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I had the astra zeneca vaccine first and I was one of the first young people to have it due to being Autistic. I was only 18. I worked the night shift and it started with a pain at the injection site. I was doing a lot of stocking duties as the night shift is quieter for customers (mcdonalds 24 hrs) and I had to have a cup of ice against it and couldn't lift stuff. Eventually I couldn't open the door. I had a lovely manager thank goodness.
I ended up shivering cold, really bad pain in my whole arm, a bad headache and I felt a bit confused. The SECOND my shift ended my manager told me to go, he looked like he pitied me.
For the next few days I didn't eat. I tried fresh mango and watermelon but I couldn't really eat it. I was really ill. Shortly after this the vaccine was banned for young people as it is "unsuitable". I felt really upset when I heard this and honestly kinda victimised. Maybe it is the Gen Z in me but I felt like I shouldve been compensated for that. I was given the vaccine before people in their 40s. Why did they use the most vulnerable as guinea pigs?
My second vaccine was also the astra zeneca despite the ban, it was under very strange circumstances. It was the same place but the person doing it was clearly unqualified. He was nervous and kinda mumbled "I'm just doing the vaccines today...." I felt really uncomfortable but went along with it. The vaccine didn't actually go in it fell out of the injection site. They said it is fine but I was doubtful and left quite annoyed. I didnt get ill this time.
My 3rd and final vaccine was finally the pfizer which everyone was telling me is the "good one". I had my first flu shot at the same time.
Now get this. A few weeks later my partner and I both tested positive for covid. He had something called collingitus which he gets because of his bad liver it's basically an infection that requires hospital and anti biotics. Missing his 14 a day medication causes it, or being in cold temperatures. Doing too much labour can also cause it but since I got his weight up that isn't a common trigger anymore. I think he missed one of his meds which is why he got it this time. But it is interesting how I noted he had a sniffle and "flu voice". He gets the flu jab yearly because of how ill he is and he reportedly never gets a cold.
He was in for about 3 days while they treated his liver issue. He came home and on the same day he did my covid started to present. Unfortunately my case was not the same as his. It makes me very emotional remembering it. I was really traumatised by it and felt that it was again unfair that they say "young people will be ABSOLUTELY fine". I wasn't prepared for what happened to me. I feel upset having to recount it now but I think my story needs to be heard.
It didn't gradually get worse. I just SUDDENLY became incredibly ill. My throat was so painful and sore I couldn't speak much or eat. My head was really painful. My fever was severe. I couldn't breathe properly, I had to sleep sat in a chair because if I laid down I couldn't breathe at all and this caused me to have panic attacks. I was hallucinating and confused where I was. I remember telling my partner "I just need to tell my work and dad that I'll be away" (I was living with my dad and working the MCds job at 18 and left that to be with my partner. I was 20 when these covid events were occuring). I was convinced there was a scary looking woman hiding crouched at the bottom of my bed trying to get to me but my partner kept saying nobody was there. My fever was so severe when I was sat in my sleeping chair, naked and with a fan going right at my feet on full I got angry and said to my partner "the fan is broken. I know it is making noise but there is no air coming out" and I went to the bedroom. I put my hand to the fan as I said this and I CLEARLY remember there was no air on my hand (well I couldn't feel it) the fan was not broken.
In an effort to bring down my fever my partner had the bedroom fan on me whilst I laid on the bed naked with a lot of pillows so my body wasn't flat (so I could still breathe) and a cold wet flannel was put on my forehead.
I felt horrible and really wanted to get up but I stayed there for a good hour, trying my best for my partner. I often did similar things to my partner when he got collingitus and we were waiting for ambulance to arrive so I owed it to him to try now it was me with the fever.
Eventually I couldn't take it anymore so I took off the flannel and sat up. My partner just so happened to come in to check on me at the same time. I had such severe nausea. I said to him "bucket quick" (well tried to. Meaning I'm going to be sick)
As soon as I finished this sentence I violently vomited straight outwards. My temperature was now 40 degrees C (104 f) which my partner's ambulance crew had previously told me was seizure level fever and can be fatal.
This experience is why I allow my partner to sweat out his fevers (within reason) instead of doing the cool down thing with the flannel now when he gets collingitus.
My fever had actually climbed to the highest whilst doing the cool down thing on me so.
He called the NHS helpline number and the man was saying I don't need medical attention SOLELY based on my age. When my partner listed my symptoms the man muttered "actually that does sound serious" but he stuck to his original script. I knew this wasn't right but I couldn't even talk without severe pain in my throat.
A week passed. I only got worse. Now I literally could not speak and had to write stuff down when I wanted to say something. This lasted a further 5 days.
I was frustrated and started obsessively googling covid treatments. I eventually found a medical website that said prednisilone works. It is a steroid that reduces inflammation and my symptoms were all inflammation because of the virus.
It's my lucky day. Out of about 8 different medications, most of which my partner takes twice a day (totalling 14 pills plus weight gain shakes and a chewable vitamin) one of them was.. prednisilone.
I didn't care. I was miserable and desperate. I took a course of it for 3 days as the medical website said to do. It wasn't for consumers, the website was more a doctor to doctor study.
It actually worked. I could talk again. I slowly started being able to eat again. The breathlessness lasted months though and was extremely distressing to me. I was worried I had lung damage.
That is my story and the reality of covid 19. I am 20 years old and don't have physical disabilities. My partner is 38 and has CESD a rare disease that means his liver will keep failing about every 15 years requiring more transplants and he has mild heart disease because of it. He is also an ex smoker. He had a sniffle for 3 days. I had the above. This is after we were vaccinated with the "good" one.
I have more recently heard about vaccines being discovered to cause heart problems. After everything, I am afraid to have any more covid vaccines or my partner. It is a tough decision to make because he is so vulnerable a cold, flu, pneumonia or this is supposed to be very risky (risk of death) for him. But on the other hand... if MOST people are vaccinated and we aren't a particularly social couple we never party etc it should be fine right?
Unfortunately this isn't the end. I do have a heart problem now. I get a pain on my left chest area randomly. It has got worse over the year I've had it. I've always put it down to my obesity and eating disorder (I binge, sometimes purge and I'm 250lbs 5"5) It's started to get better as my binges have been getting less severe more recently. But I can't help but worry more about the vaccine because of this.
I'm thinking I won't let us have the vaccine for a while at least. A few years. I think they need to critically look at the formula and perfect it now the pandemic isn't as rampant as it was. Until they have I don't want to have it and I'm worried what it could do to my partner's heart. I'm always caring for him trying to make him healthier and I know I need to improve my own health.
Thanks so much for getting to the end of all that. This is 100% truthful and factual. But it is my experience and I'm not trying to sway anybody either way or debate. I just wanted to share my own experience and feelings about it.
I'd also like to add it is medically unadvisable to use other people's medications. I have mental health problems that result in impulsivity. I am not a very reliable source for how and when to take medications. I was risking it because of my desperation.
I ended up shivering cold, really bad pain in my whole arm, a bad headache and I felt a bit confused. The SECOND my shift ended my manager told me to go, he looked like he pitied me.
For the next few days I didn't eat. I tried fresh mango and watermelon but I couldn't really eat it. I was really ill. Shortly after this the vaccine was banned for young people as it is "unsuitable". I felt really upset when I heard this and honestly kinda victimised. Maybe it is the Gen Z in me but I felt like I shouldve been compensated for that. I was given the vaccine before people in their 40s. Why did they use the most vulnerable as guinea pigs?
My second vaccine was also the astra zeneca despite the ban, it was under very strange circumstances. It was the same place but the person doing it was clearly unqualified. He was nervous and kinda mumbled "I'm just doing the vaccines today...." I felt really uncomfortable but went along with it. The vaccine didn't actually go in it fell out of the injection site. They said it is fine but I was doubtful and left quite annoyed. I didnt get ill this time.
My 3rd and final vaccine was finally the pfizer which everyone was telling me is the "good one". I had my first flu shot at the same time.
Now get this. A few weeks later my partner and I both tested positive for covid. He had something called collingitus which he gets because of his bad liver it's basically an infection that requires hospital and anti biotics. Missing his 14 a day medication causes it, or being in cold temperatures. Doing too much labour can also cause it but since I got his weight up that isn't a common trigger anymore. I think he missed one of his meds which is why he got it this time. But it is interesting how I noted he had a sniffle and "flu voice". He gets the flu jab yearly because of how ill he is and he reportedly never gets a cold.
He was in for about 3 days while they treated his liver issue. He came home and on the same day he did my covid started to present. Unfortunately my case was not the same as his. It makes me very emotional remembering it. I was really traumatised by it and felt that it was again unfair that they say "young people will be ABSOLUTELY fine". I wasn't prepared for what happened to me. I feel upset having to recount it now but I think my story needs to be heard.
It didn't gradually get worse. I just SUDDENLY became incredibly ill. My throat was so painful and sore I couldn't speak much or eat. My head was really painful. My fever was severe. I couldn't breathe properly, I had to sleep sat in a chair because if I laid down I couldn't breathe at all and this caused me to have panic attacks. I was hallucinating and confused where I was. I remember telling my partner "I just need to tell my work and dad that I'll be away" (I was living with my dad and working the MCds job at 18 and left that to be with my partner. I was 20 when these covid events were occuring). I was convinced there was a scary looking woman hiding crouched at the bottom of my bed trying to get to me but my partner kept saying nobody was there. My fever was so severe when I was sat in my sleeping chair, naked and with a fan going right at my feet on full I got angry and said to my partner "the fan is broken. I know it is making noise but there is no air coming out" and I went to the bedroom. I put my hand to the fan as I said this and I CLEARLY remember there was no air on my hand (well I couldn't feel it) the fan was not broken.
In an effort to bring down my fever my partner had the bedroom fan on me whilst I laid on the bed naked with a lot of pillows so my body wasn't flat (so I could still breathe) and a cold wet flannel was put on my forehead.
I felt horrible and really wanted to get up but I stayed there for a good hour, trying my best for my partner. I often did similar things to my partner when he got collingitus and we were waiting for ambulance to arrive so I owed it to him to try now it was me with the fever.
Eventually I couldn't take it anymore so I took off the flannel and sat up. My partner just so happened to come in to check on me at the same time. I had such severe nausea. I said to him "bucket quick" (well tried to. Meaning I'm going to be sick)
As soon as I finished this sentence I violently vomited straight outwards. My temperature was now 40 degrees C (104 f) which my partner's ambulance crew had previously told me was seizure level fever and can be fatal.
This experience is why I allow my partner to sweat out his fevers (within reason) instead of doing the cool down thing with the flannel now when he gets collingitus.
My fever had actually climbed to the highest whilst doing the cool down thing on me so.
He called the NHS helpline number and the man was saying I don't need medical attention SOLELY based on my age. When my partner listed my symptoms the man muttered "actually that does sound serious" but he stuck to his original script. I knew this wasn't right but I couldn't even talk without severe pain in my throat.
A week passed. I only got worse. Now I literally could not speak and had to write stuff down when I wanted to say something. This lasted a further 5 days.
I was frustrated and started obsessively googling covid treatments. I eventually found a medical website that said prednisilone works. It is a steroid that reduces inflammation and my symptoms were all inflammation because of the virus.
It's my lucky day. Out of about 8 different medications, most of which my partner takes twice a day (totalling 14 pills plus weight gain shakes and a chewable vitamin) one of them was.. prednisilone.
I didn't care. I was miserable and desperate. I took a course of it for 3 days as the medical website said to do. It wasn't for consumers, the website was more a doctor to doctor study.
It actually worked. I could talk again. I slowly started being able to eat again. The breathlessness lasted months though and was extremely distressing to me. I was worried I had lung damage.
That is my story and the reality of covid 19. I am 20 years old and don't have physical disabilities. My partner is 38 and has CESD a rare disease that means his liver will keep failing about every 15 years requiring more transplants and he has mild heart disease because of it. He is also an ex smoker. He had a sniffle for 3 days. I had the above. This is after we were vaccinated with the "good" one.
I have more recently heard about vaccines being discovered to cause heart problems. After everything, I am afraid to have any more covid vaccines or my partner. It is a tough decision to make because he is so vulnerable a cold, flu, pneumonia or this is supposed to be very risky (risk of death) for him. But on the other hand... if MOST people are vaccinated and we aren't a particularly social couple we never party etc it should be fine right?
Unfortunately this isn't the end. I do have a heart problem now. I get a pain on my left chest area randomly. It has got worse over the year I've had it. I've always put it down to my obesity and eating disorder (I binge, sometimes purge and I'm 250lbs 5"5) It's started to get better as my binges have been getting less severe more recently. But I can't help but worry more about the vaccine because of this.
I'm thinking I won't let us have the vaccine for a while at least. A few years. I think they need to critically look at the formula and perfect it now the pandemic isn't as rampant as it was. Until they have I don't want to have it and I'm worried what it could do to my partner's heart. I'm always caring for him trying to make him healthier and I know I need to improve my own health.
Thanks so much for getting to the end of all that. This is 100% truthful and factual. But it is my experience and I'm not trying to sway anybody either way or debate. I just wanted to share my own experience and feelings about it.
I'd also like to add it is medically unadvisable to use other people's medications. I have mental health problems that result in impulsivity. I am not a very reliable source for how and when to take medications. I was risking it because of my desperation.