Multisystem Autonomic Injuries¶

POTS, MCAS, CRPS, nephrotic syndrome, ITP, chronic pain, fatigue, and overlapping multi-organ syndromes that leave people disabled or dialysis-dependent.

23 sections cover this topic directly.

Day 1¶

7:55:54 ITP Crisis: Platelets Crash to Zero After Second Shot — John Grant · Shawn Buckley · Ron Johnson · Denis G. Rancourt, PhD 🩸 Within two weeks of the second dose Grant developed nosebleeds, petechiae, mouth bleeding, and platelets of 4 (baseline ~154), later falling to zero.

Day 2¶

1:17:20 Cameron Hitchcock Sworn: Healthy 30-Year-Old on Dialysis — Shawn Buckley · Cameron Hitchcock · Dean Allison · Vienna Demeduk 🩺 Hitchcock, now 35, had no prior illness; VISP accepts his case as vaccine injury and he dialyzes every other day.
1:20:27 Hitchcock’s Rapid Onset of Nephrotic Syndrome After Pfizer — Shawn Buckley · Cameron Hitchcock 🎂 Three weeks after second Pfizer dose, on his 30th birthday, face and voice swelled; feet soon showed sock indentations.
1:25:54 Five-Month Hospital Nightmare: Prednisone, Thirst, and Immobility — Cameron Hitchcock · Shawn Buckley 🏥 Hitchcock spent five months in hospital with repeated readmissions as nephrotic syndrome worsened and fluid overloaded his body.
1:29:49 Blistered Feet, Bedside Debridement, and Permanent Dialysis — Shawn Buckley · Cameron Hitchcock · Dean Allison · Michael Oesch 🦶 Extreme foot swelling and blistering required plastic surgeons to cut away over 30% of the surface area at the bedside.
1:50:21 Barbe’s Cascade of Symptoms After Third Moderna Dose — Nathalie Barbe · Myriam Bohémier ❤️ Chest pressure, brain fog, burning feet, daily vomiting, migraines, vision loss and an aneurysm appeared after dose three.
3:21:16 Three Days After Second Shot: Crawling to the Bathroom — Thor Hart · Shawn Buckley · Daniel Freiheit 🩹 Second Pfizer dose produced escalating joint pain “like glass”; on day three he could not stand and had to crawl to the bathroom.

Day 3¶

2:36:06 Second-Dose Collapse: POTS, Whole-Body Nerve Pain and ER Cycle — Patricia Leidl · Dean Allison 倒下 One week after dose two she rose, collapsed with racing heart, facial/hand/foot swelling and shrieking neuropathic pain.
2:38:55 Boils, 70-Pound Gain and Post-Menopausal Bleeding Dismissed — Dean Allison · Patricia Leidl 🦠 Confluent boils from neck to knees for six months plus rapid rise from 130 to 200 lb left her unrecognizable.
3:06:43 Cystic Masses, Plantar Fasciitis and Unemployable Future — Dawood Al-Janaby · Dean Allison 🫧 Multiple hand masses once dismissed as benign cysts keep appearing; six now documented.
4:45:57 Teresa Buckley: Drew Taylor and Ending the Silence — Teresa Buckley 🧘 Volunteer Teresa Buckley recounts power-yoga instructor Drew Taylor, 32, hospitalized within an hour of her first shot and later needing a walker with POTS after a second dose, fainting ~30 times a day.
6:09:56 Chapman: Chronic Pain, Syncope and Surgical Emergencies — Shawn Buckley · Mark Chapman · Dean Allison 💥 Whole-body pain from ears to toes, random full-contraction muscle spasms, numb/burning feet and tramadol dependence.
6:20:49 Denomme: Full-Body Road-Rash Pain After Second Dose — Crystal Denomme · Shawn Buckley · Teresa Buckley · Dean Allison 🔥 Within 24 hours of the second shot every inch of skin felt like severe sunburn plus road rash; bones felt like they were melting.
6:24:27 Denomme: CRPS Leaves Her in Constant Agony — Crystal Denomme · Shawn Buckley 🦵 Left leg from mid-thigh to mid-calf developed complex regional pain syndrome with purple discoloration, temperature swings and texture changes.
6:26:26 Denomme: Clothes Hurt, Falls Shatter Femur and Teeth — Crystal Denomme · Shawn Buckley 😣 Crystal sits in visible agony; even clothing and water on skin trigger off-the-charts CRPS flares.
7:28:26 Taylor: Dr. Raj Confirms POTS, Vasovagal Syncope and MCAS from Vaccines — Drew Taylor 🔬 Emergency referrals finally reached autonomic specialist Dr. Raj who ran full testing in Calgary.
7:29:40 Taylor: Meds Every Few Hours, 14 g Sodium, Cane and Wheelchair Life — Shawn Buckley · Drew Taylor 💊 Blood-pressure, heart and mast-cell drugs last only about three hours; she still faints 1–3 times weekly off them.
7:38:32 Q&A: What Does Living with POTS Actually Mean Every Day? — Dean Allison · Crystal Denomme · Drew Taylor · Shawn Buckley ⬆️ Any sitting or standing requires medical-grade compression, extreme sodium and constant effort to keep blood in heart and brain.

Day 4¶

1:24:04 Diagnoses Under Vaccine-Induced Long COVID Umbrella — Shannon Holmes · Glen Motz · Dean Allison 🩺 Shannon Holmes was diagnosed with all three types of POTS (mainly hyperadrenergic), ME/CFS, functional neurological disorder, and mast cell activation syndrome.
1:53:46 Before-and-After Photos: Coma, Football-Sized Cyst, Multi-Organ Failure — Shannon Holmes · Glen Motz · Dean Allison 📸 A healthy lunchtime selfie is contrasted with ICU photos showing massive swelling, tubes everywhere, and a 32-cm cyst that had ruptured and turned him septic.
2:03:31 Booster Triggers Necrotizing Pancreatitis and Black Bile — Glen Motz · Shannon Holmes · Dean Allison 📅 After the 27 December 2021 booster he felt unwell, went home, then on New Year’s Eve suffered what he thought was a heart attack.
4:42:18 Teresa Buckley: Drew Taylor’s Collapse and Why Silence Must End — Teresa Buckley · Shawn Buckley · Toni Lannigan 🧘 Volunteer Teresa Buckley describes power-yoga instructor Drew Taylor, 32, hospitalized within an hour of her first COVID shot.
6:16:44 Dianne Spaulding: AstraZeneca Bleed, Rash and Platelet Drop — Myriam Bohémier · Dianne Spaulding 💉 Healthy 56-year-old lab tech took AstraZeneca 23 Apr 2021 after pharmacist dismissed thrombocytopenia fears.

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