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Long covid versus vaccine injury?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: May 26 6:22pm | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
In my experience, having vaccine injury and later developing long Covid, it's not easy to distinguish between the two. I had the vaccine in June of 2021, and two weeks later I started to have heart symptoms: chest pain and pressure and shortness of breath. Those were eventually diagnosed at Mayo as severe microvascular endothelial dysfunction, and I went through several different procedures and medication changes before in spring of 2023 we settled on a regimen that worked.
Then in December 2023 I got Covid again, for the fourth time. When the cold symptoms went away, I was left with worsened heart symptoms, along with classic long Covid symptoms like fatigue, PEM, tinnitus, brain fog, and autonomic dysfunction.
In talking with Long Covid doctors both in Denver and at Mayo, it seems like Covid infections and vaccines can complicate each other. I won't get another Covid vaccine because of my vaccine injury (and my doctors support that decision), but I've been told that any additional Covid infections will likely worsen and complicate my situation, just as my last infection complicated my vaccine injury.
I'm very thankful for the expertise of Mayo's doctors, both for the original vaccine injury and also for my Long Covid.
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Thank you. This helps me focus on the distinction between long COVID and vaccine injury. My vaccine injury occurred overnight following my second vaccine shot. It has worsened and spread throughout my body, primarily my legs and head. It is similar to Vertigo symptoms, except it's 24/7. Are there any treatment centers for vaccine injury in the Southwestern side of
Florida, from Tampa to Naples?
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It’s crucial that you protect yourself from getting covid again, each time you get infected along with your existing symptoms it can become worse. I had covid in 2022 and my major symptom was rapid heart rate and other side effects, two years later I felt like it was going away but it didn’t last, I couldn’t use the medication for rapid heart rate because I have asthma. I always wear a mask indoors to prevent getting sick again, I dislike masks because I can’t breathe well but it helps with preventing more infections, it’s never perfect but it makes a difference.