Age: 51.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19, COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Immediate post-injection reaction, Pruritus, Swelling, Urticaria
Clinical narrative: Moved me into the high risk line for the vaccine. The reason for this is because a nurse would administer vs. a volunteer that way they could monitor for an adverse reaction, which seemed to be their protocol. If you hit any of the triggers, such as allergies, something in there made them want to move them into that line. We get to the line to get the injections, the nurse went through everything with me. She said she was going to inject me and monitor me for a little longer than they monitor most people because of high risk. She came over and prepared my arm, she stuck the needle in, when she pushed in, my arm turned red and there were hives. She yelled for the EMT and that she had a situation. And then she put the blood pressure coff on me and laid me down so I wasn?t sitting. She started to take my BP and the EMTS came over. They needed to get me into the ambulance and give me an IV port. While they were trying to get me out of the car, my neck and possibly head and throat started closing and swelled. I told them I was gonna pass out and that my head and neck were numb. I let them know I was gonna pass out. I didn?t actually pass out and they asked me to sit up and get on the gurnee. They took me into the ambulance which was 10 ft away. I kinda went out of it for a little while (blurry). I may have passed out with the IV port in. They kept me away at that point and told me what they were gonna do next. They gave me a epi-pen, they may have given me another one earlier on, but im not sure. I know they hit me with one with an ambulance. They hit me with benedryl as well. A high dose prednisone. The epipen went into my left arm, the other two were in the IV port, that was unfortunately infiltrated and it hurt really bad. They got me prepared for the ER for the monitoring and they switched to a transport ambulance and they took me to the ER at Hospital. I was moved to a room in the ER, and the attending ER Physician and came in and asked me some questions. Asked me about why I was there, I don?t understand why no one told him. I told him I had an anaphylactic reaction to the vaccine and needed to come here for monitoring. He commented on the IV port not looking very good. And said he would send someone to take care of that and left the room. We were waiting and being monitored, had me on O2 and BP machine, and maybe an hour went by and I had a bout of dizziness, and I felt like I was going to pass out maybe. I felt like I had the same feeling of when I first got the vaccine. And neck getting numb. Pressed the button for the nurse to come in and they came with the doctor. Everything looked okay now and he left. I did not pass out, so I laid there for quite a while for more hours. The doctor sent a gentleman to do an EKG and that?s why I was feeling so dizzy. So he ran an EKG. He left. Another hour or 2 went by. (5 hours at the hospital) The next person came in and he was there to put a bag of fluids on before I was released. Added a bag of fluid and left. Called the person back 10 mins later because fluids were all over the room and clothes. He flushed the IV twice and adjusted the IV bag and left the room. Came back 10mins to check on it, now by this time my hand is swollen and the fluid is pumping into the skin. Flowing up my arm. Flushed the IV again, causing me excruciating pain, then he got it working again and took it out before I left. IV tech came and typed some things in and took the port out.  Kneeled on my arm then pressed my arm to stop the blood from coming out. Put a bandaid on and said I could go. I thought the doctor said he was gonna give me prednisone, but he didn?t, so I never got to take that medication. Wasn?t sure if I was supposed to be prescribed that or not. When we left before I even got home, I debated going to another hospital because my arm hurt so bad. I went home and called the on call nurse and explained what happened and asked for her advice. I was in a great deal of pain. **My husband said that we went to go pick up prednisone the next day and had a 4 day pack** We had your normal kind of reaction to the vaccine, we just left off and ill. But after that, that part went away. Its quite different than what happened with the adverse reaction. The on call nurse said what was going on with my arm was an infiltrated IV. She said I needed to go back unless it was getting infected. And I needed to watch it for 48 hours and watch for symptoms like redness and oozing. I used a cold packet and I used heat for the pain. And that was it. I never went back to the hospital, and I was about done for the day anyway. It took a month for your hand to heal. Never did get infected but it was bruised for 2 weeks and the pain and the stuff lingered for a long time. It was about a month before my arm finally stopped hurting and had some sort of swelling. Then ironically that?s the same arm that they vaccinated me with. Maybe the arm was just in a lot of trauma from the hives and the infiltrated IV port. That?s probably why it took so long heal.    The only thing that I can report now is that I haven?t felt well. There?s also concern with my menstruation. I feel like immune system is not good right now. Caused some sort of weird stuff. With menstruation ? the month that I got it, I did not have a period that month. The next month, It was also late and it did happen but it lasted 14 days. June I believe I did have one again, extremely long. Longer than the normal 5-7 days. I lasted more than 8 days in June. I haven?t seen the doctor yet, I was waiting to see if things would normalize. I?ll probably go see a doctor soon. I believe June was a lengthy one. July I did have a period, but not at a normal time. Between the two periods I only had 2 weeks in between and then that one lasted 10 days. Almost 8 weeks went by until the next one. Now im currently at day 8/9, and it?s been heavy. This one has been particularly frightening because of how much bleeding. I was gonna go to the ER and called the on call nurse. She said that the rounds of prednisone cant possibly cause the periods. She doesn?t know if it?s the vaccine, the medications, etc. She said to watch the periods closely and if there was a certain amount of bleeding to go to the ER. I also plan on going to the gynecologist. But I wanted to wait to make sure. But things slowed down so I didn?t think I needed to go see one. But I will be seeing one soon.   I say that public should not be responsible for paying the bills when in regards to my adverse event.