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I have completed and uploaded a VAERS report about my wrist pain, just in case it's connected to the vaccine (vaccine dose was 1/17/22, and the pain started in late March or early April).
I don't think this is likely, but in the interests of thoroughness I mentioned it under "any new symptoms" for the V-Safe six-month check-in, and someone called the following day and urged me to report it via VAERS.
VAERS stands for Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System -- it's designed to collect lots of data, without filtering for accuracy or plausibility. The idea is to catch unusual but significant effects, and sort out later which are, or might be, related to a vaccine. It's not designed, at that stage, to figure out whether those events are more common in people who had a given vaccine -- if you have a vaccine and then something goes wrong, it's easy to assume that the two facts are connected. If people ask you, a week after a vaccine, "do you have any new or worsening symptoms?" you may mention something like a sore ankle without adding "I twisted my ankle two days ago."
If anyone decides my report of a sore wrist is worth investigating, one thing they'll probably do is ask me about accidents or wrist injuries. If I understand this correctly, they will also look at how many people reported wrist pain after the SpikeVax vaccine, compared to what's known about wrist pain in otherwise-similar people who didn't have the vaccine.
I don't think this is likely, but in the interests of thoroughness I mentioned it under "any new symptoms" for the V-Safe six-month check-in, and someone called the following day and urged me to report it via VAERS.
VAERS stands for Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System -- it's designed to collect lots of data, without filtering for accuracy or plausibility. The idea is to catch unusual but significant effects, and sort out later which are, or might be, related to a vaccine. It's not designed, at that stage, to figure out whether those events are more common in people who had a given vaccine -- if you have a vaccine and then something goes wrong, it's easy to assume that the two facts are connected. If people ask you, a week after a vaccine, "do you have any new or worsening symptoms?" you may mention something like a sore ankle without adding "I twisted my ankle two days ago."
If anyone decides my report of a sore wrist is worth investigating, one thing they'll probably do is ask me about accidents or wrist injuries. If I understand this correctly, they will also look at how many people reported wrist pain after the SpikeVax vaccine, compared to what's known about wrist pain in otherwise-similar people who didn't have the vaccine.
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