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I'm not sure if I am allowed to ask about Covid on this forum - I noticed FB groups tend to delete and censor everything to do with it so it's hard to reach out to ask questions but I'm wondering if anyone has seen this listed as a side effect to the AZ vaccine in the elderly after it happened a couple of weeks ago to my 83 year old father, and then today in the park a friend's 84yo mother had something similar: purple fingers.
So, my father didn't have anything too severe, it was day 4 after his vaccine, he did start to feel a bit unwell with a pain at the back of his neck (something I always get when I'm falling ill with anything), but he noticed the crescents on this thumbnails had turned purple - not really dark, but still noticeable.
I googled and found only the stories of Covid Toes (which can happen in the fingers as well) (I'll let you google it) and thought it was probably a side effect of the vaccine as well but I couldn't see it listed anywhere.
Anyway, the friend's mother in the park to had very strange purple fingers as far down as the first joint and on one hand, she had this blue/purple pattern that had lines and dots - the woman thought it looked like little blood clots. I've seen one article mentioning a lace pattern. I asked if she had just had her covid vaccine by any chance and she said 'yes, 10 days ago'.
That's two people in the last month that I have seen with these weird purple fingers not long after having an AZ. I just wondered if it is a listed side effect and how common it is?? And I also wonder whether the lady in the park should have been taken straight to see someone. My father seems to have had no particular problem with his thumbs but I know those who have proper covid toes from the virus itself have lost digits from it. Perhaps if it's mild it passes, but maybe the old lady needed some help with it. I'll find out later in the week how she is I guess.
So, my father didn't have anything too severe, it was day 4 after his vaccine, he did start to feel a bit unwell with a pain at the back of his neck (something I always get when I'm falling ill with anything), but he noticed the crescents on this thumbnails had turned purple - not really dark, but still noticeable.
I googled and found only the stories of Covid Toes (which can happen in the fingers as well) (I'll let you google it) and thought it was probably a side effect of the vaccine as well but I couldn't see it listed anywhere.
Anyway, the friend's mother in the park to had very strange purple fingers as far down as the first joint and on one hand, she had this blue/purple pattern that had lines and dots - the woman thought it looked like little blood clots. I've seen one article mentioning a lace pattern. I asked if she had just had her covid vaccine by any chance and she said 'yes, 10 days ago'.
That's two people in the last month that I have seen with these weird purple fingers not long after having an AZ. I just wondered if it is a listed side effect and how common it is?? And I also wonder whether the lady in the park should have been taken straight to see someone. My father seems to have had no particular problem with his thumbs but I know those who have proper covid toes from the virus itself have lost digits from it. Perhaps if it's mild it passes, but maybe the old lady needed some help with it. I'll find out later in the week how she is I guess.