Some people actually believed this.

All vaccines have side effects, some more dramatic than others. For example, one woman says the Pfizer vaccine made her boobs get huge!

While some of these side effects can be attributed to the vaccine itself, others are just stress-induced reactions that have no real connection to the vaccine, and more still are just people faking it for attention.

All of that brings us to the viral story of the woman who claimed that, after receiving a flu shot, she suddenly lost an incredible amount of cognitive function — and, for some reason, the ability to walk forwards.

The story made waves at the time. How could a flu shot do this? No, like, seriously — how could a flu shot do this? Like, what mechanism in the shot could cause these wild and varied symptoms.

Doctors were stumped, and so, they ran a bunch of tests on her. What they discovered was that there was nothing wrong with her — or, at the very least, nothing that could be detected by tests. Some claimed it was dystonia, a muscle disorder, but that claim is suspect — especially given what happened next.

See, not helping her case was the fact that Inside Edition, who initially covered her supposed ailment, followed her around a few weeks later and discovered that she didn’t appear to have any issues anymore. Hey, good for her!

To this day, she claims that she wasn’t faking it, even if she *was* avoiding reporters around that same time.

Instead, she says she underwent a variety of experimental treatments, ranging from hyperbaric therapy to mercury chelation. Maybe one of those helped her problems; maybe the problems stopped by themselves. But regardless, she says that she was able to fully recover from the issues, and now, she says that her story was spun out of context and made her the face of a movement she didn’t want to be a part of.

So, all these years later, was she faking it? Or was it all just psychosomatic? The answer is up to you.