I should further clarify. My original comment was referring to a person who was saying, essentially, that if a person had been vaccinated, then any subsequent illness was a direct cause of the vaccine. His take was that any pre-existing condition was made worse, and the root cause of any kind of ailment was the Covid vaccine. Black & white, no room for discussion.
I can see how my comment could be misinterpreted in a number of ways. I don't subscribe to his stance, but I'm absolutely open to the increasing body of evidence of post-vaccine and post-Covid medical issues that have and continue to arise. I have a friend who was a whip-smart and highly capable gastric surgeon. She was fully vaccinated, then got Covid (positive tests), now has many symptoms of long Covid, and she's medically retired at 34. She has to have 10 minute snoozes every 30 minutes during the day. No diagnosed pre-existing conditions, she was in tip-top health.
I have absolutely no pro- or anti- agenda here, I was merely sharing some anecdotal evidence.
Most importantly, I hope you can find your way with your health stuff.
Emphasis on may, or might. Your experience is certainly valid, and I'm sorry you have to go through this, but it's still a sample of one with no theory of causation. If a certain percentage of people are vaccinated, and a certain percentage of people develop heart problems regardless of vaccination, a few of those people will develop those problems immediately after vaccination. Such things can be just statistical accidents. If I developed heart problems at 58, after years of poor diet and other bad habits, I don't think I'd ascribe it to one discrete recent event unless I was predisposed to believe that the two were related. Therefore, I think it's worth asking: did (or do) you have any such predisposition?
The reason we accept this risk and get vaccines anyway is that all of these same conditions occur at higher rates when you are naively exposed to a virus. Myocarditis rates, for instance, are roughly 10x higher in any age group when you get COVID (without a prior vaccination or infection) than if you get a vaccine.
So if you aren't likely to be exposed to a particular virus, it's totally reasonable to not get vaccinated for it, just because there are side effects. I haven't been vaccinated for any of the various tropical diseases, for instance, because I don't travel anywhere. I haven't been vaccinated for rabies, because I'm not a vet and don't go spelunking. There's no point in rolling the dice on side effects when I have essentially no chance of contracting the diseases.
Once it became clear that everyone is going to be exposed to COVID, you stopped having the option to avoid rolling the dice on myocarditis or other immune-system disorders; it's just a matter of whether you want to roll the dice with a vaccine, or wait and roll them with your first infection, and have 10x the likelihood of getting hit with one of them.
Honestly, I didn't have any strong opinions and just did what everyone else did. Moreover, it was inconvenient that I could not enter to a grocery store without proof of vaccination so there is that. I am 26. I do not and never smoked, do not drink alcohol, maintain a healthy diet (do not eat sweets (except for dark chocolate sometimes) or anything that has lots of sugar, avoid highly processed foods, eat a decent amount of fruits, vegetables, nuts, fish, whatever), exercise regularly and never had any notable health problems prior to vaccine, I am not overweight not underweight. To the best of my knowledge, I never had Covid either.
Sure, I do not disagree that predisposition does not exist in such cases as you described, but I just feel bitter and miserable.
I’m really sorry you are going through this. People didn’t have time to better test the vaccines to ensure their safety before having to use them to prevent massive loss of life due to the disease.
Perhaps we’ll find ways to alleviate the issues the vaccines caused, or even fix them, as the number of cases is significant and, with that, they can be better studied and the mechanisms better understood.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Figures like 1.1% were definitely cited, especially in the early days where the initial iteration of the virus devastated congregate living and other settings. It also took about 6 months for best practices for acute management of hospitalized patients were developed. Many people died as a result who would not have after 2021.
We’re all laymen here.
Maybe 1% for highly at risk populations like elderly and immune compromised people but nowhere near 1% for the general population.
The myocarditis caused was also, generally speaking, milder than that caused by infection.
Between that and the "totally not caused by the vaccine" friends who had blood clots, gallbladder and appendix removals, etc... all in their late 20s.
All I'll say is I'm happy I never got it.
Pretty odd to cite something that has always mostly affected people under 30.