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.

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[vicki_rae]

Same! The exact site of the breaks. Broken foot 16 years ago, broken wrist 6 years ago, other wrist broken 50 years ago. These are all places that hurt with weather changes. The 25 year old giant surgical scar from eviction with extreme prejudice of non-functional uterus & ovaries (the surgery was totally worth it even with the associated six months of chemo) and from where the surgical team went digging around from pelvic bone to diaphragm? Nada, doesn't hurt at all. Bodies are weird.

Also side effects I had with each shot were a hot flash right after the shot, rash on my arm/shoulder that started overnight and lasted several days, really sore arm for a couple of days. I'm 10 days after the second shot and my deltoid muscle still aches a bit all the time, and goes ouch when I reach up or out to the side.

[sholio]

I got the hot flash too! I've since heard from several people who also had it. (My husband, who got his at the same time as mine, didn't have that at all.)