A Medical Mystery

[rachelmanija]

Shows how spacey I am that I forgot to mention by far the most interesting part of my vaccine reaction. I'm having all-over body aches, but they're most severe and pronounced at the sites of previous injuries - including the foot I broke two years ago, which hasn't hurt at all for at least a year! It's at the exact site of the breaks, too. It currently feels like it did when I'd only had the cast off for a month or two.

What is the likely mechanism for this odd effect? I've only ever heard of old injuries being reactivated in scurvy, which I'm pretty sure I don't have.

Comments

[rosefox]

Whoa, I'd never heard of "covid arm"! A friend of mine got a rash on her arms and legs a week after her second shot and both she and the urgent care doctors were totally mystified; she's not allergic to anything as far as she knows. Benadryl made it go away. I wonder whether it was related to the vaccine.

[rachelmanija]

It seems to be a thing, though this article just mentions it being on one arm:

https://www.prevention.com/health/a35470369/delayed-arm-rash-covid-19-vaccine/

[alessandriana]

Yeah, my mom got this on the arm she got her shot in-- showed up about a week later.

[benbenberi]

I got the vaccine rash too, showed up around day 12 after the first Moderna shot. it's mostly fading now.