I too was left with declining health immediately after having AstraZeneca in April 2021. I was very apprehensive about taking something that had been rushed through the approval phase, but my employer was pressurising staff to get vaccinated and the government and the NHS promoted the vaccine as something that anyone with any condition (except for kids) should take to get some sort of protection (they didn’t say for sure what the benefits would be). We all now know that the vaccines couldn’t stop people getting infected nor stop them transmitting the virus, but the risk of damage to our health has been largely swept under the carpet. It doesn’t help that the Green Book fails to recognise all but a few conditions as being caused by adverse reactions to covid vaccinations. Add to this the reluctance or outright stubbornness by health practitioners to recognise or diagnose post covid vaccination syndrome/ vaccine injury and it should become clear how dire the health care is for people like me. I now have a private diagnosis but I also need my regular GP to be open minded enough to take the recommended medication and further tests seriously.
The NHS needs to recognise that post covid vaccination syndrome/ vaccine injury is NOT a psychological condition; instead people experience a range of physical conditions resulting from damage to their immune and other systems. Typical issues include (but are in no way limited to) Chronic Fatigue, Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) and Postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS). Despite large numbers of people experiencing similar issues, diagnosis on the NHS is difficult to impossible. Many allergists won’t even accept that MCAS is a real condition, yet alone diagnose it, despite NHS research papers from over 15 years ago.
Many people are living at a fraction of how their lives used to be, or could be, thanks to the covid vaccination; some recognition, understanding and support from the Government and NHS health providers would go a long way.
