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I have chemo induced neuropathy and was told most improvement occurs in the first year. It's in my feet and less severe in my fingers. I've had 3 Pfizer shots with mild reactions lasting no more than a day and a half. My neuropathy did not change after the shots. For the poster who wrote of the 15% reported/85% unreported symptoms, that needs to be put into perspective. The figures are meaningless without actual numbers attached. Ex. Did 15,000 people report symptoms translating to 85,000 unreported for a total of 100,000 with issues (just picking out imaginary numbers here). Over 208,231,968 people have been vaccinated in the United States leaving 208,131,968 people without adverse neuropathic issues. (Again, I know nothing about actual figures reported, mine are just for illustration, the vaccination numbers are real). As to attributing symptoms to a single incident, that can be shaky as well. I also have moderate osteoarthritis in my knees and had an incident last summer that caused severe pain for months. By November my knees were so bad I had issues getting up and down from chairs (the toilet was the worst) and had to use the railing to haul myself up and down stairs with a great deal of pain. Three things happened in the weeks prior, flu shot, covid shot, prolia shot, plus I was on Anastrozole. I picked out Anastrazole as the focus and my oncologist allowed me to switch to Letrozole at half dose. That seemed to work, but I also began collagen supplements. My knees are almost back to normal (still arthritic). Next week I'm due for next Prolia shot. I think this will settle one way or another the cause of the severe joint pain as I believe I've ruled out everythingbut the Anastrozole. So, while some can determine what caused the symptoms, many are just guessing as I was.
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“As to attributing symptoms to a single incident, that can be shaky as well.”
All I know is this: Before April 24th, 2021 (the day of my second Moderna shot) I had no symptoms of anything health-related, Covid, prediabetes or otherwise.
Two days later I had burning sensations in my lower left leg. By the first week of May my left foot went numb and I lost hair on my legs. By mid-May I had carpal tunnel and pulsing sensations up my forearms. By end May, orthostatic hypotension and constipation. By June, cubital tunnel. By August my right foot went numb. By my 42nd birthday in October, tinnitus and visual acuity decline. By December, eye cotton wool spot. By January, erectile dysfunction. By February Raynauds/cyanosis. My Apple Watch has been notifying me of atrial fibrillation for the last month…
I have had Covid PCR tests weekly since before this started. Negative each time. Strict diet. No alcohol. Daily exercise.
There is no way on Earth that this was in any other possible regard NOT all attributed to a single event.
I’m very sorry, but I don’t care about your uncited numbers of the presumably unscathed vaccinated US population. I know what happened to me, when it all started and what started it.
There have been people (like myself) seriously and directly injured by these mRNA vaccines, and for anyone to even imply otherwise is honestly rather insulting.
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I wrote that the Wall Street Journal cited pharmaceutical
industry estimates that only approximately 15% of the people who suffer adverse effects from drugs report them on the FDA's FAERS website. The obverse would of course be that approximately 85% who have adverse effects do not report them. With a drug that 100,000 people suffered adverse effects from, an estimated 85,000 then would not report that adverse effect on the FAERS website designed to alert consumers of such reports. I don't know how to put that into perspective other than to cite the industry-accepted percentages quoted to the Wall Street Journal.
To me, the inference is that the vast majority of adverse effects are not reported where the public can see them. That's a particular problem with new drugs with no long-term safety or efficacy studies even available for a diligent patient to even ferret out with determined due diligence.
And then there's a covid 'vaccine' exceptional circumstances wherein people were pressured to take a drug for which there was essentially zero information and serious enquiries into it, by many highly-respectected scientists and researchers, including the inventor of the PCR test who cautioned the government that the test was being used inappropriately for covid testing, were suppressed. And Pfizer wanted 75 years to document the reported adverse effects. At least with most drugs, people can check out reported side effects before taking them.