ok said..Flying Dutchman said..We should treat the vaccine injured like returned war veterans with injuries. They took the vaccines for the greater good. It was marketed as 'safe & effective'. Clearly it wasn't for many people.
If the Government or your workplace mandated it & you got injured, then you should be entitled for compensation. Anything less than that & it's a scandal.
I applied for the covid vaccine compensation scheme in May of 2022. Jabbed October 2021I finally got a response last week April 2023 asking for me to organise appointments with my cardiologist, immunologist & GP so that they can all confirm and rule out any other cause of my autoimmune condition that's continually enlarging my heart.
The covid compensation scheme in Australia is so overwhelmed and under staffed that it's not coping. I've spoken with many staff there who all sound depressed as hell after speaking with hundreds of thousand's vaccine injured people.
My doctors are in disbelief that it's taken so long for a response and that they want it in writing AGAIN. It will slowly come out how absolutely incompetent Australia was when it came to covid. But yeh sure move along

OK, it really does sound like you got crazy unlucky, and yours is the kind of case that compensation scheme is supposed to be for.
I wish you the best and hope you get some improvement with your health.
In regards to finding many other similarly unlucky people on this forum, there's probably not many.
The proportion of reported Adverse events to Doses administered is so low that it just highlights how rare your situation is.
As of 2nd April this year, there had been 65,664,650 doses administered in n Australia (approx 2.5 times our population) registered with TGA.
There had been 138,117 adverse event reports (including headaches, fevers, chills, muscle soreness) .
So I'd be very surprised if the COVID compensation scheme is actually having to deal with "hundreds of thousands" applications.
However, I'm sorry to say your case is possibly being held up by people like my mate . He had a Pfizer dose, then about 9 months later had an event sort of similar to yours but it resolved itself in a couple of months (bit of a scare with his lungs and heart and rampant inflammation). What he is trying to hide from the review of his application is that in the 6 months prior to his "reaction" he had: RSV, then Flu, then COVID, then Viral Pneumonia. Any one of those viruses could have triggered onset of his episode.
But I hope that you can get the assistance you need and there is a change for the better in your health