FLARE AFTER COVID SHOTS?? I want to ask whether anyone else had an arthritic flare after the two covid injections? My flare-up developed somewhat gradually--I had been gardening a little too much and just thought I overdid it when the pain began following Pfizer shot number 1. But, following the second injection, I began to have knife-stabbing pain in some touchy joints, plus pain/stiffness in places that never hurt before. I am pretty sure I had an auto-immune reaction, but such organizations as national arthritis foundations, etc., have minimized the problem or simply skirted any risk. Every doctor I asked said no, I did NOT have a flare. However, even my rheumatologist hinted that'some patients' had 'had trouble' with the other drug company's inoculations. I feel now that I'm always stiff and my joints will never be where they were before the injections.