@jardelina I took 10 days of ammoxil clavulan (the latter makes the ammoxil broader spectrum, from my understanding). I don’t really know if it helped. 7 days into the course and I was no different. I suspected I had an underlying sinus infection which is why I took the meds. I would say it helped with the extreme fatigue but not the dizzyiness (maybe I did have an infection).
My dizziness and brain fog cleared just over a week after I finished the antibiotics (6 weeks after my first shot). So I really have no idea if they helped.
I just got my second Pfizer shot a week ago (I chose to because I want to become pregnant again soon and can’t isolate because I have a young child in school); so far I’m still fine…. I’ve been taking all of the vitamins recommended on this forum and keeping my fingers crossed.
I would suggest taking alllll the vitamins recommended here - in high doses (eg, i take 4000mg of vitamin C per day) to see if that helps. Maybe you could even do a vitamin IV drip (I didn’t try that). If vitamins don’t help and you’re desperate then maybe try antibiotics before steroids. In retrospect Azithromycin may have been a good med because it’s a shorter course and perhaps more anti inflammatory but I’m not a doctor, those were just my two options.
sending you positive thoughts! Both of the doctors I spoke with said that my side effects would be temporary and they did eventually clear; shot number two hasn’t brought them back so far…
@lpycb42 Good question! This is the article that I read that says different markers to watch out for. I also did an antibody test which showed I did not have COVID. But I had shortness of breath, dry cough, and slept 12 hours in one day which I can never do, and was ill for almost two weeks in March. My older son coughed for a month and my husband had a bad headache for a week. We were at urgent care prior to this and one girl was coughing a lot. This was before we wore masks. Even my doctor implied it's likely I got it then when there was no tests I could take.
@ladyd you were wise to cut out coffee and chocolate a long time ago! Both are on the trigger list my ENT gave me, along with yogurt and milk. I've cut out all of the above and switched to oat milk, fish, chicken, and fruits/veg exclusively. And thanks to your enormously helpful posts, I started taking supplements. But there have been a lot of false starts and I'm never without symptoms. The diet is truly restrictive, but at least the silver lining is that it's cleaner eating? If you're comfortable with sharing your email, I'll send you a photo of the migraine diet handout my ENT gave me.
I am so sorry to hear that you have to wait so long to see a neurologist. It's simply unacceptable! I also had to wait months to see a neurologist, and the one I saw refused to diagnose me with vestibular neuritis. Personally I found less help with the neurologist than with an ENT and PT who specializes in vestibular neuritis cases. My ENT said something very similar to what you heard: inflammation of the right ear causing vestibular neuritis, which apparently takes a long time to get over. My PT is more cut and dry: he says he's not concerned about the root cause since we're treating the symptoms. So far no doctor has conceded this was caused by the vaccine -- but duh, of course it was!
@dizzydame I still have the rocking on the boat feeling constantly with bouts of nausea here and there. The brain shaking started a few weeks ago and it’s constant now. I’m feeling these weird sensations in my neck and upper back on the right side- not sure if it’s tension from the shaking or what. It’s really annoying and frustrating and makes me really depressed.
Im trying to think positive in the mean time and distract myself as much as I can. Ended up taking my ginkgo this afternoon noon and now I’m taking my second magnesium dose.
Im logging my symptoms as well so that I can monitor any changes. I’m hoping this goes away soon. I hope we all get back to feeling normal and 100% better.
Those that took Ivermectin - did you take 3mg/day for 5 days? What worked for you?
@rockingonaboat I have the brain shaking too! Maybe it's a pulsating headache or hypnic jerk or something. I often feel a sensation in my head like I'm falling suddenly, but it's concentrated on the right side. Wearing a heating pad on the back of the head/neck every night has helped reduce the tension. It's frustrating bc I'm living an even more restricted life after taking this vaccine. Such irony.
Hang in there. I hope we all return to normalcy soon.
Been following this forum for a while now because it makes me feel better to know that I'm not alone in what I'm feeling. My condition isn't getting better so I figure I'll share what I'm going through.
I got my first dose on June 2 and my second dose on June 24.
I am a very healthy 28 year old male kickboxer, 5'11, 145 pounds.
I was able to workout for 4+ hours a day without a problem and had a very healthy routine and diet prior to the covid vaccine.
Since then I have hardly been able to workout for an hour before becoming extremely sweaty and fatigued which is highly unusual. I had really bad night sweats and diarrhea for weeks leading up to tingling in my feet, which eventually progressed to full body tingles that are so painful that they could be described as shooting pain. I have noticed they come and go and are more prevalent if I eat sugary or salty foods.
I have had extreme fluctuations in my appetite, earlier on I had little to no appetite and now I feel as if I need to eat an extra meal every day on top of eating more each meal than I usually would.
I've had very vivid dreams and nightmares, probably due to my overheating and sweating during my sleep. For this reason I have slept with my fan on and feet and hands out of the comforter, which I never had to do before.
I still have diarrhea and find myself going to the bathroom for this at least 5 times a day.
The tingles seem to be getting worse and I'm now noticing decreased grip strength and numbness in my right arm. I have also been extremely fatigued lately, waking up feeling tired after 8-9 hours of sleep and having to nap for multiple hours during the day and still waking up tired. I've been taking multivitamins to make up for not drinking protein shakes with vitamin supplements like I previously did when I worked out significantly more. When I try to do kickboxing workouts lately I just don't feel like I can use my hands and arms like I used to and it doesn't feel good, so all I've been doing is walking lately (last week). I have been able to do some kickboxing workouts for 1-2 hours where I can basically do everything I used to be able to do, but it seems like intense workouts bring my symptoms back and I'll notice them that night and the following day.
I've looked online and think my symptoms fit that of GBS or small fiber neuropathy, but I can't be sure. I have a phone appointment scheduled with my primary care doc on Friday since in person appointments aren't available in my area for a while.
To anyone else out there feeling these symptoms -- you are not alone and I wish you God speed in your recovery.
@happyhourglass This was predicted last year by many scientists and doctors and just last month In May of this year Prof. Luc Montagnier stated that the vaccines were causing the variants through Antibody-Dependent Enhancement. He has been tracking the cases around the world. Prof. Montagnier is the Nobel winning virologist that discovered HIV. Here is a quote from him.
"The new variants are a production and result from the vaccination. You see it in each country, it’s the same: the curve of vaccination is followed by the curve of deaths.
Should we be vaccinating during a pandemic?
—It’s unthinkable.
—They’re silent… many people know this, epidemiologists know it.
—It is clear that the new variants are created by antibody-mediated selection due to the vaccination."
By the way over 20 peer reviewed studies have now shown that masks make no difference at all. The virus travels through these masks as if they were not there. Every single person I know that tested positive for Covid wore a mask all the time. Also, my daughter is a doctor and caught TB last year in the ER while wearing a mask and social distancing and only being in the room for 1 minute. TB is a bacteria and is 1000 times larger than a virus.
Are you implying that, without the vaccines, less people would have Covid, less people would be sick and hospitalized, and less people would die?
@nawpan Yes I am implying that 100%! Nobody needed to die at all. The early use of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin would have killed this pandemic early last year.
No my question is if there no vaccines (and in this case no cure), you think less people would get sick and die? Virus would still mutate but it would be slower? Also only strong people would leave and weak people would die so we would have natural herd immunity?
@greenmonster You are exactly right...Herd immunity is what saves lives and STOPS the pandemic!!
This is why they create flu vaccines? So people keep catching flu because flu keeps mutating from flu vaccines? That doesn’t make sense.
@nawpan Yes that is what our immune systems are for. But in this case there was a non vaccine medicinal cure available that would have knocked the virus out before it went anywhere. Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin taken with Zinc short circuit the ability of the virus to replicate. It's been known since 2005 and it is not limited to Covid, it is effective against all Coronaviruses. And it is effective against the variants as well. I have talked to multiple doctors with hundreds of successfully tested patients between them and in almost every case one to two doses was all that was needed. To label Hydroxychloroquine as dangerous was one of the most outrageous lies I have ever witnessed.