Age: 84.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Arthralgia, Immunisation, Nasopharyngitis, Pain, Pain in extremity
Clinical narrative: terrible pain to both knees lasted weeks; every joint in her body, including her wrists, were bothering her; Booster Dose; soreness in both of her calves/her calves in both legs started to hurt; cold and painful; She experienced soreness at the injection site.; they were very cold and they were painful; This is a spontaneous report received from a contactable consumer (patient) as part of Pfizer-sponsored program. A 84-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (COMIRNATY, Formulation: Solution for injection), dose 3 intramuscular, administered in Deltoid Left on 06Oct2021 13:00 (at the age of 84-year-old) (Lot Number: 30135BA; Expiration Date: 28Feb2022) as DOSE 3 (BOOSTER), SINGLE for covid-19 immunisation. The patient previously took first dose of historical vaccine, BNT162B2, Formulation: Solution for injection) on 27Feb2021 and experienced sore feeling on her joints, he experienced pain in her joints, including her hips, into the sciatica area, and right down her toes/ wrist/right knee pain/left ankle pain, She feels like something is not right with the ball of her foot, felt a pinching in her hand, inflamed, swelling in left wrist and forefinger, right wrist was a little tight, tingling in Pinky toe and ankle, had pain in the joints, groin, She has lost the sense of taste and smell, She has a dull ache and Second dose of historical vaccine, BNT162B2, Formulation: Solution for injection) on 20Mar2021 as single dose for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included, diabetes from 03Dec2017 and ongoing Illness/AE: Type II DM , ongoing osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis from 03Dec2017 and ongoing Illness/AE: Rheumatoid arthritis without rheumatoid factor, On 23May2018 Hypothyroidism (Illness/AE: Hypothyroidism), On 12Mar2019 Hypertriglyceridemia (Illness/AE: Hypertriglyceridemia), On Feb2016 carotid endarterectomy (Illness/AE: History of carotid endarterectomy), On 08Jun2021 Gastro-oesophageal reflux (Illness/AE: Gastro - oesophageal reflux), on 04Dec2017 essential HTN (Illness/AE: essential HTN), On 28Mar2018 Colitis, On 03Dec2017 Chronic Anxiety (Illness/AE: Chronic Anxiety).The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. On 06Oct2021 patient experienced soreness in both of her calves/her calves in both legs started to hurt, cold and painful, she experienced soreness at the injection site, they were very cold and they were painful, on 07Oct2021 every joint in her body, including her wrists, were bothering her, on an unspecified date terrible pain to both knees lasted weeks. It was reported that After her booster dose on 06Oct2021, she had a soreness in both of her calves, cold and painful. Caller is also taking Tylenol and oil to alleviate the pain. Caller added that every joint in her body was bothering her. Caller states that the third shot was the worst. She has already spoken to 2 Primary care Doctors and Rheumatologist and they do no know what to do. she said her booster dose was terrible. She experienced soreness at the injection site. She said it has already been 2 weeks since she got the shot, but the soreness is still there. With that, consumer wants to know if these side effects are normal and how long it takes for them to go away, and if it will disappear eventually. She also wants to know why it hit her joints, groin, knee, ankle and wrist. Consumer also mentioned that her 95-year-old sister in withheld had a stroke and is paralysed. Her sister had the virus twice, and had already received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine. She said her sister just got off antibiotics because of "Cipus.": E-transmitting; Possible AE duplicate. Dates for 1st dose: woke up at maybe 10:00 PM that night and was very sore in her joints: (From: 27Feb2021 To: Unknown) Reporter seriousness for 1st dose: woke up at maybe 10:00 PM that night and was very sore in her joints: Unspecified Dates for booster dose: her calves in both legs started to hurt and they were very cold and they were painful: (From: 06Oct2021 To: Ongoing) Reporter seriousness for booster dose: her calves in both legs started to hurt and they were very cold and they were painful: Unspecified Dates for booster dose: every joint in her body, including her wrists, were bothering her: (From: 07Oct2021 To: Ongoing) Reporter seriousness for booster dose: every joint in her body, including her wrists, were bothering her: Unspecified Is COVID vaccine a Pfizer product Yes. saying that she needed to report the reaction that she had after the 1st dose of COVID vaccine and after her booster dose. The caller has no problem providing whatever information that this agent may need and the only thing that the caller needs this agent do for her is to speak slowly and clearly because this phone is not very good and the caller is a little hard of hearing. She wants to say something here, she has been on the phone for 2 hours trying to get somebody to listen to her. She has tried to get the government office, that didn't work, she tried to get the department of health, that didn't work, and also she also tried to get the county department of health and that didn't work. She is lucky that she got this agent because she is persistent and it took her 2 hours, most people would of given up after the first 10 minutes. She also has to say this, this COVID is so important and people are dying as we know and yet she and maybe many others cannot get information out as to what might be happening to them. She firmly believes that Pfizer should be giving some kind of phone number or website for people like her who have questions to the reactions that they have had. She started on the phone at 2:00 and now it is after 4:00. This is what happened to her and at first she didn't pay any mind to it but now she is sorry that she even took the booster dose. She was 84 years old when she took the 1st and 2nd dose and her birthday was in Oct2021 so then she became 85 years old and took the booster. The booster was taken because it was intended at the time to go because she has someone there whos not well in a nursing home and that was the reason that she took the booster and she is sorry that she did. Then 06Oct2021, when she got the booster, and like she said she was only getting it because she was getting ready to fly down to which has been postponed for personal reasons, about 9:00 PM that night, maybe a little earlier, her calves in both legs started to hurt and they were very cold and they were painful. So again she took Tylenol and again she used the roll on, it's like marijuana, and within 15 minutes the pain subsided on her right leg. Her left leg didn't bother her as much. The next day every joint in her body, including her wrists, were bothering her. She tried calling somebody within the health profession and they had told her that they don't take information like this and so she just stopped speaking to them. She still has pain and she also has pain still in her arm that was injected. She doesn't understand it but she still has it, it is not really a pain, it is a soreness. Yesterday, as a result of the injections, she had to see her rheumatologist and he took x-rays of her knees and found that they were inflamed and he gave her a cortisone shot in her right knee. He said that if it works that she should come back for a 2nd one in her left knee. She asked the doctor if there was water on her knee and he said that it was from inflammation on her knee but the cortisone shot should help. How she got this agent's number, she doesn't even know but the person who helped her was the director of a nursing home who told the caller to start calling and like she said she has been on the phone since 2:00 and finally got this agent. She thinks that she read an article and they are finding neurologic problems with people who have taken the vaccination. Before today she has never seen anything about a reaction and like she said if she knew that she was going to have this reaction with the booster then she wouldn't have taken it. No further details provided. A lot of her friends think that she is crazy that she took the booster, some of them didn't even take the 1st dose but with her and that state being full of the virus she was not taking a chance. She wants to know is this normal. Caller confirms that she has osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes. When inquired for when she was diagnosed she states it was in 1975. When attempted to confirm she was diagnosed with all 3 medical conditions in 1975 she states that she believes that she started with osteoarthritis. She also states that she takes medication but not because of what was going on. The only thing, like she said, she had used because of the pain in her leg and it becoming swollen and cold she used industrial hemp ultra strength 120 mg pure oil and she put that on her legs and after about 15 or so minutes it went away and then she also put a heating pad on her legs as well. Also she wants this agent to know that with her rheumatoid arthritis she has never been on any arthritis medications. Her doctor was very conservative and at this point she doesn't want anything else so Pfizer can't even think well the caller was probably taking arthritis medications. All she takes is Tylenol and then of course if it gets really bad her doctor will give her the cortisone shot. Also, because of her arthritis she has gotten pseudo gout, the doctor mentioned that yesterday and that's what's is probably happening now. She also wants to ask if this will dissipate and leave? Like will the pain stop eventually? Also she would like to know why it happened because she was told by the director of the nursing home that she probably didn't need the booster yet since she already had immunity and maybe that's what it is. Another thing that she would like to know if the booster dose should be given to somebody who is 95-year-old that is stroked out and paralysed on one side and had the other 2 shots should she be getting the booster dose? The caller believes not because of what happened to her. She is asking because if she knew that she was going to have all this pain in her joints like the 1st time, but this was worse, she wouldn't have taken it or she would have waited and now she concerned. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included x-ray limb: inflamed on an unspecified date.  Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of soreness in both of her calves/her calves in both legs started to hurt, cold and painful, they were very cold and they were painful, terrible pain to both knees lasted weeks. The outcome of all event was not recovered.  No follow-up attempts are needed. No further information is expected.