Sex: M
Vaccine: PNC20, PNC20
Symptoms: Aphasia, Back pain, Burning sensation, Chest X-ray normal, Chest pain
Clinical narrative: I went to my primary care Dr and took the Pneumonia Vax Prevnar 20 and about an hour after I went home, i felt this sharp pain on the right inner side of my chest that felt like a knife cut men which lasted for about an hour then went away. About three days later the entire right side of my chest(lung) started hurting pretty bad, half the day and i felt tired, then it stopped, a few days later that sharp pain on that right side happened again and the pain lasted for about two days. i contacted my dr. he was communicating with me but said he didn't think it was related to the vax. which surprised me so because i told him it was but he didnt ask me to come in so i contacted a different Dr and he x-rayed my lungs for pleurisy and the x-ray was clear but he didnt do blood work because i later found out that pleurisy cant be detected from and xray, its detected from blood work. Not sure why the second Dr didnt check my blood but he prescribed me some prednisone for 6 days and that helped decrease the pain and he said the vaxx probably caused lung inflammation which is pleurisy, but the day after i completed prednisone, the pain gradually came back and has been back everyday with new symptoms. the new symptoms we/are pain in my front left and right lungs, my upper right rear back behind my shoulder blade, pain in the lower front and right rear right back, breathlessness, headache on right front side, right eye gets water, the top right side of my mouth aches and i have this strange freezer burn when i drink cold water that last for hours and then that freezer burn goes up to my nasal area then i have this pain from the freezer burn that goes between my eyes that lasts for hours and when i try to talk, i get little air to my right side which makes it hard for me to talk sounding like i have laryngitis, which lasts for about an hour. i went back to my first dr and he said the other dr should have performed a blood test and the prednisone may have cleared the pleurisy so he couldn't determine if it was pleurisy because of the prednisone, but he prescribed me some celobix and he said if there is still inflammation, this should help and he took a blood test but didnt confirm pleurisy but the symptoms remained but the pain is about every two to three days. So my primary care prescribed another 6 day prescription for prednisone and he said if the symptoms continue, he's going to send me to a lung specialist. Yesterday, 1/29/24 was my first day taking second dose of prednisone, but when i woke up yesterday before i started taking it, i did some ab crunches exercise and the pain in the right front side started again and all the symptoms came back and last night when i tried to talk, because i work customer service from my home phone, i could barely talk because i couldnt get air from my right side and this lasted for an hour. I woked up this morning and there's still slight pain in my upper right lung and rear upper back and some pain, but not a lot, on my upper left lung as well as the lower right lung area but not a lot. These symptoms have been occurring since Dec. 20, 23 after i took the Prevnar 20 shot. I have been advised to take it because i have rheumatoid arthritis which i show no symptoms from it other than my test results show i have the arthritis but i am a healthy 55 year old male who has never had an issue with my lungs and ive never smoked, used drugs or drink alcohol.