Vaccine Injury of Kristy Keirsey

I was running marathons, ran every day 3-5 miles, worked two jobs and went to school full-time. Was fixing to get married. I was happier than I had ever been in my whole life and healthier. My life is nonexistent now.

I had Covid in November 2020. I was required to have Covid vaccine because I was a government employee. I was given first Covid vaccination by the VA on December 23, 2020 and the second one January 2021. The second vaccination caused me to have a hypertensive emergency immediately following injection. My throat got tight and my chest and I became really lightheaded. I was taken to Urgent Care at the VA until I stabilized. After the first injection, I started losing my hair and having episodes of muscle weakness. After second, reaction, and my health continued to decline. I was having episodes where it felt like my right lung wouldn't expand, muscle weakness, crying uncontrollably. After about 9 months they found I had an immune deficiency and my total IgG was low. Also, my red blood cell count and hemoglobin and hematocrit continued to decline. Muscle weakness became permanent and fatigue was unbearable. I have ME/CFS now with PEM, exercise intolerance, neuropsychiatric issues-cried uncontrollably for 3 years, horrible vision issues and I can not even see to put make-up on anymore and my vision was perfect before, my joints are destroyed with knots in all of them from arthritis, I itch uncontrollably when my skin is exposed to air or cold water, vasomotor issues, positive autoimmune tests, immune dysregulation, orthostatic problems (undiagnosed POTS), I could go on and on. I have been sick since January 2021. I am a severe LC/Vaccine Injury. I have been denied accommodations by the VA even though I had emergency after vaccination requiring Urgent Care treatment. I have had to pay attorney fees of 30,000 dollars to fight against what the VA has done to me. I just got denied SSDI by an Administrative Law Judge on Friday. According to this man, I am capable of working 6 hours a day 5 days a week. I only leave my house a couple times a week and this is what is being done to me. The more I stand up and fight for what happened to me, the more I get punished. I have even been punished by the DOJ for filing my case in district court because the VA would not give any decisions on my case and I am receiving sanction threats for filing against the VA. I live scared. I have lost my career, my health, my independence, and was made to feel like a criminal at my SSDI hearing. Such a heartbreaking situation for all of us. Doctors won't do any paperwork for me, to include Washington University in St. Louis where I have been included in research. Such a demoralizing illness. The pain of being called a liar when you feel like you are dying and nobody will help is probably one of the worst pains any of us could ever feel. We have been tasked with having to figure out our own illness with no help, no direction, judgement from others, on top of managing a serious disabling disease. Again, such a demoralizing illness. To feel like you are being judged during a SSDI hearing by a judge that is uninformed is a fight nobody but us will understand. I have lost faith in human beings and unfortunately, I and others with this illness, have seen the ugly most will never experience in their entire lives and I hope they never do. I watched the video REACT19 put out last night and I cried the whole time seeing others experience the same battles I have fought for over 5 years now. REACT19 is a blessing for our community.

I am on IVIG, but was prescribed it because I developed immune deficiency, after vaccination and Covid. It has helped me some, but not a lot. LDN helped me tremendously with neuropsychiatric condition I was experiencing. It is only thing that stopped me from crying uncontrollably. Cromolyn Sodium helped a lot, along with Zyrtec and famotidine with MCAS symptoms. Ice is only thing that will control the itching I experience. I can not be under a fan or by an air conditioning vent because it will trigger me to itch and it isn't a normal itch, it is a neurological itch. I am on Adderall and would never get out of bed at all if I did not have it. I experienced that last week because there was a shortage and I was unable to get out of bed for the whole week until I was able to get medication. I also was started on Ipratropium Bromide to help vasomotor congestion and it helps a lot when I have burning inflammation in my nose and sinuses, which usually is triggered by a fan as well. !

I was in Recover Paxlovid trial and received 15 day course of Paxlovid. It did not help me at all and during the trial I was having ruptured blood vessels in my eyes and a lot of weird stuff happening.
I am now in Scripps Clinical Trial for GLP-1 and I have not been able to tell as of yet if it has helped me, but I have lost 25 pounds so regardless it has to be helping somewhere with overall health. Will update when I am further along in trial.

We all have to stick together. Its the most isolating, quality of life stealing, career ending, life altering disease I have ever seen in my life. Never give up! I want to all the time, but If I were to give up I would never be able to forgive myself. I can't sit back and watch uneducated people gaslight us all and ignore us. As hard as this is to be under nonstop stress on top of being this sick, it would be much harder for me if I let them get away with it. Stand up the best you can for yourself and others and never give up. We will win this! May take a bit, but we will.