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At least 36 recipients of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines in the US have developed a rare immune disorder that attacks the blood
Dr. Gregory Michael . . . died in January of a brain hemorrhage. He had received a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine two weeks earlier, and immediately developed immune thrombocytopenia, a rare and sometimes fatal blood disorder.
One patient contacted by the Times suffered heavy vaginal bleeding two weeks after receiving Moderna’s vaccine and required platelet transfusions and steroid treatment to survive. Another woman was hospitalized with bruising and bleeding blisters in her mouth just a day after receiving the same shot. Her condition deteriorated to the point where doctors concerned that a slight knock would trigger fatal bleeding were afraid to move her from the hospital bed.
Doctors contacted by the Times still insist that vaccination is safe
originally posted by: dragonlover12
The disease in question is ITP. Its an auto immune disease that makes your body seek out and destroy its own platelets.
The patients that were treated with high doses of steroids were lucky that it worked---in many cases it does not.
I am all too familiar with ITP--- my husband has been fighting it for 18 months now, requiring weekly visits to the hematologist/oncologist for CBC/Diff tests and weekly shots of Nplate (a horribly expensive drug that stimulates the patient`s body to overproduce platelets in an effort to have more than the immune system can destroy) . And requires a patient to be on a high protien/high iron intake diet that is expensive as well. And he also is on steroids (has been the whole time). Every waking moment becomes consumed with worry about what the platelet numbers are at that moment, and worry about watching for any signs of spontaneous bleeding. To say it turns life into a hellish experience is an understatement.
It is uncommon for people with ITP to present with severe bleeding (only 5% of affected people). However, within five years of diagnosis, 15% of affected individuals are hospitalized with bleeding complications.
Instead of introducing an inactive virus to coax the body into producing antibodies against it, Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines introduce RNA into the body, which basically "hacks" the body's DNA into doing what the RNA tells it to do - in this case, make antibodies.
originally posted by: dragonlover12
a reply to: trollz
The disease in question is ITP. Its an auto immune disease that makes your body seek out and destroy its own platelets.
The patients that were treated with high doses of steroids were lucky that it worked---in many cases it does not.
I am all too familiar with ITP--- my husband has been fighting it for 18 months now, requiring weekly visits to the hematologist/oncologist for CBC/Diff tests and weekly shots of Nplate (a horribly expensive drug that stimulates the patient`s body to overproduce platelets in an effort to have more than the immune system can destroy) . And requires a patient to be on a high protien/high iron intake diet that is expensive as well. And he also is on steroids (has been the whole time). Every waking moment becomes consumed with worry about what the platelet numbers are at that moment, and worry about watching for any signs of spontaneous bleeding. To say it turns life into a hellish experience is an understatement.