I do have a lower neck and upper back issue. Feel like stretching it always. It’s been a week now. I’m scared as well.

I've had so many health problems since I got vaccinated. until I don't want to believe it. my neck is stiff, I have headaches, hand pains, cervical spine. mental problems, literally my life is in ruins.

Wow I am mind blown to find this thread. Here is my story.

May of 2019 I found a bite on my wrist. Could not recall how it got there but it looked strange. I racked my brain but could not figure it out. Back tracked my last day and I was outdoors, in a home warehouse store that has birds and other things flying around in there. Still did not think much of it until day 2 when the bite marks got big welts around them.

My husband talked me into going to the ER to get it looked at and the attending said it looked very suspicious and I could either wait and see (hope it was not a bat bite) or get vaccinated. He said the wait and see part will not end well if it is a bat that had rabies. So that day I got immunoglobulin and imovax.

The first day I felt terrible. Flu sensations and to make matters worse, my son brought home a summer flu so I we both ended up with an upper resperatory infection and I almost got phneumonia. I felt terrible on the first day which was all the rabies shot. I started to get hot and feverish within a few hours, followed by the worst headache ever. Nausea etc. I felt better though the next day but shortly it was time for the next shot, and the same miserable feelings came with each shot worse then the one prior. When I finished the series I was happy but felt off. Along with the tremendous panic of being bat bitten and the potential of dying coupled with the shots I was a train wreck. I could not sleep, was amped up, full blown panic and insomnia. I could not sleep for almost 7 days. I would wake up at 4am every single night. I attribute 75% of this to the shots.

Anyhow In the months to follow I was feeling better and glad that was behind me. However in August I started getting tooth pain. I have had 2 root canals just over the past few months but they did not help the pain which tells me it might be some type of facial nerve pain syndrome.

Has anyone else had this after the rabies shots? I don't get any tingling in my body or the other symptoms you all describe. My main issues were through the course of the shots and seemed to improve there after other then this new thing. It could be totally unrelated but I worry about the small possibility of contracting a disease through the immunoglobulin and imovax. Prior to all of this I was a perfect image of health.

I don't want to scare anyone who is faced with being bitten. Please get the shot it can save your life.

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Glad you found us, and thank you for posting your experience. It is all helpful to this community. No experience with jaw pain. Hope yours is not related to the bat bite/rabies vaccine. I think we all will live with the shadow of "what if" after this. Yes I sure hope all the immune globulin donors were healthy...no way to know for sure.

Thanks Batbite. I also read your story.

I think everyone who has gotten these shots should as a precaution get tested for the basics, HIV, Hepatitis and possibly a few others.

I know they sterilize the donor material but the fine print on the brochure is of course scary. I did check for HIV months following the injections. I'm in a monogomous relationship for the past 28 years so no concern there but I think with this new pain issue I might test further. Just to be sure. Not to cause alarm to anyone. I reached out to the CDC and the makers of both vaccines and was assured they are cleaned but like everything in life there is no guarantee.

Yup...me too...
 

Virgin bride, virgin groom, married 47 years no infidelity, no illicit drugs, no blood transfusions. Yet here is this unavoidable risk because rabies is a death sentence if not immediately treated. I've had 3 ER visits in the last year for various reasons, and I think every time they do an ER blood draw they test for communicable disease. I'll have to ask my primary about that when we go in for our regular annual check up this Spring. Just have to continue to live my best life, the only direction is forward.

I think the risks are quite low so I don't want to cause any alarm. I am an over thinker so for me, I always am thinking of possibilities. There are online tests you can order yourself for blood work. I am to embarrassed to ask my MD - I got married in 89 to my soul mate so yeah there has been no infidelity. I may just order the tests if anything was wrong it would show up now in my blood work. They use a chemical that treats the blood. When you think of all the blood transfusions that are happening and the very small percentages who get ill off them I think it's the same concept. I have never received any blood or human biproducts in my life up until the shot. On the flip side had I not gotten the shot I would have counted down the next two years to see if I developed rabies. At least with the other diseases they are treatable. Rabies is the ultimate and most agonizing death sentence there is.

Hi Batbite, I hope I'm doing this correctly and you see this....I have read all your posts and am sorry to hear of your ordeal. My experience resembles a lot of the physical symptoms you had post vaccine. Mine was a very friendly stray kitty scratch and possible bite in October 2019. All through the shots, I had mild muscle aches and light headedness. This was on their 'mild side effects' that the vaccine could cause. No worries until 10 days post vaccine, the side effects didn't resolve. . Was told by the Health dept. side effects should have resolved....Well as you already know, this set the stage for pure panic/anxiety. Symptoms progressed to Muscle aches arms/legs, Sharp knife like nerve pains anywhere at anytime all over the body, face and head. Now 3 months post last shot, side effects continue. I have seen a Neuro who did feel there was a post vaccine reaction and to f/u if worsening. Blood work and physical exam were negative. The Anxiety and Depression can make it so much worse. Your posts have given me some hope that I too, given time, will improve. I do have some good days, but still have the dark ones. I will refer back to your posts to keep reminding myself there is hope. So thank you for sharing your story.

Hello, Pryjmak, and welcome. Without what I found on this forum when I was at my worst, the whole Rabies vaccine experience would have been so much worse. For whatever good it may do, it is my privilege to stay connected and "pay it forward." Even the medical "experts" are so varied on what they consider to be within the realm of possibility when it comes to vaccine reactions. So many say that any reaction should be over and done within weeks to months. Not so. The damage can take years to repair and heal, and I think for some people the damage may lessen, but never really go away completely. The human body is truly miraculous, and programmed to not only survive, but thrive. Do what you can to give your body the building materials it needs; good clean food and water, rest and exercise in proper balance, feed your mind and spirit good clean positive thoughts and energy. Be patient and kind with yourself. :hug:

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Hello everyone, I am experiencing some pretty scary symptoms that have taken over my entire life!! I received the 1st does on March 6 and two hours later I had numbness and tingling in my right fingers with pain in my right arm. This progressed to include pain in right leg and numbness and tingling. This later for about 7 hours, after those symptoms went away my left thigh became very weak and felt like it was extremely heavy this lasted all night. The next morning I woke up and had this tingling sensation on my right shoulder that went up into my jaw and finally I started to get a headache that felt like a vice grip around my head. I went to the hospital and they did a MS workup and found nothing. Didn’t know it could be due to the vaccine at the time. This all started because my daughter had two bite marks and we found a bat in the garage. Because of this prior to getting the shots I had two panic attacks one I had numbness and tingling in my legs . The second one I thought I was going to die from rabies because my right arm felt like a blood pressure cuff on it and that lasted off and on for 5 days and this was before I the vaccine. I don’t remember having any animal bites. My mother’s cat did scratch me back in October but she has her vaccinations and is an indoor cat.

Ever since then I get these symptoms that come and go, the numbness and tingling the muscle pain and weakness, General feeling of being unwell and on and off headaches that really aren’t so bad. It’s now starting to turn into small muscle spasms here and there along with my jerking when I fall asleep. I have had really bad insomnia the past couple days and my anxiety is through the roof! Also my throat feels like it tightening or sometimes it feels like something is stuck in it. I have one shot to go and I don’t know if I can do it! The throat thing is scaring me the most!!!