Age: 53.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Joint stiffness, Laboratory test normal, Limb discomfort, Loss of personal independence in daily activities, Malaise
Clinical narrative: Vaccination date: 25OCT2021: Within the first 15 minutes I got a mild headache, my jaw felt stiff, and there was a mild, burning sensation up my left trap, around the shoulder and down to my elbow. I felt a weird pressure-like sensation in my left hip and down the thigh. The left side of my head, especially the ear, had a warmer heat/burning sensation and left side of my chest and torso began to ache a little.  I could track this thing as it crawled through my body.  It was hard to miss the mild burning sensation as it spread.    It took the "creeping burn" 12 hours to reach my right shoulder and about 18 to work down to my groin.  It spent quite a while on the left side.  26OCT2021: I thought my sciatica had come back on the left side due to the heavy, dull ache and cramping on that side. Overall, it feels like I've been hit by a truck.  There is a lot of fatigue, too, but I was expecting that after hearing from others who went through this.   27OCT2021: The left arm above the elbow and up to the shoulder felt like I was working with my arm above my head, although I was just sitting at my desk and typing.  The rest of the time, my left arm felt like I got hit with something big and heavy.   28OCT2021: Things improved enough that I actually went to work on a project for a bit but I began to get winded and started sweating so I had to return to my room to rest for the remainder of the day.   Although most of the aches subsided, the left hand is also beginning to have issues. Moderate pain and cramping similar to the pain and nerve issues I've had to deal with in my right hand, which was from nerve damage as a result of an injury back in 2002.  My grip in my right hand has been weakening and the hand seized-up painfully about a month ago, so I'm concerned about something similar happening in my left hand as a possible side-effect of this shot. At the end of the day, I feel like I went through an extra-long deep tissue massage except for the fact that the poisons were forced into my body rather than rubbed out.   01NOV2021: The body aches have all but ceased but there's an unsettling tightness in my central chest behind my sternum. It is intermittent so hopefully, it's a residual effect from the shot. I heard stories and read articles about how men in their 30's and younger were at risk of myocarditis due to the vaccine but I'm 53 so I should be okay.   08NOV2021: The mild tightness never subsided and started to come in waves over the past week, so I informed the nurse practitioner that I was experiencing an unsettling amount of unpleasant pressure in the middle of my chest. It was still intermittent, but the sensations are increasing in frequency and intensity. Fatigue is also becoming more prominent. I find myself droning and falling asleep if I'm sitting down no matter what time of day it is.  09NOV2021O: The pressure in my chest is spiking from time to time, feeling like either someone was standing on my chest while I was walking or like I was still feeling the ache where somebody might have kicked me in the sternum. Laying in bed, the pressure feels more pronounced and painful around my heart.    The frequency of the pressure around my heart increased while I was working to organize building materials to load onto shipping pallets for an upcoming work project.  The workload was no greater in intensity than anything I had done before. In fact, it was probably less intense since I took my time over the past two days to move the materials with the from some of the guys.  I am tiring much faster and after less exertion.  10NOV2021: I was taking a shower in the morning and felt what I can only describe as a big, thick hand, gently squeezed my heart for a brief moment. The residual pain pulsed like aftershocks, but they dissipated after a few seconds. About an hour later, I was walking around my work area, outside, when I again felt the big hand giving my heart a deep and slow squeeze.  I bent over for a few seconds, not sure what might happen next until the pain dissipated.  The pressure sensation was no longer intermittent but persistent. The level of pressure wasn't exactly constant but more of a subtle ebb and flow feeling.  My breathing shallowed and I deliberately slowed my movements to conserve energy.  I walked over to the Medical Clinic and informed that my situation had worsened. My pressure sensation was now registering on a pain scale. On average, I would rate it at a 4/10, and I have a high pain tolerance threshold.  The sensation varied between feeling like someone standing on my chest, to having been kicked in the sternum, to a giant fist slowly squeezing my heart from all sides. Clinic made arrangements to travel to The Hospital to have the doctors run a battery of tests on me to determine what was happening.  Throughout the tests, the pressure and pain were constant. It didn't matter if the doctors had me lying on my back, sitting up straight or leaning forward. The unpleasant pressure around my heart was the same.    Lab work, chest X-rays, sonograms, EKGs, and a coronary CT scan revealed my internal physiology was in good condition.  The only change in my life or the thing that I've been exposed to in recent history that can be attributed to my condition is the Moderna shot. My chronic physical issues are all muscular-skeletal chassis damage.  I was prescribed one Colchicine tablet for 10 days to help reduce the swelling/pressure and no strenuous activity until the symptoms subside.  I took my first Colchicine this evening, so I hope the swelling and pain goes away as fast as possible.  In the meantime, I'm going to start filling out the VAERS form from the VAERS site link that the doctors forwarded to me.  After my reaction, it was recommended that I forego getting any additional doses of any form of the vaccine, to which I'm in complete agreement.  I tried to recall when and if my heart ever felt like this.  I used to be a decent distance runner and even when I pushed myself to my limits, it was only my lungs that burned.  My heart never hurt or experienced any type of unpleasant sensation while partaking in any type of physical exertion.   11NOV2021: My chest hurt all last night. Again, the sensations were the same and constant. I was really knocked down with fatigue, but the combination of the pain and a healthy dose of concern prevented me from going to bed until after midnight. When I finally did lay down, I had to do it on my side because sleeping on my back intensified the crushing feeling on my sternum and around my heart.  I also did something I never do-kept my phone by the bed and the door to my room unlocked in case I need to call the night watch over for help.   Getting up to get breakfast wasn't too difficult. Still, I can't get a full breath in my lungs unless I really take a deep breath but that hurts a little so I'm not going to push it.  I'm still moving slow. The pain is still there and it's constant. Hiccups and sneezing feel like getting punched in the solar plexus.  It's like how a recently operated on joint feels after surgery. However, what is no longer present is the squeezing sensation around my heart, which is a good sign.