On Tuesday 9/20/2022, I went to my local Walmart pharmacy to get a Shingles vaccine, which was recommended to me by the pharmacist. I was feeling fine with no sickness symptom. There was no problem with the vaccination and I waited 5 minutes before I went shopping for a few things. Everything was okay for about 10 minutes and then I began feeling pressure in the center of my chest. I have had 3 heart attacks and the first one started out just like this, feeling pressure on my chest just like it was happening. My first thought was omg, I’m going to have a heart attack. Within minutes, I was having level 5/6 pain in my heart. I immediately checked out and waited for the local bus to take me home.

Things started to go downhill sitting in the bus, palpitations, dizziness, nausea, and the overall sense of not feeling well. By that evening, I was running a fever of 100.2, had a sore throat, runny nose, coughing, all the symptoms of having the flu but how and why so quickly. I had not been out of my apartment in 4 days. Then I had jolts of nasty heart pain, level 7/8, palpitations and the feeling of gloom and doom. I fell asleep and woke up the next morning sick as a dog. I knew something was definitely wrong, heart pain, palpitations, sickness, the whole nine yards. I finally wondered if the Shingles vaccine had to do anything with me going thru this mess.

So I Google for Shingles Vaccine side effects and bingo. Boy did I get a wake up call, I never realized so much could go wrong. I had trusted my pharmacist’s judgement because he knows my medical history. The more I read about the side effects, the more I knew I was in trouble. So I checked for rare side effects, naturally they’re the kind my body seems to love getting. Turns out my heart issues and sickness can be caused in rare cases, guess who has them? ME!!!!! That’s right, my “Freak of Nature” body decided to complicate my life, even kill me in my sleep. All my symptoms, heart issues included, can be triggered by the SHINGLES VACCINE.

Get this, it can even trigger flu like symptoms, OMG, that’s me. I read information from the manufacturer and they seem sympathetic enough and want to know about any adverse side effects. So you’re advised to fill out a report on the VARES website which is linked to the CDC, yes, that CDC. So I contacted my pharmacist, went to my Doctor yesterday, got advice from them and called the toll free number. A very nice lady in Mississippi answered my call and for the next 20 minutes took down all the pertinent information they needed. She needed all my side effects documented, my Doctor’s name and phone number and was very pleasant to talk with. She was even concerned about my health. So my question is this, has anyone else had such unusual and dangerous rare side effects? Remember, I could have had a fatal heart attack with my heart being so weak. And I still have all the symptoms and they’re getting worse.