I've had terrible foot pain for the past few days in my right foot starting on the side of my foot just below my ankle bone, radiating a bit into my arch. That starts just a few hours after going to bed. The second night it happened, I wasn't even asleep. I had just been lying in bed watching videos.

It's so painful, I can't put weight on it at all. I had my partner get me some crutches this morning. It does subside throughout the day with ibuprofen and ice. Yesterday, it was gone completely after about 12 hours, but it came back again in the night.

It never occurred to me that it could be a vaccine side effect until today when I talked to someone else who had that happen out of the blue. I got the Moderna booster on 12/11. I was very sick for about 3 days (migraine and couldn't eat because I as so nauseous). I also had sore lymph nodes. I had a slightly less severe reaction to Moderna shot #2 (sick just 25 hours) and zero reaction to shot #1 (except a sore arm).

I've had plantar fasciitis (PF) in my left foot for 30 years, and have done copious amounts of research (and treatments) for PF over the years. I know this new pain in my right foot is absolutely not PF. This new pain is even worse than PF, but then subsides dramatically after a few hours.

Even before it occured to me today that this new foot pain might be a vaccine side effect, I had concluded that it was vascular, though I've never had any vascular issues in my life.

Now that I've read a lot posts on this topic, it makes me wonder if a vaccine side effect is also responsible for terrible pain in both my thumbs. My doctor concluded that it was from computer over-use (definitely a possibility), but it didn't happen until just after I got shot #2 and it happened overnight. My right thumb hurt so much, I couldn't turn a faucet or open tube of mascara without shooting pain. The left thumb pain started about two weeks later. It came on suddenly — no slow ramp-up of symptoms (as you would expect with tendonitis from over-use injuries).

In fact, I thought for a month that maybe I had sprained my right thumb and somehow didn't know when it happened (as crazy as that sounds). It wasn't until I started searching for a brace online that I thought it *could* be arthritis, but an X-ray didn't suggest that I have enough bone deterioration for that to be the case, making the sudden thumb joint pain a mystery. I still sleep with braces on both thumbs, but they have caused me a lot of pain going on eight months now.

Sorry for the long-winded post! If anyone has ideas (pro or con), I’m open to hearing them.