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> may be due to the vaccination Emphasis on may, or might. Your experience is certainly valid, and I'm sorry you have to go through this, but it's still a sample of one with no theory of causation. If a certain percentage of people are vaccinated, and a certain percentage of people develop heart problems regardless of vaccination, a few of those people will develop those problems immediately after vaccination. Such things can be just statistical accidents. If I developed heart problems at 58, after years of poor diet and other bad habits, I don't think I'd ascribe it to one discrete recent event unless I was predisposed to believe that the two were related. Therefore, I think it's worth asking: did (or do) you have any such predisposition?

saalweachter 3y ago
Eh, it's totally fair to draw a connection between Guillain-Barre, myocarditis, etc, and vaccination. They are all fundamentally the immune system overreacting and attacking your own tissues, and the vaccines are provoking an immune response. There's a clear mechanism for this to happen, so it's not shocking or a mystery. The reason we accept this risk and get vaccines anyway is that all of these same conditions occur at higher rates when you are naively exposed to a virus. Myocarditis rates, for instance, are roughly 10x higher in any age group when you get COVID (without a prior vaccination or infection) than if you get a vaccine. So if you aren't likely to be exposed to a particular virus, it's totally reasonable to not get vaccinated for it, just because there are side effects. I haven't been vaccinated for any of the various tropical diseases, for instance, because I don't travel anywhere. I haven't been vaccinated for rabies, because I'm not a vet and don't go spelunking. There's no point in rolling the dice on side effects when I have essentially no chance of contracting the diseases. Once it became clear that everyone is going to be exposed to COVID, you stopped having the option to avoid rolling the dice on myocarditis or other immune-system disorders; it's just a matter of whether you want to roll the dice with a vaccine, or wait and roll them with your first infection, and have 10x the likelihood of getting hit with one of them.
sBqQu3U0wH 3y ago
>predisposition Honestly, I didn't have any strong opinions and just did what everyone else did. Moreover, it was inconvenient that I could not enter to a grocery store without proof of vaccination so there is that. I am 26. I do not and never smoked, do not drink alcohol, maintain a healthy diet (do not eat sweets (except for dark chocolate sometimes) or anything that has lots of sugar, avoid highly processed foods, eat a decent amount of fruits, vegetables, nuts, fish, whatever), exercise regularly and never had any notable health problems prior to vaccine, I am not overweight not underweight. To the best of my knowledge, I never had Covid either. Sure, I do not disagree that predisposition does not exist in such cases as you described, but I just feel bitter and miserable.

saalweachter 3y ago

Eh, it's totally fair to draw a connection between Guillain-Barre, myocarditis, etc, and vaccination. They are all fundamentally the immune system overreacting and attacking your own tissues, and the vaccines are provoking an immune response. There's a clear mechanism for this to happen, so it's not shocking or a mystery. The reason we accept this risk and get vaccines anyway is that all of these same conditions occur at higher rates when you are naively exposed to a virus. Myocarditis rates, for instance, are roughly 10x higher in any age group when you get COVID (without a prior vaccination or infection) than if you get a vaccine. So if you aren't likely to be exposed to a particular virus, it's totally reasonable to not get vaccinated for it, just because there are side effects. I haven't been vaccinated for any of the various tropical diseases, for instance, because I don't travel anywhere. I haven't been vaccinated for rabies, because I'm not a vet and don't go spelunking. There's no point in rolling the dice on side effects when I have essentially no chance of contracting the diseases. Once it became clear that everyone is going to be exposed to COVID, you stopped having the option to avoid rolling the dice on myocarditis or other immune-system disorders; it's just a matter of whether you want to roll the dice with a vaccine, or wait and roll them with your first infection, and have 10x the likelihood of getting hit with one of them.

sBqQu3U0wH 3y ago

>predisposition Honestly, I didn't have any strong opinions and just did what everyone else did. Moreover, it was inconvenient that I could not enter to a grocery store without proof of vaccination so there is that. I am 26. I do not and never smoked, do not drink alcohol, maintain a healthy diet (do not eat sweets (except for dark chocolate sometimes) or anything that has lots of sugar, avoid highly processed foods, eat a decent amount of fruits, vegetables, nuts, fish, whatever), exercise regularly and never had any notable health problems prior to vaccine, I am not overweight not underweight. To the best of my knowledge, I never had Covid either. Sure, I do not disagree that predisposition does not exist in such cases as you described, but I just feel bitter and miserable.