So I said this is Steph earlier this week.

I said, long-time listener, I spoke to you a few years back on a paid call, and you were super helpful.

Since speaking with you, I've had some medical issues, which can be traced to either COVID and or the vaccine.

During the pandemic, I lost my job, and when the vaccines were introduced, I was openly telling friends and family

not to get it. 18 months later, I found a job in late 2021, but a requirement was to get vaccinated.

I got it, and I haven't been the same sense. I can recall driving home and getting it and felt drunk.

I woke up the next morning with bad testicular pain.

I contracted COVID the following month, and I have had health issues from it ever since.

I started having health issues more seriously in early 2022 that I kept to myself, but it was

serious enough to consider moving back home.

Ultimately, I made that decision, and my episodes became worse.

I ended up in the ER three times, three different times, and the doctors insisted the symptoms

were from anxiety or depression.

They tried to put me on SSRIs, but I declined.

After doing some personal research, I saw this mystery

illness that a lot of younger people were getting who had COVID. Fast forward to today, I have tested

positive for that mystery illness. They call it post-COVID pots. My cardiologist suspects I have,

I also have MCAS, so I'm on medication for that as well.

Sorry, what is MCAS? Mass cellular activation syndrome. It's a newer one. I'm not as familiar with it,

but people with pots, like 40% have MCAS as well, they suspect. And you get like flare-ups.

And it's like, like I've been having recently. Recently I've been having, it's like, like, allergic reactions, but they're neurological.

So like if I put like a facial cream on or on, or sometimes, like, if I touch, like,

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