I've had severe chilblains every winter following a tetanus shot in 1972 despite living in Qld.
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Has anyone else had this happen to them? Doctors have told me it looks like Reynauds syndrome but blood tests have been negative to the A-I diseases they tested me for - the usual ones that cause 2ndary RS.
I was in perfect health when I had a tetanus vaccination in my early 20s and two days later I started getting this problem - extreme vaso-constriction followed by massive discolouration and swelling of my fingers and toes, extremely painful, I’d have to spend days in bed to stay warm. Over the years it got worse. My doctors were worried about necrosis and gangrene and gave me vaso-dilator medication which gave me such bad headaches I eventually stopped taking them. Then all I could do was stay in bed under the doona for days at a time.
Gradually as I got older, in my 60s and 70s, I became less cold-sensitive but I still get it in a milder form and I have to rug up every winter. When I first described it on this blog no one believed I'd be getting chilblains in Queensland.
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Marina_Dee tony91881
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I used to have terrible chilblains when I was a teenager but was then given Vitamin K tablets, which I took for a few weeks. I have never had chilblains since then. Dont take them if you are taking Warfarin.