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I have to preface this by saying I AM NOT ANTI VAX. That being said…in 2021 I got the Covid vaccine in June (Moderna). Got the booster in December (Pfizer). A month later, I had to be admitted to the hospital because I was experiencing terrible chest pain.

After getting my blood drawn, I was told by a nurse that my platelet count was at 2, and that they’d have to admit me to the hospital because my troponin levels were also abnormally high. I don’t remember too much after that but I apparently suffered a transient stroke shortly afterwards.
I had to take an insane steroid dosage (60mg) and get platelet transfusions for almost 3 months. I also was told I had somehow developed Lupus, and the Lupus triggered a thrombotic trombocytopenic purpura flare. That sounded ridiculous to me. Is it crazy for me to think the vaccine may have caused all of this? I feel like I can’t talk to people about this. Even the doctors can’t really explain what happened to me, but are adamant that it couldn’t possibly have been because of the Covid vaccine. They told me shit like this is about as rare as getting struck by lightning and that I shouldn’t worry about what really happened. They even want to document my case and publish it, despite it apparently having nothing to do with the Covid vaccine. I search up Covid and TTP and see a fuck ton of reports of very similar things happening after getting a Pfizer shot.

I guess I’m saying all of this to ask the intelligent people in healthcare here (if there are any) what they really think. I can’t help but wonder if I would’ve gone through all of this had I not gotten the vaccine. I wonder if it really would’ve been worse had I gotten Covid instead. The side effects from the steroids and other meds I had to take have literally ruined my life. Heart palpitations, blurry vision, shaky hands, and I’ve been told that I have proteinuria now which could be the start of kidney disease.