Age: 44.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Back pain, Cold sweat, Fatigue, Headache, Immediate post-injection reaction
Clinical narrative: Immediately during and after receiving the Janssen shot in my upper left arm, I felt a burning sensation that radiated outwards from the point of entrance of the needle to my whole upper left arm (about the size of my right hand holding my upper arm). This burning sensation occurred for about 15 minutes after the shot and then stopped. After coming home about an hour after the shot, I had swelling and felt pain in my left arm radiating from the point of the shot down into my fingers which I had expected as a common side effect. However, about 30 minutes after that my left hand began to tremble uncontrollably and was extremely weak. The only time my left hand has trembled and had been so weak was after my work related accident and at the beginning of physical therapy for both of my hands (I had weakness in the right hand too, but regained 80% of its strength in my right hand and about 50 to 60% of strength in my left due to 5 years of physical therapy). Prior to this vaccine both my hands were pain free and did not have severe nor mild trembling and I only had mild trembling in my left hand when there were severe rains or if I overexerted my left hand while crocheting, knitting, or typing of which I have not done any for several months now. Also I had terrible pains down my legs and back during the night which resulted in cold sweat throughout my entire body for 2 hours. Once again I do experience painful cold sweats but only during severe weather (rain or extreme cold) or when I have overexerted myself (i.e. walked too much, sat for more than 30 minutes, or stood up for more than 15 minutes).  My nerves in my legs, back, arms, basically throughout my entire body felt like they were on fire and throbbing. I had to just grit my teeth and let my tears run down my face until the pain stopped. I couldn?t move to get up, shift positions, sit, or anything else. My daughter checked to see if I had a fever and I was 98.0 F, so no fever. All this was nerve pain. It was horrible, I haven't had nerve pain throughout my whole entire body before, but I know what it feels like to have nerve pain in my legs and back and left arm/hand, and this felt like that but worse because I couldn?t move. I don?t know if it was this bad because I had  pre-existing nerve damage in my lower back, legs, hands/wrists, and left arm, but it was the worst feeling and experience with pain that I have ever had (and I had 4 children naturally). Other than the nerve pains I had a severe headache and was extremely tired. Thankfully I am feeling better today, September 10th, 2021. I no longer have any pain in my arm, no headaches, nor tiredness. However, I still have trembling albeit a mild trembling, hopefully the trembling will also stop. Now I am back to my normal unbearable lower back, sciatica, and knee pains of which are very hard on me physically to begin with. Hopefully my trembling will stop and go back to what I was used to and that my experience can help with future patients vaccinated with this COVID 19 vaccine who have disabilities due to injuries and or nerve damage.