Age: 43.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Injection site pain, Intervertebral disc protrusion, Loss of personal independence in daily activities, Muscle tightness, Nerve injury
Clinical narrative: March 12th 2021 - I got my first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine administered in my left shoulder at a clinic. I could feel the injection move down my left arm and throughout my entire abdomen and chest and back on the left side of my body. This was a strong burning sensation that lasted two days and went away.  March 24, 2021 - I began to have sharp stabbing pain on the left side of my lower back. I thought this may have been a back injury and treated it as such with ibuprofen and heat.  April 2 2021 - I got the second vaccine dose at the same clinic in my right shoulder this time, and two hours after the shingles rash appeared on my abdomen and back on the left side, where I had previously experienced pain in my back.  April 3, 2021 - I wound up in the emergency room the next day with excruciating pain in my entire left side from thigh to shoulder; diagnosed with shingles. I was told it would get worse and it definitely did. I spent the next 12 weeks being almost completely bedridden and taking copious amounts of medications. The left side of my body from shoulder to thigh went numb, and was still painful and itchy as well.  On May 16, 2021 - I also had the beginnings of another shingles outbreak on the right side of my body, which is supposed to be rare to get on both sides! No rash observed but pain was. I took a second round of antiviral medication and the pain went away.  Later on I began to feel shingles nerve pain in both areas of both injections. I mean the exact.same.needlepoint.spots, as if I had a needle still sticking there. This is not a coincidence and has never happened with any other vaccine I?ve received! It is blatantly obvious that the pathology of my pain and subsequent shingles infection has followed the vaccine timeline and location in my body (as described above) to a T! I found documentation online of some other people getting shingles after their vaccine, and a doctor who gave me a follow up visit, even said he also had two other patients who developed shingles after getting their vaccine!  10-10-21 Still symptoms to this day. I am now 29 weeks in. 29 weeks of pain, every single day?Rash is gone. Post herpetic neuralgia with intermittent pain, itching and numbness. I can just now barely tolerate a pair of jean shorts or a bra. Up until now, both were too painful to wear. I have been living in baggy T-shirts and leggings this whole time, but many times even that was horribly irritating. Approximately mid June, I began to be able to move around more freely without getting completely exhausted. This has been like recovering from an injury rather than an infection. The left side of my body has felt like it?s been in a vice and all of the muscles clamped down tightly as well as shooting stabbing pains throughout and itching. Sitting up was difficult, requiring lots of back support but I would soon have to lay down because it would put pressure on the shingles rash causing more pain. Then I could only lay down for so long because that would put pressure on my back shingles and I would be forced to sit up again. I couldn?t even sit on my soft couch for a good month. I worked on my laptop from my bed when able but I did also miss a lot of work as well. I had to hire someone to mow my lawn. Could barely bathe or prepare food for myself. I remember a time when I struggled to bend over to grab something out of the fridge!  Now I have nerve damage which can take years to heal. I?m afraid of having to get a booster or annual shot of this vaccine for fear of another shingles attack as I'm not of age to get the shingles vaccine. My other choice is living without a vaccine and risking  Covid! Neither of these options are acceptable!