Vaccine Injuries need attention
I was given multiple vaccines, which caused a nerve-related injury, as per the emergency room where I was admitted after I crashed from severe pain. Talking about vaccine injury, despite empirical evidence, is often met with the same disdain as toward antivax attitudes. Yet vaccine injuries go beyond the needle poking in the wrong way or conspiracies and false accusations.
While the needle or injury from it is a likely cause of immediate pain, injury-related pain can arise weeks after the dose is administered due to intravenous blood clotting or an autoimmune response to nerve injury (brachial neuritis, also known as Parsonage-Turner syndrome). In both cases, pain starts slowly and keeps worsening. Gradually, it becomes severe, requiring urgent or emergency care.
In the US, if vaccination causes severe pain, you must go to the emergency room, and they will treat you with blood thinners if it is a case of intravenous blood clotting. Not sure how it might impact those with gastrointestinal ulcers, thrombocytopenia, or hemophilia. But if the vaccination injures a nerve, Emergency care will refer the patient to primary care with a recommendation for neurological care.
If the patient is lucky, they won't have to wait for months to get neurological care. If they are not, the provider would prescribe opioids and steroids to block pain signals and reduce nerve inflammation. In the process, they end up creating other health problems.
The vaccine-induced nerve injury causes debilitating pain (9 out of 10) in my arm, along with nausea, feeling like I have been freshly injected with a vaccine each day with a 10x bigger needle. It will take a year or two to heal without opioid and steroid drugs.
Hopefully, there will be more research on safer vaccine administration and care for injuries. But the discourse must be pushed as much as general debates on vaccination so people can take precautionary measures.