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Taylor: Hours After Moderna, Heart Feels Ready to Burst

Day 3 · 7:16:13 · Shawn Buckley · Drew Taylor

  • ❤️ Pro-vaccine healthcare worker took first Moderna 24 April 2021; within hours heart raced, neck pulsed, dizziness hit.
  • 🏥 ER caught standing sinus tachycardia of 130; echo and monitor were “normal” yet 30–50+ new symptoms appeared.
  • 💦 She became drenched in sweat merely sitting up and could no longer run a 5K or work full days.

First dose instantly disabled a previously elite-level active professional.

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Transcript

Shawn Buckley · 7:16:13

Sorry, you had a journey with the vaccines that have changed that. Can you share with us your, your journey? My understanding is on April 24th, 2001, it started with the Moderna vaccine. Sure.

Drew Taylor · 7:16:30

I was actually very pro-vaccine. Vaccine, I was excited to get this. I fully thought it was safe and effective as the government had said it was. So I was ahead of my age group to get this first vaccination because I was part of the healthcare system and I did have patients that I was seeing and treating. So I wanted to be safe for them. And I do regret, obviously, but after the first COVID-19 vaccine within hours, I felt like my heart was going to flip or burst out of my chest. I couldn't sit up without a massive dizzy rush. I had new pain in my, like, neck and head. I could hear my heart rate in my— like, I could hear my heart rate. It was beating in my neck. I went to the ER and they caught sinus tachycardia when I was standing. It was about 130. Just standing from compared to a normal one while I was sitting.

Drew Taylor · 7:17:32

And after that, they did a bunch of tests. Everything came back normal. They did an echo, they did a heart monitor, and everything was fairly normal. And I was waiting for Dr. G at the Royal Alec. He's a cardiologist. He had seen me and said that he thought that, you know, this sounds like POTS. At that point, I was having like I don't know, probably 30 to 50+ symptoms. And directly after the vaccine, it took me about a month to be able to have that appointment, maybe a little bit longer before I saw Dr. G. And within that time, I wasn't working. I was sweating, like not just sweating like a little bit. Like if you've ever gone in, let's say, into a hot yoga room, it's— and you come out and you're just drenched. I was drenched just sitting up and getting up and moving around my house. And this is— I was extremely active before this. I could run a 5K without stopping, no problem. And all of a sudden for this, after the vaccine, I can't— I couldn't move without pain, without my heart going crazy, without sweating.

Drew Taylor · 7:18:38

And then I was also freezing at the same time. So Dr. G thought it might be POTS. And to his opinion at the time, he said that you can't have POTS without fainting. At that point, I had not fainted. I'd only experienced presyncope regularly. We had to wait for the tilt test. So I was— I had Moderna in April. We had to wait. I ended up getting that tilt test finally in November. So there's a lot of time that went by. I was still very symptomatic. I did— I was about— I think it was like 2 months after the vaccine, I started to take on like human clients again. I've never unfortunately been able to work with horses again, and I didn't that between the first and the second vaccination. But taking on one person compared to the 8 people that I could take on in a day, that one client I would have to— and I was a very therapeutic type of massage therapist. I was very much so, I'm going to move your body for you so that I can manipulate your joints and be able to heal you.

Drew Taylor · 7:19:41

It's very physical work. And I would have to sit down and do relaxation massage where I'm barely, you know, putting any pressure. I'm not putting much thought into it because I was just drenched with sweat. I couldn't make it through the first session that I did, so my client had to go home. Anyways, the tilt test finally came and Dr. G said it was inconclusive. So I was experiencing symptoms throughout the test. It was an inconclusive test and Um, at this test, the— there was a resident cardiologist as well as a nurse that— when you're doing a tilt test, for those that don't know, it, it's where they have you lying down so they can get your base, and they can get like a base— is in your base heart rate, your base blood pressure, and then they tilt you up. You're strapped to a table so that way this is passive. It's not you standing up, it's them sitting you up. And, um, Then after a certain amount of time, they'll take— sorry, they'll take a— they'll take measurement when you've been up and then they'll lay you back down, get your bases again, and then they'll add a medication which is supposed to replicate like a vasodilation.

Drew Taylor · 7:20:57

So what happens when heat is brought into like a normal situation, like going outside for the heat, it's supposed to be like that. Dr. G and the nurse had told me that they, for this test, had used liquid adrenaline. I'm not sure exactly what medication is— what, what, what it was, because it wasn't the same as what in the future Dr. Raj had decided to use. Anyways, um, Dr. G had done this. I was again symptomatic on the table, um, and afterwards he said it was inconclusive and that I needed my second vaccination because of a previous blood clot that I had when I was 19. He was concerned that I was going to have blood clots if I got COVID-19 vaccine. The test was inconclusive. He said I didn't have POTS, which I know for a fact now you can have POTS without passing out. However, he said I did not have POTS, I did not pass out. If I had, if I had POTS, I would have absolutely passed out. He also told me that he had, he had spoken with a specialist about my case and that I— this, this, so this said specialist also said that I needed the second vaccination.