Australian teenager reaction to Covid Pfizer vaccine | Daily Mail Online

An Australian schoolgirl has developed a baffling illness after getting a Covid jab, with the teenager suffering a rare reaction that has left her in excruciating pain and often bed-bound for the past year.

Faith Ranson, now 17, developed painful muscle twitches and intense abdominal pain due to rare side effects doctors believe is linked to a second Pfizer she received in August 2021.

Her mother Tania revealed she was told by a professor of immunology that her daughter’s health condition was a reaction to her vaccination.

‘There is no question Faith has had a delayed reaction to the second Pfizer vaccination,’ the doctor, who asked not to be named, wrote in an email which has been seen by Daily Mail Australia.

‘She is likely atopic or allergy prone based on history. This collection of symptoms I have characterized as post viral like symptoms.’

This opinion was supported by Dr Ross Walker, a Sydney cardiologist who has seen ’60 to 70′ people with adverse reactions to vaccines in the last year.

‘I agree that’s almost certainly the diagnosis… there’s only about a 0.2 per cent adverse reaction [rate to vaccinations] but we’re still talking about 136,000 people,’ he told 2GB.

‘To me, this is relatively clear what’s happened is that the Covid vaccine has pulverized Faith’s gut bacteria, which gave her the severe abdominal pain and the inability to eat properly.’

Faith became sick four days after the shot in August 2021 and has needed ongoing treatment which her parents, who own a small business in Launceston, have had to pay for.

A year after receiving the jab, Faith still gets the uncontrollable muscle tics and twitches and is still developing new side effects.

She’s developed such bad pain in her legs that can sometimes only walk for two hours at any time.

However, her mother is adamant that despite Faith missing a year of school, and must repeat Year 11, ‘nothing will hold her back’.

‘She as determined to go to her school formal, even though she was ticking and she could only go for an hour,’ she said.

‘She has always been a tough kid,’ Ms Ranson said of Faith, who was her local junior army battalion cadet of the year at the age of 15.

The same year she received the citizenship award for Launceston Christian School.

However, Faith’s condition means she won’t be able to get medical clearance to join the armed forces and serve for her country.

‘We have been told that is impossible now,’ Tania said

But undeterred the now 17-year-old stays up late studying an online criminal psychology course, even though she is interrupted by constant, painful muscle ticking.

Out of nearly 64 million Covid vaccinations in Australia, there have been 136,523 reported ‘adverse events’.

According to the Therapeutic Goods Administration, there are 2.1 adverse events reported for every 1,000 Covid vaccine doses. Federal Budget documents found payouts for Covid vaccine injuries are expected to jump to nearly $77mllion by July 2023.

After developing ‘extreme abdominal pain’ within days of the jab, Faith began to dramatically lose weight, eventually to around 40kg from her original 55kg.

Doctors removed her appendix, but the pain remained.

When her mum Tania asked whether the vaccine be responsible she said ‘I was looked at like I was an idiot’ and told ‘don’t be silly’.

One paediatrician even told her the cause of her severe pain and distress was ‘too much screen time’.

In November, Tania Ranson wrote in a Facebook update that her daughter was exhausted from the involuntary muscle spasms.

‘Faith had a really bad 45 minute tic as they call it, but her body was thrashed around her neck was pulling back and forth and her legs were also [thrashing] around.

‘[The tics] would last around half an hour most nights, they are painful for her as all her mussels are pulled and very sore.’

Within three months Ms Ranson was told by a local immunologist he had no doubt that Faith’s adverse delayed reaction to her second Pfizer vaccine had triggered her condition.

In February 2022 she was diagnosed with functional neurological disorder (FND) and had to begin rehab sessions.

It is believed the side effects occurred after the vaccine destroyed bacteria in Faith’s gut.

She continued to deteriorated ‘physically and mentally’, including blackouts, and in January the family turned to public donations to help pay Faith’s medical bills.

The family claimed the government said Faith’s condition was ineligible for financial support.

So far the GoFundMe page has raised $39,266, with a goal of $100,000.

In August 2022, Faith updated her Instagram followers, saying it was important to remain positive.

‘While I could dwell on absolutely all the negative experiences I’ve had with doctors (there are quite a lot) I want to talk about all the good I have experienced from people I did know and those I didn’t even know,’ she wrote.

‘While I have my good and bad days and every day is different I have learned to adapt.’

She explained that new symptoms were regularly appearing, including her legs aching so badly that she couldn’t walk – as well as being ‘constantly in pain’.

The teenager explained that ‘adapting’ had been her best weapon against the dilapidating condition.

‘I have learned small things to help me but I am still learning and growing to understand what has happened to me, how I can deal with this, what life in the future may look like for me and acknowledge that this is going to be a long road and this road will late potentially years,’ she wrote.