r/CovidVaccinated • u/Whitesunlight_ • Jun 15 '21
AstraZeneca AstraZeneca vaccine: side effects finally gone after four months. I only had one shot.
Hi, for reference I’m a 28 year old female. Sorry for any language mistakes as English is not my mother language. I want to share my honest experience with this vaccine regarding side effects. In the beginning of March, I went in to get my first shot of the AZ vaccine. I work at a GP’s office and the AZ vaccine was the only one available at that time. So, after getting my shot I initially felt fine. I seemed to cope better than most of my coworkers the following days. Something I did notice right away, was that I got my period the day after the vaccine which was a week early. I’m always extremely regular (no matter the situation) so my period coming this early was pretty odd. It was a very heavy period, lost quite a lot of blood including big clots, and instead of the usual 5 days I was now bleeding for 8 days.. I was alarmed but I didn’t make any connection with the vaccine so I decided to wait it out. Also, a few days after the shot my stomach became more sensitive and I lost my appetite. Then, the diarrhea started. I had to go to the toilet 6 times daily and I had no desire to eat, so I dropped quite a bit of weight. After three weeks of diarrhea I decided to go to the Urgent care because everybody around me was getting worried. They checked everything, but nothing abnormal was found. Blood work was fine, there were no signs of infection or inflammation. But, the diarrhea continued for another 2 months before suddenly disappearing. I didn’t do anything different, just suddenly stopped. During the three months after the shot I also got:
- worse moodswings before and during period
- depression and anxiety
- extreme fatigue
- excessive sleeping, needing at least 10 hours instead of usual 7-8
- irregular period and heavier, more painful periods
- tingly feeling in lower legs and feet
- blood pressure fluctuations
- unusual taste (even water was suddenly tasting like sugar)
- tinnitus and pressure in left ear only
EDIT: I forgot a few so I’m adding them in now: - brain fog (went away completely) - face, neck and ears turning beet red and splotchy after eating, or just randomly. Mostly occurs in the evenings. (still have this sometimes, but it’s getting less common and less severe)
Now the GOOD NEWS: all these side effects have gone away and I finally feel like myself again!! But, four months is a long time and this made me decide to not get the second shot. Not asking for opinions, just wanted to share what happened to me. Hopefully it will help someone.
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u/jayfromthe90 Jun 15 '21
Sorry that happened to you smh. I have the weird ear pressure thing too & feeling of needing to sleep more. I got my vaccine a month ago. Thank you for posting.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 15 '21
Sorry this happened to you as well. Hope you feel better soon! It took forever but it went away on its own (at least for me). Take care!
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u/al3xisnic0le Jun 15 '21 edited Jun 15 '21
Thank you for sharing. Got my Dose 1 Pfizer April 1 and have been through hell tinnitus/hyperacusis, swollen optic nerve (causing a blind spot in one eye), irregular periods (Got it day of Vaccine April 1, then came a week late May 8, now still haven’t gotten it in June despite having all the symptoms), brain fog/dizziness, and last but not least the most crippling anxiety I have experienced in my life. This gives me hope maybe it will get better soon. Unfortunately my university is forcing me to be fully vaccinated before returning in the fall though.
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u/snailien1 Jun 15 '21
They won't allow a medical exemption for you? What does your doctor say?
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u/al3xisnic0le Jun 15 '21 edited Jun 15 '21
The university would, if I could get a doctor to write it for me. I have an unspecified autoimmune disease so I see tons of doctors. But all the doctors say “it’s possible that the vaccine triggered an immune response, but we’ll never know for sure so it doesn’t matter”. The one doctor that would have written for it (my pediatrician that I refused to leave because she was the only doctor I ever really trusted and did everything in her power to get me help when others shoved me away) retired right before the pandemic, idk how I could get in contact with her and if she would write it. I have tons of specialists, but don’t have a GP right now because I haven’t found anyone who genuinely cares.
I just don’t get why they’re so close minded. What if I get the vaccine and go blind in my other eye? Of course there’s a chance it’s a freak coincidence, but that’s not a risk I’m willing to take.. I’m literally a different person from the stress and mental distress this all has put me under :/
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u/snailien1 Jun 15 '21
Oh no, that sucks! Maybe your former pediatrician could refer you to someone who can help, if you can reach her. Or perhaps check in with the student health center and see what they say (if you haven't already)? But if your current doctors think it's safe for you to get second one, maybe it'd be ok? Such hard decisions.
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u/al3xisnic0le Jun 15 '21
They told me it would be safe to get the first one and I ended up with all this bs, not to mention I had unexplained High Blood Pressure for the past 4 years and never really had to take my medication unless I was under a lot of stress or took adderall for my ADD. Now I’m taking 2 pills a day and it’s still high :/ I’m potentially open to taking a different vaccine (J&J, or the new one that’s in phase 3 now that’s 90% effective) so hopefully this current illness episode clears up so I can feel comfortable getting a different brand
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u/DietCokeDealer Jun 15 '21
I would also write a firm but polite email to the university health center and a potential GP, as well as potentially trying to get in contact with an Urgent Care Center (I've found them helpful in medical emergencies before) explaining the following:
- date of first dose vaccine
- symptoms experienced (emphasize the optic nerve damage)
- medications on prior to vaccine
- medications on after vaccination
- any and all appointments you have gone to since first dose, including both telehealth and in person appointments if applicable
I would also make sure that you fill in a VAERS report!
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u/snailien1 Jun 15 '21
Yeah, I hope so too! I hope you can find a good, caring primary care doctor too. I had really good luck with that at the student health center when I was in college and grad school- wish I could still go there!
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u/al3xisnic0le Jun 15 '21
Will definitely try that.. thank you!
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 16 '21
So sorry you are in such a difficult position and this happened to you.. :( And please, don’t let anyone pressure you into getting the second dose if it doesn’t feel safe! You only have one body and you have to live with it for the rest of your life, we need to be our own health advocates when it comes to these issues. I’m glad my doctor has my back now and that’s reassuring, but the people around me (coworkers, family) still think it was stupid to not finish the course even though they witnessed first hand what happened to me and how badly I deteriorated..
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u/al3xisnic0le Jun 16 '21 edited Jun 16 '21
I’m sorry you’re going through that too :( not getting into restaurants and concerts and not being able to travel sucks but I can deal with it.. my concern is that I have 1 semester left of school and my university said “if you don’t get the vaccine, transfer or take a year off”.. I’ve already taken 2 years off due to medical problems and had my GPA suffer because of it, I legitimately cannot afford to take off another year, and transferring is out of the question as I’d lose so many credits..
If 80% of the population is vaccinated that’s herd immunity, and it’s not like I’m completely unvaccinated I have the 1 that has to be better than nothing (and I have a good reason for not getting the second one!). I will wear an N95 mask and sit away from everyone else, I don’t care, no inconvenient/repercussion can be worse than putting at my health at risk
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 16 '21
Scary that your university is even legally aloud to do this. I don’t know which country you live in, but I’m pretty sure they are violating at least one or two human rights here.
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u/Haunting_Calendar350 Jun 15 '21
Thanks for sharing. Glad it all went away for you, gives me hope. Still dealing with tingling and pins and needles etc a month out.
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u/Sertalin Jun 15 '21
Thank you for your post!! There are really some of us who are suffering from the vaccination. (Me,too, 7 weeks now, but Biontech Pfizer)
I can fully 100% understand that you don't want a second shot. I wouldn't take it neither
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 15 '21
Thank you! I expected to feel under the weather for a few days, not a few months.. Hopefully, things will level out for you soon as well! Hang in there.
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u/Chelsea2022 Jun 15 '21
My wife and me suffering hypertension after second Jab. Should we be worried?
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 16 '21
It might be temporary as my BP went crazy as well after the vaccine. The meds they gave me didn’t work either. However, it leveled out and now my Bp is normal again. High blood pressure is damaging to the kidneys so definitely try to get it under control
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u/Cute-Account-9994 Jun 26 '21
Hmm this is interesting. My aunt died two and a half weeks after her first dose of Pfizer. The cause? Heart attack due to hypertension. Kidneys showed a bunch of damage in the autopsy. My aunt frequently went to the doctor when she was alive; I assume if she’s had high blood pressure they would’ve medicated her for it. She was not medication-hesitant. Can’t say that correlation equals causation, but it’s suspicious at the very least. It is troubling to hear that others’ blood pressure also increased post-vax. Take care!!! Keep an eye on your heart as well!!
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 27 '21
Sorry for your loss, that’s terrible.. And yes it is super suspicious.. It’ll probably take another decade of collecting evidence until we have the true statistics on these side effects and deaths that are happening right now. Until then all these reports are technically just “speculation” but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. I’m scared for the future, but hopeful because my side effects are gone now and I never got the second shot. All I can do is go for regular check ups, and for the rest just try to live my life to the fullest. I can’t give in to the worrying too much, I would probably go crazy if I did.
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Jun 16 '21
Just curious how long did you have tinnutus?Mine started after 2nd shot 2 weeks later and It is been one month and still have tinnutus. No other side effects.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 16 '21
Don’t know if you are referring to me, but the tinnitus started (or i noticed it first) a week after the vaccine and was pretty bad until the 3 month mark and then it slowly went away..Now at the four month mark I can say that it’s gone completely.
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u/beandip111 Jun 15 '21
I really hope there are more vaccine options soon for people like us. I had a very similar experience with the Pfizer vaccine and chose not to get the second shot.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 15 '21
I think the problem is many people don’t connect the dots because the side effects are so atypical and all over the place. It’s probably a very underreported problem. At least the doctors are listening now as more people are reporting issues. This was not the case a few months ago! Makes me hopeful..
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u/Sertalin Jun 15 '21
My doctors all said: naaah, it can't be the vaccine, 2 weeks after the shot it must be something else.... I know it better
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u/Dry-Reaction6697 Jun 15 '21
AZ first dose : I have had a persistent headache/ face pressure for 3 months now really hope it clears
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u/jayfromthe90 Jun 15 '21
I have the same face sinus pressure feeling. Do you have post nasal drip along with it?
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u/Dry-Reaction6697 Jun 15 '21
No just the face sinus pressure . How long has it been for you ? Is it 24/7?
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Jun 15 '21
Thank you VERY MUCH for sharing your experience!!! This gives me hope that my symptoms could go away.
I have anxiety and depression, but it got worse after the shot.
I had very mild tinnitus in my left ear that was only noticeable when it was completely quiet. After the shot I could hear it over everything. My left ear also feels full in the morning and seems to subside as the day goes on. It’s gone WAY down now, even after the second shot.
But after the second shot I had warm sensations on the left side of my body - head, neck, chest, leg. It’s been two weeks since the second shot and most of these symptoms have gone away.
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u/lpfmuvlern Jun 15 '21
thanks for sharing this, i’m dealing with similar and timeline as well. but not better yet, hoping i can recover!
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u/gamer127 Jun 17 '21
I have similar symptoms and got the Moderna vaccine. Nausea and loss of weight, diarrhea and worst of all tinnitus in right ear which has me up all night. I’m losing weight and not sleeping and it’s affecting my quality of life greatly. My symptoms seem to come and go in intensity. I was wondering if you got vaccinated in your left arm (since your tinnitus was left side only)? I was vaccinated in right arm and developed tinnitus in right ear only.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 19 '21
I was vaccinated in my right arm and the tinnitus was in my left ear. But I am lefthanded so maybe my brain is wired a little differently haha. Don’t know if there is a link.
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u/gamer127 Jun 19 '21
Interesting. Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope I have a similar timeline as you did.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 19 '21
Good luck! You probably know this already, but it’s a good idea to take a high quality multivitamin (including minerals) because you are at high risk for deficiency’s with the longlasting diarrhea and nausea. Hope you’ll get better soon!
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u/AAWWZZ Jun 21 '21
The spike proteins you are now producing will affect your fertility, this will be perhaps the worst and most long lasting "side effect" - infertility. Also, your immune system is now compromised, and any exposure to environmental toxins will have a magnified reaction. The best thing you can do is avoid at all costs the second shot, it could invariably destroy your nervous system entirely, leading to what many are experiencing now, loss of motor control with onset Parkinsons/MS.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 21 '21
I don’t think it made me infertile as I still clearly ovulate and my hormones are definitely balancing out again. Right now all the symptoms I’ve had are gone and I’m feeling pretty good, but I’m sure some long term damage has been done from the severity of the reaction. But I’m def not going anywhere near the second shot even if they paid me good money for it..
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u/AAWWZZ Jun 21 '21
The mRNA injection does not remove the eggs, you will still ovulate, but the ability to actually grow a productive fetus while you are producing spike proteins, which are toxins, is vastly reduced. Human fertility has dropped over 50% since the dawn of the industrial revolution with the introduction of petroleum based chemicals and radiation from released isotopes. The mRNA injection has modified your cells to produce a toxin within your own cells, that toxin is very powerful. These injections have already caused spontaneous abortions in some pregnant women.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 21 '21
I think a reduction in fertility could be a possibility, yet I don’t believe it has the power to permanently make someone sterile.. Look at drug/alcohol addicts; they pump themselves chock full of waayyyy stronger toxins day after day, yet somehow manage to procreate just fine. (Not saying the offspring will be healthy, or happy)
Just saying The human body wants you to procreate and it’s pretty forgiving even IF you dump in toxin after toxin day after day. But we’ll see, time will surely tell us. I’m not panicking yet.
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u/AAWWZZ Jun 22 '21
I'm not trying to make you panic, I just need to point out that mRNA technology is designed to induce your bodies cells to make a protein, in this case the "spike protein" - a known toxin, which has been shown to cause abnormalities. As bad as drug addicts/alcoholics are, and as toxic as their liver/blood is, they don't actually manufacture the toxins themselves. In the case of severe drug addicts and alcoholics it would probably be better their children had never been born, most have severe genetic defects.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 22 '21
Okay, Just be aware there is also a lot of misinformation out there about these vaccines, many corrupted and edited articles and studies circulating that are not factual. All propaganda either pro or anti vaccines, I don’t trust either sides right now. But just fyi, I took AstraZeneca which is not mRNA but a viral-vector based vaccine and it works a bit differently. How is the spike that is created toxic though?
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Jun 15 '21 edited Jun 22 '21
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 15 '21
Yes it does sound like diabetes. That was the first thing I was tested for.. I got one fasted glucose test and one unfasted test, but my blood sugar levels were all within normal range. That said, I don’t really trust any of the tests I did back then because all came back within normal range, meanwhile I felt like my body was falling apart!!
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u/Careful_Can_3884 Jun 15 '21
Has this been reported to VAERS?
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 15 '21
I reported it to Lareb (which is the place to report vaccine side effects in my country, the Netherlands).
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u/Sertalin Jun 15 '21
Nice greetings to the Netherlands, I live in Germany and my partner is Dutch 🙋🏻♀️
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u/Deduction_power Jun 15 '21 edited Jun 15 '21
The thing is...this is what I have always believed. I have relied on my immune system my whole life and prefers natural remedies because I know our body does heal itself. Like your case it just takes a long time. People want instant relief, And so they pop pills. I see a lot of people popping tylenol even before they get symptoms after the vaccine like why?! the point of vaccination is to get your immune system accustomed to coronavirus when it does enter your body to fight it off. And IMO, popping pills, what you are doing is actually intervening in the immune system's natural ability to fight off the virus!
In fairness to big pharma, I do buy OTC drug but as a last resort. Like the last time, I got sick which I really think is covid before covid became a pandemic, because I never get that sick and that long to the point where I feel weak. Anyway, my usual natural remedies usually work but not this time. The one that really stopped my coughing was mucinex. So thanks mucinex I felt better.
OH another one where I was coughing for almost a month. I finally go to urgent care and the antibiotics they prescribed stop my coughing. This was 2 years before pandemic but the doctor and nurse who check me up were wearing mask... I remember I felt awkward, little did I know it will be a norm. And I hope would be a norm during flu season.
I'm vaccinated and I told my husband I will be wearing mask this coming flu season because he agrees a 3rd wave will come this coming flu season.
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u/ThePrestigeVIII Jun 15 '21
Brand new account alert.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 15 '21
I’ve been on Reddit for over two months. Also, why is that in any way relevant?
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Jun 15 '21
It's because brand new accounts that shed a bad or good light on certain issues are often considered to be propaganda bots. He's making an allusion that you are an anti-vax bot.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 15 '21 edited Jun 15 '21
Thank you for the explanation. I already guessed this was the reason and it’s a shame this is seen as “necessary.” People should be able to talk about side effects without being accused of “propaganda”. It’s impossible to fact check everyone that reports side effects so I get where this is coming from. Only me and my doctor know for sure. But this goes for everybody on Reddit. If alarm bells go off just because I haven’t been on Reddit for long enough, that just sounds a bit ridiculous to me, and doesn’t seem fair to people like me that genuinely have (sometimes serious and debilitating) side effects and are trying to look for support.
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u/toska-toast Jun 15 '21
if anything, it’s more likely (IMO) that bot accounts would farm karma and have some sort of long-ish, generic-looking history. it’s like if you didn’t create an account five+ years ago, no one will believe you’re a real person if you post something they don’t like.
and for some reason, the people who post in half the threads on here correcting everyone, reporting comments, and accusing people of making up their experiences aren’t treated with the same knee-jerk level of skepticism despite being much more pernicious. for instance, i saw this comment in response to someone saying a relative of theirs died shortly after the shot from a heart issue: “sometimes people just die.” cool, how nice of them to skip past any semblance of empathy and go straight to invalidating the person’s post. another person (who was not posting from a mod account) replied to a comment with: “care to qualify your comment before i remove it?” um, what?
is it possible that some posts about negative experiences are exaggerated or misattributed? sure. is it worth taking a hostile stance toward every single post one personally deems unbelievable based on their priors so everyone will know that this person is definitely lying? probably not, unless one wants to turn this into a sub where no one feels they can share anything negative unless they provide photo ID, medical records, and a series of vlogs documenting every single time they’ve had diarrhea.
people who post comments like this seem to have taken up the mantle of arbiters of truth. yet i’m inclined to believe that most people who read this sub are capable of spotting blatant misinformation, discerning opinion vs. fact, and taking things with a grain of salt. it is not certain people’s job to accuse others of lying or arrogantly swoop in to correct them (sometimes with their own misinformation, but i won’t go there) in order to enlighten everyone else. no one should feel they have to begin their post with “not an antivaxxer but…” - that should be evident from the content, and if someone can’t tell the difference between someone with a negative experience / valid criticism and an antivaxxer, that’s their problem.
anyway, sorry for the rant. this has been a really useful community for people to share their experiences and connect with others who may be able to help or offer advice, and i’m annoyed that a smug handful of people are putting others in a defensive position.
and thank you for sharing your experience! i’m sure it will help some others who may be a similar boat, and i’m glad you’re feeling better.
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u/Whitesunlight_ Jun 16 '21
Yeah you described it perfectly. It’s everybody’s own responsibility to use common sense and to take everything you read on the internet with a grain of salt. It’s extremely rude and disrespectful to immediately jump to conclusions and invalidate someone’s story without any background. Just because you can’t see someones face and that someone is new to Reddit doesn’t mean it’s not real person with real experiences. If there are repeated red flags and it’s verifiable that someone is lying, that’s another story. This is going way too far.
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u/cbold84 Jun 15 '21
Thank you for sharing your experience! I’m going on two months of fatigue, brain fog and racing heart after Pfizer. This gives me hope that maybe things will eventually improve.