After my second pfizer biontech vaccination in Aug 2021 I was ugly fatuiged for three month. So I never got a booster or anything. Than I had COVID last month with very mild symptomes for two weeks. I’m a severe pfs case. Really sick only for three days with COVID. They call me a very pessimistic poster but I have absolutley no lasting COVID symptomes and pfs didn’t go worse from COVID in my personal case. My former nurse service, I’m care level 3 with all my pfs symptoms after one and a half year, was so afraid that she never came back, even after I got a negative test from an official drive in COVID center.
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Well I went ahead and got the bivalent booster yesterday and I was completely unable to sleep last night. Zero sleep, which is something that has not happened in many months for me, over half a year. After struggling and defeating PFS insomnia, this is indescribably frustrating. I did a search and this insomnia caused by a covid vaccine is mentioned once in the medical literature:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9384173/#:~:text=As%20vaccination%20efforts%20continue%20worldwide,of%20the%20COVID-19%20vaccines.
That article calls it a unique case, but simply searching “covid vaccine insomnia reddit” on google shows that it is far from unique! Many people developed severe insomnia immediately after a covid vaccine shot. For some it only lasted for a few days but for others it has lasted the better part of a year and then they just stopped posting.
Here is one of the reddit threads (read the comments), but there are others to be found:
I suppose it is a risk either way because long covid can also cause insomnia, but I know I certainly won’t ever be getting another covid shot. It’s just too risky. I may even be worse off now if I get covid because a lack of sleep weakens the immune system. Just wanted everyone to be warned and be aware so they can make an informed decision. I will update a month from now, or sooner if the insomnia resolves, to let everyone know how it works out.
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I know this is old but I feel a need to add my experience for posterity. Looks like this discussion was among existing PFS sufferers and whether the vaccine would exacerbate it. I want to add an instance of where it may have contributed to getting PFS. Or not.
I have two threads warning about the danger of restarting propecia as it relates to the most severe and intractable PFS symptoms, i.e., the relentless physical full-body degenerative condition that doesn’t end until you end. Where a ‘baseline’ never materializes. Based on my own experience and consistent reports of sufferers dating back long before covid materialized, so this post should not cast any doubt on that danger.
I used fin for twenty years and stopped/restarted several times without becoming AR silenced. I did develop some unusual systemic problems during my last hiatus…lactose intolerance and early onset cataracts, neither of which runs in my family. Also an adverse reaction to asthma medication that had never plagued me before. So it is possible that I already loaded the sixth bullet in the PFS revolver and by then was just spinning the chamber.
I got my first Pfizer shot mid August 2021, restarted fin early Sept after being off for two years, and then my second shot in late September.
My fin dosage became erratic and I experienced sides in November, at which point I once again stopped using. A week and a half later I crashed and have wasted relentlessly ever since. Point being I don’t know if the shots contributed to the epigenetic context that finally killed me. But they were part of the picture and let’s face it, we know they weren’t tested against fin or any particular pattern of usage.
The political intrusion into the safety discussion around the vaccines is too overwhelming for data points to be of any use but hopefully before the next pandemic that won’t be the case. It should also be noted that there are communities just like this one that link symptoms just like ours to the vaccine, possibly in combination with other epigenetic factors and they are just as gaslighted.
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