Anyone had a problem with neuropathy after receiving the vaccine?
I am 85 with small fiber neuropathy that is getting worse. My neurologist thought it would be a good idea for me to wait with the covid vaccine and not be first in line to see how it affected other people with neuropathy. Probably because it is a new technology. Has anyone had a problem with neuropathy after receiving the vaccine? If so, which vaccine?
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I have addressed this with drs neurologists and no one will acknowledge I have appt at Mayo for Emg curious if their neurological department has any insight
Please update us after your Mayo appt. Wishing you the best.
I will toss this in for consideration. I go to a world-renowned medical facility and was told by a nurse there that the oncology department is seeing a lot of women with inflamed and/or infected underarm lymph nodes on the same arm where the mRNA "not exactly a vaccine, more an operating system update'" vax, to quote the senior mRNA expert at Scripp's, was given. The oncologists are unofficially tracking stats to see if the number of first-time breast cancers are deviating from historical patterns and occurring in disproportionate numbers on the side of the body where the "vax" was given.
I have a friend who's not been able to wall without pain and difficulty since the second Pfizer vax. His orthopedic surgeon in Palm Beach County has mostly professional athletes as clients and said that he and colleagues are seeing a lot of this complaint of generalized weakness after the vax and they and neurologists are stymied so far as to exactly what is damaged, how to treat it, whether it will improve over time. And the nurse who mentioned the flurry of newly-swollen lymph node cases has a mother whose right leg has been essentially paralyzed since her second vax.
Maybe people are tolerating the first vax (if they do) but the second is a clear overload? No wonder Pfizer wanted 75 years (sic!) to provide lists of reported adverse effects. I'm not anti-vax but I'm militantly pro informed consent. Which none of us were able to give absent the ability to become informed.
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2 ReactionsI received my 4th Pfizer shot on January 28th. To this very day, I am still experiencing nonstop numbness and tingling in my feet and fingers, weird electrical sensations pulsing through my limbs. Some days are better than others, but it never goes away and somedays it just takes over. I have had neck MRIs, EMG, a dozen blood tests looking for auto immune and vitamin issues. Every single test comes back normal. My neurologist believes it may be an auto immune related small fiber neuropathy caused by the vaccine. 2 of my other doctors also believe it is a vaccine side effect. I have tried Neurontin which just made me feel like a zombie and didn't help. I've tried every supplement said to possibly help, no response. I notice when I am stressed or try to do alot of physical activity, it gets worse. After long walks, my feet are numb ,like 2 blocks of ice. Everyone tells me it will go away, whatever "it" is.Whatever it is we are experiencing, I don't believe that there is a test for. Seems like everyone eventually does get better, whether 4 months or a year. I am in my fourth month of this craziness. I have reported it to Pfizer and to VAERS., for what it's worth. As an RN who saw many of my friends and colleagues die of covid before there was a vaccine, I am thankful to still be here , tingling and all. I probably would have stopped at the third shot. However, I am in a high risk group, over 60 and a poor immune system. I also live in an area where many people refused to follow any health precautions, even as the hospitals were piling the dead into refrigerated trucks. I wish everyone well. Oh, BTW, the European health agency (I forget what they are called, equivalent to the CDC) does acknowledge that the Pfizer vaccine can cause paresthesias as a side effect. Why or how to treat it or even diagnose it, no one seems to know.
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2 ReactionsThank you and I will
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1 ReactionVaccines of any kind, not just covid vaccines, can cause swollen lymph nodes in the armpit of the side the vaccine was given on. It usually subsides within 4 to 6 weeks. We advise women to wait a few months after their covid vaccine before getting a mammogram to reduce the chances of false positives.
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2 ReactionsYou are correct. But these are months later, by which time the typical post-vax reactions usually subside unless I'm wrong in that assumption.
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1 ReactionYes. I think you are right.
You know, since these neuropathies started 5 hours after my 4 th Pfizer in January, I think I have researched and read every bit of information worldwide about this issue, from anecdotal reports to professional journals. Nowhere is there an actual explanation, let alone a solution. It is truly bewildering. I don't think it's a coverup; I think no one knows. I tell myself everyday that the body will heal itself, that in the overwhelming majority of the people reporting who have gone through exhaustive workups, nothing is abnormal. I also caution myself not to attribute every single thing that happens to me on a daily basis to a vaccine reaction. I do know that searching the internet and obsessively thinking about it makes it much worse. I wish I had some answers.
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