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R.P. – Alabama

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"9/23/21

I was a very healthy 62 year old woman. I was employed full time…worked out 3 to 4 days a week and bike riding. The only medication I took was a hormone pill. I had never had COVID. I took the J&J vaccine in July/2021. Immediately after the shot my chin shook very fast up and down like a seizure. I was light headed. I sat for 5 minutes and stood up. I had tunnel vision and dizzy. I was told to sit down and the pharmacy staff was going to watch me. I got back up after 15 minutes and felt funny, unexplainably odd. I went home and was so tired I slept 10 hours, woke up to a headache and my hips all the way to my feet ached and throbbed in pain…I ran a low grade fever for 5 days. My arm was red and very swollen. I was so fatigued and foggy headed I could not get out of bed. I got up on the second day and sat on my back porch only to look at my feet and see these huge bulging veins. One burst the 3rd day. When I would get up to go to the bathroom I could not walk straight. I would run into the walls. I had no coordination. I then proceeded to have terrible stomach cramps and diarrhea. I was sick at my stomach and could not eat. I tried to go into work on the 4th day and barely made it only to come home and collapse in bed. I missed 2 weeks of work. I still, 2 months later, am severely fatigued. I have confusion at times, I cry a lot and am depressed. I went from a very active woman to a falling apart old lady. It was my choice to take the shot after much thought. That is ALL I can say good is it was my choice.

-R.P. - Alabama

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