Practice Nurse Reports Cardiac Cases and Professional Confusion

I’ve known 3 people to collapse within 48hrs post vax, friends not clients, but when they have sought assessment it’s been deemed unrelated to vaccination. Who am I to challenge that, I’m a nurse, it may well be unrelated, it just feels too coincidental to let go. I have been doing covid calls, phone checks on those who have tested positive, I have heard about 5 younger people report chest pain, they all have said they had this pain after their vaccination but it went away, and had now come back with covid infection, no CARM report done at time, none had medical attention at the time, all I can do is get them reviewed by the GP for current pain. I have no “evidence” for you.

The GP’s I work with are wonderful people and as a team we are lost at times, I recall conversations months ago with what we should do with people coming in for a covid vaccines that report having chest pain or SOB post the previous dose? it was challenging as these people often needed the vaccine due to mandates, there was no guidance, it was clear exemption was almost impossible. Now I see the guidelines recognise carditis and don’t recommend vaccination- thank goodness. My feeling is many health professionals and possibly IMAC are having to respond to the situation as a public health emergency. For a massive shift in the behaviour of health professionals it would have to be recognised as not actually to do with health.

That’s a tricky space to enter for the vast majority of the health work force. The whole situation has me in a spin and I am left confused by the government’s actions, there is no sense in many of the rules, I have seen the lies. Early on they announced an abundance of PPE. We had 10 Surgical masks in our practice, we were asked to send half to another sth island practice as they had none! We had no PPE, there on the tv announcements of how well prepared we are rolling through. I talked to a client who had a heart attack the day following his covid vax, he reported the GP was convinced it was vaccination related, but hospital not accepting that. He was advised an alternative covid vaccine, he reacted badly to that also, required medical review but not admitted.

This is just him telling me his story though. I have no confirmation of anything. I know of a woman 3 ambulance trips to hospital in shock requiring adrenaline and fluids in the days/ weeks following her covid vaccine. No cause determined, pericarditis noted, no exemption granted. I don’t have every detail and I’m not able to go into peoples’ notes for that purpose. So I can’t really write what you need with the confirmation needed for it to be more than just a “story “ all I can give fully is my own. Honestly the inormation I’m given in my role and then what I seek from my own reading and the stories I hear and the lack of sense in the government’s actions, I’m a wreck I became a nurse to help, to care, to heal and I don’t know what I’m doing anymore, I just want out.