Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your stories. I sincerely hope and believe that EVERYONE will get better! Please, stay positive and healthy, it all will pass! Our body is very resourceful, we just need to support it’s healing process a bit.
I did my 1st Phizer shot 3 weeks ago, and on the second day after getting it, I’ve started feeling weird numbness, tingling, muscles spasms, and burning sensations on my legs. Then, those symptoms spread throughout almost the whole body including my face. It was the most disturbing on my left foot and both calves. Nothing severe, but pretty annoying. No one from the people I know felt anything similar after the shot, and it is pretty funny as I believe I am the healthiest one among them:) My physical and mental health is very well managed, I am 32, and have no health conditions at all. I don’t drink, smoke, or take any substances, don’t have stress, and keep pretty physically active lifestyle. Though, I definitely was not liking the whole idea of vaccination, and wondering now if my attitude had to do something with how my nervous system approached vaccine.
I’ve seen my family doctor twice, and she agreed that it seems to be vaccine-related, some sort of autoimmune reaction from my nervous system. She said there is no information about these side-effects in her official sources, but she was able to find some anecdotal evidence that people experience this stuff (mb, she read this forum:)). She made a referral to a neurologist, though I am still waiting for them to contact me.
After 3 weeks, I am feeling better. Symptoms are still present, but I would say up to ~25 % only of how it was in the beginning. Feeling some new weird warmness on the left thigh, mild heaviness and burning on calves, and a bit of stiffness on the left foot. Very rarely gentle burning sensations on other body parts but it passes quickly. I followed my doctor’s suggestions, and started having epsom salt warm bath and taking vitamin D and magnesium, I think it helped. I am working as a yoga therapist, and every day do gentle yoga with my clients - this, for sure, helps, body always feels better and symptoms reduce after the practice. I was doing regular self-massage with a simple yellow tennis ball for my foot - helpful too.
Was anyone here able to get exempt from the 2nd shot (especially, in Canada)?
Having this neurological reaction after the 1st shot, if you’ve done the 2nd shot, how did you feel after?
@lmkk thank you for your response, and encouragement! The nerve poison, that is exactly what it feels like! I agree with you, I have a few good days and then it gets worse. You inspired me to get more serious about an anti-inflammatory diet, I am wondering if that will help. I also saw several posts on here suggesting alpha-lipoic acid I may try. My PCP also did not think the MRI was necessary but the neurologist went ahead and ordered it when I saw her about 5 weeks ago, though also not thinking it was truly necessary. I held out on getting it thinking one day I would wake up and all of this would be over. Like you also said, if we just knew a timeline or if and when this would go away, both the PCP and neurologist said likely vaccine reaction, and to "wait it out" too, but neuro also ordered blood work including for diabetes and the imaging. Thankfully all of the blood came back okay. My symptoms also started about 30 minutes after the shot and then progressed in like what feels like a ping-pong match in my body, somewhere new, something different all of the time. Hand tingling, leg numbness, and heaviness, fatigue, heart-pounding, tongue-tingling, tinnitus. I feel the disappointment too, here is to us all on here recovering sooner rather than later.
@adenk yes! I have just discovered little tiny nodules under my skin on my forearms, legs etc. I found them because I had an itch and then felt it. My husband thinks I’m losing it but I know they weren’t there before. Have you talked with a doctor about them yet?
@dgingoglia I too consider myself sensitive to medications. It concerned me with this but I figured since I have done well with other vaccines it would be fine. I’m so mad I gave in and got the vaccine as I had been not crazy about getting it. I felt a lot of pressure to do so and regret it every second of every day.
I have had a rough last year with the loss of a baby, two grandmas, my mother was deathly sick and the lair goes on. My husband and I have three kids and we had decided we didn’t have time to be sick with Covid so I got the Pfizer shot. I have many of the same symptoms others have.
@vane2010 I have all those symptoms too. I also took Moderna shot 1 on 9/3.
@lmkk I too am post partum. My baby was almost 4 months old when I was finally broken down enough to take the shot out of fear of Covid, pressure from society the media and government and pure exhaustion of the whole situation. I’m extremely sad and upset I left my guard down. I had a feeling all along this would happen to me and it did. I’m hoping we all recover 100%
@miguelgr Hi Miguel. I (male, 42) developed fasciculations starting from about 2 weeks after my 2nd Pfizer shot. Initially concentrated in the arm in which I had the injection, it spread through my whole body. I too feared I had ALS. Having never experienced them in my life, I have now had the fasciculations for 6 weeks. My sleep is disrupted, I have had to give up studies, my work is suffering, and I've been prescribed vallium for when I can't get back to sleep. My GP and two neurologists believe it is linked to Pfizer. Complicating matters, they cannot openly discuss their suspicion because of health dept policy (there is fear of the Anti Vax movement in Australia so it seems all issues are being suppressed). Can I not find evidence of it because it is suppressed? or because it is in fact not a side effect? It certainly appears Google is also suppressing negative vaccine effects; I could only find this thread through DuckDuckGo.
I'm not convinced it is the Pfizer, and still fear ALS. I will get a 2nd neurologist opinion in EMG in a month if I still have the symptoms. How are you now?
@fiazzz I have had similar symptoms to yours and is we a neurologist and am not able to get an exemption to the vaccine. I will not be getting the 2nd dose. But my doc said I do hit fit the strict guidelines to qualify for the medical exemption.
@fiazzz I can relate to your post, similar symptoms but I also have some random twitches in my legs and arms. I also consider myself healthy, not on any meds etc. Mine started 1 day after 1st pfizer . I saw a neuro who did physical tests and also a nerve test where I was hooked up to a machine. All was normal. My bloods are also normal except for low iron. She diagnosed me with functional neurological disorder which is something to do with the brain and nervous system malfunctioning. This is often triggered by stress. I too was somewhat anxious about the jab but didn't think it would have been that bad that I had such a reaction
Nonetheless as everyone advised me to get the second shot, I got it 4 days ago. Not much difference in symptoms. Some days i do feel it less. And I notice when I'm more stressed, especially about the symptoms I seem to feel them more. My main symptoms are a shooting type of pain in my legs, arms, hands and feet. I feel that pain for a second followed by a dull sort of lingering pain. Not where I cant function but just annoying and present. Also the random twitches which don't last for long. Anyway ill let some more weeks go by and see how I go. Hopefully they will start resolving. I hope yours is getting better too, and everyone else on this forum!
@juliel how are you doing now?
Hi, anyone who has experienced side effects only three months after? I was having dizziness prior to that, up until now. Then 11 weeks after my first dose, I experienced the numbness and tingling needle sensation all over my body, including my tummy, ears and face. I experience weird nerve sensations like knife sharpening in my body or nerve pulling down my body making my limbs weak. I've been taking vitamin C, D3, B12, Quercetin and L-Glutathione and the numbness has subsided. I didn't feel the tingling sensation on my tummy anymore. For 11 days, it affected the nerves in my cheeks and I cannot smile properly. It was shaking badly. On the 13th week since I took my first dose, I've been experiencing shortness of breath when I talk. I don't know why all these have surfaced recently. I hope I will get through these soon since it is a very late reaction already! I am so worried with the shortness of breath. It has been twelve days already. Blood tests reveal that I am in the pink of health, ECG is fine. I went to ENT and she cleared me of any balance problems. The neurologist didn't find anything wrong. To be more prudent, he suggested to do an MRI. He said that since I am improving, it shouldn't be all that bad.