Internal vibrations still affecting anyone?

Posted by scrappy @scrappy, May 29 4:33am

It’s 5:17 a.m. and I’ve been awake for some time because of the crazy internal vibrations still affecting me over two years after my first and worst Covid case. They absolutely terrify me when they start in the middle of the night when I’m asleep. I can never go back to sleep because I always fear they could be “something else.” They’re in my abdomen, chest, legs, etc., and I always think my heart must be racing, but when I take my pulse it’s not. Please, if you have any recommendations, share them. I am still having severe shortness of breath, but only when standing! My vision is blurred but the ophthalmologist can’t find anything wrong. I’ve been tested and tested by the pulmonologist and have even been to UNC’s long covid clinic for testing. They believe my issues, like for other patients, is a neurological problem caused by COVID. Are the vibrations just more of the same? I feel like I have a buzzer going off in my body right now and it’s nights like tonight that I think I’m going crazy. I’m so sick of this! I know that others have more serious problems than mine but this is really affecting my mental health and I’m hoping someone has had success in stopping their own vibrations and can offer suggestions.

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i have it, started in the fingers, got slowly worse over time, spread to the legs, arms, chest, neck, head... full body tingling/buzzing sort of feeling, with some numbness in areas, and pain underneath, if that makes sense. low dose naltrexone gives me some relief

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What mg of low dose naltrexone have you tried to get it to feel better ? Thanks!

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the dose is one 1.5mg capsule a day for a week, then two for a week, then three. so the max is 4.5mg daily. i've only gone as far as 2 capsules, and its not a cure either, just takes the edge off.

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I get waves of what feels like an adrenaline surge with some chills and mild goosebumps. It lasts for 2-3 minutes. My heart pounds and my heart rate goes up to 90-110. I feel drained afterwords. I have these any time of day (6-8 times a day) and can happen at rest or with activity. I’ve had a full cardiac workout and nothing was found. It’s exhausting!

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It’s so difficult getting people to understand the internal vibrations. My family looks at me like I’m crazy! I go through periods of terrible itching all over my body as well…was told it was a histamine issue but other than Benadryl I was given no other recommendations. Sigh.

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I was dx with MCAS. Severe itching and rash on my lower legs. But also rashly patches that would come and go with flushing and heat. I take antihistamines to calm it down. Sounds like you have MCAS

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I was normal and healthy before I got the first Pfizer shot. 4 days after the shot I got a headache so bad I lost vision in my left eye for a few moments, got blurred vision then woke up the next day with dizziness and vertigo. I had to hang on to my husband to walk. I felt this electricity going through my body, down my arms and legs and my brain felt a fullness sensation. Movement made it worse then I became so fatigued I would crash for hours with an internal tremor, tinnitus and a body brain tremor. I also had difficulty speaking getting words out, like aphasia. I couldn’t read without crashing or work on a computer. I had trouble articulating what I was experiencing. I was experiencing heart palpitations/tachacardia and SOB. Also unexplained rashes on my face neck and chest and rash patches on my legs and arms. The week before the vaccine I was running with my husband 5-10 km every weekend and working out at Orange Theory. I was told the vaccine wasn’t responsible and I was told to keep getting it. After the second shot 24 hours later I was in an ambulance with severe sweating and heart cramping. Was given nitro and gradually the cramping subsided. No explanation when I asked if the vaccine could have caused this event I was ignored. Every specialist I saw did not have an explanation for my sudden onslaught of symptoms and not one specialist would go near my questions about the vaccine. I felt afraid to even mention the vaccine because of the frozen almost angry response I would get. Fast forward 4 years and I finally have been dx with MECFS; MCAS; POTS, Sjogren’s and Lupus SLE. I wake up from sleeping whether from a daytime crash(usually once a day or more) and morning to full body including arms and legs tremor. My arms and hands will be numb and tingly and often my hands and fingers are splayed out stiff as boards. It’s an awful way to wake up and it’s been everyday for four years. Since the first shot. I have PEM. I get anxious about planning g any social events and have learned to warn people that I may have to cancel last minute because I don’t know how sick I’ll be the day of. I get really stressed out inviting friends over for dinner or even just a coffee because I’ll feel terrible If I have to cancel. The worst part is not knowing how long I’m going to live. I was 50 years old when I got sick. I’m 54 now. I lost my career in healthcare. Which I’m upset about because I loved my career, did an undergraduate and graduate degree at McGill and also attended NYU and planned to finish another masters degree in bioethics. Now I can’t read or remember in a normal way. I lose my train of thought and have trouble concentrating. I become exhausted, then tremor then crash, then tremor coming out of my crash. Some days I cannot get out of bed and I’m so sleepy I feel drunk. I’ve also experience leg and arm weakness. Have fallen down for no reason. This symptom started a year ago along with peripheral neuropathy in hands and legs and toes. Came off amitriptyline and the symptoms got better. Now the falling is coming back. I have neck zaps and pain. Was dx with Lupus in January and the Rhumatologist believes the vaccine likely caused this. I am 100%certain the vaccine is responsible for my sudden illness 4 days after getting it. The worst part is not even the illness itself and the adjustment I’ve had to make in my life dealing with being sick everyday but the lack of support and interest in physicians I saw after the injury. Doctors dismissing me when cbc’s and other tests come back normal. The resistance to discussing possible vaccine harm. One doctor literally told me he couldn't document anything about the vaccine or he could be fired 🙄. No one should have been afraid for their job in order to connect the obvious dots. The ER attendings should have told me NOT to get more vaccines until they could be 100% be sure they didn’t harm me. I tried to get an exemption but was denied twice. Lastly, I’m getting an MRI of my brain and neck to see what could be causing my falling and periodic leg weakness. I’m hoping it’s not MS on top of the Lupus SLE. Does anyone know if the vaccine can cause autoimmune disease? Can anyone relate to my story and symptoms? I have applied for the Canadian Vaccine Injury program but my caseworker has not followed up with me for months now so I don’t think I’m going to get it.
Anyone else going through this has my empathy!!
Tracy

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First, understand that the vaccine and the virus unloads DNA, from plasmids and from the nuclear envelope, into your GI bacteria/yeast. The primary infection point is your GI tract. Second, the bacteria and yeast continue to propagate and manufacture things that are negatively affecting you. Mayo (et al), while very good at compartmentalized diagnosis’, won’t messily able to address the problems because they are systemic, and that’s not the way their system works (for the most part). You have a broad-spectrum illness called CIRS (no ICD-10 code), due to flora disturbance.

Make your own kefir from a good acidic strain, that you’ll only find as a wild-type. Make sure it’s fermented thoroughly enough so that you get the kefir “grains” and eat them too. They kill all the clostidria, e.coli, and bad yeasts. Warning: it is a powerful anti inflammatory, and when you actually get some relief….have a game plan on what you want to do the rest of your life. Also, do a “Spectra”. “Cell.” Test. CIRS doctors (YouTube):
Dr. Peter Osborne,
Dr. Judy Cho,
Dr. Neil Nathan, for starters. Don’t venture too far away from them, the internet is filled with junk.

Also suggested is a GI antifungal (nystatin). If your fungal/yeast problem is bad enough, then itraconazole (see Dr. Campbell). By the way, Mayo did do a long-forgotten study on fungal issues as the root cause of sinus issues….you might need an antifungal spray too.

Also, you might want to try EWOT. Watch the videos by Dr. Tom Incledon at Causenta. Also watch Dr. Angelique Hart (O2brain dot com). Don’t do EWOT before you do Spectra.Cell.

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First, understand that the vaccine and the virus unloads DNA, from plasmids and from the nuclear envelope, into your GI bacteria/yeast. The primary infection point is your GI tract. Second, the bacteria and yeast continue to propagate and manufacture things that are negatively affecting you. Mayo (et al), while very good at compartmentalized diagnosis’, won’t messily able to address the problems because they are systemic, and that’s not the way their system works (for the most part). You have a broad-spectrum illness called CIRS (no ICD-10 code), due to flora disturbance.

Make your own kefir from a good acidic strain, that you’ll only find as a wild-type. Make sure it’s fermented thoroughly enough so that you get the kefir “grains” and eat them too. They kill all the clostidria, e.coli, and bad yeasts. Warning: it is a powerful anti inflammatory, and when you actually get some relief….have a game plan on what you want to do the rest of your life. Also, do a “Spectra”. “Cell.” Test. CIRS doctors (YouTube):
Dr. Peter Osborne,
Dr. Judy Cho,
Dr. Neil Nathan, for starters. Don’t venture too far away from them, the internet is filled with junk.

Also suggested is a GI antifungal (nystatin). If your fungal/yeast problem is bad enough, then itraconazole (see Dr. Campbell). By the way, Mayo did do a long-forgotten study on fungal issues as the root cause of sinus issues….you might need an antifungal spray too.

Also, you might want to try EWOT. Watch the videos by Dr. Tom Incledon at Causenta. Also watch Dr. Angelique Hart (O2brain dot com). Don’t do EWOT before you do Spectra.Cell.

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Wow, thank you for taking the time to message me….I'm going to look up everything you just said!!

Tracy

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I have had internal vibrating for over 3 years. It is worse when I do too much or have too much stimulation - loud noise or loud feelings. It also brings on nausea. The only thing that helps me is 5mg of THC. (I live where it is legal.)
Rest and pace your activities. Wishing you all hope and patience. They WILL find a remedy.

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I was normal and healthy before I got the first Pfizer shot. 4 days after the shot I got a headache so bad I lost vision in my left eye for a few moments, got blurred vision then woke up the next day with dizziness and vertigo. I had to hang on to my husband to walk. I felt this electricity going through my body, down my arms and legs and my brain felt a fullness sensation. Movement made it worse then I became so fatigued I would crash for hours with an internal tremor, tinnitus and a body brain tremor. I also had difficulty speaking getting words out, like aphasia. I couldn’t read without crashing or work on a computer. I had trouble articulating what I was experiencing. I was experiencing heart palpitations/tachacardia and SOB. Also unexplained rashes on my face neck and chest and rash patches on my legs and arms. The week before the vaccine I was running with my husband 5-10 km every weekend and working out at Orange Theory. I was told the vaccine wasn’t responsible and I was told to keep getting it. After the second shot 24 hours later I was in an ambulance with severe sweating and heart cramping. Was given nitro and gradually the cramping subsided. No explanation when I asked if the vaccine could have caused this event I was ignored. Every specialist I saw did not have an explanation for my sudden onslaught of symptoms and not one specialist would go near my questions about the vaccine. I felt afraid to even mention the vaccine because of the frozen almost angry response I would get. Fast forward 4 years and I finally have been dx with MECFS; MCAS; POTS, Sjogren’s and Lupus SLE. I wake up from sleeping whether from a daytime crash(usually once a day or more) and morning to full body including arms and legs tremor. My arms and hands will be numb and tingly and often my hands and fingers are splayed out stiff as boards. It’s an awful way to wake up and it’s been everyday for four years. Since the first shot. I have PEM. I get anxious about planning g any social events and have learned to warn people that I may have to cancel last minute because I don’t know how sick I’ll be the day of. I get really stressed out inviting friends over for dinner or even just a coffee because I’ll feel terrible If I have to cancel. The worst part is not knowing how long I’m going to live. I was 50 years old when I got sick. I’m 54 now. I lost my career in healthcare. Which I’m upset about because I loved my career, did an undergraduate and graduate degree at McGill and also attended NYU and planned to finish another masters degree in bioethics. Now I can’t read or remember in a normal way. I lose my train of thought and have trouble concentrating. I become exhausted, then tremor then crash, then tremor coming out of my crash. Some days I cannot get out of bed and I’m so sleepy I feel drunk. I’ve also experience leg and arm weakness. Have fallen down for no reason. This symptom started a year ago along with peripheral neuropathy in hands and legs and toes. Came off amitriptyline and the symptoms got better. Now the falling is coming back. I have neck zaps and pain. Was dx with Lupus in January and the Rhumatologist believes the vaccine likely caused this. I am 100%certain the vaccine is responsible for my sudden illness 4 days after getting it. The worst part is not even the illness itself and the adjustment I’ve had to make in my life dealing with being sick everyday but the lack of support and interest in physicians I saw after the injury. Doctors dismissing me when cbc’s and other tests come back normal. The resistance to discussing possible vaccine harm. One doctor literally told me he couldn't document anything about the vaccine or he could be fired 🙄. No one should have been afraid for their job in order to connect the obvious dots. The ER attendings should have told me NOT to get more vaccines until they could be 100% be sure they didn’t harm me. I tried to get an exemption but was denied twice. Lastly, I’m getting an MRI of my brain and neck to see what could be causing my falling and periodic leg weakness. I’m hoping it’s not MS on top of the Lupus SLE. Does anyone know if the vaccine can cause autoimmune disease? Can anyone relate to my story and symptoms? I have applied for the Canadian Vaccine Injury program but my caseworker has not followed up with me for months now so I don’t think I’m going to get it.
Anyone else going through this has my empathy!!
Tracy

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3 parts – Yale Study; Covid and Our Arteries; and Bonus

Yale - School of Medicine – Immunology
Dr. Akiko Iwasaski
https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/akiko-iwasaki/
Note: Reading Dr. Iwasaski papers has given me Hope for long Covid and Post-Vaccination Syndrome.

Iwasaski Lab
https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/iwasaki/
Read More – Immunology of acute COVID and vaccine responses; Immunology of long COVID; Neuroimmunology; Viruses, autoimmunity and cancer; Mucosal Vaccines against Viruses; Preparing for future pandemic pathogens

8/14/2025 - Comparative Analysis of Long COVID and Post-Vaccination Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study of Clinical Symptoms and Machine Learning-Based Differentiation
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.25333639v1
ABSTRACT
Importance - Long COVID is a well-documented post-viral syndrome, while post-vaccination syndrome (PVS) remains poorly characterized. Understanding their similarities and differences is essential for refining diagnostic criteria and developing targeted interventions. This study systematically compares the symptomatology of long COVID and PVS following COVID-19 vaccination, highlighting key distinctions that could inform clinical practice and research.

Objective - To assess the clinical characteristics of long COVID and PVS and identify key distinguishing features between the conditions.

Question What are the similarities and differences between long COVID and post-vaccination syndrome (PVS)?
Findings- In this cross-sectional study of 682 individuals, machine learning models identified distinct symptoms between long COVID and PVS. Long COVID was characterized by brain fog, altered sense of smell, and shortness of breath, while PVS was associated with burning sensations, neuropathy, and numbness.
Meaning - Although long COVID and PVS share overlapping symptoms, they have distinctive symptom profiles, suggesting potentially different underlying biological mechanisms. Understanding these differences can guide clinical diagnosis and targeted management, and inform further research into their distinct immune and biological pathways. (See below The Yale LISTEN Study Town Hall: October 2023)

5/29/2025 - Yale COVID-19 Recovery Study
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04895189
Brief Summary
The general purpose of the study is to determine the change in immune responses in people with Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC) after vaccination. PASC is a disabling, heterogeneous condition in which people have persistent or emerging symptoms months after an initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, (the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19. Specifically, the purpose is to enroll participants suffering from moderate-to-severe PASC prior to vaccination and to measure participants' immune and symptom profiles both before and after vaccination. This study is primarily descriptive.

Feb 19, 2025 - A small number of people report chronic symptoms after receiving COVID-19 shots. A new study provides clues for further research.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/02/19/immune-markers-post-vaccination-syndrome-indicate-future-research-directions#:~:text=However%2C%20some%20individuals%20have%20reported,known%20about%20its%20biological%20underpinnings
COVID-19 vaccines have been instrumental in reducing the impact of the pandemic, preventing severe illness and death, and they appear to protect against long COVID. However, some individuals have reported chronic symptoms that developed soon after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. This little-understood, persistent condition, referred to as post-vaccination syndrome (PVS), remains unrecognized by medical authorities, and little is known about its biological underpinnings.

In a new study, Yale researchers have taken initial steps to characterize this condition, uncovering potential immunological patterns that differentiate those with PVS from others. The findings are early and require further confirmation but may eventually guide strategies to help affected individuals.

10/19/2023 Harlan Krumholz and Akiko Iwasaki (Rishi Shiah, Lilo Wu, and Adith Arun) discuss preliminary findings and answer questions from LISTEN participants.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/video/
The Yale LISTEN Study Town Hall: October 2023

The entire Town Hall is very interesting, here are 4 I found enlightening.
8:00 Difference in Percent of Participants Experiencing Symptom (Long Covid – PVS post-vaccination syndrome; Note: the chart in video is informative)

Long Covid -
Memory problems
Changed sense of smell
Brain fog
Shortness of breath
Cough
Sore throat
Excessive fatigue
Difficulty speaking properly
Changed sense of taste
Fatigue
Congested or runny nose
Phantom smells
Runny nose
Phlegm in back of throat
Headache
Constant thirst
Night sweats
Hypersomnia
Confusion
Insomnia
Hair loss
Dry scalp or dandruff
Dizziness
Throat pain or discomfort
Postnasal drip
Exercise Intolerance
Wheezing
Swollen hands or feet
Cold/burning lung sensation
Changes in voice
Phantom tastes

PVS -
Loss of hearing
Suicidal thoughts
Feelings of impending doom
Palpitations
Tinnitus
Numbness
Internal vibration
Neuropathy
Burning sensations

16:00 Implications
18:33 Hypothesis
37:00 Hope next 6 months

8/18/2025 - Covid and Our Arteries - by Eric Topol
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-and-our-arteries
I’ll review the 3 dimensions for how our understanding Covid’s effect on arteries has evolved: (1) Endothelial Inflammation; (2) Promoting Atherosclerosis; and (3) Accelerating Aging

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I was normal and healthy before I got the first Pfizer shot. 4 days after the shot I got a headache so bad I lost vision in my left eye for a few moments, got blurred vision then woke up the next day with dizziness and vertigo. I had to hang on to my husband to walk. I felt this electricity going through my body, down my arms and legs and my brain felt a fullness sensation. Movement made it worse then I became so fatigued I would crash for hours with an internal tremor, tinnitus and a body brain tremor. I also had difficulty speaking getting words out, like aphasia. I couldn’t read without crashing or work on a computer. I had trouble articulating what I was experiencing. I was experiencing heart palpitations/tachacardia and SOB. Also unexplained rashes on my face neck and chest and rash patches on my legs and arms. The week before the vaccine I was running with my husband 5-10 km every weekend and working out at Orange Theory. I was told the vaccine wasn’t responsible and I was told to keep getting it. After the second shot 24 hours later I was in an ambulance with severe sweating and heart cramping. Was given nitro and gradually the cramping subsided. No explanation when I asked if the vaccine could have caused this event I was ignored. Every specialist I saw did not have an explanation for my sudden onslaught of symptoms and not one specialist would go near my questions about the vaccine. I felt afraid to even mention the vaccine because of the frozen almost angry response I would get. Fast forward 4 years and I finally have been dx with MECFS; MCAS; POTS, Sjogren’s and Lupus SLE. I wake up from sleeping whether from a daytime crash(usually once a day or more) and morning to full body including arms and legs tremor. My arms and hands will be numb and tingly and often my hands and fingers are splayed out stiff as boards. It’s an awful way to wake up and it’s been everyday for four years. Since the first shot. I have PEM. I get anxious about planning g any social events and have learned to warn people that I may have to cancel last minute because I don’t know how sick I’ll be the day of. I get really stressed out inviting friends over for dinner or even just a coffee because I’ll feel terrible If I have to cancel. The worst part is not knowing how long I’m going to live. I was 50 years old when I got sick. I’m 54 now. I lost my career in healthcare. Which I’m upset about because I loved my career, did an undergraduate and graduate degree at McGill and also attended NYU and planned to finish another masters degree in bioethics. Now I can’t read or remember in a normal way. I lose my train of thought and have trouble concentrating. I become exhausted, then tremor then crash, then tremor coming out of my crash. Some days I cannot get out of bed and I’m so sleepy I feel drunk. I’ve also experience leg and arm weakness. Have fallen down for no reason. This symptom started a year ago along with peripheral neuropathy in hands and legs and toes. Came off amitriptyline and the symptoms got better. Now the falling is coming back. I have neck zaps and pain. Was dx with Lupus in January and the Rhumatologist believes the vaccine likely caused this. I am 100%certain the vaccine is responsible for my sudden illness 4 days after getting it. The worst part is not even the illness itself and the adjustment I’ve had to make in my life dealing with being sick everyday but the lack of support and interest in physicians I saw after the injury. Doctors dismissing me when cbc’s and other tests come back normal. The resistance to discussing possible vaccine harm. One doctor literally told me he couldn't document anything about the vaccine or he could be fired 🙄. No one should have been afraid for their job in order to connect the obvious dots. The ER attendings should have told me NOT to get more vaccines until they could be 100% be sure they didn’t harm me. I tried to get an exemption but was denied twice. Lastly, I’m getting an MRI of my brain and neck to see what could be causing my falling and periodic leg weakness. I’m hoping it’s not MS on top of the Lupus SLE. Does anyone know if the vaccine can cause autoimmune disease? Can anyone relate to my story and symptoms? I have applied for the Canadian Vaccine Injury program but my caseworker has not followed up with me for months now so I don’t think I’m going to get it.
Anyone else going through this has my empathy!!
Tracy

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How horrible! I am so sorry for what you are going through. My symptoms didn’t start until long after my first vaccine and only after my first case of Covid. Some have speculate once I got the virus that something in the vaccine was triggered to set off my symptoms. I guess that’s a possibility but I feel my symptoms are probably due to the virus. But not sure we will ever know. I pray you get improvement!

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