Vaccine Injury of Gulnara Niaz

COVID-19 Vaccine Injury, Phase 2, 2021

Hey there!

I wanted to share my experience following the first two COVID-19 vaccines, which I received on March 18 and April 16, 2021. After those shots, I noticed some health issues that were not at all clear to the healthcare professionals or me at the time.

Following the first mandatory vaccine, I had a tough five days of feeling unwell. I made sure to inform the staff during my second dose, yet my concerns were brushed aside as just a normal reaction. The second shot took a significant toll on me, causing really severe hallucinations and lasting sickness for two weeks—something I’ve never encountered in my life.

As spring rolled around, I began to notice more peculiar symptoms:

• Plugged ears

• Vanishing voice

• Sinus troubles

• Swollen eyelids that looked like blisters

• Low energy makes workouts challenging

• rejection to medication

• grey hair overnight

Medical professionals, I was told it was simply a sign of aging, which felt pretty off because I wasn’t experiencing typical aging symptoms.

My primary care doctor suggested allergies, although I only had an allergy to cat dander and/or saliva that results in inflammation and asthma symptoms, which didn’t require an inhaler unless I was around cats.

Before all this, I used to work out 5-6 times a week—lifting weights, doing cardio, running up to 13 miles, mountain biking, and enjoying evening walks.

After the COVID Vaccine Booster, I faced new symptoms.

Then came the advice to get the COVID-19 Vaccine Booster alongside the Influenza Vaccine on November 11, 2021—something that was labeled as in my best interest despite my previous reactions to the influenza vaccine.

I informed the pharmacist at CVS, and I hope the pharmacist will understand better, knowing the chemical compound aspects involved.

Since the mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine and Booster and Influenza Vaccine, I have struggled to regain my health.

For the first nearly three months, I fought a temperature above 101 degrees and up, needing medication every three hours to keep my temperature low. Every night, I was drenched in sweat until May 2023 and still deal with lingering symptoms today.

I often had to shift positions in bed multiple times since walking or crawling became difficult. My body felt like it was on fire, my bones twisted in pain, and I sensed a sort of brain glitch that I found hard to explain to my doctor, feeling almost like brain damage or a severe concussion.

I came to truly understand what disabling fatigue means, sleeping around 17-20 hours a day, with my entire body constantly feeling inflamed - pains, burning fire.

Here's a summary of my experiences:

• After the first vaccine, I was under the weather for 5 days.

• Post the second vaccine, I had two weeks of illness and throat, ear, and vision

issues, including hallucinations.

• After my third vaccine, I dealt with a temperature for 2.5-3 months and ongoing

issues for the next 2.5 years.

Some ongoing symptoms have included:

• Persistent fever for 2.5-3 months.

• Continuous challenges with concentration, confusion, and severe brain glitches

for the next 2.5 years, and have not stopped. Still dealing with it if I get any

chemical interaction.

• Overwhelming fatigue, nausea, and pain that felt like my bones were on fire

with twisting pains.

• Fight pulse in my knees, alongside a burning sensation. I knew it was arthritis,

but medical professionals still do not believe me. I have no history of it in my

family.

• Constantly sleeping 17-20 hours a day and struggling to understand basic day[1]to-day tasks or finances.

• Blurred vision with no clarity of depth perception.

• Inability to perform physical activities, even the lightest tasks, made me

fatigued and in need of naps.

• Swollen eyelids resembling blisters, night sweats, and chills.

• A persistent burning sensation all over my body and ringing in my ears.

• Sudden voice loss.

• migraines, headaches,

• a feeling of lost time and space, and sensation.

I have been diagnosed with Post COVID Vaccine Injury and continue to face debilitating fatigue and cognitive slowdowns. I am currently attending a Post-COVID clinic at Brigham Mass General since March 2023 and have found it hard to keep up with rent and debt that accumulated over the last five (5) years due to this COVID-19 Vaccine Injury.

I truly grasp how severe my situation was, particularly for the first two and a half years.

Simple text messages were incomprehensible at times—one as basic as “Hi, how are you?” could leave me confused, and there have been many days where I’ve not replied to messages for hours, days, or even months at a stretch.

In September 2023, I got COVID and, though I was very sick, I found some clarity afterward and began keeping a journal, which I showed to my primary physician in March 2024.

Now, six months after having COVID, I hope it might restart my system, though some symptoms remain, and others were clear to understand.

My ongoing post-COVID vaccine syndrome includes:

• Continued brain glitches, as if the neurons are misfiring.

• Persistent pain and extreme fatigue in my body.

• I can see like 3 D my electric storm in my brain and going down the spine

• skin burning sensations

• numbness

• Ongoing gastrointestinal issues.

• Heart Arrhythmia and pain.

• Difficulties with understanding and cognitive clarity.

• Bones on fire and twisted pain

• Lungs on fire

• Dermatology: skin rashes, itching

• Blurry vision

• Ear issues, monotone sounds.

• migraines and headaches

• along with debilitating fatigue

• Inability to lift anything without fatigue. Couldn’t perform any physical activities.

To lift one pound halfway above my head: one time. It was taking a lot of my energy, so I needed to take a long nap.

• Night sweats and episodes of feeling cold to my core, chills, and freezing.

• Sleeping 12 to 15 hours a day and still needing to take long naps.

DIAGNOSES

Tinnitus, Arthritis, Depression, Anxiety, Small Fiber Neuropathy, Migraines, Tachycardia, Heart irregularity, Shortness of Breath, Debilitating Fatigue, Dermatology (skin hives), Noise, and Throat, Paresthesia, MCAS, POTS

Since recovering from the latest COVID in September 2023, I had a break for less than a month. I felt I was alive and my body again mine. Then the symptoms come back, but I can identify them now.

Before the COVID-19 Vaccine Injury, I was quite active—my work as a photographer was quite physical. I was very creative: modeling, fashion design, painting, graphic design, photography, styling, MUA, HMUA, knitting, crasher, and so on.

I have degrees in BA & MBA in 2 systems: post-Soviet and European (Kyrgyz National University, European Faculty from Grenoble), Certificate in IT in the UK, Certificate in Photography, Bethesda, MD.

Physical: I was working out frequently and feeling vibrant after workouts. I could once run up to 13 miles, mountain biking, hot yoga, yoga, pilates, hiking for days, weeks, and long walks in the evening after my workouts. I was biking my groceries to a small hill in Brookline.

But little time organizing or planning has become incredibly challenging, and physical activity - not workouts- leaves me needing to take naps for hours afterward and in non-stop pain.

The difference between before Covid Vaccine and now.

 I used to be hesitant about taking risks for the past 5years, whereas now I feel more confident to get involved in the medical studies. For the past 5 years, I couldn't trust my own perception and struggled to feel grounded in time. Cannot feel Space and Time.

When I got diagnosed with SFN. My primary doctor prescribed Nortriptyline till I could see the Neurologist, who prescribed Duloxetine.

Then I started experiencing:

- Extreme Burning of the skin or m y internal organs.

- My hips and legs were experiencing significant crackling pain.

- Feeling nauseous, and there’s pain in my spine.

- Extreme sweating. My spine and skin are experiencing these strange hot and cold

sensations.

- Chills which start in my Frontal Lobes or Whole Brain and go through my

Cerebellum Core and down the spine till my limbs.

- Half of my face and scalp hurt.

- Burning sensations all over my body and internal organs

Like that extreme reaction can cause stopping meds, but maybe decreasing too??

Doctor decrease, but chemical is still chemicals.

Flair October to December 2024

My last flair episode felt like a long electroshock.

My hair is turning grey again and falling out. Feels like I will get bold in not time.

Why are painkillers not really working?

After 3 months of couch bed:

- 85-92 degrees temperature

- Pulse and monotone noise in my head.

- Bruises from scratching

- Under 2 blankets with close on Freezing

- Chills very persistent

- Numbness, tingling

- Part of the body like ice

- Pain like in a meat grinder, mashing

- Pulse - drop - echo

- Nauseous, stomach hurts, burping, burning stomach.

- Drowses

- Pin & needles

- Stabbing

- Ear Ringing

- Continuous electronic sound

- Pulse and monotone noise in my head

- Skinned skin

- Itching but cannot scratch

- Feet sweating, drenching sweat

- Muscle tension

- hot-cold, sharp needle through my right temple

- feel my spin has been ripped on my thighs - been skinned

- All body burns and cold fireworks.

- Limps are icy cold, frostbites.

- Pulsing pain with ripple effects

- Burst of pains

- Noise burns like I am underwater

- I have a hard time breathing.

- Extreme sadness.

- Cold Burning

- Sharp pins & needles.

- Frozen brain & frontal lobe

- Chills and freeze started from the Frozen brain & frontal lobe. down to the spine and allowed the body

- Blocking ears

- Blustery eyes with a red color in the morning

- Earring ringing

- It feels like a pulse in my head - the left side

- migraines - headaches

- Clenching my teeth

- Blind in the right eye

- Bone pain

Numbness

- Electrical sensation

This is torture. This is a LIMBO AND PURGATORY.

December 14, 2024

Listen, gotta be last message. I was in so much pain for the past four weeks. I cannot take this pain anymore.

From February 11 to June, 2025

I’m running a fever, fluctuating between 99 and 99.7. I’ve been struggling over the past few days, especially when my feet feel icy cold down to the bone. When I apply a heating pad, my feet start burning intensely. This distracts me from the pain, but I wonder if this is related to the intense burning I experienced for 2.5 years, which seemingly covered up other extreme pain I was feeling.

I now realize how severe my condition was during those first 2.5 years. There were times I couldn’t comprehend anything. I would look at simple text messages asking, "Hi?" and feel overwhelmed, often reading them upside down, delaying my replies for hours, days, or even months.

December 2025 - January, 2026

I recall from my notes that when I asked my Primary Physician to remove my recommendations for the COVID and Influenza vaccines from my portal, due to my allergies, as declared by my infectious disease doctor. My Primary Physician informed me that the CDC recommends these vaccines for COVID survivors and tried to persuade me to get them.

I realized that I was experiencing more pain and that it wasn't improving, so I made the decision to STOP.

Additionally, I no longer have Mass Health since February 2025, nor do I have food stamps. It has been quite a challenge.

Finding employment to alleviate some of my financial burdens feels hopeless since I can hardly manage my day-to-day activities.

Thank you for letting me share my story. Despite my ongoing suffering, I hope to soon express all that has happened to me and continue seeking help and understanding.