Anyone had a problem with neuropathy after receiving the vaccine?

I had my second jab of Pfizer yesterday. I have pins and needles at night and last night it was, one a scale of 1-10, 7-8 while it is normally at 5.

Hey, everyone. I've been lying low for a few months, and just came across this discussion. My memory is lousy, but I remember someone was getting a stimulator implant, around the same time as getting the vaccine.

I had an Abbott spinal cord stimulator implant in June of 2017. It was wonderful for the first year. The burning pain in my feet was reduced by 75%. The only medication that had been helping was morphine sulfate contin. I reduced the dosage (big mistake), because the stimulator was helping so much. Year two, I had to have it adjusted by the rep every 3 months. Year 3, it just wasn't doing much.

LastSeptember I had surgery for severe spinal stenosis,, and after recovery, I had the rep recalibrate the stimulator, and it started helping a little, though far from the original 75%. I've been fighting to get the morphine dosage raised back to the pre SCS level, but have only been given a token increase. I'm in the process of finding a way to get a pain pump implant, but the doctor who does it, at OHSU , in Portland, said I need to do a trial of a dorsal root ganglion stimulator first. Yay! Another surgery. But constant pain, at a 5 on a good day, at 8 or 9 on days like today, is a big contributor to the depression and anxiety I've been living with for 20 years.

It's time to let my dog out for her nightly business, and rub lidocaine cream on my feet in bed. I do want to say that I hadn't thought about any possible negative connection between my sfpn and autonomic polyneuropathy and the covid vaccine, which my wife and I are scheduled to have at the end of this month. I'm sure I'll be talking with my therapist about the effect this will have on my mental health at my next session on Wednesday. When you struggle with anxiety disorder, along with depression and PTSD, everything changes. I was never one to worry or to be depressed the first 50 years of my life, so sometimes I'm a stranger to myself.

I hope each of you will stay in touch, so we can be a support team for one another.

Jim

Hello. I’m sorry to hear this. Yes, several in the group have had the same reaction. My neuropathy was also dormant but emerged with a vengeance all over my body hours after the first dose of moderna. That was Jan 5 and it hasn’t resolved but it’s not as constant as it was. I didn’t get the 2nd dose. I encourage you to report your reaction in the vaers system. Physicians are reluctant to consider a causal relationship because it’s not a reported or expected side effect. Best of luck.

I posted on this thread a couple weeks ago about increased neuropathy symptoms after receiving both Covid vaccine shots. My symptoms have improved somewhat, but haven’t returned to the level pre-vaccine. I had my first visit to a neurologist today. When I asked him about it, he said he wasn’t surprised at all since so many neuropathies are related to autoimmune diseases and that the vaccine is designed to boost our immune response to fight Covid. Makes perfect since now that I think about it. Too bad no one warned us...

Hi chezpl69, I'm sorry you are having the same experience as we are. Yes, neuropathy came on after the first Moderna shot. The same night actually. One of my first symptoms was left foot numbness then both feet and pinpricks all over with some bouts of weakness. I am 15 days out and it did get better then worse again. Was seen by primary care then neurology. Neurology has decided to monitor at this point hoping that this will go away. He did not recommend the second shot for me at this point. He did say we will see the extent of what is going on in about six weeks. Hoping for the best.