2 weeks after my second dose of Pfizer I woke up at 2:30 in the morning so dizziness I couldn’t walk without holding on to something. I thought I was having a heart attack or brain aneurysm something of that nature. This scared me like I’ve never been scared before, it was horrible. After throwing up 6 times and sweating profusely for about an hour I called 911 and went to the hospital emergency by ambulance. This was 4 nights ago and now I’m struggling to function normally. The day after I went to see my regular doctor and they did another EKG, gave me Meclizine by IV same as the ER did. I’m on day five and still experiencing dizziness. I’m taking Meclizine and Promethazine both and getting rest. The doctors have not shown any concerns that the vaccine could be the cause and seem more interested in blaming it on BP which is not even all that high. I’m just hoping this dizziness and nausea goes away soon, the meds are helping and I’m walking about 90 % straight.
We have known public health mandates though, including vaccinations required - for instance for school kids and for international travel. But I think in most locales there's been allowances made for medical and belief-based exceptions. I would hope that would continue to apply to this vaccine.
If getting an exemption for this is going to be anything like getting an exemption for school vaccinations, good luck. The law about that changed a few years ago after there was a measles outbreak here. Used to be that parents could claim belief-based exemptions but no more. The only exemptions now are medical and from what I hear not that easy to get. And I'm afraid with this it will be even worse. I'm afraid that the only exemptions allowed will be for something life-threatening.
Dragonlover, This brings to my mind the forced sequestering of Typhoid Mary!
But, there is also a lot of American resistance to Covid vaccine requirement, and in some other countries also. A lot of us in this forum have our hands pretty full trying to get well and keep well, but I believe there are many others with strong and differing viewpoints that will be fully occupied grappling with this issue. As a result of formation of different state laws and policies, some may decide to move to live somewhere that's more accommodating of their views. This issue may impact lives more than anything having to do with this novel coronavirus has yet. Interestingly, the medical community seems to be reported to be one of the groups in our society more resistant to vaccination. Heaven help us, literally.
I see what you mean about California:
https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exemption-state-laws.aspx
Yeah I absolutely agree with you. I am looking forward to hearing from you, how your Medrol treatment going!
I am using paracetame med which increase the circulation in brain and in nerves. I use it almost a week but significantly it not help with symptoms. I have better and worse days. I am still not finding any pattern when comes the worse days...
I have also concern that maybe I or we have autoimmune disorders, which we don't know we have. And this vaccine triggered this process.
I am a little bit confused because many of doctors not acknowledge these symptoms as a vaccine side effects. And there are no clinical tests how long this protection lasts if we only got one shot. I don't want to go over again with these symptoms.
In our country we have to add the second dose or we will treat as vaccine decliners and we can't go out.
This is like a nightmare 😐
Thanks for the best wishes, I wish you too better days! ✌️
@keith I agree with your views on this. Thank you. My side effects were mild compared to some reporting here and lasted very short time. Once having an anaphylaxis to an injection 5 years ago, I was scared of having another adverse event to a new class of injection, so I am relieved that covid vaccine caused what consider as mild delayed side effects for me.
I still get mostly weekly texts from Vsafe asking about my health. Besides Vsafe, I reported to Vaers and Pfizer when my dizziness first occurred 15 days after my 2nd vaccine. I plan to get whatever boosters in the future.
I had my Covid-19 vaccine (Pfizer) on May 4th and had mild fever, body aches, headache, slight nausea, exhaustion. That was starting to resolve and yesterday (May 8) woke up with severe vertigo to the point that I could not safely stand up and had to crawl downstairs and that caused deep vomitting. I ended up calling 911 and was taken to hospital could not open my eyes without vomitting for several hours. I spent the day in the ER given valium anti-nausea meds and finally they did the Epley maneuver on me successfully. I am mostly over it but still feel exhausted and slightly dizzy on getting up at first. I was wondering if anyone else developed severe vertigo after receiving the Pfizer vaccine? I asked the ER physician and he said there was no connection but I am now finding some people have had this reaction several days post vaccination. My vertigo started four days after mine was administered.
Dragonlover, This brings to my mind the forced sequestering of Typhoid Mary!
But, there is also a lot of American resistance to Covid vaccine requirement, and in some other countries also. A lot of us in this forum have our hands pretty full trying to get well and keep well, but I believe there are many others with strong and differing viewpoints that will be fully occupied grappling with this issue. As a result of formation of different state laws and policies, some may decide to move to live somewhere that's more accommodating of their views. This issue may impact lives more than anything having to do with this novel coronavirus has yet. Interestingly, the medical community seems to be reported to be one of the groups in our society more resistant to vaccination. Heaven help us, literally.
I have to wonder WHY so many in the medical community are refusing the vaccines.
As it is, people are leaving this state in droves not only because of the high cost of living, but because of all the idiocy that goes on in this state and because of the way things are handled here. I was born here and have lived here all my life. The last thing I want to do at this point in my life is have to relocate to a place I don't know and may not like.
Yeah I absolutely agree with you. I am looking forward to hearing from you, how your Medrol treatment going!
I am using paracetame med which increase the circulation in brain and in nerves. I use it almost a week but significantly it not help with symptoms. I have better and worse days. I am still not finding any pattern when comes the worse days...
I have also concern that maybe I or we have autoimmune disorders, which we don't know we have. And this vaccine triggered this process.
I am a little bit confused because many of doctors not acknowledge these symptoms as a vaccine side effects. And there are no clinical tests how long this protection lasts if we only got one shot. I don't want to go over again with these symptoms.
In our country we have to add the second dose or we will treat as vaccine decliners and we can't go out.
This is like a nightmare 😐
Thanks for the best wishes, I wish you too better days! ✌️
Hi! It's amazing to me to be writing about this across the world between the USA and Hungary where you live! I'm glad we're sharing experiences and perspective.
First, I'm not sure if anyone responded to your question about how doctors see your inner ear. I'm new at trying to understand all this, but I've learned that it can't be seen by looking in our ears. What is seen that way is our eardrums, a membrane sealing off the middle ear compartment. Although any part of our ears can become infected, this is the area that's most commonly involved when we have an ear infection. Further in is a second sealed area, the inner ear. My ENT wants an ENG, as I understand it, to look at the effects of moving my body into positions that would challenge my inner ears' balance functions and watch my eye movements with electrodes recording what they do in response. I think they'll expose my ear to cold & warm also - with water and/or air. Depending on whether or not I become very nauseated and/or my eyes flip back & forth (nystagmus) will give an indication of possible inner ear dysfunction and possibly the degree of any damage. I would guess that if that's normal they would become interested in what might be going on centrally, and might order a CT or I think an MRI would be likely to be the most informative. That would be able to show any stroke that's occured or tumors associated with the brain or ears, which is much less common.
I too have not wanted to use a lot of medications and I've managed not to vomit by heeding my body's warnings and limiting my motions. Sadly, this does cause frustrating limitations. Other than that, I too have not been able to give responsibility to things I do or not do for causing my better days or worse days.
It's going to be interesting to see what restrictions our societies wish to put on us if we refuse further Covid vaccination. That may add substantially to the risks of choosing not to. I'm retired so I wouldn't lose my opportunity to work and I don't wish to go to school or concerts, but I would like to go to businesses and travel by airplane within my country. I hope those things won't become restricted for me.
I wonder if your doctor is willing to say your issues should be considered related to your Sputnik vaccination, if there could be a medical exemption available for you? I wish you an obvious path to take in this question, and improving health! Please keep us updated, and I hope to as well. 🙏
I see what you mean about California:
https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exemption-state-laws.aspx
The California State University system is already talking about requiring the vaccine for incoming students. If and when the vaccine is approved for K-12 students, I imagine it will be required there as well. There is speculation that many people will be pulling their kids out of school and homeschooling if that happens. If I had a child, they would NOT be getting this vaccine.
I am not against vaccines in general. For the most part I think they are a good thing. I just happen to have a huge problem with this vaccine.
As it is, people are leaving this state in droves not only because of the high cost of living, but because of all the idiocy that goes on in this state and because of the way things are handled here. I was born here and have lived here all my life. The last thing I want to do at this point in my life is have to relocate to a place I don't know and may not like.
Those in the medical community are aware of the results of Covid infection ...so, my guess is they don't trust the vaccine to be more helpful that hurtful.
I've lived other places also, but I now live back in my hometown and wouldn't want to relocate either. I have a hard time imagining that here in America those not complying with Covid vaccination would become severely restricted. There's much I could choose to fear for the future. I want to choose to live today as I find it and discover how to deal with the future as it unfolds.
I am not against vaccines in general. For the most part I think they are a good thing. I just happen to have a huge problem with this vaccine.
A number of colleges are in the process of moving towards (or away from) Covid vaccine requirements. I don't know that it makes much difference, but I've seen some calling them mandates? In Florida some colleges have said Covid vaccination will be required this fall, but the governor has since made a law prohibiting some restrictions by businesses (and some other entities) and they're trying to figure out if a college is considered to be a business. And I've read that some K-12 schools may put Covid vaccination in the recommended category, the category that they may now have flu vaccination in. I think it will be a patchwork of different responses, like masks and closings have been, especially in the states that are in favor of more local control.
Hi all. Haven't had a chance yet to catch up on your posts but I can see that there are some quite lengthy ones here which deserves more than a quick glance over. As for me, my symptoms seem to be forming a pattern lately, one good day followed by one not so good. Still getting headaches and some dizziness but nothing as bad as three weeks ago. What I have noticed is I've been taking extra painkillers of late and this morning I took aspirin and felt dizzy for the rest of the morning. This has happened before but I didn't think too much about it. I wondered if it was overindulgence in salycilate, aspirin in my case, but seeing as this is in most household products and hasn't happened in the past I'm ruling that out. I've read how OTC pain killers can influence our CNS and can cause dizziness even at a normal dose. The problem I have is paracetamol doesn't do anything for me and I cannot tolerate ibuprofen or co-codamol. I guess I'll try cutting down on the aspirin to see if there is a noticeable difference. I stopped taking dramamine a few days ago after it seemed to stop working and it made me incredibly tired. I am going concentrate more on diet, hydration and exercise and try not let let these symptoms take over my life for fear I'll end up in an existential crisis.
