Doctors and nurses are among the thousands of individuals coping with severe COVID-19 vaccine reactions.

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Since early this year, medical professionals have discussed COVID-19 vaccines on an online forum hosted by Medscape – see my previous report here. As time has passed, a growing number have described adverse reactions they, themselves, experienced after receiving these vaccines. (All bolding of text below by me, some quotes contain misspellings and grammatical errors.)

In late February, Dr Danice Hertz wrote about getting her first Pfizer shot. Thirty minutes afterward, she developed

severe burning in my face, dizziness and a very high spike in blood pressure. For the past nine weeks, I have had severe paresthesias [burning, tingling] in my face, tongue, chest wall and limbs as well as dizziness, headaches, tremor and weakness. I am incapacitated and fear that I will not recover. I have been unable to find physicians in the community who know anything about this or how to treat me. I have reached out to the top people at the FDA, CDC and NIH. They admit that they are fully aware of these neurological reactions and are looking into them. Why are they not being publicized? It makes it very difficult for people like me to get medical care.

In April, Dr Elizabeth Bollenbacher reported blood in her urine, a broken blood vessel in her eye, and deafness in one ear following a Pfizer vaccine. “I am worried about what comes next,” she wrote.

Critical care nurse Kim Bertholf received her first Pfizer shot in December, and her second in January. “I have tried to be positive and not discourage others from getting the vaccine,” she wrote in early May,

But over the last 3 months I’ve experienced increasing weakness…Muscular pain, joint pain in shoulders, elbows, wrists, hand/fingers. No one seems to have any answers…I am just praying this will eventually improve and I will not be getting any boosters.

Jason F, a critical care paramedic, sought medical care for abdominal pain and blood in his urine five days after receiving his first Moderna shot. After a CT scan identified two small kidney stones, he felt certain his symptoms were unrelated to the vaccine. But six days after his second shot, he was “doubled over in abdominal pain again.” Subsequent scans revealed two large kidney stones, two new stones, and an enlarged spleen of unknown cause. He reports:

no one takes me seriously when I bring up vaccine…Im 44 years old and other than being overweight, no other significant history. Unless it can be shown that they are unrelated, I will not get the booster and have serious concerns about what’s happening inside my body.

Dr Cassandra Balomiri is a 29-year-old medical resident in Germany. In June, more than three months after receiving an AstraZeneca COVID vaccine (she chose Pfizer for her second shot in May), she described a constellation of ongoing symptoms on the Medscape forum, including visual problems, dizziness, and tingling/numbness/spasms in her extremities. Explaining that numerous medical tests had failed to identify any cause, she described this as “the most horrible experience of my life.”

In another post a few days later, she observed that those suffering from vaccine side effects “are just ignored!…no one in the medical system really supports you” in Germany, she said, for fear of appearing to be an anti-vaxxer. “I am not against vaccine and have many friends/family who had no problems after Covid Vaccine,” she wrote, “but this does not mean that the rest of us, even if we’re not that many, should be ignored.”

Similarly, a Swiss biologist reported suffering muscle and joint pain for a month, beginning the day after receiving her first Pfizer shot:

Electric shocks and burning sensations in the legs, arms and hands. Severe brain fog, lack of concentration. Inability to walk, to dress, to hold a glass of water in my hand. Inability to sleep due to pain. I consulted my doctor who told me that there was nothing to do with the vaccination and thought of multiple sclerosis. I contacted the equivalent of the FDA in Switzerland, but no one listened to me…I canceled the second dose…and I’ll not vaccinate my children.

In June, six months after a Canadian registered nurse and hospital administrator received her first Moderna shot, she described muscle pain, spasms, headaches, and fatigue:

I was a healthy 38 year old…mom of 2 but the zip of energy I’ve always had feels gone…My menstrual cycle has always been a solid 28 days but now is random…with numerous tiny clots like the piles on a sweater. I have never seen such a thing and it worries me…Would I take the vaccine again? Yes, but I am finished reproducing. Would I let either of my children take it? No way.

A 28-year-old “exceptionally health athlete outside of work,” Erin Helgason says “I got my vaccines as soon as I could while health care professionals were being prioritized in my province.” During the 10 weeks since then, Helgason has experienced episodic leg, chest, and neck pain, as well as high blood pressure. But numerous x-rays, scans, and blood tests have failed to identity any cause. “Im terrified that I’m never going to feel normal again.”

Echoing Jason F’s account regarding additional kidney stones, Mike D reported that his advanced lung cancer, which had been stable for six years, appears to have gotten worse following his two doses of the Moderna vaccine. Dr Erich Glenn Acebedo then chimed in: “I have two patients with stage 1 cancer. Now have progression of their disease after 2 doses of the vaccines.” Elaborating elsewhere, Acebedo claims tumour growth was evident “within days” of the second dose, and that a possible link between these events should be investigated.

Among many other disturbing tales to be found on this forum is that of Shaun Barc, a 52-year-old male research nurse practitioner who described himself as healthy prior to vaccination, taking no medications and with no chronic illnesses. “As a nurse I am extremely pro-vaccine,” he wrote, “but I am stunned at the lack of a mechanism to address and help the small percentage that have encountered severe, persisting side effects.”

During the six months since his second vaccine dose, Barc has experienced muscle spams, severe headaches, eye problems, abdominal pain, insomnia, a racing heart, and high blood pressure. “As a researcher who worked on the vaccine trials, I told the ER doc that I was pretty certain I was having a reaction to the vaccine. He was too quick to dismiss this.”

Barc has also been plagued by a “frightening and debilitating” ringing in his right ear. His hearing tests have all been normal, however, and three  specialists have told him he’ll “have to learn to live with it.” Despite working in the medical field, and despite his “relentless” search for answers, he says “it is a struggle to find anyone who knows anything about vaccine reactions.”

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