tachyfor50years Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 1) A Flu shot, 7 years a go.2) A Cortisone shot, few days a go.In both cases, I suffered from blurry vision, high fever (105), sleeping for more than 11 hours, loss of appetite, vomitting and other symptoms.I really don't know if those were reactions to the shots or simply the shots weakend my immune system.Anybody else? and I just wonder if it has to do with POTS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellgirl Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 I think it is because we are just hypersensitive to everything, and you are right, cortisone can lower or weaken your immune response. I will never take a flu shot again...too many stories of bad reactions... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoj Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 1. Weaning from Zoloft 2 years ago. Drinking 3.5 beers 2 years ago. 2. Being around loud music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tachyfor50years Posted July 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 Kim,That is why I wrote (7 years a go), because that was the last time when I had had my flu shot and - just like you -will never have it a gain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corina Posted July 17, 2012 Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 .......surgery in 2000. Though I had symptoms all my life I never knew what was going on until I got diagnosed in 2002. I got gradually worse over the years, tried lots of meds but improved when I started octreotide. I always get the flu shot, it doesn't make me sick at all but I get really sick when having the flu. We are all so different aren't we?! Wishing you all well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kellysavedbygrace Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 I get the blurry /fuzzy vision as a part of my symptoms and a low fever sometimes. (99.5). But those symptoms are nothing compared to the faintness, fatigue, hypersensitivity, parasthesia and neuro deficits when I'm have a bad POTS spell.I have had two really bad flares: 1- following a root canal2- following getting a filling done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlene Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 i have always wondered what caused my POTS too. was is from abruptly stopping an ssri l i had taken several years ago, the hepatitis b vaccine i received while working in health care, i was abused my an ex boyfriend, i hit a car head on and hit my head (have several lesions in my head, not sure from what), once i sprayed mosquito spray on me that was not meant to be put on your body, not on your body, i had a bacterial blood infection and was hospitalized for 7 days, i lived in a woods (did i get lyme), did i pick something up when traveling out of the country, i often wonder if there is a disease process going on dr.'s just havent picked up on yet. i know all these things r probably silly to think, but i wonder what caused me to become sick. also, my daughter had brought home mercury thermometers from school that i accidentally broke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tachyfor50years Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 After 2 trips to the ER, many blood tests and a visit to my PCP, doctors confirmed that all my symptoms were side effects from the Cortisone shot that I was given. One of the doctors told me that I am one in a million regarding that severe reaction.Thanks for all your replies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julieph85 Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Pregnancy. Not one symptom my entire life until one day when I was 32 weeks pregnant and could no longer stand up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellgirl Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 I had a cortisone shot for asthma in 1986, and never had that kind of reaction, but that was before my POTS symptoms... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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