Adverse Reaction

 From the adverse reaction site.A young lady from NSW:
"Hi everyone! My name is Michelle and i’m 19 years old in NSW. My entire life, I’ve been perfectly fine and healthy and early this year, I started working at a dental clinic and was asked to get the vaccine. This was before they suggested the age limits for the AstraZeneca, and so on April 2nd, I was given my first dose of AstraZeneca. Initially, I had the common side effects - painful arm, headache etc. but the next day (April 3rd), I fainted and was taken to hospital.
While in hospital, we realized that I couldn’t walk. I was having tremors all over my body and couldn’t hold myself up or balance. I was discharged from 2 hospitals still in terrible condition saying that this was due to mental ilness and completely unrelated to the vaccine. I tried to talk to my doctors, telling them that I do not have any mental illnesses and that I was perfectly fine before I had taken the vaccine. But I was dismissed by every doctor and told that it was a form of attention seeking. I’m not even kidding. My parents had no idea what was happening and I was still shaking with tremors and unable to walk. So my parents tried a third hospital. I was in hospital in the neurology ward for 2 weeks and was then transferred to a rehabilitation hospital where I spent around 2 months as an inpatient. I continue to go to rehab during the day and have been told that recovery and gaining full mobility will most probably take around a year.
I have been privileged enough to have never had any negative experiences with doctors or hospitals in the past UP UNTIL THIS POINT. Every single doctor and neurologist I have encountered during this time with my reaction has dismissed me and treated me like a patient with some sort of mental illness, despite me telling them that this was post vaccine. They so quickly defend the vaccine without even listening to me. They were rude and condescending and they put it on anxiety and depression as the cause. I had psych evaluation which came back completely normal and they eventually put it to “unknown causes, unrelated to the vaccine”.
My point is that before having this vaccine, I was a normal teenage girl going to uni, meeting up with friends, spending time with family. And now the day after my vaccine, I’m unable to walk with tremors all
over and now i’m on a wheelchair and have to go to rehab for at least a year. Doctors still say it’s a coincidence but I don’t think so at all. We have reported this as a side effect but not sure what’s happening with that. NSW Health has even contacted me to get my second dose, which I obviously refused. I’ve read a bit about neurological side effects after the vaccine and I came to this group for some sort of validation. I’ve finally got the courage to share what I’ve been through during the last 3.5 months. I’ve still got a while to go recovery wise but I’ve been assured by neurologists that with rehab for a couple of months, I should return back to what I was!! Thanks for reading