Received Jul 8, 2025
| Type | Name | Manufacturer | Dose | Lot | Route / Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VARZOS | ZOSTER (SHINGRIX) | GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS | 1 | — | IM / RA |
I had serious flu-like symptoms for two weeks. Chills, body and muscle aches, inflammation in my knee joints, a high ringing in my ears, and extreme dizziness. My doctor started me on Prednisone 40 mg and slowly tapered. As the taper began, I developed an itchy rash along my right arm and on the right side of my trunk, and my ears began ringing again, with dizziness accompanying it, only alleviated by lying down. Since the rash developed, I?ve begun taking 40 mg of Benadryl daily, plus I have applied hydrocortisone cream 1% to the rash site, as well as triamcinilone cream. None of it has affected the itching. In the middle,of all this, on June 18th around 4:00 pm, I was driving home and had a sudden impairment of my eyesight. As far as the retinal specialist can tell, I had a sizeable amount of tissue break off inside my right eye, creating a number of floaters in my eye. They have not gone away since then.
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High alkaline phosphatates since 1992, persistent anxiety
Levocitirizine 5 mg, Paroxetine 20 mg, buspirone 15 mg twice daily, Benadryl 10 mg, vitamin d, multivitamin
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Doctor did a complete blood work up, with no positive results. Considered it to probably be an autoimmune reaction to the vaccination. Today (July 8) he is starting me on a second round of Prednisone. I also saw an ophthalmologist and retinal specialist about my eye problem mentioned above. They wanted to check for a detached retina, but exams up to this point have not shown such evidence.