Fatigue, Breathlessness and Sleeping Upright After Second Dose

Day 4 · 1:34:14 · Myriam Bohémier · Glen Motz

• 😮‍💨 Before the second dose she already felt abnormal fatigue and became winded on a hike that previously caused no trouble.
• 🛏️ On vacation she began waking at night out of breath and coughing, then had to sleep sitting up because she could not breathe lying down.
• 🏥 A Florida clinic first called it bronchitis needing three-to-four weeks; days later a nurse found fluid in the lungs and sent her to hospital.

Lisa Lavoie recounts progressive respiratory collapse in the weeks after her second Pfizer shot.

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Transcript

Myriam Bohémier · 1:34:14

So how did your symptoms start after you took the vaccines? I can tell you that right before the second— I took the second dose, I realized that I was fatigued and it wasn't normal. I went hiking with my daughter, and on our way back, I was feeling tired, and usually I didn't feel tired. I was out of breath. And at some point it went downhill, and I thought it, it was maybe because of work. Should I take some time off? That's what was happening at that time. And you had trouble sleeping as well, breathing? Yes, it started when I went on vacation. I took some time off, and then I realized that some nights I would wake up out of breath.

Glen Motz · 1:35:18

I would cough.

Myriam Bohémier · 1:35:21

And at some point I went to a doctor because I was wondering what was happening to me. At what time was that? It was in January, January 2022. In, in January I went to see a doctor and he told me that it was bronchitis. And that I needed 3 to 4 weeks for it to heal. And at that time you were in Florida, so you went to a US clinic. Indeed. After that, it only went downhill. I would have to, to sleep sitting, and I didn't understand what to do. Why would you sleep sitting? Because I couldn't breathe. I would be coughing, and I told my husband, we need to do something.

Glen Motz · 1:36:18

I couldn't do—.

Myriam Bohémier · 1:36:19

Take my walks anymore. So you couldn't go from the hotel to your car? Yes, that's the case. So we decided to go see the doctor, and I went back to the nurse at the clinic And she, after checking my lungs, she told me to go to the hospital. From there, I was in shock because I was wondering what was happening to me. So that was your second appointment after you've been told that you had bronchitis. You had a second appointment and you've been told to go to the hospital. Exactly. I went to the ER.