So I got the Pfizer shot.

The first week was like any vaccine. Feeling off. But nearing the end of the second week my heart started to race, I was getting pins and needles in the arms, extreme fatigue and a very strange sensation of dizziness. I took nurofen, and I kept working.

By the end of the third week i was getting steadily worse. Sharp chest pain, cold shivers and chills, and the dizziness was intense.

25 days after the shot and probably a little late to hospital, but here I am, diagnosed with pericarditis, or inflammation of the heart due to the Pfizer vaccine.

Since being here I’ve contacted health professionals I know in Sydney and while It’s rare, it’s certainly not isolated. One hospital has had well over a dozen cases like me.
This is not a post for sympathy. The hospital and staff at the Gold Coast uni hospital have been beyond great and although it’s all new territory I’m told I’ll make a full recovery although I could be like this for months.

Thankfully I have the worlds smallest nurse keeping an eye on my ever present ECG.

But my present thought would be: in the current vaccine frenzy, no one is talking about this but it’s clearly happening, and if you want the vaccine and have any heart history it would be worth talking to your GP about your vaccine choice, especially as AZ is readily available and does not have this side effect.

If you don’t want the vaccine, I don’t have a problem with that either, but life and travel will get difficult for you.

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