First Dose of Pfizer on 03/12/21
Italy
25 yrs old
Q: What was your life like before you got the vaccine?
I had no health problems. I worked as a social worker, I studied at University and I was full of friends and life. Almost every weekend I used to go hiking in the mountains with my girlfriend and dog. It was one of my greatest passions.
Q: What was your reaction, symptoms, & timeline?
I had my shot in the morning. In the afternoon I started having headaches and burning in my temples, with dizziness. They accompanied me for months, with excruciating pains.
After about two weeks, I started to feel breathlessness, chest pain, tachycardia and shortness of breath.
Through a cardiological examination I was diagnosed with pericarditis, which almost a year later I am still treating with great difficulty.
Q: What is your life like now, after getting the vaccine?
My life is now totally ruined. I live with constant chest and torso pain. I have continuous medical checks. The day is punctuated by the drugs I take. I’m not even the shadow of who I was. I’m not living, I’m surviving.
Q: Share your experience with any medical care and any diagnoses you have received:
Initially, I was diagnosed with sinusitis. Then they told me that I had anxiety, that maybe I was depressed. After that, I was diagnosed with a tension headache and prescribed psychiatric drugs. After almost two months I could then have the right diagnosis of pericarditis.
Q: Was your reaction reported, and what was the response?
My doc said he reported my reaction to AIFA, but I never got an answer.
Q: Is there anything that has helped, and have your symptoms improved?
I took Ibuprofen, colchicine, beta blockers, cortisone, anakinra. Now I feel a little better, but I still don’t feel well. My life is now totally different.
Q: Have you had Covid before?
No
Q: What do you wish others knew?
I would like you to know that through vaccination you can experience a real disability.
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