NZDSOS

Isaac

After receiving the first dose, he took to bed for three days with swollen glands under his arms and a raging temperature.

Then after his second dose, blood blisters appeared on the top of his feet. His passion for rugby started to wane as after each game his feet became infected. Mosquito bites became infected and wouldn’t heal, and a lumpy rash appeared all over his chest. The excruciating itching he felt all over over his body prevented him from getting any proper sleep.

But when he presented to his family doctor, he was told he had eczema and that his shoes were too tight.

A bad chest infection and pneumonia sent him to the Health Helpline, where he received ivermectin. His rash disappeared and he was able to return to rugby, the gym, and work.

However, Isaac still deals with immune system damage, a consequence that may follow him for the rest of his life.

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Emily

Three days after her second injection, a Christmas shopping trip with her mother was abruptly halted when she felt intense chest pain, dizziness and she nearly blacked out. She was rushed to the GP, as it was closer than the hospital, where she underwent an ECG and then sent home without medication.

Her blood test results were abnormal, and even the slightest stress would trigger heart palpitations, chest pain and shortness of breath. Her heart still races for no reason, at times surging to a staggering 172 bpm in an instant.

Emily received a diagnosis of myocarditis, but her GP would not definitively link it to the vaccine. In fact, she felt gas-lit by many GPs and health services, telling her it couldn’t be the injection that was causing these issues.

More diagnoses followed, including pericarditis and autoimmune disease. She was referred to a cardiologist but she had to wait 14 months before her appointment.

Throughout her ordeal, Emily tried to get help from the government but no MPs were willing to step up.

“Like others my age, I feel very let down by the government who mandated my job and then did not care when I was injured.”

Since December 2021, Emily’s list of symptoms continues to grow: arrhythmia, shortness of breath, racing heart, severe fatigue, brain fog, high blood pressure, elevated troponins, elevated d-dimer, and swelling in her hands, feet and face.

She still can’t exert herself much, or go to the gym like she previously did. She even lost friends who accused her of being anti-vax when she wasn’t. The repercussions on her young life are incalculable.

“It’s been very hard to have no money and no life.”

A Facebook group directed her to NZDSOS, which started her on the path to regaining her health.

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Charlotte

Charlotte took the covid jab because she felt coerced into it. As part of the interview process for a new job as a recovery facilitator in mental health and addiction, one requirement included being vaccinated. Despite her intuition alerting her that it would not have a good outcome, she complied for the sake of her livelihood.

Unfortunately, she reacted very badly to the shot.

With unbearable pain down her left arm, she went to her GP and ED several times, not knowing if her symptoms meant she was going to have a heart attack, stroke, or both. She was transferred from Hawera Hospital to New Plymouth Hospital with no resolution or answers, leaving her feeling at wits’ end.

The doctors did not do anything to help Charlotte and her condition worsened.  With her symptoms becoming increasingly unbearable, she went from a vibrant, healthy individual to questioning whether she could live.

“There were days when I thought I was going to die, and there were days when I wanted to die because I didn’t feel like living.”

Further diagnoses included POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), anxiety, chronic fatigue, low blood pressure, dehydration and migraine.

She also received a diagnosis of myocarditis from NZDSOS clinic, where she feels the treatment she received have saved her life.

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