Covid booster reaction relief

[Crumble2]

I have paroxysmal afib, usually well controlled. I had a Covid booster first week of October and within 3 days was in pain in most of my joints but mainly a shoulder, hands and one foot. I saw a doctor but was offered codeine which I don’t use as my body cannot tolerate the side effects. I ended up in a&e - sent by a physio who warned of risk of sepsis… I’m so grateful to him. I had cellulitis in my hand - I have no idea why. And was told to go back to the gp about the other aches and pains. I didn’t go… it was all muddled, and seems traumatic now. I’d had enough. Since then, I have pains and swelling in different parts of my body. It lasts 2 or 3 days then calms down. In all of this, I cannot take anti inflammatories as I’m on apixaban. I’m going back to the gp this week but have no faith they’ll believe me. I don’t want just pain killers, I would like a way of dealing with this. Can anyone suggest a way forward or even what to say to the doctor?

[secondtry]

I have read that the C-jab has caused far higher problems than other vaccines to date. Evidently, protocols have been developed and fine-tuned with experience to combat those with developed problems and others who have had the jab and want to take early action. For more information you could take a look at the sites of World Council for Health & FLCCC.

You could also discuss with your doctor taking paracetamol for any pain.

[Crumble2 in reply to secondtry]

Thank you, I’ll look on those sites.

[Efka in reply to Crumble2]

Great advice from Secondtry, I too highly recommend the FLCC and World Council for Health protocols and advice.

There is much that can be done alas not yet in practice in most national health services.

Keep hope! Wishing you well, Eva

[mhoam in reply to Crumble2]

By all means visit those sites, however please note they exist to promote anti-vaccination fears and are not, despite their official sounding names, a valid source of medical opinion.

[Wilkie1]

According to Wikipedia the World Council for Health is a pseudo-medical organisation dedicated to spreading misinformation to discourage COVID-19 vaccination, and promoting fake COVID-19 treatments. So if you do look at these resources you'd probably be best not to quote them as sources to your gp.

[Tapanac]

my GP advised me not to have any more covid boosters as they kept setting off my afib and flutter lasting 5/6 weeks and me feeling so ill with it

Hope you’re are soon sorted out

[Vonnegut]

Poor you! I wonder if it was the same as the one before the last covid booster that I received. Apparently, 2 percent of people turned out to have been allergic to it. In my case my arm swelled with red marks and since that healed, the muscle in my left arm is painful when moved and I can’t sleep on my left side as I used to do.

When I actually tested positive for covid almost two years ago, I felt no different and only tested because our daughter, who we’d seen the previous day, told us she had tested positive. I went on to test positive for 14 days and my husband didn’t test positive til my day 10 and he felt no different either. We both tested negative on my day 15 and his day 5. Guess it shows how different we all are like with our heart thing. Good luck with the doc who I hope is better than our lot!

[Rosie0202 in reply to Vonnegut]

I had a similar result from my 4th (and last!) covid jab. It left me with severe pain and limit of movement from the injection site right up to my neck. After months of discomfort and a lot of physiotherapy, two years on, I am still not able to have a full range of movement in that shoulder. It is now clicking and 'creaking' when moved. During sleep if I am on the left hand side, I wake up with a completely frozen hand. I hang it out of the bed and it returns to normal. I mentioned it to my GP early days but they seemed uninterested. It persists to this day and sometimes happens in the other arm now.

[Vonnegut in reply to Rosie0202]

Poor you- your experience sounds much much worse than mine! And when my husband and I actually tested positive for covid we felt no different though it might have precipitated an episode of AF for me when it arrived, ended as usual with an extra 100mg Flecainide as a PIP.

[Crumble2]

Thanks for your replies and good wishes everyone.

I’m not against vaccinations, I’ve had all those offered so far, and I have my regular flu jabs. It was just this one set off the painful reaction.

My older daughter- bless her- has just sent me some notes on how and what I should say to the doctor. I’m certain I’ll be offered a blood test which will be in two weeks time probably. They don't seem to offer anything else now - not even a cursory look at the affected area…. Which seems utterly daft to me 😂

I’ll let you know how it goes.

[Vonnegut in reply to Crumble2]

The blood test routine is probably why it took so long for my PAF to be diagnosed! If I hadn’t gone to Bath Spa with my daughter quite a few years back, to celebrate her birthday and been diagnosed by the paramedics on the way to the hospital, my PAF might still be undiagnosed.

[Crumble2 in reply to Vonnegut]

The consultant said I had probably been in and out of rhythm for years before I was diagnosed. I was in Frankfurt in a very hot August , had a coffee, two glasses of wine, not enough water…. Woke up with my heart dancing away . They were very good at the hospital, tests and advice and information. So it worked well really, even if I don’t speak any German except Danke.

[Vonnegut in reply to Crumble2]

So snappish but your final diagnosis might be even more dramatic than mine!! I only drank coffee rarely before and only used to have a glass of wine with evening meals! Now we have our main meal at lunchtime and have water with it.