I planned my own suicide after the Covid vaccine left me in constant pain

Brianne Dressen enrolled in a clinical trial for AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine in 2020 in a bid to help the pharmaceutical giant develop a vaccine that would end the pandemic.

She was among the first group of Americans to receive the then-experimental Covid shot and said she felt like she was “doing my part” and thought it would be safe.

But Ms Dressen would never return to get her second dose because she suffered such a severe reaction within an hour of her first injection that she says she is now almost completely disabled and had to consider suicide for months to cope with the pain ‘escape’.

And while the physical pain is excruciating — her body shakes daily as if she were being electrocuted, she said — she has now been ostracized by many friends and family as an anti-vaxxer. The pain also makes her struggle to care for her two children, 10 and 12.

Speaking to DailyMail.com, the 43-year-old said: ‘The pain is something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. This is the first thing I feel when I wake up in the morning and the last thing I feel when I go to sleep at night.

“My body feels like it’s being electrocuted all the time, like a shocking, sharp electrical feeling moving through my whole body, from head to toe, fingers, you know.

‘There is no peace, no rest, no respite, the only time I get a break is when I take loads of medicine that allows me to sleep for a few hours – but I know that when I do this I am borrowing time from my future.’

In 2021, scientists at the National Institutes of Health diagnosed Ms. Dressen with post-vaccine neuropathy – an extremely rare condition that occurs when a patient experiences tingling, numbness and weakness in their body after vaccination.

Brianne Dressen, 42, is suing AstraZeneca after taking part in their Covid vaccine trial. She said their shot left her “permanently disabled.”

Ms Dressen is suing for breach of contract, saying the company has failed to pay her medical bills suffered after a severe neurological reaction to the vaccine.

It can happen because proteins on the surface of some viruses are similar to those on nerve cells, causing the immune system to malfunction and start attacking the nervous system.

Ms Dressen, from Utah, was bedridden for months after developing the complication due to the pain, and found herself unable to use her legs.

Now she can move again with the help of medication, but she is in constant pain and feels nothing in her legs.

Ms Dressen says she is not anti-vax, saying that before her response she was actually very much in the “mainstream mindset” regarding vaccines.

She had helped obtain face masks for the local hospital and heard that two other friends who were also participating in clinical trials had no problems.

As part of the AstraZeneca study, Ms Dressen said she signed a consent form stating that the pharmaceutical giant would support her financially if she suffered a serious side effect as a result of the vaccine.

DailyMail.com has not reviewed this consent form and cannot confirm Ms. Dressen’s claims.

But Ms. Dressen says the company has only sent her $590 so far, which pales in comparison to the $400,000 she says she has to spend annually on her medications.

In May, she sued AstraZeneca for breach of contract, and the case is now moving through the courts in Utah.

Mrs. Dressen, pictured above, said she had become a shadow of her former self, unable to work, care for her children as she used to or even drive more than a few blocks.

Mrs. Dressen is pictured above with her two children

Covid vaccines are estimated to have prevented more than 3.2 million deaths and 18.5 million hospitalizations in the United States alone.

More than 270 million people in the United States received a Covid vaccine, with more than 677 million doses administered.

But the AstraZeneca shot was never approved in the U.S. because of concerns about the vaccine causing blood clots in rare cases. However, it was approved in Europe.

Since then, thousands of people have come forward to believe the Covid vaccines have left them with serious injuries that have changed their lives forever.

The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which was created by the U.S. government to help those who say they have suffered a vaccine injury, has received more than 14,000 applications from people claiming they have suffered a vaccine injury.

And the resulting vaccine injuries also take a mental toll. The UK’s CV Family – which represents people who believe they have been injured by Covid vaccines – found in a survey that 73 per cent of its members had considered suicide because of their injury.

Many who say they have suffered injuries from vaccines also reveal how friends and family have avoided them because of the stigma surrounding speaking about their injuries.

Ms Dressen is pictured above in hospital, following her reaction to the vaccine

Ms Dressen’s battle began within an hour of receiving the vaccine on November 4, 2020. She suffered from a tingling, pins and needles sensation in the arm injected with the shot.

It spread throughout her body and she was rushed to the emergency room for treatment four times over the next few months. However, doctors did not know what to do because the vaccine was still being tested.

It was at this time that she revealed that she was losing the will to live, and she turned to suicidal thoughts as a way to ease the pain.

She said: ‘It wasn’t a small moment that I wanted to end my life, it lasted several months.

‘It wasn’t like I was walking around the house thinking, ‘I’m going to die,’ it was that I was completely still and couldn’t move and just fantasized about escaping.

“It’s not actually that people with these vaccine injuries want to die, we just need a break.”

AstraZeneca accepts no responsibility for the injuries sustained by Ms Dressen.

After a recent hearing for her case, Ms. Dressen said she learned “everything I needed to know about this company.”

Ms Dressen is pictured above at a hearing where she explained her experiences to officials

She said: ‘There is no interest in helping me.

“They’re going to fight this every step of the way and… they called my lawyers and said they were going to appeal the original decision.

“My medications cost about $180,000 to $400,000 a year, we had to remortgage our house, I can no longer work, a lot of income has been replaced by a mountain of medical bills – it’s a dramatic change in our quality of life been .’

An AstraZeneca spokesperson did not return a request for comment from DailyMail.com.

Ms Dressen spoke to DailyMail.com ahead of the release of her book on November 26, titled: ‘Worth a Try?: Secrets from the Clinical Trial Participant That Inspired a Global Movement.’

All proceeds from the sale of the book should be donated to React19 and UKCVFamily.