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@Belle Du Jour I messed up and meant to mention your post.
I think that because this uncharted territory, many of these things can be true. I’m not sure if you’ve come across my posts on my family’s experience with Covid vaccines yet or not but we all had two vacs and one booster. My neuro symptoms and autoimmune present illnesses went off the charts. Then I racked up another 8 or 9 diagnoses in quick succession. For instance, I’ve been trying to tell these folks I have MS for decades and they didn’t believe me. They did a biopsy in 2016 and said I did not have Sjogren’s. After the mRNA, they are Ms. Shula, did you know we see MS in your eyes and now my Sjogren’s shows up clear as day in blood tests that never yielded positive results before. My oldest daughter had joint pain and extreme fatigue and migraines after sun exposure. I’ve been taking her in for the last 10 years for one thing or another. She clearly came up positive for Lupus, Sjogren’s, and Hashimoto’s after vaccination. Just simple bloodwork results and we’ve been doing bloodwork for years without answers.
I believe there is a subset of folks with autoimmunity that are adversely affected by the vaccine. I thought that it was the autism community which I had no clue that I was a card carrying member myself
, but it’s not strictly them because I did a very unscientific survey, and I have found only two it happened to, but not nearly to the severity I’ve had. I found far more who had no issues. I have a laundry list of illnesses, but autoimmune disorders tend to continue to pile up if you have them to begin with. I could say that eventually this may have happened anyway because that’s how these illnesses work. However, I have never had this level of activity with my illnesses; something is always in flare up mode. Basically, we are becoming sicker faster. My daughter as well. I do believe the vaccine is responsible for that, just in watching my daughter’s illness progression vs mine and how my health needs constant attention.
I have plenty of family members (same gene pool) who had zero issues with the vaccine at all. I have plenty of friends that are vaccinated without issue as well. I have always been a person who reacts badly to most prescribed medications. On the commercials when they list the horrible side effects of meds that are worse than the condition you’re trying to treat? That’s me. They are talking directly to me so much so that me and one of my doctors used to crack up about it at each appointment until one med nearly killed me. Perhaps, there is something about our biology that makes us vulnerable, so I’m still looking for that boogeyman, too.
As for the autism, I know the vaccine didn’t cause it because anyone knowledgeable could probably take a handful of posts from here and see Shula is different.
Old posts about rage cleaning and wishing my kids would leave my fridge orderly and stop messing up my salad dressing/condiment pristine layout. Early untaught reader, bit of a loner but I almost never fell loneliness, mental math junkie, hyperlexia, etc. I explain it like this for myself: It turned up the volume or symptomatology so loud on my illnesses, especially the neuro stuff, that they couldn’t be missed or ignored anymore. The only thing I know it gave me for sure, without question, is the brain tumor. I got a nice little vascular hemangioma to go with the vasculitis in my eyes now.
So yes, some people are being injured by the vaccine. Does that mean that it’s not safe for others? Not necessarily and even regular meds work that way. I can take penicillin; my mother could not. Also, as of November 25, 2023, no one in my home has had Covid except hubby a couple of months ago. I will be praying for you all, especially your sister, because I know the frustration of chronic illness. I feel like we have Long Covid- Vaccine Edition and I pray you’re not in Florida because I have been working on this for almost a couple of years now and you can’t even get these folks to admit there is a problem. The young man who did my autism screening was also affected. I never mentioned the vaccine to him because I’m sick of people looking at me like I have 5 heads. The first thing he said to me was, “You didn’t take that vaccine, did you?” It seemed like I stared at him for an eternity as I mentally weighed if I should talk about it or if they were going to use it against me because all of the neurodivergence stuff is through the roof here. Doctors‘ schedules are packed. When I called about the brain tumor, I was told the waitlist was a year long. Autism screening? Same. Autoimmune illness and rheumatology appointments which I now consider the flip side to autism? Same.
Also, if this helps, hubby is vaxxed and boosted and fine. When he caught Covid, it was the sickest I have ever seen him, but he got through it at home in a matter of days.