Reaction to covid injection - months later.

[Circleconfused1234]

Hello, just wonder if anyone has felt wiped out months after the covid injection. I have never had covid. Regular testing for over a year.

My first injection was late January. I had a terrible reaction. Sore left side, fever for 48 hrs and terrible fatigue for 2 weeks. Slowly felt better, but the fatigue stayed.

Second injection beginning of April. No fever or soreness but again terrible fatigue that hasn’t gone away and added brain fog. I struggled to concentrate at work.

I called my dr to discuss fatigue a few weeks ago as it is really affected my day to day life. I also can’t sleep well. No trouble falling asleep but I wake up at 4am for 30 minutes fall back asleep and turn up again at 6.30 am for work. It’s exhausting. When I wake up I am not worrying or thinking about anything. It’s a dirty habit for months. I don’t feel stressed. This has happened since the first injection.

Gp did blood test. My results have come back as elevated white blood cell count of 14.9. They think it may be virus related. It’s getting repeated.

However I was ok until I had my vaccine. My GP says I have had an extreme reaction. They now wonder if it’s the vaccine that’s caused my high wbc? GP says I have classic signs of long covid. Like my body thinks it’s fighting something off.

I haven’t had covid as I get fortnightly blood and pcr tests through a clinical trial. I was negative with both. My blood only showed positive antibodies after my injection.

Anyone any suggestions? Or felt the same?

Iron supplements? Menopause?

How can it possibly be the vaccine that's nuts. You're finding correlation where you should see coincidence.

Elevated white blood cell count has nothing to do with the menopause or needing iron supplements.

It’s the doctor who’s said it’s virus related like long COVID. The doctor said it was an extreme reaction to the vaccine. Is that right OP?

Hi there, I actually posted about this Monday on this thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4249602-Has-anyone-with-ME-Chronic-fatigue-Post-viral-fatigue-had-a-vaccine

I had mild M.E. following a different virus 3 years prior to the vaccine but this had been stable.. Within two weeks of the vaccine, my overall health took a severe downturn. Lots of blood tests which showed white blood cell elevation but also thyroid antibodies and low FSH. I had full blood counts twice last year with none of these issues. I am pretty sure I haven't had Covid either, certainly no symptoms.

I have severe fatigue now and am/was in two minds about having my second jab. I am even less inclined to have it now....

Me. I had long Covid symptoms for 2 months after my second Pfizer dose. They seem to have gone as been ok for nearly a week now but you never know, they ebb and flow.

Fatigue, weird moving joint pains, brain fog, low grade fever. Not really able to function the majority of the time.

Why do you all think it's the vaccine? It makes no sense!

If a health issue occurs after the vaccine and a GP thinks the health issue is caused by the vaccine, id say there is a chance the health issue is caused by the vaccine.

I’m very surprised they’ve said it could be the vaccine when it’s much more likely you’ve now got a viral infection of some sort.

It would my guess that the GP meant that the OP had an extreme reaction at the time of her clubs cine but I am not sure they meant the current situation is related to that.

Thanks all. Before i got the vaccine I was fine, sleeping well etc. First dose wiped me out for weeks and I started to wake up at 4am. It was like I was overtired and my body was too exhausted to sleep. I fell asleep at my desk, sofa etc.

Started to feel a bit better then the same happened with my second. My symptoms are similar to long covid, but I haven’t had covid. That was one suggestion by the gp. She has had similar queries by other patients.

It could be a coincidence?

WaterBottle123 it absolutely makes sense when you understand that vaccines can trigger CFS/ME. Even the M.E. soc are positing a rate of possibly around 7% of (self-reported) relapse.

I am pro-vaccine, and on balance still believe it was better I had the vaccine (and my understanding of risk supports this). I am just very unlucky that the vaccine seems to have triggered a worsening of my symptoms. I have spent enough time in the last three years looking at my symptoms and triggers to recognise that.

Circleconfused1234 if you do have some kind of post-viral/vaccine fatigue, you need to take it very gently (and look at pacing) as you need to give yourself the best chance of feeling better.

I think it is possible. It’s likely long covid issues are due to the spike protein being able to bind so many cell types via ace2 receptor. The vaccine also causes the spike protein to be produced so could theoretically also trigger long covid type symptoms in a small subset of people.

@Grimbelina it may well be post viral fatigue. The injection may have triggered something. I am pro vaccine and except the risk. It just seems all my symptoms happened when I got tye vaccine.