Sleeping giant

One of my very first symptoms was a strange soreness on the palms of my hands and soles of my feet for the first hour upon waking. Like something had pooled up inside them in the night. 

It wasn’t especially painful, just uncomfortable and unsettling. A reminder that I’m not alone. There’s a bacteria lingering doing strange things I won’t ever fully comprehend.

I haven’t felt this happen since may when my treatment started in may. I was starting to feel like it was gone. But something has awakened the giant. Is this what they mean when they say it only ever goes into remission?