Gastroparesis. This is the closest diagnosis my relative with the pfizer vaccine reaction has.

[Swede]

He is wasting away. Ten weeks now. It's really scary. He knows it's a miniscule chance of this happening. But it's his life now. Never hungry. Heartburn,nausea. Diarrhea or constipation every day.


https://journals.lww.com/ajg/Citation/9900/Gastroparesis_After_Pfizer_BioNTech_COVID_19.28.aspx#:~:text=We%20present%20here%20a%20case,nausea%2C%20vomiting%2C%20and%20hiccups.

[alwaysinasnit]

1. ...

[Swede]

2. I should add, that this is by no means a sure thing either.

The doctor told him this may be it.

[Sanity Claws]

3. What about his diet?

He could have developed food intolerances. Can he see whether he has the same reaction regardless of what he eats? Keep a food diary?
Sorry about his problem but I just want to suggest something that might help.

[Swede]

5. He's on his doctors recommended diet.

White rice, white bread, pasta made from chick peas, low fat meat. Vitamin D supplement. No dairy, no booze, no smoking etc.

[Sanity Claws]

6. Wheat is a common allergen

With that diet, no wonder he is constipated.
Good that he is not getting dairy because that is another common allergen.
But what about fruits and vegetables? Bananas are often recommended for people with diarrhea. They're also good for heartburn.
As for the Vitamin D supplement, is he hospitalized and can't get outside?

[Swede]

9. Not sure why the doc prescribed D.

Read the symptoms in my original post.

[Wicked Blue]

4. I hope he gets better soon

[MuseRider]

7. I have this.

For some lucky reason after 5-7 years of sheer hell I seem to have come through it. It is a vagal nerve problem and although it is rare to ever escape the hell that it is I was lucky. I am several months since I had an attack or had to take a pill and have begun to extend my diet from the dreaded FODMAP diet to something closer to where I was before. Some people waste away and some gain weight. I carried an extra 30 pounds and that is now gone and bloating so bad you can watch your own toes disappear it is so fast and extreme. Get him into a support group, this is not all that unheard of.

Send me messages if you need help.

[Swede]

10. Sent you DU mail.

Thank you so much.

[hlthe2b]

8. Hoping for improvement...

We have so much to learn about post-COVID recovery and long hauler's syndrome. While I don't discount the possibility this is linked to a vaccine reaction, it has also been reported among COVID-19 infected, some who tested negative multiple times until finally being confirmed weeks later.

[SheltieLover]

12. +1

😷

[Warpy]

11. He need s a referral to a GI doctor pronto

I'm not surprised he's miserable and wasting away on that diet. It's Draconian.

The Mayo Clinic has a good discussion of gastroparesis with recommended and discouraged foods, https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gastroparesis/symptoms-causes/syc-20355787 I suggest this because it might take a little time for him to get in to see a GI doc for a workup, which is something he desperately needs.

It might be totally unrelated to the vaccine, but whatever caused it, it can be treated. He just needs to see the right kind of doctor.

[Swede]

13. This happened 4 days after vaccine.

nt

[Swede]

14. It's not the diet, it's the nausea

it's the bloating, the heartburn. He's never hungry and must force himself to eat.

[NH Ethylene]

15. I had trouble with GI problems after Moderna.

But not until 6 weeks after, so no way to know if it was related. It went on for a couple of weeks. I filed a VAERS report just in case.

I hope he recovers soon. It sounds really horrible.

[Swede]

16. Just an update. He's still experiencing stomach problems, but also tingling in feet and hands.

He had a burning sensation too. One doctor said it was an kidney infection, but antibiotics didn't fix it. So they then figured it was a viral infection of his prostrate, they gave him something that helped for that. The doctor said a cause may be spikes from the vaccine irritating his prostrate.

Anyway it's been 10 months of hell for him.