Important: VAERS reports alone cannot determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event. Reports may contain incomplete, inaccurate, or unverified information. Correlation does not equal causation.
Pain in extremity appears in 143,925 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 384 reports also mentioned death and 5,429 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 4.0%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID19, VARZOS, FLU3. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Pain in extremity has been reported 143,925 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 384 were associated with death (0.27%) and 5,429 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Pain in extremity is 4.0%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.