EXCLUSIVEBritney had a bright future as a sports physio... but she claims a piece of medical advice left her in agonising pain and dependent on 20 meds a day
- Woman's future taken away by Covid jabs
- Britney Spinks left in agony by vaccines
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A young woman has claimed her bright future as a sports physiotherapist was ruined by two Covid jabs which left her in agonising pain and reliant on 20 medications a day.
Britney Spinks, 22, was studying a bachelor's degree and working at a medical centre on Sydney's northern beaches when she reluctantly got her first Pfizer vaccine when she was 19.
'I didn’t want them,' she told Daily Mail Australia.
'My whole family was against it but with uni, my future career and the process of the government basically coercing us into getting it, I was basically told “you have to get it or you have no future".
'I was backed into a corner and I felt I had to do it.'
Before taking the vaccine Ms Spinks was working three jobs at once and playing baseball and softball at a national level.
But just hours after her first jab in September 2021, Ms Spinks started to experience discomfort and her life was irreversibly transformed.
'It was a weird stabbing chest pain here and there,' she said.
At the age of 19 Sydneysider Britney Spinks had a bright future mapped out as a sport physio
Two Pfizer jabs in late 2021 left Ms Spinks suffering a number of debilitating health conditions
Despite experiencing intermittent but 'manageable' pain for the next month, Ms Spinks went back to get her second jab.
'Within six hours of the second dose I was convulsing from extreme chest pain and in the foetal position on the floor,' she said.
'It felt like I was having a heart attack, just stab after stab at my heart.
'I couldn’t take a breath because it would just make the pain worse, like crushing pressure. My heart rate felt so fast.'
Ms Spinks told a doctor 'she couldn't breathe', but was told it was a 'normal reaction'.
'She didn’t listen to my heart, she didn’t do any tests,' she said.
'She said "go home take two aspirins and we see how you are in the morning".'
However, Ms Spinks said the pain and worry were so bad she didn't get any sleep that night.
Before getting the Covid shots Ms Spinks had been a baseball and softball player since her youth representing at national level
Ms Spinks with her family who she said had helped her pay around a quarter of a million dollars on treatments since she got the Covid vaccines
The next day Ms Spinks' mother Shona took her to a hospital but was not allowed to be in the room with her daughter because of Covid restrictions.
'I had to flag down a nurse because no one was looking at me,' Ms Spinks said.
'They did not do tests that were relevant and should have kept me but they didn’t.'
During the following weeks, Ms Spinks said she felt a stab to her heart 'every minute or every second minute of every day'.
'It would leave me breathless. I couldn’t hold a conversation. I was bed-ridden for the first month,' she said.
'Because my heart rate is so high it is so exhausting to exist.'
Ms Spinks also suffered severe palpitations throughout her entire body during both day and night.
'At times, the palpitations were so powerful that I couldn’t even sit still, as my entire body rocked with each heartbeat. I am in agonising pain and they have given me no medication,' she said.
'I would cry myself to sleep but I lived in fear of not waking up. I thought I was going insane.'
For two years after the jabs, Ms Spinks underwent seven cardiac MRIs and dozens of echocardiograms, stress tests, angiograms and electrophysiology studies along with numerous ECGs, hundreds of blood tests and various X-rays.
She consulted two cardiologists, a rheumatologist, an immunologist, a physiotherapist and a paediatrician and spent three periods in hospital - the most recent being a two-week admittance in October.
Ms Spinks has been diagnosed with vaccine myopericarditis, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) arrhythmia, tachycardia and tachy-brady syndrome.
These conditions produce inflammation around and on the heart, rapid heart beats and extreme dizziness when standing from a prone position.
Ms Spinks went to Cyprus earlier this year for apheresis treatments that filter spike protein out of the blood
Ms Spinks has endured three years of extensive tests and treatments since the vaccines
To cope wi the assortment of hellish symptoms, Ms Spinks took 23 medications daily, including 12 Nurofen, along with steroids, colchicine, calcium-ion inhibitors, and beta-blockers.
'Unfortunately, none provided any relief,' she said.
Ms Spinks said the biggest hurdles to getting help with vaccine injuries has been getting them diagnosed in the first place and then finding someone who is across the the emerging medical studies on Covid vaccine side-effects.
Under the care of her 'fantastic' current cardiologist, Ms Spinks and Shona pushed for and eventually secured IVIG (human immunoglobulin) infusions.
Ms Spinks described this treatment as a 'turning point' and was delighted to find all her debilitating symptoms were 'basically gone' a few days after getting the first blood infusions.
'I felt alive for the first time in years. It was fantastic,' she said.
Unfortunately the improvements began to fade after a few months, but her overall condition is still better than it had been before the IVIG treatment.
After doing her own medical research along with her mother, Ms Spinks travelled to Cyprus for apheresis treatments, which is a kind of blood filtering or cleaning to remove spike proteins, which are produced by mRNA vaccines.
Ms Spinks estimates the money she and her parents have spent on the various treatments amounts to around $250,000.
'It is deeply disheartening to have to seek medical treatments abroad when these should be accessible in a first-world country like Australia,' she said.
Ms Spinks has been forced into three hospital stays for conditions brought on by the Covid jabs
'I feel profoundly let down by the medical system, which neglected my condition for far too long.
'If I was diagnosed sooner, treated sooner I don’t think I would have these permanent issues.
'The lack of structure we have in Australia, we have zero resources for vaccine injured people, there is nothing, and I don’t know there is any research done into all this.'
She still needs to make medication twice daily to keep her heart beat regulated, but is well enough to work one day a week as a receptionist for a radiology company.
'I can kind of function but I am still not the same person I was and I don’t think I ever will be,' she said.
'I have had to make my peace with that.'
Last year Ms Spinks even managed to finish her physio degree.
'I am very proud of that, there were a lot of placement hours and pushing through a lot of that pain,' she said.
However, it appears unlikely she will get to practice as a physio with most aged care homes and other care facilities requiring fully up-to-date vaccination for work placements.
The Health Department states on its website that Covid vaccines 'have been thoroughly assessed by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and found to be safe and effective'.
'The TGA checks all Covid-19 vaccines for quality, safety and effectiveness before approving them for use in Australia,' the department said.
'This is the same process that all vaccines go through in Australia. Medical experts at the TGA continuously check all vaccines to make sure they are safe.
'Vaccines are only approved for use in Australia after they have been assessed to show that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh any risks.'
