Man says he has been 'left to rot' after Covid vaccine

On 15 December 2021 Larry Lowe’s beingness changed.

He was 54, seldom ill, fit, steadfast and moving 10km astir days – until helium got the Pfizer Covid booster.

Within days helium developed numbness successful the close broadside of his look and started experiencing pain.

"I had mislaid each the feeling successful my face, teeth, nose, tongue, eye, that full broadside of my head," helium said.

These symptoms person dispersed done his assemblage and intensified implicit the years, with doctors crossed the UK saying the vaccine is to blame.

Mr Lowe said that portion helium was not opposed to vaccines, his beingness had been destroyed.

The Public Health Agency (PHA) said the benefits of the vaccines successful preventing Covid-19 and superior complications associated with it acold outweighed immoderate presently known broadside effects successful the bulk of patients.

Mr Lowe was referred to Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital successful London wherever helium was told the vaccine "was being recognized by my assemblage arsenic a toxin, and that was the origin of my problems".

He broke down and cried.

"My woman and I were sitting successful this small country successful Westminster with astir 7 oregon 8 consultants telling maine the vaccine had destroyed the nervus connected the close broadside of my face, and it was highly improbable that I would ever retrieve from it," helium said.

In letters seen by BBC News NI, London symptom absorption specialists confirmed the onset of symptoms could beryllium attributed to the Covid vaccine booster.

In April 2024, Mr Lowe was diagnosed by a advisor neurologist astatine the Southern Health Trust with a “painful trigeminal neuropathy” which had “the Covid vaccine arsenic its main causative factor”.

He besides developed a tiny fibre sensory neuropathy which the advisor said “is besides 1 of the post-vaccine related neurological presentations”.

"I conflict erstwhile I deliberation astir what different 10 years is going to bash to me, due to the fact that successful the 3 years astir that I've had this, it's destroyed maine and it's getting worse," Mr Lowe said.

Mr Lowe, from Omagh, said the tiny fibre neuropathy affected his full body, from toes to fingertips.

He besides suffers from adust oculus syndrome and wears sunglasses wrong and retired due to the fact that of his sensitivity to light.

"I consciousness arsenic if determination is simply a clamp connected some sides of my head, squeezing it each the time," helium said.

"I've been told that my information is progressive. It is going to get worse.

"I didn't inquire for this.

"I took the vaccine successful bully faith.

"I've conscionable been near to conscionable rot."

"I'm successful truthful overmuch pain, my beingness is hardly worthy living, but for my family," helium said.

"I'm not maine anymore.

"Before this I was successful a stone band, pb guitar, singing, penning songs, signaling albums, loving it.

"Now that's conscionable a memory."

The erstwhile assemblage lecturer and instrumentalist has had to medically retire.

"It's precise hard to explicate to radical what surviving successful chronic symptom is, due to the fact that radical deliberation of a toothache oregon breaking their leg.

"Once you interruption your leg, it starts to get better.

"My symptom is really getting worse each azygous day."

Mr Lowe praised each the aesculapian professionals helium had seen, who helium said "tried everything" to assistance him but each they could connection was medication.

"My GP has been fantastic," helium said.

"But helium doesn't person the magic wand that I need."

Mr Lowe said helium would similar the stigma taken retired of Covid vaccine injuries.

"Once I archer radical that I person a vaccine injury, they benignant of rotation their eyes and think, oh, not different one," helium said.

"This is simply a existent happening that I've been treated for a mates of years now.

"When you speech to radical astir vaccines they say, oh, you cognize what? It helps much radical than it injures.

"Vaccines are fine, not for me, they've destroyed me."

Mr Lowe said helium had ne'er been opposed to vaccinations which were tried and tested.

He added that helium was not allowed to instrumentality immoderate further vaccines.

Professor of European nationalist wellness astatine the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Martin McKee, said vaccines had been "absolutely essential" to allowing nine to determination connected from the Covid-19 pandemic.

"Once the vaccines became disposable past the decease complaint fell markedly," helium said.

Prof McKee said each vaccines came with a hazard of reactions and determination would beryllium "a tiny fig of reactions" erstwhile a ample fig of radical were vaccinated.

While helium could not remark connected idiosyncratic cases, helium said reactions similar Mr Lowe's were "exceedingly rare".

Mr Lowe said helium had exhausted each the medicine and treatments disposable successful the UK and they did not work.

"I privation aesculapian and intelligence help," helium said.

"That's the compensation I want.

"I privation idiosyncratic to admit that the vaccine has done this."

His woman Gini said beingness had been highly tough.

"We've went from a fantastic, mean beingness to our satellite has been turned upside down," she said.

She says Larry cries and screams astatine nighttime with the pain.

"We person truly mislaid portion of Larry, and that's hard to take," she said.

Dr Louise Herron, lawman manager of nationalist wellness astatine the PHA said each vaccinations and medications could person immoderate broadside effects.

"The astir communal broadside effects of the Covid-19 vaccine are mild and get amended wrong a week," she said.

"As with each vaccines and medicines, the information of Covid-19 vaccines is being continually monitored."

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is liable for regulating medicines, including vaccines, and conducts robust information monitoring and surveillance of each Covid-19 vaccines successful the UK.

It said vaccination was the azygous astir effectual mode to trim deaths and terrible unwellness from Covid-19.

Pfizer said diligent information was paramount and it took reports of adverse reactions precise seriously.

It said hundreds of millions of doses had been administered globally "and the benefit-risk illustration of the vaccine remains affirmative for each authorised indications and property groups".