lumps under skin from vaccination?

[ashleighmeme]

Hello Im worried sick. I've never felt so scared. My little boy is turning two in August and he seems like a very healthy and happy little dude. I've recently noticed that there's lumps on his upper thighs off where he had his vaccinations, I noticed he had them a couple months after having his vaccine still but I thought it was still early days and he had no illness or bad reaction to the vaccines so I didn't worry about it and assumed they would go in time and honestly just forgot about them as he seemed happy in himself. He had them all and the last/most recent vaccines were when he was 1 year old. I noticed He's still got the lumps under his skin off where he had his needles and he's been scratching at his thighs a lot recently especially his right thigh, with him not being well he's been very h out so I've stripped him down to his nappy and a vest and now noticing The itching even more. Looking back I now remember him scratching at his legs in the past but never thought anything of it I just assumed he had an itch, the lumps aren't noticeable on the surface of his skin only when pressing on his legs or running my finger gently across them and it doesn't seem painful when pressing on them. The guilt I feel for only realising this now after his last vaccination was nearly a year ago is making me feel like a failure as a mam :( I never put two and two together. I've made an appointment to see the doctors but can't see them until next week because we all have covid I can't find anything online about this all that comes up is information of symptoms for recently vaccinated babies nothing to do with toddlers, in fact after a good feel of his legs the lumps seem bigger than I remember but that could be due to him loosing a bit of weight due to covid 19 as he's not been eating as much. I love him so much and I just feel so worried I didn't sleep at all last night, I just sat thinking the worst trying to find anything I could on google. He's my first and only son and I'm just panicked to bits has anyone else had this in their child? X

Hello! Is there any update on this? As I’m going through the same situation
I hope everything went well x

Hello, I'm so sorry I actually was going to update incase anyone needed any information to ease their minds if they so happened to stumble across this post but totally forgot. My son has since been to hospital for scans and the ladies doing them were very nice and didn't seem bothered. They said they see it all the time and that it's something to do with the fat in their legs going lumpy due to the vaccines but when I asked them about the itchiness they could not give me an answer. They also said if they get bigger take him back l my gp so wasn't very comforting but he seems happy and healthy and hoping they don't get any worse. He still tries to have a scratch at them so they are definitely itchy. I thought maybe he was itching because he can feel the actual lumps rather than the lumps actually being itchy. Either way I'm just going to keep an eye on them in future and make sure they don't bother him too much and if they do it's back to the doctors we go. Hope your little one is okay bless you it is so worrying when no one else talks about this and all that comes up on google search is vaccines information about babies 6 week reaction and nothing about 1+ years after x

@ashleighmeme

Hello, I'm so sorry I actually was going to update incase anyone needed any information to ease their minds if they so happened to stumble across this post but totally forgot. My son has since been to hospital for scans and the ladies doing them were very nice and didn't seem bothered. They said they see it all the time and that it's something to do with the fat in their legs going lumpy due to the vaccines but when I asked them about the itchiness they could not give me an answer. They also said if they get bigger take him back l my gp so wasn't very comforting but he seems happy and healthy and hoping they don't get any worse. He still tries to have a scratch at them so they are definitely itchy. I thought maybe he was itching because he can feel the actual lumps rather than the lumps actually being itchy. Either way I'm just going to keep an eye on them in future and make sure they don't bother him too much and if they do it's back to the doctors we go. Hope your little one is okay bless you it is so worrying when no one else talks about this and all that comes up on google search is vaccines information about babies 6 week reaction and nothing about 1+ years after x

I'm glad it all went well for you! Well the thing is mine isn't even about my little one, I actually have this in my leg. I have a dent in the area and lumpy fat around where I had an anti sickness injection in labour. As I've been losing weight since having my LO 20 months ago (gradual weight loss) I noticed the dent a few months ago. It's not painful but it's there like a dimple. Always looked like cellulite to me though. This is called Fat atrophy at an injection site and can happen when an injection is inserted into fat instead of muscle. As anti sickness injections contain steroids most of the time, it can be the reason why these dents happen. My GP has referred me for a scan so I'm just awaiting it. It's on the 15th I get super anxious about these things so just trying to get off google for it haha

@ashleighmeme

Hello, I'm so sorry I actually was going to update incase anyone needed any information to ease their minds if they so happened to stumble across this post but totally forgot. My son has since been to hospital for scans and the ladies doing them were very nice and didn't seem bothered. They said they see it all the time and that it's something to do with the fat in their legs going lumpy due to the vaccines but when I asked them about the itchiness they could not give me an answer. They also said if they get bigger take him back l my gp so wasn't very comforting but he seems happy and healthy and hoping they don't get any worse. He still tries to have a scratch at them so they are definitely itchy. I thought maybe he was itching because he can feel the actual lumps rather than the lumps actually being itchy. Either way I'm just going to keep an eye on them in future and make sure they don't bother him too much and if they do it's back to the doctors we go. Hope your little one is okay bless you it is so worrying when no one else talks about this and all that comes up on google search is vaccines information about babies 6 week reaction and nothing about 1+ years after x

Just an update on this, I just had an US scan and it was completely normal. Thankfully everything is ok. It was a reaction to the injection.

So interesting hearing of someone else whose child is experiencing the same thing! My little boy is 3 and he has a lumpy, indented and itchy area on his thigh from his baby infections. It gets itchy when he first wakes up in the morning and when he gets hot for some reason!