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I’ll admit I am in the throes of enduring adverse physical fallout from my first recent Pfizer shot, to the point I’m not looking forward to the second shot.

Symptoms include in order of severity: 1) Extreme lower back pain to the point that walking and moving about is at times impossible, 2) The sense of often being on the verge of vomiting, 3) Digestive difficulties, specifically having bouts of constantly needing to pee every five minutes, and 4) Shooting muscle pains that have since migrated from shoulders into legs. I’ve had symptoms like this for various reasons before, but not all at once, or immediately firing up altogether after a singular event, such as a shot.

In thinking over my options forward:

It isn’t practical for me to simply skip the 2nd shot. Not after my employer has stepped up their vaccine mandates, making our working lives more restrictive unless we’re vaccinated.

I can make an appointment with my Doctor and rather than asking for an exemption from the 2nd shot, I can ask for a several month’s delay. Receiving medical permission for a delay is a more realistic request due to how much of a promotor my Doctor and his staff are of the Covid Vaccines. Were my doctor to grant a full exemption, I’m not sure he wants to justify it to whoever he might answer to.

I could also “Report an Adverse Event to VAERS” - https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html

Let me know if you guys have better ideas; not really sure how to go about this.

I’ll admit I am in the throes of enduring adverse physical fallout from my first recent Pfizer shot, to the point I’m not looking forward to the second shot.

Symptoms include in order of severity: 1) Extreme lower back pain to the point that walking and moving about is at times impossible, 2) The sense of often being on the verge of vomiting, 3) Digestive difficulties, specifically having bouts of constantly needing to pee every five minutes, and 4) Shooting muscle pains that have since migrated from shoulders into legs. I’ve had symptoms like this for various reasons before, but not all at once, or immediately firing up altogether after a singular event, such as a shot.

In thinking over my options forward:

It isn’t practical for me to simply skip the 2nd shot. Not after my employer has stepped up their vaccine mandates, making our working lives more restrictive unless we’re vaccinated.

I can make an appointment with my Doctor and rather than asking for an exemption from the 2nd shot, I can ask for a several month’s delay. Receiving medical permission for a delay is a more realistic request due to how much of a promotor my Doctor and his staff are of the Covid Vaccines. Were my doctor to grant a full exemption, I’m not sure he wants to justify it to whoever he might answer to.

I could also “Report an Adverse Event to VAERS” - https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html

Let me know if you guys have better ideas; not really sure how to go about this.

Work with your doctor. My understanding is that these are not typical side effects to any of the shots, so first and foremost you want to rule out another thing that has occurred in coincidence with the shot. But if this was caused by the shot, your doctor should evaluate you to figure out what's going on--if these are all concurrent secondary symptoms of something like myocarditis, you'd want to get it looked it ASAP.

And yes, you want it to be reported to VAERS. Your doctor can probably tell you whether that's something he should do, or something you can/should do on your own.

As for what happens regarding the second shot, it may depend heavily on what your doctor finds. I'm not qualified to answer that one.

Hope you feel better soon.