After receiving my first and only Covid 19 vaccination in November, I have not felt that well.
I started off with heart palpitations about a week after the vaccination - not constant but every day or so.
I normally run at least 3 times a week but I haven't felt right to do that.
When I would lay down at night I would feel short of breath and have a random cough. This carried on through December into mid January.
By about the 23rd January I was starting to feel quite unwell for extended periods during the day, light headed and exhausted. It was then that I noticed that when I was feeling unwell my heart rate was falling down into the low 50s. I wear a fitbit. When I am fit, my resting heart rate is 64.
After a few days of this I ended up getting checked by a nurse. They did bloods and a ECG, but nothing showed up and of course my heart rate was fine while I was there. Have since been referred to a cardiologist who wanted a Echocardiogram before I saw them. There is currently a 9 month wait for an Echocardiogram through Wanganui public health system. So I have had to pay to go private.
I have had an Echocardiogram which showed everything structurally is fine with my heart.
I am now waiting to get a Holter monitor.
Probably 5 days out of 7 I can barely do anything due to my body being exhausted because my heart rate is constantly down in the 50's, I feel light headed and its hard to concentrate or do anything, bar the essentials. I also get chest pain now with it as well that can last for a few hours.
Before having the Covid 19 vaccination, I was fit and healthy with no heart issues.