I've been extremely sick for weeks after receiving my shot, and so far doctors are sympathetic but not actually enough to provide an exemption. I wanted to be vaccinated along with everyone else.

Now I'm chronically fatigued, and my joints ache, daily headaches and eczema. I was healthy in my mid-20s but now I have to lie down regularly because standing and using stairs hurts. Doctors aren't infallible. They don't have any answers for me despite my "rare" reaction. But they will try to sweep you under the rug if you're unlucky enough to suffer a reaction that they don't accept. I've been advised to take the second shot to continue attending school but wtf am I going to do being too sick to even go to class, by the same doctors who can't help me right now?

I'm stuck in vaccine limbo and it's incredibly frustrating. There isn't enough discourse on people who are having reactions that aren't straight up anapylaxsis to the shot.