Age: 70.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Insomnia, Intentional self-injury, Pain, Pruritus, Scab
Clinical narrative: I report via email to 2  facilities and received no response ... this is what I sent in an email and asked for "next step(s)"'... the situation is now much worse  ,,, COVER forearms, shins, back, chest (difficult to sleep!)  Let?s start here ?Vax 2nd time in June.  I doubt I could be convinced to get a booster.  Initially the injection sight appeared to be fine. But later, the scab was a bit different. Scab was itchy and came off, then happened again. Started really noticing this a bit later with curious relationship elsewhere on arms and legs ? all described further on.  ?injection area is still itchy and still goes through the same pattern  but less so and different than on other areas of skin. Thots at that time, Hmmm, seems to be a pattern when it should be healed and ? what?s this other condition?  ? OK, no worries, I scratched it off, let?s see what happens, mindfully attentive to this as acute or chronic, ? well, its continually getting worse elsewhere? not so much at injection site.  Presently, the real associated issues are much worse, it is now large distal sections of my legs (shin) and arms and more recently upper back are red and have same pattern but spreading so larger are impacted.   Something makes the skin much softer ? it doesn?t take much effort to scratch thru the skin and cause some areas of the skin to be removed and bleed.   IMHO, an irritant is forming under the skin that is not normal (obviously) and the body reaction is to collect and isolate irritant. However, isolation results in inflamed areas and any possibility of removal by extrusion through skin / pores cannot happen (like clogged pore acne situation(?), but no infection with puss). OK, ?whatever the irritant?, it collects under the epidermis and concomitantly the skin gets soft, red, itchy (much redder as it get scratched ? no surprise) ? and scratching through and removing the local discomfort feels much better even if these areas are now bleeding.  If I use body lotion, the discomfort and appearance is minimized, the soft epidermis does not get as scaly as quickly, and the accompanying flaky dermis looks better (white flaky skin is wo lotion). I also tried a topical ?anesthetic? ? can say it helped since the duration of relief is much shorter than condition.  This self-mutilation could never be accomplished on normal healthy skin. Normally, the pain receptors reacting to the phospholipids released would prevent this amount of extensive scratching to cause the removal of skin to where it bleeds. In this case, the pain from receptors is greatly minimized by scratching thru and (amazingly) removing the impacted area.  Of course this is something to take seriously since it is not going away. The question is the serendipity of the events after the vax. I would prefer to not implicate this in the vax program. It?s hard enough to keep individuals vaxed, healthy and not spreading COVID. This would be unfortunate side-effect. Nevertheless I would like to get the necessary facts rolled out and, if associated ? selfishly yet wisely, get relief for this situation.  To my knowledge, our family has nothing that impacted anyone like this ? in my direct family (M or D, sis or bro) not even extended family (aunts / uncles) ? again, to my knowledge.