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Hello Eric. I have heavy chest pressure almost constantly/every day now and have for over 6 months and also my breaths are shorter and more labored. Also fatigued at the end of every day (5:00 - 6:00pm it starts) and I do not have the normal energy I used to have to do after work things like I used to. It doesn't hurt but it is heavy and constant. There are times when there is a mild pain in my center chest area but it is mostly a constant pressure/heaviness. I'm sure it is inflammation and it doesn't go away. It is worse after strenuous activity so I've learned to not do strenuous activity. I recovered from Covid in May and was feeling good in late June and all of July 2021 after recovering and I decided to get the first Pfizer. 3-4 days or so later I starred feeling the heavy chest pressure and shortness of my breaths. Been that way ever since and that was in Early August. It is February now. I did not get the second dose as a result of the first. My Pulmonologist is the one that recommended I get the shot after recovering from Covid symptoms and started to feel better. Was not good advice in hindsight to say the least. He doesn't appear to have treatment options except steroids and that doesn't eliminate the issues. I was a healthy person, 52 yrs old, 6 foot 1, 198 lbs, very very active with a good diet until I got the covid and then got worse after the 1st shot of Pfizer. It has changed my life and I hope to wake up someday and it is gone but so far it is there and just as bad as it was in early August when it came back.

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Are your post vaccine symptoms ( chest pressure/lack of energy/shortness of breath, etc. the same as when you covid? Have similar situation except longer time between covid and vaccine and vaccine and symptoms. But mine pressure, shortness of breath were not present during covid (irregular heartbeat, dizziness w/ fever). Have you sought out clinic that specializes in "long covid"?

Dang man, sorry to hear. I was just seen yesterday at a university hospital. This is my second pulmonologist and I saw an ear nose and throat dr yesterday also there. They told me I should have waited at least 3 months after infection. My primary dr recommend me to get it at the time and cdc recommends it still also. I had another CT done last week and it doesn’t appear to be the lungs that are my problem. I’m wondering if it’s my airways. From the research I have done it is also probably due to inflammation but I have chest congestion also that is hard to get out. I’m afraid it’s bronchiectasis but my spirometry and CT appear to show not much evidence of that. I don’t sleep well at all and I have frequent flare ups in the night. I got the Pfizer two months after infection and it was like I had covid all over again. I haven’t felt good enough to get the second shot yet. It’s been two and a half months of this now. I am fatigued a lot and trouble breathing. Chest congestion but not much cough. Seems to be sticky/non productive right now. I’m also hoping to wake up one day normal again.