P.E.I. woman hospitalized over 'extremely rare' COVID-19 vaccine allergy shares her story

It didn't take that long before she became very ill. The roof of her mouth itched, her tongue swelled and she became confused.

"I don't remember everything, but I remember looking around and seeing the nurses so concerned," she said.

She remembers being treated with epinephrine, a drug used to treat severe allergic reactions, and starting to shake uncontrollably. An ambulance took her to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, where she was admitted to intensive care.

"I felt like I was running a marathon," she said. "It was a really traumatic thing."

Back home in rural Montague, she said the vision in one eye is still severely blurred — her doctor is keeping an eye on that — and she is weak, extremely nervous and jumpy. Her head aches, she has no appetite and she isn't sleeping well.

"Do I feel like myself? Absolutely not. I'm a very bubbly kind of girl — I don't feel that. I feel very nervous or on edge, and I don't know why," she said. "My nerves are shot."

"I couldn't really get any answers as to why that happened. And I still don't have any answers," Lannigan said. She would like to know what vaccine ingredient caused her reaction, and why.

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