Mr Lowe said that while he was not opposed to vaccines, his life had been destroyed.
The Public Health Agency (PHA) said the benefits of the vaccines in preventing Covid-19 and serious complications associated with it far outweighed any currently known side effects in the majority of patients.
Mr Lowe was referred to Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London where he was told the vaccine “was being recognized by my body as a toxin, and that was the cause of my problems”.
He broke down and cried.
“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 said.
In letters seen by News NI, London pain management specialists confirmed the onset of symptoms could be attributed to the Covid vaccine booster.
In April 2024, Mr Lowe was diagnosed by a consultant neurologist at the Southern Health Trust with a “painful trigeminal neuropathy” which had “the Covid vaccine as its main causative factor”.
He also developed a small fibre sensory neuropathy which the consultant said “is also one of the post-vaccine related neurological presentations”.
“I struggle when I think about what another 10 years is going to do to me, because in the three years roughly that I’ve had this, it’s destroyed me and it’s getting worse,” Mr Lowe said.