Lo and behold I had my 4th injection last week and I am on blood thinners with a bandage around my leg. I had the jab on Tuesday and felt a bit tired on Wednesday. The pain in my leg was there on Thursday after all the fatigue and blurriness had subsided. Obviously, this was some form of muscle cramp as I explained to my wife who works in Drug Safety the following day when the pain had breached a threshold where I would have to tell her.
The pain and swelling in my leg grew and shrank. Sometimes it was hotter and more swollen and sometimes it subsided to a level where I could hobble but at a reasonable pace and not completely inelegantly.
On Friday the local hospital outpatient thought it was muscular and told me to keep an eye on it and that it was too early for it to be related to the vaccine.
During this period I had been working but had not been able to walk much as I waited for the pain to die down as I was due to travel to Munich (about 6 hours) to work in the office. On Monday I hobbled to the local GP who compared the two legs with a measuring tape (the Germans like that kind of thing) and declared that I had a thrombosis of the leg and organised a prescription and a blood test.
There are no lessons to be learned but I was pretty healthy before the jab and now I'm not. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished and I am reminded by my wife of how fatal blood clots can be.
Next week I'll have a check-up and go to Munich as I expect I will be a bit better by then. In the meantime, I am handing over a project to a colleague and I've come up with an art idea that I may be able to do with someone who works locally.
