Around November 2021, about three weeks after my 2nd Covid jab, I began noticing pain in my joints (especially wrists, fingers/ knuckles, ankles, and heels, toes, but also elsewhere).
Then, my body started swelling - I had to remove my rings on my hands, and my shoes were tighter on my feet; and my husband observed the noticeable difference too.
I developed sensations like I was burning from the inside.
I started to lose sleep, because the body pain kept me awake during the night, or if I woke I couldn't get back to sleep because of the pain.
I already had some terpenes liquid drops, and that helped a bit - but the condition persisted.
My instincts (and, the fact there was nothing else in proximity to the emergent body pain) told me my body was reacting to the Covid injection.
So I saw my doctor, and after discussion she suggested I log my condition on the Government Covid adverse reaction website (which I did). She got me to take a barrage of blood and urine tests, but they all showed up negative for everything tested for (including arthritis and such). So the doctors were stumped as to what the problem was.
I started seeing an acupuncturist who, after examining me, confirmed I had chronic body inflammation.
I was seeing a chiropractor too who advised that chiropractic treatment could help my body pain condition.
Having believing I'd just been injured by a Big Pharma medical industrial complex product (the jab), I didn't want to use more big pharma drugs to alleviate my pain. I wanted natural remedies where possible. So I also bought a vaper and acquired some marijuana and started vaping once, sometimes twice a day (morning and evening) to help with the pain. As you can imagine, ongoing costs for all this 'response' started to wrack up.
My doctor agreed we should apply for ACC, so she did. Weeks later, ACC advised me of its decision: denial that I had been injured, and claim denied. I'm still challenging ACC's decision (a whole other situation that's very aggravating, especially as there seems to be little if any avenue for obtaining accountability or compensation for my suffering and associated financial costs).
"Kia ora Dr Loo,
I just got a phone call from ACC saying they deny my injury claim. Part of the reason they said was that my doctor noted my symptoms but no diagnosis of any condition that meets ACC's injury requirements.
Firstly, I am very confused, as I thought the whole basis for my claim (and registering on the Covid injection adverse reaction site) was my chronic body inflammation? I told the ACC person, Jef, that my acupuncturist corroborated my body inflammation condition, but Jef said without a diagnosis from my doctor, ACC can't help me (acupuncturists are apparently expert enough to determine how to treat patients, but not qualified in ACC's eyes to diagnose anything - which also was very confusing to me). He said what's in the ACC claim form are only symptoms (joint pain) not a diagnosis of an injury per se.
I'm waiting for ACC to send me the decision in writing, but can you please help me understand why I'm injured, but ACC is denying me compensation to help with the costs of my injury treatment?
Secondly, being Covid vaccine injured, and now with body inflammation as arguably a co-morbidity, I don't want to take any more Covid vaccines. However, if ACC is denying I have any injury, my fear is that this weakens or eliminates my eligibility for applying for a vaccine exemption. With the prospect of more Covid outbreaks and State vaccine mandates, I am anxious that I will be will forced to either risk my health once again with the vaccine, or suffer the punishment of essentially being ostracized from the workforce and society if I decline to take the shot to protect what health I have left. Do you have an opinion on my options please? Can I get a vaccine exemption that will allow me to enjoy the same/ similar freedoms as vaccinated citizens? "