Age: 52.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: HEP, HEPA, HEP, HEP, HEPA
Symptoms: Impaired work ability, Influenza like illness, Insomnia, Laboratory test abnormal, Local swelling
Clinical narrative: Itch-deep severe herpes outbreak, fever, nausea, fatigue, headache, insomnia within 72 hours. Ongoing recurrence of itchiness, fatigue, blisters that weep, headache, fatigue, insomnia. It has been 21 months since I had the initial adverse reaction. I am submitting this with the desire to help those researching adverse events to more effectively protect people in some way. I am concerned at the proliferation of vaccines and am convinced that the greater good is being compromised by the greed of pharmaceutical companies. Within 24 hours of having the vaccine I began to experience flu-like symptoms including a deep fatigue. Within 48 hours I felt miserable with fever, headache and nausea. By 72 hours I was experiencing an intense and deep itch that started at my low back and spread to my entire genital region, upper thighs, low back and right hand, mainly in my right thumb. The itchiness felt like it went to the marrow of my bones, or was in the marrow of my bones. Nothing eased it for weeks. My right thumb swelled up with liquid weeping out for hours each day to the point that I thought the nail would be lost. I haven't yet, but the nail bed has been severely damaged. The nail has since grown twisted with the nail bed shrunk to a 1/4 of its normal look. My genital area swelled and blistered weeping copious amounts of liquid. I had to sit on 2 towels folded in quarters for a month to absorb the drainage. I was house bound for 6 weeks when the swelling and drainage subsided enough for me to be out and about. It took 3 months before I felt half way back to normal. I have enclosed a cd with pictures beginning a year later when it was clear that this wasn't going away. The pictures of my thumb are an example of what happened to my genital area - imagine my thumb condition times 10 and covering your entire genital and buttocks region and you have an idea of what I experienced. Since then I have experienced multiple, what I call, relapses. The itch will return in some portion of my body. My right nail always swells, with liquid weeping for days, and the deep itch that has become a signature to this reaction. I call my thumb the canary in the coal mine because it is always the first to react and the last to heal. I never know what part of my body is going to break out in itching, blisters that weep and swelling, but I know it is coming because the right thumb reacts first. I am experiencing a relapse now as I write this. They seem to occur every 2-3 months. I haven't identified any common thread as to why except the timing. My thumb has been throbbing for 4 days now with swelling and weeping. During these episodes I am extremely fatigued, suffer from insomnia, feel a constant undercurrent of nausea and headache. I have difficulty with many simple tasks as a results of my right thumb (I am right handed) - like writing this without the use of my thumb because it is so swollen and sore. Epsom salt soaks and aspirin help sometimes. I know I am beginning to recover from the episode when I begin to sleep through the night again and the nausea and headache begin to fade thereby bringing my appetite back to normal. I have found it difficult to work since the vaccine. Between the medical bills (because I do not have and cannot afford insurance) and not being able to work due to the persistent recurrence of these conditions that make me useless for days to weeks at a time, my savings are depleted. My doctor recently directed me to apply for State disability, Social Security, Food Stamps and the County Medical Program which I have done. So far only the Medical Program (very limited in what it will cover and it takes weeks to get an appointment) and Food Stamps have kicked in. If it weren't for the generosity of family and friends, I would be facing living on the streets right now. This has been a significant challenge for me. I have been fully employed and active in my community and life in general since I was a teenager. To accept public help and support from family and friends, as well as not being able to be as active as I am used to, has not been an easy transition to make. Testing is being done as we can afford them and nothing conclusive has shown up. What has shown up in blood work done so far shows my autoimmune system is very low. The testing done to dates shows I am barely in the normal range for a variety of baseline tests, e.g. if normal is 7 I am at 6 or 7 or 8 in various tests. This indicates to me how much better I have gotten with the medical treatment I have had the past 21 months. Yet I am still not yet well enough to have a normal looking thumb or work a job to support myself. I continue to do all I can to get well. I hope this information will help with any research done to protect people from vaccines being proliferated on human-kind and to identify people who ought not to have certain vaccines.