| I’m 24 (25 next week) and a mother of a toddler, Prior to the COVID vaccination I was working in administration full-time, living a very active healthy lifestyle, I had SVT (Supra-ventricular tachycardia) when I was 12 and experiencing the symptoms for the first time. I had a small operation to fix it and it’s never been a problem since. I’ve been perfectly fine.
I got the vaccine because my work mandated it and told me I would have to go on unpaid leave if I didn’t get it by their cut-off date, I refused to get it and went on unpaid leave to try and look for new work but was unsuccessful . I needed an income to support my son and save for a house. Not only that, my work place was making a huge deal out of me not wanting to get it and ever since I’ve got it and been injured they have been making me feel like I’m a hypochondriac. My boss told me that I was purposely reading bad reviews instead of doing actual research. I got the Pfizer vaccine on the 8th November 2021 in the right arm. I had a bit of a sore arm but nothing other than that. I got the second vaccination on the 30th November 2021 in the same arm. I didn’t feel anything immediately. it wasn’t until about three days later that I woke up experiencing a sharp shooting pain that went up my rib cage into my heart. It concerned me but I wasn’t too alarmed at this stage and just thought to monitor it over the next couple of days. I took Nurofen and carried on with the day. I was extremely fatigued from the pain and barely being able to make it through the day. I was at work and I mentioned to one of my colleagues what I was experiencing and made the decision to take myself to ED. On arrival I was taken straight through. They did an ultrasound, bloods, blood pressure, ECG and all came back clear. I mentioned that I’d had the COVID vaccine and they told me I didn’t have any problems and sent me home without medication or a diagnosis. I went home and the symptoms continued but I had no choice other than to go back to work. A week later I was sitting at my desk and my resting heart rate was sitting at 110 bpm so I presented back to the ED and explained that I was in there last week with the same symptoms I was experiencing now but much worse. The triage nurse was dismissing me and telling me they would not be able to find anything as they have already done the tests and I should just go back to my GP. So I left knowing they weren’t going to help me. I went straight to my GP after I was refused help from the hospital. Thankfully she was very receptive and willing to take me seriously. I was able to get a diagnosis of costochondritis on the day. She told me there was nothing I could do other take Nurofen for a couple months daily and rest to stop the inflammation. I couldn’t afford to take time off work so I continued to take Nurofen and push through the days ahead. I started a new role which included a lot of walking around. It was then that I noticed I would become out of breath entirely after just one or two minutes of walking. I had never experienced anything like this before. I started having episodes where I would feel like I was going to black out, I had heart palpitations of 145bpm, really bad headaches, Intense pins and needles/numbness in my hands and feet and heavy brain fog to the point of not knowing what I was saying mid-sentence and forgetting everything. I was losing sleep, only getting 4-5 hours a night, something which was giving me extreme anxiety. February 9 it got to the point I couldn’t walk five metres from my lounge to the kitchen without blacking out. I went back to the hospital and demanded treatment. After doing my own research, I told them I think I have POTS and that I was not going to leave. I made that very clear as it was the only way I could get them to listen and give me any kind of medical assistance. They tested me for POTS, took my blood pressure and heart rate laying down versus standing up and it would go from 77 bpm to 145 bpm in a matter of seconds. They did a CT on my chest to rule out blood clots and then touched base with a private cardiologist. He went though some of my recent tests and ended up admitting me as a patient under his care, in a private hospital. I spent the next three days in the cardiology ward where they had me permanently hooked up to an ECG to monitor my heart rate. They put me on a trial medication to see if my body would handle it. It was successful straight away. Back home I was trialling ivabradine daily for one week and then after that of a half dose. When I did that, all my symptoms came back even worse, to the point I was struggling stand up. So I made the decision to start taking the full dose again that night and I started to feel better again. I returned back to my cardiologist who then explained I need to stay on the full dose and start cardiac rehab to get off the medication. I’m now a week and a half into the rehab but I’m still struggling. I’d say I’m 50% of my old self, I still get blacked out vision, still experiencing 8 out of 10 pain on a bad day, good days 2 or 3. I’m losing sleep still and just can’t function properly past a certain point in the day. My whole life has been flipped upside down and I just have no idea where this is all leading to for me. |
I hear you Rach , I have a friend who is the fittest person I know (competition windsurfer) who have POTS immediately post 4th jab and hasnt sailed ever since (about 8 months), he has had every test/consultancy available but all involved (including himself) refuses to concider jab injury . I only got ongoing soreness/weakness in my left arm (tricep) at the jab site for abour a year now.
I hope things are getting better for you cause this whole thing sux
All the best ,
Steve