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Vaccine Injury Testimonial

Vaccine Injury of Marquita Maria Briscoe


What was your life like before you received the COVID-19 vaccine?

I was with general good health with some comorbid issues I was mananging with no problem. I have been a laborer my whole work career. I had full energy with zero breathing issues or heart issues.

Describe the symptoms and the timeline of the reaction.

I began working in long term care at Sayre Christian Village in Lexington, Ky. We were mandated to take the Pfizer Vaccines. I took 3 total vaccines from 12/30/2020 ,1/20/21 and 10/25/21. I had 3 flu shots in that same time frame and also had shingles vax 2 doses in 2022 and 2023 which made everything worse. I had shingles or Herpes 2 in my nerves of my left leg for the first six months after the vaccines. I had immediately a hard time breathing and myocarditis with all shots. I stayed on 1000mg of valtrex the first six months for the HSV2 in left leg. my immune system attacked my espophagus from summer of 2021 until 2022 of the spring. In the spring of 2022 I started getting optic neuritis that came and went in either eye. That has never stopped. Ear buzzing started in the spring of 2022 as well. It took 15 months into the next year to see a Univeristy of Kentucky Neurologist. In oct of 2022 I took the 1st shingrix in feb of 2023 i had poison ivy and took cortizone. Then two weeks later something ruptured in my throat and the fluid from the rupture burned my throat. The Baptist Health practitioner gave me another cortizone shot with no strep in the the throat. There was no explanation of what it was. by march 2023 I started having headaches at the brain stem. I went to the ER a total of 4 times of 2023 and 2024 and was given migraine cocktails by IV with no explanation. In early 2023 when the brain stem headaches started I started getting nerve and burning pain in my right side of my neck. When i got the herpes burning in my left leg again I took my valtrex and the burning in my right side of neck quit. I begged the baptist health practitioner to test my blood for herpes and chicken pox. She refused. When i had another bad head ache at the brain stem a few weeks from that appointment in oct 2023 she did the blood work and ordered an MRI. The blood work showed high levels of herpes 2 in my blood and the variacella zoster was also high. from oct 2023 til now have have been on high doses of valtrex from 2000 mg a day to 3000 a day. I have been on all kinds of vitamins and I take gabapenton for nervpain. Also in the middle summer of 2023 i was on Repatha for cholestral. My immune system revolted and I got angioadema with esophagus and breathing closing up with large welts on my neck and chest. I stopped the raptha on my own when i read it caused angioadema. In 2024 my work as a grounds worker was affected with esenophilic asthma with my lungs and airway reacted to smoke from weed eaters and equipment i used at work. I began to have diarrhea and i discovered that for the past year that I have felt sick in my central nervous system when eating certain foods. I read an article about wheat gluten and MS symptoms. I went off wheat gluten in june of 2024 and after about 4 months the stoool became normal and my muscles were not drawing up in my left leg anymore. I was feeling a lot better being off the gluten. I was avoiding smoke at work with equipment and i diligently took vitamins and valtrex and gabapenton. When i finally saw UK neurology they gave me shots of cortinzone all thru my skull cap to try and help the neurology symptoms..This was in spring of 2024. The cortizone set me back with managing the herpes 2 burning in my right side of my peripheral nervous system in the right side of my neck. I had to raise my valtrex does back up to 3000 and 4000 mg a day until aug 2024 when it started to quiet down and I stayed on it. until recently over the past 5 months I stayed on 3000 a day again to keep the optic neuritis down in my right eye. I suspect from a scholarly med journal it could be Zoster Eye Disease. Or maybe the begininng of MS or Damage from Herpes virus running high from 2020 of december with my first pfizer shots. The ear buzzing is still in my left ear. since 2022 also at night from 3am to 6 am my heart would pound. In jan , feb 2025 I had 2ER visits when my heart pounded out of my chest and one other time visit when my blood pressure went way high. In the spring of 2025 my doctor finally put me on low dose of blood pressure meds Metoprolol 25mg. In the spring of 2024 I found on my own at the NIH website the Yale LISTEN study. I used this as a tool to make all my doctors acknowledge that this was what my problems were. They still won't verbalize it but they just listen and take the info. Pfizer was a sponsor at UK. The ER heart doc told me candidly that no doctor is going to speak against pfizer. I live day to day praying I don't have any episodes with head aches or blood pressure or hearth issues that send me to the ER. I am still a laborer but I have to rest at night. I still push thru with as much activity as possible. my big struggle the past year is not being able to sleep as sound as before covid 2020. I want to be in any Yale study or any study that will let me self report or do blood work or MRI or PET scans. I do not want spinal taps because i don't want the viruses HSV2 or chickenpox make it into my spinal fluid. I see my eye doctor every 6 months and he is away of all of it. My lypmpth system has been exhausted since the beginning. the lympth in my legs have been hard for 3 years. I feel pain in my stomach and left side and in my groin at times. I have been scared, depressed and afraid my life span is shortened because I took the vaccines. I am a generally happy person by nature. I am determined to know how much of the spike protein is left from the MRNA in my system. In the past year I struggles with bladder incontinence and and hoping to get help with that. I have a toe nail that needs to come off to be checked for melanoma both bladder doc and dermatologist want to see how my immune system is going to do over time before any procedures. My immune system tends to attack medical treatments.

Describe the solutions that helped your symptoms

Valtrex has been a life saver preventing viruses from damaging me further. I have been on high doeses intermentanly for about 15 years. I have taken vit E for 15 year. I have taken liquid b12 for 3 years. I have used albuterol and other meds for reactive airway. When i have to lead my doctors on what tests i have needed based on symptoms Google AI has been most helpful.

Which solutions were not helpful?

Being deminished by healthcare professionals by never admitting what we are all going thru. Having health bills I cant pay. The bills should go to pfizer. Its scary the state of the US government on these issues.

What would you like others to know?

I want to be part of the solution to know the damage and to get the spike protiens out of my systm if possible. I want to live as long as I can.

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