Woods: Third Dose Escalates to Waist-Down Burning Bug Sensation¶
Day 3 · 6:53:55 · Julie Woods · Shawn Buckley
- 🔥 Five days after December 2021 third Pfizer, symptoms returned and climbed from feet to waist within three weeks.
- 🐛 Pain jumped to 7–9/10 with internal vibrating nerves and 24/7 sensation of bugs crawling inside.
- 📈 Symptoms never stopped; they progressed to full-body intensity that continues every day.
Booster turned intermittent leg pain into constant full-body neuropathic agony.
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Transcript¶
Julie Woods · 6:53:55
I did.
Shawn Buckley · 6:53:56
So, and that was on December 21st, 2021, again Pfizer. Can you share with us what happened after that?
Julie Woods · 6:54:03
Yeah, so within 5 days of having taken the third dose, um, the symptoms that I was experiencing after the second dose came right back, except this time over the course of 3 weeks, it worked its way from the bottom of my feet. To my waist down. So it didn't stop at my knees this time. In addition to that, it was also much more consistent pain at a higher intensity. So at this point, rather than the 5, 6, we were looking at anywhere between 7 and 9.
Shawn Buckley · 6:54:38
Okay. So I just want to kind of unpack that. So basically from your waist down now, you are in like 7 to 9, that's like an unbearable pain stage. And this is constant. What, like, what type of pain was it? Because there's like, what was the sensation that you were feeling?
Julie Woods · 6:55:03
It was like a burning pain, kind of felt like internally that the nerves within my body were vibrating. Almost as if you had like bugs crawling on the inside of you 24/7.
Shawn Buckley · 6:55:18
Did it feel like bugs crawling on you?
Julie Woods · 6:55:20
It did.
Shawn Buckley · 6:55:21
Okay. So not only is it this intense pain, but you actually have this sensation like bugs are crawling throughout basically your body from the waist down. And how long does this go on for? It's still actually still going on to some degree.
Julie Woods · 6:55:38
Uh, yes, it hasn't stopped. It's only progressed. Um, it is now full body that I experience these symptoms, um, and the intensity, uh, continues at that level to this day.
Shawn Buckley · 6:56:00
Okay, so How far up?
Julie Woods · 6:56:07
Today I experience the symptoms full body.
Shawn Buckley · 6:56:12
Okay. And so you're in pain right now?
Julie Woods · 6:56:18
Yes.
Shawn Buckley · 6:56:18
So not only like you shared with us earlier, you've got this nausea from your treatment, but you're also in extreme pain. And this is your daily life, isn't it?
Julie Woods · 6:56:28
Yep.
Shawn Buckley · 6:56:28
So every day you're in chronic pain?
Julie Woods · 6:56:31
Absolutely.
Shawn Buckley · 6:56:32
The only question is, is what is the level going to be today? Correct. Um, sometimes it, it gets so bad that like you're literally on the couch crying in pain all night.
Julie Woods · 6:56:49
Yes.
Shawn Buckley · 6:56:52
Okay. Um, you also have what's called small fiber neuropathy.
Julie Woods · 6:56:59
Yes.
Julie Woods · 6:56:59
So I was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy after attempting to find care in Canada. Eventually, I did have to go to the United States. When I first presented with these symptoms to the urgent care, I was sent to the emergency department. For concerns of potential Guillain-Barré syndrome. And when I went to emerge, I packed my bags because at this point it was quite clear to both my family and I that my symptoms were the result of the COVID vaccines because it happened not only once, but twice. And so I was sure that I would be admitted because why wouldn't the medical community want to figure out what happened to me so that they could prevent it from happening to other people?
Julie Woods · 6:58:04
Little did I know at that time that it was already too late. There were already tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people like me worldwide.