What’s wrong with my second toe?

[Broadside]

Covid toes :-)

It looks like a chill blain to me. I never had them until covid came along but now tend to get them coincidental with when I think I may have had covid. They can be quite sore but then tend to go after a couple of weeks.

 

[KnittyNorah]

I have definitely never had symptomatic covid but in November 2020 I got chilblains/covid toes on several toes on both feet. I had NEVER had chilblains before, and when I got these I wasn't going out into the cold at all. I've not had them since either.
As I'm part of a clinical trial - still ongoing - for bivalent vaccines, I mentioned this at the start of the trial. My blood tests don't show any evidence of my having fought a covid infection, and I've never had a +ve PCR or LFT, but someone in the research team I was chatting to before Christmas told me that 'covid toes' generally haven't given a +ve on PCR and only show very slight changes in the blood picture while the event is ongoing, and that it seems to be an 'unusual' immune response which localises any side effects/reaction to the small blood vessels in the extremities. And that if it happens again, to call them and they will be very keen to take blood while the (presumed) 'covid toes' are 'active'.
My chilblains or whatever they were, were fiendishly itchy, then the skin surface gradually dried and flaked off. Took about 3 weeks until they were back to normal. I found that sudocrem and a calamine cream (not the lotion, too drying) were soothing throughout the process.

 

[Broadside]

That is interesting @KnittyNorah , I have never had symptomatic covid and have never tested positive either and I have done quite a few tests. I must also be one of the people with a strange immune response!

 

[KnittyNorah]

That is interesting @KnittyNorah , I have never had symptomatic covid and have never tested positive either and I have done quite a few tests. I must also be one of the people with a strange immune response!

As I'm part of this trial, I've been doing a weekly LFT since March/April last year and am still doing them.
I was also doing LFTs regularly from the time they first became commonly available - once or twice a week, depending on how much socialising I was doing. I've had several known exposures to people who may well have been infectious, as they contacted me a couple of days after we'd had a meal or sat in the car together, to warn me that they've just tested +ve, and I've also shared a house, inc kitchen and bathroom, with someone who has twice had confirmed Covid, the first time before masking, the second time before vaccinations. Nothing, nada, zero.
Just chilblains on most of my toes in November 2020 - which didn't coincide with any of my known exposures to people with covid!

 

[Milzy]

As I'm part of this trial, I've been doing a weekly LFT since March/April last year and am still doing them.
I was also doing LFTs regularly from the time they first became commonly available - once or twice a week, depending on how much socialising I was doing. I've had several known exposures to people who may well have been infectious, as they contacted me a couple of days after we'd had a meal or sat in the car together, to warn me that they've just tested +ve, and I've also shared a house, inc kitchen and bathroom, with someone who has twice had confirmed Covid, the first time before masking, the second time before vaccinations. Nothing, nada, zero.
Just chilblains on most of my toes in November 2020 - which didn't coincide with any of my known exposures to people with covid!

Many Strava athletes and a few I know well have reported higher HR BPM’s on their training workouts/races for the same level of fitness. Could be a lingering effect from Covid, wouldn’t rule out the vaccines or maybe a touch of both. It’s just speculation at the moment we’ll know more in time.