{"id":1390,"date":"2023-11-19T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottishvaccineinjurygroup.org\/?page_id=1390"},"modified":"2023-12-16T12:53:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T12:53:19","slug":"liz-copy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scottishvaccineinjurygroup.org\/?page_id=1390","title":{"rendered":"Louise"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Hi, my names Louise and I\u2019m Covid Vaccine Injured.
<\/strong>Prior to the vaccine I had numerous health issues M.E.\/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Asthma and Chronic Pain.\u00a0 I was classed as disabled but if I thought that was being disabled, I was in for a shock!<\/strong><\/p>

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When Covid hit, I was immediately classed as vulnerable. I had to shield from my family, it was awful.\u00a0 When I heard in the news that they had produced 2 vaccines (Pfizer and AstraZeneca) I was over the moon.\u00a0 They said if we got the vaccine it would stop Covid spreading and we would be safe from catching it and life would return to ‘normal’.\u00a0 How wrong they were for me and thousands of others.\u00a0
<\/strong>On 10 th February 2021, I had my first vaccine. I was so excited. I was given the Astra Zeneca and told to expect flu like symptoms for about 48hrs, sore arm etc.\u00a0 Which I did.\u00a0 Three or four days later I was absolutely fine.\u00a0 Eight days later and the palpitations I was having were awful – they made me feel dizzy and sick, so I went to see my GP.\u00a0 She sent me to the hospital the next day for an ECG.\u00a0 All ten seconds of it showed nothing.\u00a0 This same day, I thought to myself, my speech doesn’t seem right but anyone I asked said it was fine.\u00a0 Two days after the ECG, I had a full blown stammer!\u00a0 Not linking anything to the vaccine, the GP thought it may have been a TIA or stroke so sent me for a scan – it was normal.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

Absolutely stumped, my GP done an urgent referral to Neurology.\u00a0 In April 2021, the neurologist diagnosed me with Functional Neurological disorder (FND).\u00a0 I was given a website to look at and sent on my way, with an appointment to return in August.\u00a0 That wasn’t good enough in my opinion but there was nothing |I cold do about it.\u00a0 I was being left with severe communication difficulties and palpitations that were preventing me from leaving the house as I was getting very light headed and falling all the time.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Fast forward to 5 th May 2021, my second Covid vaccine. I\u2019m 7 days I\u00a0would be protected from getting Covid, shielding would hopefully\u00a0end and I can physically see my family again. This was exciting, but I\u00a0was still worried I still had the severed Stammer. I had none of the\u00a0flu like side effects I had the first time round either so it was great.\u00a0 Two weeks later though the falls got worse, still had the palpitations,\u00a0stammer but more things were happening as the days went on.<\/strong><\/p>

On June, I had a bad chest infection that required me to stay in\u00a0hospital for 14days IV antibiotics, even during these 14 days the\u00a0symptoms kept coming. I now had tremors, spasms, and Tics ! Yes\u00a0tics. I actually couldn\u2019t take this any more. It clicked in the hospital\u00a0that it could be the vaccine but no one would listen. I was feeling\u00a0awful, I cried for days because the symptoms were horrific. I didn\u2019t\u00a0want to be here any more.<\/strong><\/p>

I got discharged, I called the speech therapist to say why I\u2019d missed\u00a0my appointment abs told her I\u2019d gotten so much worse since my 2 nd\u00a0Covid vaccine and I was struggling to get through the day. I thought I\u00a0would be better off dead. I couldn\u2019t put my kids through watching\u00a0me struggle like this. Dependent on them. She contacted the\u00a0Neurologist and I was seen again a week later. She was still adamant\u00a0about her FND diagnosis but would speak to her colleagues and see if\u00a0they could find out what\u2019s going on especially since my scans were all\u00a0fine. I continued to cry, struggle and get some sort of life back hit it\u00a0was hopeless. I was called back to the neurologist in August.<\/strong><\/p>

I went back to the neurologist on the 16 th August 2021, and she\u00a0asked me how I was. To cut a long story short, I said I\u2019m struggling\u00a0I\u2019m almost positive the vaccine has caused all this. She then told me\u00a0and my son, that they had taken my notes and added them to a\u00a0study they had done from January-July 2021 and the official\u00a0diagnosis she was now giving was \u2018functional neurological disorder\u00a0triggered by Covid-19 AstraZeneca Vaccine\u2019 I asked for it to be out\u00a0on my record that the vaccine caused this and she was happy to do\u00a0\u00a0that. I also asked if there was any medication, injection or\u00a0treatment that would reverse these symptoms, and I was advised\u00a0no! I said I need to get better as my son gets married in 6 weeks, she\u00a0said sadly I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll now be better for that, I\u2019ll send you\u00a0some information on how to cope on the day.<\/strong><\/p>

By now my symptom list had grown so much. I had palpitations,\u00a0stammer, tremors, tics, spasms, drop attacks, migraine, tinnitus,\u00a0numbness &amp; tingling, dizziness, word thinking issues, memory\u00a0problems, coordination and cognitive issues, insomnia, my\u00a0respiratory condition had deteriorated fast, reactions to\u00a0medications, blurred vision, Lack of depth perception, rash on legs,\u00a0muscle weakness in legs, difficulty climbing stairs, 24\/7 internal\u00a0vibrations, difficulty reading, interpretation &amp; writing, noise and light\u00a0sensitive to name a few. . . .<\/strong><\/p>

I\u2019ve now had 7 neurology appointments and we are no further\u00a0forward. I\u2019ve asked for testing for GBS (as I suspect I had this in June\u00a021 whilst I was in hospital), Srojens and MCAS. I was told that\u00a0because I doubted her diagnosis (only the FND part) she would send\u00a0me to a Long Covid clinic to see if that neurologist could come up\u00a0with anything else incase she was wrong. That neurologist literally\u00a0just said I think you do have FND and that was it. No option of other\u00a0tests nothing. A total waste of an appointment.<\/strong><\/p>

Today, I still have all the above symptoms and more. I have learnt\u00a0how to cope with them, although most days I struggle to get out of\u00a0bed. I rarely leave the house except to meet a friend for a short\u00a0walk. I don\u2019t go out myself unless I\u2019m having a really good day and\u00a0even then it\u2019s the local shop for food as I have real problems with\u00a0social anxiety due to my speech, tics and tremors.<\/strong><\/p>

When I eventually managed to scan over the leaflet I got with the\u00a0AstraZeneca vaccine it says if any neurological symptoms are noticed\u00a0within 14 days to consult the hospital. My GP did, but because no\u00a0\u00a0one made that connection the chances of me Joe getting better are\u00a0slim to none. This is now my life, I sit and look at the same 4 walls\u00a0every day, I have no money because I have to lay for a lot of my own\u00a0therapies (NHS give you 10 sessions and that\u2019s it). My respiratory\u00a0condition has deteriorated so much, I was recently admitted to\u00a0hospital with pneumonia (and some pleurisy) I\u2019ve had to cash in what\u00a0little pension I had to pay for tradesmen to come in and finish\u00a0decorating the house for me as I\u2019m not fit to do it and sitting in a\u00a0building site wasn\u2019t good for my mental health.\u00a0So thanks to AstraZeneca for the lovely gift that keeps on giving day\u00a0after day, for ruining my life, taking away my social life, my ability to\u00a0go to gatherings, cinema, shopping and all the normal thing a\u00a0mother, grandmother and friend would do. This isn\u2019t a life worth\u00a0living, this is existing in hell. Do they care? Absolutely not, will they\u00a0help? Absolutely not!, will they look further to see what else is going\u00a0on, absolutely not! All I can say is if it wasn\u2019t for my fantastic GP\u00a0(who\u2019s hands are tied as to what he can authorise) I wouldn\u2019t be here\u00a0today. He is the only one who gives me time to talk and express how\u00a0I am feeling, the others talk over me. To them I\u2019m not worth listening\u00a0to.<\/strong><\/p>

I have contact me MSP to ask for help, but I hear nothing back. If it\u00a0wasn\u2019t for my kids, I\u2019d 100% not be here today. I don\u2019t want to live\u00a0like this. I don\u2019t want to be a 1\/3 if the person I was. I want to be the\u00a0fun loving, outgoing, happy go lucky person I was. It that so much to\u00a0ask? I know if it was their family affected by the vaccine, they\u2019d fight\u00a0tooth and nail to have them treated, so why not do the same for me?<\/strong><\/p>

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Back to Our Stories Louise Hi, my names Louise and I\u2019m Covid Vaccine Injured.Prior to the vaccine I had numerous health issues M.E.\/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Asthma and Chronic Pain.\u00a0 I was classed as disabled but if I thought that was being disabled, I was in for a shock! \u00a0 When Covid hit, I was immediately classed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1390","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottishvaccineinjurygroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottishvaccineinjurygroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottishvaccineinjurygroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottishvaccineinjurygroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottishvaccineinjurygroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/scottishvaccineinjurygroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3590,"href":"https:\/\/scottishvaccineinjurygroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1390\/revisions\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottishvaccineinjurygroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}