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[redbird]

Last night, I assumed I would wake up early (or at least earlier than Adrian and Cattitude) and planned to walk over to the supermarket before it got hot.

Instead, I was the third to wake up, so once I'd had my morning yogurt, I pulled on clothes and Cattitude and I went to the Star Market. We got most of the things on our shopping list, including whipped butter, high-protein cereal, and chocolate ice cream. The walk was less pleasant than I'd hoped, because of humidity more than heat, but now I know the route (straightforward except for the bit where I didn't spot the supermarket at first, because the store and sign are behind the parking area). There was enough of a hill to be useful exercise for my thigh muscles, and not enough to strain my hips or knee.

I have started carefully doing a few of my upper body exercises again (no more than one kind a day), along with the OT for the wrist. The OT is, so far, range-of-motion and stretching, and the therapist said last week that we may add a strengthening exercise at my next appointment.

This afternoon, I got a text from the V-Safe program, asking me to answer some questions about my health, six months after my most recent covid vaccine. I filled it out, meaning that I checking "yes" for "any new symptoms or health issues." I then described the wrist pain, noting that it had no apparent cause and I doubt it's related, and that I had a telemedicine appointment, X-ray imaging, and outpatient/clinic appointments related to it. I'm not sure I should have mentioned it at all, but done is done.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

If there are interesting new patterns for potential vaccine injury, researchers will only find them if people report! Hope it isn't related, both in general and for you.

[redbird]

It almost doesn't matter for me personally -- there's no point in my getting more covid vaccine boosters, or any other vaccines, as long as I'm on this MS drug.

This fact does not thrill me, to put it mildly, but it simplifies questions like whether to get a covid booster.

[thistleingrey]

Understood.

[hrj]

Yes, this. Identification of rare side-effects can only happen if people report *all* "unexpected events" without trying to pre-filter for likely cause. The data people will run the stats to see if something occurs more often than in the general population. I recall seeing a list of "patient complaints" for the initial Covid vaccine trials and it included things like "broken arm due to bicycle accident" (I made that up). Which clearly is unrelated but counts as a "complaint".

(I speak from, but not for, the pharmaceutical industry.)

[otter]

Is the walk short enough that the ice cream stayed frozen on the way home? That's my important question of the day :)

[redbird]

Yes it is, and that's why I wanted to go out yesterday morning, specifically.