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

[batdina]

No clue what the mechanism is, but I had the exact same effect: knees, hips, etc. (all surgery locales) ached worse than anything else. 'Twas very strange. Then again, I've never been happy to be so miserable, so there's that too.