Breathing issues after receiving Covid shots?
I'm wondering if anyone other than me is experiencing any breathing issues after receiving the Covid shots. I have developed extreme shortness of breath, so much so that I'm on oxygen 24/7. I have to stop halfway up a flight of stairs and rest until I can breathe normally. Getting dressed is an ordeal. I don't do much of anything around the house because I get out of breath so quickly. I tire easily. I've been to 3 different pulmonologists and none of them can figure out why I'm having problems. My lungs are clear. I've gone through a battery of tests each time and the tests say I should be fine. Up until I had to get the shots, I was perfectly healthy. I'm currently 73.
If anyone reading this has had or is experiencing any of these symptoms, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks!
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Yes I had heart palpitations after the Covid shots ! I think we were given vaccines that weren’t well researched!
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3 ReactionsI also had shortness of breath and palpitations which is the same symptoms that I had when I was infected with Covid. It didn’t last long but I think it was either a combination of side effect and the drug taking effect.
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2 ReactionsSo, are you saying the tests show no lung damage? What is your oxygen level? Do you feel difficulty breathing or are your lungs not functioning? Do you take breathing treatments? Have they done blood tests?
I am a Non-smoker (never) and have never had a problem with breathing. My oxygen level has dropped significantly since COVID shots. This has been pointed out by 3 doctors so I am now being referred to a pulmonologist. I have an appointment in July and will follow up with results. COVID SHOTS have also caused me to have so many UTI’s (never had one before) that my urologist has had to put me on a low dose antibiotic.
I believe that the vaccine for Covid can be very helpful for some people and the complete opposite for others, many people have felt that it was created too quickly and perhaps that’s possible however, in the midst of the pandemic there was a great urgency to try and provide some protection for people. The virus itself has taken millions of lives and is still doing harm today, one main reason is that it keeps changing and this creates the need to change the serum. We have to try and keep ourselves safe, the choice is ours to make, the vaccine has helped millions to survive but as we know it has harmed many people. I don’t know how it will end in the long term, we have fought viruses for years and they keep getting stronger, there’s really no answer to the problem, it’s just more of the same thing, trying to keep on surviving and hope for a better future.
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1 Reaction@frouke I have breathing problems too but mostly from COPD. But a few years ago after my covid shots I ended up with a GI bleed from my small intestine that put me in the hospital for 19 days and 13 units of blood until they went in through the groin and inserted a ruby coil to stop the bleeding. Kidneys shut down for 3 days from the heavy contrast they used when I was in the bleed scanner...Kidneys came back after 3- 1 hour times on the diyalis machine.
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3 Reactions@gareee314 That’s truly very frightening to go through so much suffering and all due to a vaccine to protect yourself from covid. I honestly am getting more worried about continuing with these things, I too have COPD along with battling lung cancer twice since the pandemic started, I was afraid to not get the vaccine and of course it was highly advised that I should do so. I’m a researcher for many years and made a living doing this for many years, it opens doors to many things that are happening today and also how little is passed along to people, the truth is that they don’t want us to know too much for their own reasons, the downside is that we are always told that knowledge is empowering and for the most part it is but there’s also the other side of this, i.e., too much knowledge can be overwhelming. Sorry for the rant, I’m sad that you went through such an awful experience and hope that you’re on the mend soon, for my own part I find myself struggling with what I should do when the new strain vaccine comes out in October,??
@frouke Most doctors and nurses I talk to stayed away from the covid vaccines..They know something.
@gareee314 I am in total agreement with this, it’s just so hard to have faith in anything these days. Honestly, I’ve been struggling with this option too but still I have gone every year for the new vaccine, I know that they have an anti viral drug for covid called Paxlovid and it works, I took it when I was infected and the symptoms went away, this year I didn’t get the booster but I really don’t know if I have the nerve to skip the new vaccine. Honestly after hearing what you went through and other people, it creeps me out to say the least.
@frouke My bleed might not have been from the vaccine..At the time I was on Metformin and Tragenta at the same time for diabetes type 2 plus the cardiologist had me on Plavix to keep my blood thin. Also it was 3 days after I had chemo ( carboplatin) for throat cancer..Those might have been the disaster why I had a vein rupture in my small intestine?