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

A father says he has been ‘left to rot’ after having a nightmare reaction to a Covid jab that has left him in constant pain.

Larry Lowe, from Northern Ireland, had thought he was doing his public duty when he got 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 real concerns about having the booster shot.

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

And while Mr Lowe initially thought this might be temporary, things have got worse over the last two years with the pain spreading and increasing to such an extent that he has been forced to retire on medical grounds.

Despite their best efforts, doctors have told him he is unlikely to ever fully recover, 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 as he in so much pain

Experts have said that 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 receive mild side effects at worst from the jab.

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 isn’t the case for Mr Lowe, who is not opposed to vaccines, who has been told the vaccine is being treated by his body as a ‘toxin’ by medics at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London.

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

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

‘My wife and I were sitting in this little room in Westminster with about seven or eight consultants telling me the vaccine had destroyed the nerve on the right side of my face, and it was highly unlikely that I would ever recover from it,’ he told the BBC.

In April this year he was diagnosed by consultant neurologist with ‘painful trigeminal neuropathy’, a condition that leaves people with numbness or pain in their head and facial area due to nerve damage.

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

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

Mr Lowe said the last three years have ‘destroyed me’ and he is fearful of the future because ‘it’s getting worse’.

The Omagh resident told the BBC: ‘I didn’t ask for this. I took the vaccine in good faith. I’ve just been left to just rot.’

He said that while the GP and medics trying to help him were ‘fantastic’, the pain he was in meant his life was ‘barely 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 from the vaccine as ‘destroyed me’

After being given 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. Pictured: A syringe is filled with the Pfizer Covid vaccine in October 2021 

Mr Lowe said is former life of being in a band, playing guitar and enjoying the world is ‘just a memory’ and that ‘I’m not me anymore’.

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

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

‘I want someone to recognise that the vaccine has done this.’

The Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland says that side effects can occur when taking all vaccines and medications.

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 against ill health. It prevents millions of deaths worldwide every year.

‘All vaccines and medicines can have some side effects, although not everybody gets them. 

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

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

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

It states that vaccination is the most effective way to reduce deaths and severe illness from Covid.

MailOnline has contacted Pfizer and the MHRA for comment.