. The pain was on the inner side of the thigh muscle. I used a tens machine and that didn't help. I tried a massage machine. The pain went away two months ago then it came back. Now the pain is on the outer side of the thigh and has moved to the front of the thigh as well. It has a huge mass of 2 medium sized apples. Every time I try to lift my left leg I couldn't go very far. I could only lift it about 2 to 3 inches up from the ground. I am pretty athletic so I am not understanding why I am having this issue. It has caused me to not sleep very good, not stand very long, or not walk very long. I also have issues with squatting now. My thigh muscle feels tight. Before receiving the vaccine I didn't have any muscle pain or muscle  tightness. This suddenly happened after getting the vaccine because of the spike protein it caused in my leg. I am using heating pads too, and nothing has still helped. I was also taking Aleve. If I have to do anything that deals with walking the nerve pain comes back. My thigh has huge inflammation. I have never had to take Aleve this long before. I have difficulty doing things around the house now. I know a quite of few people who have had the same symptoms as me. I am very healthy and have no disability. I don't see any type of improvement which worries me. I would've never gotten this vaccine if I would've known that this would happen. I feel like my body just acted as a spike protein with the vaccine that caused the nerve pain. If I squeeze or pinch at the thigh muscle then I can feel the pain in the nerve. I have not seen a doctor because of the high medical costs, but I would like to get treated or find a treatment to fix this issue.