Among other symptoms, he had cramping, weakness in his arms and hands, pins and needles and tremors – and no answers about what was happening to him. But the clots weren’t picked up until June last year, and they’ve been doing untold damage all that time.’Īdam was kept in hospital on the acute high care coronary unit for a week, before being sent to a specialist heart and lung hospital.Įager to get back to work and exercise – which had been so important to him – he wanted to make sure his heart was okay before he started again, Adam paid for private treatment so he could be seen more quickly.ĭoctors there were ‘bamboozled’, he says, and they sent him back to the GP for further tests.īy autumn, Adam says he started to feel suicidal. ‘I believe my body had been clotting from that point onward. ‘If they had referred me to specialists then, I don’t think I would be where I am now. ‘I told all the doctors and consultants I’d see that I’d been ill since having the vaccine – but they wouldn’t engage with that,’ he says. I’ve been so fit and well, and suddenly, I’ve got so many unbelievable symptoms the tinnitus, the blurred vision, the rashes. ‘I thought – there’s something clearly not right. But after lying in bed suffering, night after night, something clicked. Until this point, Adam had believed the vaccine was safe and effective. It can also be found in patients with long Covid.Īdam says he wasn’t told about his D-Dimer count – he found out later from his medical notes.Īt the time, doctors thought he might have Brugada syndrome – a rare but serious condition that affects the way electrical signals pass through the heart. A high count can mean you are at risk of a stroke, heart attack or pulmonary embolism. ![]() This time, Adam was put into intensive care at Warrington Hospital where tests found he had a high D-Dimer (a protein fragment made when a blood clot dissolves in the body) count. Later that month, he experienced another dizzy episode and called a cardiologist work colleague who told him to go straight back to the emergency unit. I felt like I was dying or having a heart attack, so I called an ambulance.’Īdam went to A&E where, following tests, he was told he was having a panic attack and sent home. ‘A few days later I was experiencing severe sweating and breathlessness. The dad of two had been in top physical condition (Picture: Supplied) Around a week later, he started feeling even more terrible. He referred me to a psychiatrist, because he thought it was stress, but I knew it wasn’t.’Įventually, Adam was referred to a local mental health team and in May 2021 had the second AZ Covid vaccine. ‘He was really nice,’ adds Adam, ‘but it felt scary because he didn’t know what to do. In the meantime, I went back to the doctor and he said he couldn’t find anything wrong.’ They were very supportive – and after a month, gave me a phased return. ‘I just told them I don’t know what’s going on with me. He came off the tablets and spent more time off work. ‘It just turned up the volume on all the symptoms the spinning in my head, the palpitations in my heart. However, according to Adam, ‘That just made everything ten times worse.’ His GP diagnosed depression and anxiety, and prescribed antidepressants. ![]() It was frightening, but I had no reason to believe anything other than what the doctor was suggesting – that it was panic attacks.’ He remembers: ‘I felt depressed when my dad died in 2014, and this was not the same. ![]() Before being vaccinated, Adam was a physiotherapist to professional sportspeople (Picture: Supplied)
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