Age: 34.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Paraesthesia, Paranoia, Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Psychotic disorder, Seizure
Clinical narrative: Immediately after the vaccine , my heart rate spiked. I began to feel nauseous and was shaking. Felt dizzy, felt like I was going to pass out and tongue was numb. I went to the 15-minute waiting area and told the nurse how I was feeling and they gave me a granola bar and water and went home. 1 ½ hour later went home and I was very tired and out of it. I slept the entire day until the next morning. The next week I was having dizzy spells but okay enough to function. 01/08/2021 I went to bed that evening and we were watching tv and I sat up and felt like something wasn't right. Felt like my body was tingling and felt was like I was going to pass out. Convulsions. HR was at 180 and continued for 5 hours that night. Friend of mine is a NP, so I went to see her and she monitored me, HR finally went down to around 110. Next day, got a couple hours of sleep and it happened all over again. Convulsions were worse. Kept thinking I was about to have a seizure. I was freezing cold and sweating. Heart rate was at 180, throwing up the night before and during the next day. Nervous system was completely discombobulated. 01/09/2021- went to ER at 4pm that Saturday. And I've never experienced these types of symptoms before. There was really nothing else going on until this event. Symptoms were moving around quite a bit, Tachycardia lasted for hours. Lost 20 lbs. in 3 weeks. Couldn't eat, constant adrenaline dumps and surges. Shaking a lot, dizzy spells, almost felt like Vertigo. Tongue would consistently go numb. Neuropathy issues in legs and arms. Episodes of convulsions, couldn't regulate body temp - always cold. Spiked a lot of anxiety, became a bit paranoid and delusional - psychosis - aware of what was happening but I was afraid to be in certain spaces. Severe insomnia, sleep was 2-3 hours a night to the point where my doctor said I had to take something. Put me on Ativan, doubled Fluoxetine dosage. Stayed away from inflammatory foods. Lost lots of weight and went down in sizes in 3 weeks. Constant nausea. Lots of GI issues - 3 days around the time I went to the ER - stool was gray during that time. Ruled all of that out in the ER. Since then, things started to settle down a month later. Went to work. 2 months before I started to feel 50-70% recovered. Doctor basically said they didn't know what it was but I didn't get the 2nd vaccine because nobody knew what was happening to me or what the response was. Was also told to see an Immunologist. Was not an allergic event, something else. Confirmed that he thought I had developed dysautonomia or POTS, was sent to dysautonomia clinic  - following up in 5 months. 90% recovered but issues with adrenaline and insomnia and numbness issues and dizzy spells every now and then. Currently on different supplements and doing acupuncture, massages, etc. Flares in August and November. Immunologist advised me to not get the 2nd vaccine until I was under the care of a specialist because he did not know how to manage. Currently waiting. I've been fully vaccinated for all other previous vaccinations in the past, but I've never had a reaction to any vaccine, until this reaction.