Maddie de Garay - Pfizer Adverse Reaction

Maddie de Garay

Pfizer Clinical Trials 12–15-Year-Olds

January 2021

Age 12 Years Old

Maddie was in the Pfizer Clinical Trials 12–15-Year-Olds through the Gamble Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Her parents describe her as being a healthy, energetic girl, a good student, kind and social - but they haven't seen that version of Maddie since she got the second Pfizer Vaccine.

Within 24 hours she developed abdominal, muscle and nerve pain that became unbearable and, over the next 2.5 months, she was admitted to the hospital three times, each stay a little longer than the last.

"She developed additional symptoms including gastroparesis, nausea and vomiting, erratic blood pressure and heart rate, memory loss (she mixes up words), brain fog, headaches, dizziness, fainting (she fell and hit her head) and seizures.

She developed verbal and motor tics, loss of feeling from the waist down, muscle weakness, drastic changes in her vision, urinary retention and loss of bladder control, severely irregular heavy menstrual cycles, and eventually she had to have a NG (feeding) tube put in to get nutrition. All of these symptoms are still here today, and some days are worse than others.

"There was nothing wrong with her. She was perfectly happy. And now, whatever happened, it has changed her." — Steph de Garay, mother