Natallia Clancy was a healthy, active young woman before getting the Pfizer vaccine. She’s a New York City-based holistic food educator and certified Ashtanga yoga instructor.

Ten days after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, Natallia began experiencing intense back pain that slowly spread throughout her body over the days that followed. The pain is caused by her own immune system attacking her healthy tissues.

She had an episode of Erythema nodosum, an inflammatory disorder, at the age of 19. I’m curious if this also occurred after a vaccine? Perhaps the Gardasil? Vaccines can trigger autoimmune conditions in genetically susceptible people. This is one reason why people with history of autoimmune conditions, or genetic markers for autoimmunity should think twice about getting any vaccine.

Now, because of one dose of the Pfizer vaccine she may be disabled for the rest of her life, dependent on pharmaceuticals whose side effects cause more problems. Praying she isn’t, hoping she can find answers.

I have family members with auto-immune conditions, and it’s a long road.

If anyone can recover, it’s her though. Eating a diet filled with high quality nutrient dense foods, and limiting inflammatory foods, recover is possible.

Here is her story:

“I’m sharing this personal post in an attempt to create awareness and spread information about my severe reaction to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. I hope to be an advocate and resource for others who are suffering from similar symptoms and horrific, life-altering experiences after receiving the vaccine. I don’t want anyone to struggle through the weeks of pain and misguidance from physicians that I have.

My symptoms began on April 16, 10 days after receiving the first dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine. It began with upper back muscle aches, on the same side as the vaccine injection. At first, I thought perhaps I pulled a muscle at a workout class, however after the third day of fatigue, the pain started intensifying throughout my body. My knees, ankles, wrists, back, neck and head started intensely aching and turned to flu-like fatigue and a low-grade fever which rendered me bedridden and unable to sleep or move much.

On 4/21, I checked into urgent care where both my COVID-19 and influenza vaccines were negative, so I was instructed to go to the ER to be evaluated for possible meningitis. At the ER, I mentioned separately to both the doctor and a nurse that I believed my symptoms could be related to the vaccine, but they both promptly dismissed the idea and discharged me with a “muscle ache.”

For two days I was in relentless pain, which left me basically moaning and crying for hours on end. Several of my previous gymnastics injuries from when I was in my teens had resurfaced. My knee swelled up so badly that I couldn’t walk, my previous fractured wrists started aching, my left foot became inflamed, ankles ached, and a rare skin disease I had when I was 19, erythema nodosum, large painful welts on the legs, also re-emerged.

On 4/23, I saw my primary care doctor who also dismissed the idea of my condition being vaccine-related and misdiagnosed me with a respiratory infection, prescribing muscle relaxers that did nothing to ease the discomfort. Three days later I went back in to see her after my condition worsened and she ran labs and suggested it could be an STD (it was not).

On 4/28, the pain was intolerable, and I checked into a different ER where they admitted me to the hospital, ran labs and kept me overnight because my heart rate was so high. It was at this hospital, CPMC Sutter Health, where the Infectious Disease expert finally diagnosed me with having a severe allergic reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine and told me that he had seen other similar cases. I was discharged and put on Dexamethasone; the same steroid given to COVID patients, to calm the immune system.

My steroid dose ended on 5/3, and one day later, I started experiencing violent sickness along with the same arthritic symptoms as before, so I checked back into CPMC ER where my knee was drained because there was worry of infection, and I was put on a longer, tapered course of steroid (prednisone) and referred to a Rheumatologist who ruled out autoimmune diseases and confirmed this was a reaction to the vaccine.

Five weeks later, I have now finished the steroids and am experiencing the same symptoms all over again, swelling and inflammation of the knee and other joints, severe neck aches, and sleepless nights. This time, I’ve decided to seek the second opinion of a naturopath in an attempt to refrain from continuing yet a third round of steroids.

What I have been told consistently from the many doctors that I have spoken to throughout this medical saga is that “we just don’t know enough.” At this point, there are too many unknowns and not enough data. I have been told that perhaps my body just couldn’t recognize and register the mRNA vaccine, and it’s possible that later down the line I could consider getting a more traditional vaccine, like Johnson & Johnson’s which administers an adenovirus. My body is far from being ready for that though.

I encourage you to share this story with your friends and family, and please reach out to me if anyone you know has experienced anything similar. Sharing our struggles will only make us stronger. I’m sure there will be many more to come.

Wishing you all good health.

Natallia Clancy”

Update from Natallia Clancy June 14th:

“I wanted to provide an update and thank everyone for their kind words, support, encouragement, guidance and resources. Unfortunately, my situation has not improved. On Thursday evening I had my fourth visit to the emergency room in two months.

Since writing this, I’m no longer able to walk without crutches because my right foot has become so incredibly swollen and painful, and the erethyma nodosum nodules on my lower and upper legs have increased in number and severity. The evenings have become the witching hour when my foot feels as though it’s broken and the bones are going to explode.

I have seen a few more specialists, Immunologists and Rheumatologists who have recommended additional steroids (which, if used for much longer can cause adrenal failure and a myriad of other chronic issues), and some other serious drugs that can have permanent side effects as well as a chemotherapy drug! (you read that correctly).

The ER doctors confirmed that my immune system is having a tenacious reaction to the vaccine (to what exactly, I have been told, “we may never know”) and at this point, we are trying our best to calm my system. I’m now on a drug called Colchicine, an anti-inflammatory given to gout patients.

I wish I had more uplifting news to report, but I think it’s important to share my symptoms and story. I continue to be tested for various antibodies and diseases to rule out any underlying issues and so far we have found nothing. Through various outlets, I have heard horror stories from unlucky individuals who have lost their hearing, had severe heart problems and whose loved ones have died after receiving the vaccine.

To all of my friends and family: if you are young and healthy and if you care about your body as I do, I ask that you reconsider getting this experimental vaccine and wait a few years until we have more data and information. In this case, the cost of what this vaccine is continuing to do to my body and life has far outweighed my risk of getting COVID.”