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Yesterday (10/3/23), I got the updated Covid vaccine (Comirnaty) and within 30 minutes both my feet burned fiercely and tingled. I was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy in 2009, so I am accustomed to paresthesia and pain in my lower extremities. However, this dramatic increase after the vaccine is alarming. The burning/tingling in the feet has subsided some, but the flare-up in pain, fasciculations and heaviness in my calves and the back of my thighs, which happened after the injection, continues and is worrying. The same thing happened after my first Covid injection in March 2021, but it wasn't nearly as severe and resolved within a couple of hours. I'm worried this time it might not resolve at all. Anyone have experience to share?
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Wow - sorry to hear - what does your Neurologist think? Sure hope you get some help.
I’m just recovering from Covid. Doctor says I now don’t need the latest shot which I’m happy about. Each Covid injection has made me nervous. The vaccines ramp up the immune system and thus cause inflammation which affects neuropathy. I hope your symptoms quiet down soon. Is your SFN autoimmune? A flare of symptoms would make sense in that case. Take care.
Weird! I’m new here. I don’t like these forums (no offense) but I’m getting desperate and I belong to one other one called “stuff that works “ (ironically nothing works) anyway all they talk about is how Covid and/or vaccines did this or that and I suffer from sfn so horribly for over a decade now that I never thought about the issue. But last week I got my COVID booster and my flu vaccine at the same time and it was over a week of a really bad flare up where I couldn’t even wear pants from the burning. So I thought hmmm? Maybe it was the covid booster or the fact I got both vaccines at the same time? Who knows? More mystery, more thoughts on a disease that has no cure and no treatment.
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This is very disturbing. You are not alone.