1/12 It is wrong to suggest those vaccine-injured are functional, anxious hypochondriacs 🧵 “Functional neurological disorder after vaccination: a balanced approach informed by history” - dangerous claptrap.
https://twitter.com/silas33/status/1473728161816981510
2/12. Neurological manifestations in the central and peripheral nervous system post SARS CoV-2 infection are well documented in the medical literature.
3/12. Some patients who chose to have the vaccine are unfortunately vaccine injured. For the majority, benefits of vaccination will outweigh the risks. Unfortunately, sometimes, good drugs do bad things & this needs to be acknowledged.
4/12. **Those vaccine injured commonly report symptoms typical of Long Covid, including, but not limited to, neurological manifestations such as seizure-like tremors.**
5/12. We know Covid is a thrombotic disease, triggering blood hypercoagubility & clot formation in both acute and Long Covid. We have found blood clots on autopsy and under the microscope. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34425843/
6/12. We know the spike protein is central to clotting.
7/12. The vaccine works by providing the body with instructions to make the spike protein, so the body is able to recognise the virus & mount an immune response should the virus enter the body.
8/12. If I - like many other thinking doctors - were to make an educated guess, the spike protein manufactured through vaccination is (in some) triggering hypercoaguability and clotting.
9/12. I may be wrong. But this is an educated guess based on published evidence on what we already know.
10/12. To suggest symptoms are in a patient’s head because one does not yet understand the pathophysiological mechanism, is lazy medicine, and quite frankly, dam right dangerous.
11/12. Patients who are vaccine injured performed their civic duty and got vaccinated to protect themselves, their loved ones, and wider public.
12/12. If public trust in this, or any future vaccination program, is not to be eroded, symptoms post-vaccine need to be clearly documented and investigated. Patients need to be supported until a cause & treatment is found. Not labelled functional, anxious hypochondriacs.
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