Vaccine Injury of Lauralee
What was your life like before you received the COVID-19 vaccine?
I was vibrant with health...if I had not been perhaps I would be 6 feet under by now, who knows
Describe the symptoms and the timeline of the reaction.
was feeling "off" prior to the Fall of 2019 school closings. I had this feeling of general Malease and my PCP was for some reason trying to get me to start a new kind of inhaler for my athletic and allergen-triggered asthma. But I liked my old ones just fine. I guess it was my health insurance plan that was trying to get me to go for something cheaper. I remember finally finishing them all so I could get back with my old inhalers and it took my PCP forever to call them in. I was having trouble at the Pharmacy end as well...some sort of special code. I went many months with no inhaler which made going out to do any activities impossible. At first, I thought it was perhaps because I was out of the inhaler and therefore out of shape BC I can't do much without having them with me at all times. So right from the get go I didn't get the exercise inn that I should have before Stay at home mandates. I began suffering from very low energy levels, being out of breath to go and get my mail at the end of the driveway. It took me until after the covid shots to realize the fatigue was from something else entirely.
I've had 4 moderna jabs, and since then I have been DXed with Hypermyalgia, the first doctor I went to was a spine specialist (because my spine felt infected) both upper arms were inflamed at night, and painful to touch, and still are and at night my upper arms felt like blocks of ice and they looked sunburned red even though no sun got to that skin, it lasted for over half a year before it went away. I developed facial shingles and then pneumonia shortly after most likely shingles related. I felt like going out walking to just get groceries then coming home and going to bed, the next morning it felt like a bus hit me and it's been like this for every small lil outing I went out on for 3 years I could not recuperate from these errand runs....took a week of bed rest to feel normal without trainwreck level of pain. (I had previously hiked 10 miles at a time with no problems like this that happened on flat surfaces in large grocery stores....going up a moderate-sized hill would take my breath away) My large joints hurt. My lymph nodes hurt and the PCP and ENT I was sent to for the long-standing off and on hoarseness ....they just waved off me trying to tell them my lymphoid under my ears stay swollen and soar all the time. that my neck strap muscles stay soar. That really bothers me. Doctors used to feel your neck and stuff actively looking for swollen lymphnoids/lumps/whatever and now they just wave it away? I now need reading glasses and prescription glasses to see details so my vision has dramatically deteriorated. And that my friends, freaked me out. My hearing has been off for a long time and my sight is everything to me. I had 20/20 all my life, like a hawk's eye my sight was, now I struggle like I'm 80 with my vision trying to make out fine details. My groin seems ok with lymphoid but so far 2 cysts have developed in that area which is a first for me there (I once had a small one in my armpit as a teen long ago before these 2 and all three were not caused by shaving. Im thinking it was aluminum particles caused the one in my pit) Then I was DXed with fibromyalgia which is the same thing as hyperalgesia; might as well say its in your head...and yes caused by stress. I was waking up with gunk in my eyes gluing them shut and a red flame rash on my eyelids that aged my eyes 10 years so that one is called blepharitis, also a stress-caused disease. The bomb dropped when a neurologist DXed me with idiopathic small fiber neuropathy and now Im getting essential tremors in my hands, internal tremors in both legs, and the base of my tongue with off and on hoarseness of my voice which is mostly un-used. The fatigue is lifting some finally and I can go to 3 or 4 shops now instead of just one and still feel hit by perhaps a lightweight bicycle with a little wisp of a granny riding it instead of a bus and that entire spine feeling of infection has dissipated after 3 years into the normal back aches normally there. My liver did feel like it was in some sort of vice...something was constricting it. I hate to say it, but yeah, my liver felt infected. Only recently did the binding feel loosened after doing long fasting periods. ( I had gained a bunch of weight bc it hurt so bad to go out and move much. I wanted the spine specialist I went to go see fired but I'd settle for reprimanded but I doubt he even got that. I sent an email letter of complaint to the affiliated hospital. their response only stresses me out more...saying he did the best he could with the info he had... hogwash. ) I also had my eczema come back although it was not anywhere as bad as it was when I was a kid and it was the wet form of eczema. it formed a lacy texture on my arms one time as well....skin biopsies showed increased mucin distribution but ANA tests were neg for a connective tissue disease. Fun fact: During the trials of figuring out which sort of medication would allow me to manage walking around a pond on a trail without feeling wrecked I was put in an increasingly higher and higher dosage of Cymbalta. At first, it seemed to be working some and I could finally walk a lil bit without the debilitating pain, however, I then began to have severe side effect reactions to this drug which caused phantom smells, phantom tooth socket pain where my wisdom teeth used to be, and mild auditory hallucinations. I was DXed with Bipolar II and put on an anticonvulsant called Lamictal....go female crazy lady syndrome for having all these medical issues cascade all of a sudden and no, I was not perimenopausal either. I still am not at age 46 but might perhaps be starting it as of now, the first stages of it. I opted to stop trying all neuro pain drugs bc I don't want to do that again. There is such a thing as drug-induced bipolar but my PCP said he is not a psychiatrist (they won't see anyone with my insurance in the area that I live in) BUT...the silver lining...I HAVE NOT GOTTEN COVID AT ALL YET.knock on wood (or so I think?) yey me! (never lost my smell or taste or had covid toes....) was it worth it when other peeps who didn't get the jab got the covid and all the majority got were flu-like symptoms? you be the judge
Describe the solutions that helped your symptoms
swimming...not in chorine but in saltwater or freshwater, lots of stretching. Go on a fasting cycle every day with just a 4-hour open window to eat high-protein foods in) research and take supplements such as trace minerals and vitamins. Get lots of rest and sleep time. try and reduce stress as much as possible. move back with your parents if you still got em or an EX whatever you gotta do because you can't keep a job like this or maybe you can if it's remote on a computer if you're good at that sort of stuff. Save as much as you can and make it stretch as far as it will go.
Which solutions were not helpful?
postpone court stuff you get into until you feel better (you're not going to any time soon so might as well get it over with) Being ping-ponged around to a bunch of different specialists....the same types. I don't have the energy for that. do you? I'm afraid to mention the vaccine to a medical doctor ...I might get some other horrible label such as medical anxiety...yup, I got that one FIRST THING RIGHT OFF THE BAT when I came in desperate for help and knowing I sounded crazy when trying to describe my symptoms but I was never one of those wanting multi or even 1 covid testing and wondering if this mark on my skin was monkeypox...oh no I wasn't, I was wondering stuff about my spine like why did the pain go away while I was on the antibiotics for pneumonia for half a day, my spine felt light as a feather. (kind of like how my fasting has made my liver feel "unstrapped" Conserve your energy. I am still dealing with mine but I think there is an end somewhere up ahead ...gotta have hope that the light at the other end of the tunnel will be showing up very soon.
What would you like others to know?
if you can have the choice of not self-isolating yourself, don't do it. If it's hard for you to ask for help, try and get over it. Embrace how you're feeling like 30 years or older than you are now...those people do not give a da*n. And neither should you. Don't feel like dressing, then don't...go out to get some fresh air in your unwashed pajamas if it gets you out the door.
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Details
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Moderna Vaccine:22 May 2021lot #: 033C21A
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Moderna Vaccine:18 June 2021lot #: 039C21A
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Moderna Vaccine:07 September 2021lot #: 004F21A
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Moderna Vaccine:19 September 2022lot #: AS7148B
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Injury Date:
01 April 2022 -
Age at Injury:
44 -
State/Region:
VA -
Country:
US