I have had a lifetime of taking various vaccines. It is hard for me to remember a year that I didn’t have a vaccination for something. My vaccinations range from polio to Covid-19. They include such things as tetanus, MMR, yellow fever, herpes zoster, pneumonia, and annual flu shots for many decades. So, I am a believer in vaccines. but I will not be getting any more mRNA vaccines until much more is known about the possible long-term side effects.
Yes, the odds may be small from having an adverse effect from COVID-19 vaccines, but the adverse effects can be devastating. I cannot even begin to fully describe the adverse effects I had from the Pfizer Covid vaccine. I am sorry I believed in the BS promoting the vaccines.
I share your feelings. I have beat myself up mentally quite a bit for believing in the BS promoting the vaccines as well. Too bad life is not a dress rehearsal where we practice and make our mistakes and then we do the real thing and don’t make those mistakes. UGGH! I have relentless tinnitus that started right after my first Moderna shot. Shame on me for believing the BS and succumbing to fear.
can i trouble you to give just a quick recount of what you suffered from the covid vaccine?
i will post full information after i am done getting evaluated, but …i have been through Hell since getting the covid booster (along with pneumonia and tdap) almost 3 months ago:
just after getting it, my arm swelled up like a balloon, and soon after, i started getting full body itchy rashes in response to food items and had 2, a week apart,
…and i was found to have (and i hope NOT still have!) elevated free kappa light chains,
which has me getting evaluated for blood cancer!,
…and i have terrible tenderness of the bicep and lymph glands on the side where i got it,
BUT the kappa light chains, upon retesting, has come down a little …but am waiting for an mri to show my bone marrow -
absolutely terrifying,
and i really hope the kappa light chains and bicep/lymph tenderness will go away!
My symptoms were nothing like yours.
Shortly after I got the booster shot of the Pfizer vaccine, I developed muscle and joint pains to the extent that I could not walk without a cane. My doctor sent me to an orthopedic specialist, and I had X-rays of my joints. I was then sent to a rehab facility for daily treatments.
I took the shotgun approach and took many different supplements. It took me several months to recover.
When I started taking rapamycin, I was taking large weekly doses. After taking rapamycin for a while, all my joint and muscle pains went away. Surprisingly, I am free of all the normal age-related pain most people my age have.
well, i do have the “joint aches” (esp. shoulder) that you had (i tried to put the cute emoji of the girl shrugging like “i dunno!” lol but it doesn’t look right on here, at least on my screen…)
…i’m so glad that you recovered!,
and …let’s hope i / my free kappa light chains can recover too!
and i was on Here pretty much “live blogging” my crisis (when my arm blew up like a balloon, etc) in a panic, not knowing whether being on rapa while getting the vaccines was a foolish decision -
or whether just the “vaccine(s)” (too many vaccines, or just the covid booster) was ;
now i’m waiting on pins and needles for mri’s on may 10 to look at my bone marrow,
and for my free kappa light chains to be tested,
and i’m like - hapless tone - “how did i get into this position?”
anyway, i will update as the saga continues…
thanks @LaraPo - i always greatly enjoy your posts around the site!!
(i tried to put the cute emoji of the girl shrugging like “i dunno!” lol but it doesn’t look right on here, at least on my screen…)