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Report #2881365

Received Jan 11, 2026

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Overview

Sex
Female
Age
77 yrs
State
IL
Recovered
Unknown
Vaccinated
Oct 3, 2025
Onset
Oct 5, 2025
Days to onset
2
Hospital days
—

Vaccines (1)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
COVID19COVID19 (COVID19 (MODERNA MNEXSPIKE))MODERNAN/A3052155IM / LA

Symptoms (10)

ChillsEye painEye swellingEyelid discolourationIntraocular pressure increasedPainPyrexiaSkin hypertrophyVisual impairmentVitreous floaters

Symptom narrative

At first I had normal reaction, but much more intense (fever, chills, etc). When I was able to get out of bed a day and a half later, I saw my eyes looked swollen shut with very thick skin. The my eyes swelled up on and off for about 7 weeks. The would get golf ball sized with thin skin and seemed fluid filled. I had a raw burning pain in the back of my eyes for weeks, but mostly the right one. I did have some additional floaters as well. Upper lids and lower looked discolored. The pain has finally stopped but my eyes still swell to a much lesser degree. BUT with that severe swelling my skin was extremely stretched and is now very thin and very wrinkled.

Current illness

None

Other medications

I do not remember taking anything that day as I normally don't take anything before a vaccine. But the night before I took Pravastatin 10 mg. I do take Vitamin C, Vitamin D3, Citracal, Omega-3, multiple vitamin

Allergies

No

Lab data

I did not have an eye doctor so kept trying wherever I could get in. No one heard of this from the vaccine and didn't seem to care about that possibility, so I just kept trying to have them check that everything was ok inside the eye. I had some vision changes, and told the eye pressure was a bit high, and cataract changes.