WATERFORD, IRELAND – A 28-year-old woman is hospitalized after the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Arooj Imtiaz Lughmani, a medical student, got her shot on September 10th. She immediately had a whole host of symptoms including pain in her body, tremors, and paralysis. She was hospitalized and hasn’t been able to walk since. The 28-year-old is still waiting for a definitive diagnosis.

Arooj shared her story in an Instagram post:

“Please bear in mind that I’m not against the vaccine even after all that is happening to me. What my concern is, is the lack of documentation of such symptoms related to Covid vaccines, almost a stigma worse than AIDS in the ’80s. The doctors do not want to admit that the vaccine caused this even when my reactions started almost 10 minutes after my first vaccine while I was in the post vax waiting room filling out a survey and I felt my arm spasm.”

Many people commented with skepticism and ridicule to her posts. The 5th year medical student wrote,

“the seizures that most of you Insta doctor experts have been calling fake and ‘acting’ were indeed tonic-clonic in nature because my serum lactate post-seizure was 7mmol/L and a few hours later 1mmol/L. Pseudo seizures do NOT cause a rise in serum lactate.”

Arooj’s type of vaccine-induced injury can look peculiar, but we’ve seen many similar cases including the recent stories of Felicity Jackson, Lottie De-la-haye, and Sarah Green.