Catherine Deppa

Took 4th vaccination- Pfizer Bivalent Omicron on Sept 28th 2022. On Oct 12th experienced burning patches all over my legs like sunburn and by the evening my blood pressure spiked to 210/110 and pulse was 120. My blood pressure is usually about 125/75 and pulse about 65. This was very severe. I tried to go to bed and relax and just felt worse so drove myself to ER. I was hospitalized for 2 days. They put me on an ARB and sent me home. This didn’t help much. On 21 Sept I woke up at 430am in a cold sweat blood pressure was 169/99 pulse 117. I had severe chest pains and thought I was having a heart attack and called 911. The 911 operator told me to chew an aspirin which actually helped a lot. Later I learned that some of these symptoms could be helped with aspirin so I have started taking 1 regular aspirin per day. I took a leave of absence from my work from 12 Oct till 22 Dec because I was so fatigued and had no stamina to even walk to the mail box. I would wake up every morning and not feel like I slept at all. I went to many doctors and none of them could figure out what was wrong. My primary care sent me to neurology, allergy/ immunology, rheumatology and endocrinology. ANA came back positive so they tested me for autoimmune diseases which all came back negative. I suffered lots of pain in my arms - especially right forearm that traveled up through the elbow into my tricep and bicep. I still have this everyday although it’s less now that I take estradiol.I also had a lot of pain in many of the fibromyalgia points and so the rheumatologist diagnosed me with fibromyalgia but alot of these pains were lessened when I started estradiol. I am able to work part time now and do some chores. Blood pressure is under control without ARB medication.