This previous week, an unhinged man in Atlanta dedicated an atrocity. He went to the Facilities for Illness Management (CDC) with 5 weapons and killed a policeman. He blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal, and it’s reported that he had been reaching out for psychological well being help for weeks.
Since January 2022, I’ve been interacting with nationwide specialists on a medical downside that has hit house in a really private method: post-vaccination syndrome (PVS) from the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. It’s a poorly outlined syndrome, and the precise variety of individuals affected is unknown.
PVS is a time period used to explain a group of power and debilitating signs reported after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. There are remedies which have improved and induced remission, however none have arrested an issue that may doubtless proceed to happen, associated to the syndrome’s pure historical past or a brand new publicity to a viral an infection equivalent to COVID-19. Experience is slowly constructing an understanding of the best way to deal with PVS.
I’m sure PVS exists and is expounded to the mRNA vaccination.
The mRNA vaccine accommodates genetic info. As soon as injected into the physique, the mRNA goes into the cells, attaching to ribosomes (our manufacturing facility to make new proteins). From there, it directs the ribosomes to make a protein equivalent to the spike protein on the COVID-19 virus. As soon as made, the immune system begins to make an immune response, producing anti-spike antibodies. The unique declare was that this manufacturing of spike protein stopped inside hours to days after the injection.
My sufferers discovered about this after I noticed that mRNA vaccines had questions of safety. I started advising them to solely contemplate mRNA vaccinations for individuals who had been weak, equivalent to people with a number of comorbidities, superior age, or immunosuppression. There are revealed research displaying that weak sufferers who took these vaccines had much less mortality and fewer hospitalizations.
I requested my sufferers to be snug with immunity from prior COVID-19 an infection(s) or immunity from their earlier mRNA injections. I suggested them to attend for a greater vaccine. The Novavax vaccine is no less than as efficacious as mRNA vaccines. The essential distinction is that this vaccine accommodates spike protein equivalent to that on the precise virus. The spike protein invokes an immune response and has a predictable decay charge, disappearing inside three weeks and thereby eliminating the danger of spike persistence.
Regardless of Novavax being out there as early as November 2021 internationally, the FDA didn’t grant emergency use authorization for Novavax for adults till July 2022, and initially, its use was restricted based mostly on prior vaccination historical past.
Sufferers with PVS most certainly have their signs due to the continued presence of spike protein. The spike protein is inflammatory and dysregulates the immune system. Analysis into that is compromised; though we will measure the quantity of anti-spike antibody individuals have by business lab checks, we can not immediately measure the spike protein itself. Within the U.S., there isn’t any commercially out there assay to measure the quantity of spike protein in sufferers with PVS. The absence of this software is handicapping efforts to deal with PVS. A nationwide professional has advised me that if one’s spike antibody degree is larger than 5,000, they most likely have circulating spike protein. The affected person beneath has had spike antibody ranges constantly at 15,000, and at occasions better than 25,000.
The revealed LISTEN examine from Yale confirmed that PVS sufferers have immune profile variations in comparison with a wholesome group, together with variations in sure forms of T cells. Some of the notable findings was the detection of elevated ranges of circulating spike protein (Yale assay for analysis solely) within the blood of PVS individuals, in some circumstances greater than 700 days after their final vaccination. This affected person participates on this examine.
The affected person I’m referring to is my spouse. Under is a letter she lately wrote to our three daughters.
My perspective of what it’s wish to dwell with COVID-19 vaccine harm (08/04/25)
Few can probably perceive what life is like as a sufferer of COVID-19 vaccine harm. Individuals typically assume, “These persons are loopy,” “How are you aware it’s from the vaccine?” or “You appear high-quality.” I’d most likely assume these ideas too if I used to be not dwelling my life.
As you most likely keep in mind, my points began virtually 4 years in the past, in December 2021, three weeks after dad and I made a decision to get the COVID-19 booster on Thanksgiving weekend (our third COVID-19 shot). In hindsight, if we had the data we now have, I ought to by no means have gotten the booster, as my spike antibody ranges had been already off the charts, regardless of it being virtually 10 months after my second shot. My ranges had been already so excessive that they had been above the brink the place they could possibly be learn. We thought this was added safety.
However we listened to our authorities and did what was really useful; we took the third shot. The present concept is that this booster put my system into overdrive to provide the spike protein, and it doesn’t know the best way to flip it off. My lab outcomes, repeated frequently, show this out.
As a recap, I’ve had numerous flares, every adopted by a short remission. My flares have been handled with what I check with as band-aids: non permanent fixes to alleviate the signs however by no means addressing the precise downside. At this level, no one is aware of the best way to deal with the underlying trigger; we will solely deal with the signs. All alongside, I’ve hoped that my multitude of remedies, together with dozens of medicine and dietary supplements, red-light remedy, scans, in addition to bodily remedy, chiropractic care, and medical consults, may lastly knock this out. With my present flare, I’ve come to the belief that is unlikely.
My present flare is likely one of the worst bodily, since most of my flares have concerned just one joint situation, however this one has affected all of them: my knee, my elbow, and my neck. Extra importantly, my two inflammatory markers are far larger than they’ve ever been. The one method I can describe how this makes me really feel is that my physique is on fireplace and it can not escape. My earlier flares rapidly responded to remedies, significantly oral steroids and steroid injections. For some purpose, I’ve now change into proof against steroids; they haven’t helped my present signs, nor have I had my ordinary steroid negative effects equivalent to excessive vitality, evening sweats, flushed face, and sleeplessness.
Extra importantly, emotionally, this one is the worst, because it has lastly hit me that this most certainly is my new life. All my life, I’ve been pleased with how I deal with myself. I eat effectively, I get common train, I eat minimal alcohol, I’ve by no means smoked, and I’ve all the time gotten good restorative sleep. I actually believed sparsely. I additionally believed that taking good care of oneself is the easiest way to make sure a wholesome life.
However now, I’m starting to comprehend that my life might have completely modified, and it’s not for the higher. This has been a bitter tablet to swallow, and whereas I cannot quit hope, I’m additionally a realist who weighs the details of actuality and strikes ahead from there.
I attempt to not give attention to my anger towards the explanation I’ve been cursed with this situation. It could be simpler for me to just accept my situation if it was attributable to not taking excellent care of myself, or from a genetic trigger. However my situation is attributable to the American public being advised to take these vaccines, clearly with out correct testing, and succumbing to the strain of the pharmaceutical business. I really feel like I’ve finished all the best issues, and look the place it has left me.
I additionally work exhausting to suppress the concern that typically creeps in. What will probably be subsequent? Will this flare get higher or worse? Will I’ve to dwell with this endlessly? And worst of all, what is that this doing to me long-term?
My objective is to make my scenario recognized. There may be a lot for individuals to be taught from this, particularly as a result of persons are persevering with to get mRNA vaccines. Suppose twice earlier than getting one other booster. I would like individuals to grasp the fact some are dealing with from the detrimental results of this vaccine. This isn’t about made-up signs; these are points backed up by bodily examinations, imaging, and modern-day lab checks.
I notice that currently I’ve not been myself. I’m making an attempt my greatest, however I’ve been modified—each bodily and emotionally. I’m not on the lookout for pity, as a result of I nonetheless attempt to do all of it, however once I can not, I hope you’ll be able to perceive. Pity is the other of who I’m; as you realize, I’m the good minimizer. I’ll change into indignant if anybody feels sorry for me, as this isn’t my function.
As I typically say, no one has ever accused me of being bashful, so if I say I don’t want assist, I imply it; I don’t want particular remedy. However then again, I might have some understanding. If I say one thing that doesn’t sound like me, please gently let me know this isn’t how I needs to be, but in addition perceive the present “me.”
I like you all very a lot,
Mother
Our household, and I’m certain many others, has been indelibly impacted by PVS, a syndrome most have no idea exists. It’s debilitating each bodily and emotionally, as my spouse’s expertise testifies. Sadly, only some, such because the Yale investigators, are intensively finding out PVS. We desperately want a fuller understanding, together with the precise incidence of PVS, its causes, its predisposing components, and hopefully an method to reclaim a traditional immune system. The NIH ought to provoke these research, together with not solely the essential science associated to PVS, however instant research to deal with affected sufferers.
Harry Oken is a board-certified internist with a long time of expertise serving the Howard County group. A graduate of the College of Maryland Faculty of Medication, he has constructed a profession grounded within the perception that sturdy doctor–affected person relationships are important to high quality care. Dr. Oken is extensively revered for his medical experience, management, and dedication to medical schooling, having mentored college students and residents all through his profession. Recognized for his heat, approachable method, he prioritizes continuity of care and stays personally concerned throughout all phases of his sufferers’ well being journeys, together with hospitalizations. Along with his medical follow, Dr. Oken is energetic in group well being initiatives and values the function of preventive medication in serving to sufferers lead longer, more healthy lives.
