I have pain extending from my arm to neck, 12 days after the COVID vaccine. What to do?

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Thank you for the query. I can understand your concern. According to your statement, you have been suffering from pain that radiates from arm to neck.

Arm pain is a common side effect of the COVID vaccine. Some may have soreness, and others may have shooting pain like yours that may go from their arm to neck. Such shooting pain may result from immune response, as injecting the vaccine into the arm muscle can stimulate an immune response.

When that fluids enter into the muscle, the body sends messengers like white blood cells and lymph fluids to that area to establish an immune response, and soreness is started. This soreness or shooting pain may be developed immediately or delayed after getting a vaccine shot and maybe subsided within a short period or a prolonged period.

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs will help to subside such type of shooting pain. Sometimes, you may need steroids to lower the inflammation and pain.

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