I was fit and healthy before I got the Covid booster jab but now I can barely walk to the next room – it’s devastated me

A father says he has been ‘left to fend for himself’ after suffering a nightmare reaction to a Covid jab, leaving him in constant pain.

Larry Lowe, from Northern Ireland, thought he was doing his public duty when he received the Pfizer booster jab in December 2021.

As a fit and healthy 54-year-old who ran 10km most days and had previously had the vaccine, the amateur musician had no concerns about the booster shot.

However, just days after being injected with the vaccine, he developed nightmarish symptoms, including numbness on the right side of his face and excruciating pain.

And while Mr Lowe initially thought this might be temporary, things have become progressively worse over the past two years, with the pain spreading and becoming so severe that he was forced to retire for medical reasons.

Despite their efforts, doctors have told him it is unlikely he will ever make a full recovery, with one consultant laying the blame for his symptoms at the door of the Covid jab.

Mr Lowe, pictured here after a fun run, says he was fit and healthy before the jab but can now barely walk because he is in so much pain

Experts have said the benefits of taking the Covid vaccine outweigh the side effects as it prevents the spread of the disease and serious complications, while many people experience mild side effects from the jab at worst.

These side effects include tenderness in your arm where the injection took place, feeling tired, having a headache, and general flu-like symptoms.

But this is not the case for anti-vaccine Mr Lowe, who has been told the vaccine is being treated as a ‘toxin’ by his body by doctors at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London.

As a result, he is now in excruciating pain that is sometimes so bad that he lies in bed at night screaming and crying.

It was a body blow that left him in tears and still reeling from him years later.

“My wife and I sat in a small room in Westminster with about seven or eight advisers who told me that the vaccine had destroyed the nerve on the right side of my face, and that it was highly unlikely that I would ever recover from it,” he said. told the BBC.

In April this year, he was diagnosed by a neurologist with ‘painful trigeminal neuropathy’, a condition in which people experience numbness or pain in their head and face due to nerve damage.

He has also developed small fiber sensory neuropathy that has affected his entire body from his head to his toes.

Mr Lowe was told that the trigeminal neuropathy had ‘the Covid vaccine as the main causative factor’, while the small fiber sensory neuropathy was ‘also one of the post-vaccine related neurological manifestations’.

Mr Lowe said the past three years have “destroyed me” and he fears the future because “it keeps getting worse”.

The Omagh resident told the BBC: “I didn’t ask for this. I took the vaccine in good faith. I just rotted away.’

He said that although the GP and medics who tried to help him were ‘fantastic’, the pain he was in meant his life was ‘hardly worth living, except for my family’.

Mr Lowe, pictured here on the day he got the Covid booster jab in December 2021, says the pain of the vaccine ‘destroyed me’

After receiving the Pfizer Covid booster, Mr Lowe developed numbness in his face and pain around his body, which has not subsided in the three years since. In the photo: A syringe is filled with the Pfizer Covid vaccine in October 2021

Mr. Lowe said his past life of being in a band, playing guitar and enjoying the world is “just a memory” and that “I’m not myself anymore.”

He now wants people to be open about Covid vaccine injuries, adding he has no problem with tried and tested jabs.

He said: ‘Vaccines are fine, not for me, they destroyed me.

“I want someone to acknowledge that the vaccine did this.”

The Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland says side effects can occur with the use of all vaccines and medicines.

Dr. Louise Heron, deputy director of public health at the PHA, told MailOnline: ‘Vaccination is the most important thing we can do to protect ourselves and our children from ill health. It prevents millions of deaths worldwide every year.

‘All vaccines and medicines can have side effects, although not everyone experiences them.

‘The most common side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine are mild and disappear within a week. As with all vaccines and medicines, the safety of COVID-19 vaccines is continuously monitored.

‘The benefits of the vaccines in preventing COVID-19 and the serious complications associated with it far outweigh the currently known side effects in the majority of patients.’

Medicines and vaccines are controlled by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

It says vaccination is the most effective way to reduce deaths and serious illness from Covid.

MailOnline has contacted Pfizer and the MHRA for comment.