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Has anyone had Pericarditis and vaccinated?

Posted by johnbflat @johnbflat, Jul 31 10:45am

My wife & I have not had CV19 yet & boost every 6 months, March & Sept. I have a stent & TAVR arotic valve replacement & 72 years old, so in the CV19 higher risk group. I missed the March2024 booster. I was in the hospital for 10 days with Idiopathtic Pericarditis, pericardial effusion, & AFib. Docs did their best to find the root cause without success.
I have recovered at this point without any problems, but my CV19 vacine protection has likely wained, so need to boost again.
Worst case for me would be getting infected with wained vacine protection. CV19 can cause pericardial inflamation.
The hard part is the vacine can cause a general inflamation response, as well, so it's not without pericarditis risks.

Has anyone vacinated or gotten CV19 after a history of Idiopathic or "unknown cause" Pericarditis?

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kayabbott | @kayabbott | Aug 1 7:35am

I had a 67 yo friend that had myocarditis and Sjogren's and got vaccinated and boosted. She was an avid athlete and her health issues didn't limit her, until she got covid 2 years ago and didn't slow down. It would be good to check with your cardiologist regarding vaccine/covid risk and when/if it is best to get a vaccine. There are a number of research papers in ResearchGate. I am 70, got covid March of 2023 on a bike tour, and have multiple autoimmune diseases; LC hit me with PEM and cardiovascular (CV) problems that 8 months to go away (troponin undetectable so no damage). CV was high BP, low O2, and heart feeling like it was trying to beat its way out of my chest. Here is a paper on pericarditis risk and treatment with vaccine (1.8/million people): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8992233/#:~:text=Acute%20pericarditis%20has%20been%20described,as%20compared%20with%20mRNA%20vaccines.

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johnbflat | @johnbflat | Aug 1 8:34am
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@kayabbott

I had a 67 yo friend that had myocarditis and Sjogren's and got vaccinated and boosted. She was an avid athlete and her health issues didn't limit her, until she got covid 2 years ago and didn't slow down. It would be good to check with your cardiologist regarding vaccine/covid risk and when/if it is best to get a vaccine. There are a number of research papers in ResearchGate. I am 70, got covid March of 2023 on a bike tour, and have multiple autoimmune diseases; LC hit me with PEM and cardiovascular (CV) problems that 8 months to go away (troponin undetectable so no damage). CV was high BP, low O2, and heart feeling like it was trying to beat its way out of my chest. Here is a paper on pericarditis risk and treatment with vaccine (1.8/million people): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8992233/#:~:text=Acute%20pericarditis%20has%20been%20described,as%20compared%20with%20mRNA%20vaccines.

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My Cardiologist and Interventional Cardiologist and PCP all believe that
boosting is not a choice in my case, as getting CV19 without active vacination is a worst case. However, they also believe vacination is not without it's risks so Im not getting a full endorsement from any doc at
this point. The risks are not that the vacination will directly "cause" pericarditis, but can diffinitely trigger increased inflamation. Being we
don't know why I had percarditis in the first place, if some of the "cause" lingers, it can be retriggered by an inflamation response to the booster. I
suggested to the docs that perhaps "premedicating" with an NSID or Colchicine might be an option to tamp down the inflamation, but they believe that would interfere with
the vacine's effectiveness. There has to be a inflamation response to the booster to create the immunity. As said, there's not any real choice but the article you sent is encouraging. Thanks for that! I'd like to get back on my 6 month schedule of boosting. Hopefully whatever caused the Pericarditis can tolerate the booster enduced inflamation without flairing again. I have some Pericardial thickening as a result of the first flair so hopefully the booster does not trigger anything further or anything chronic.

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