Age: 71.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Influenza like illness, Insomnia, Muscle spasms, Musculoskeletal pain, Pain
Clinical narrative: She can't sit or stand up; vaccine arm was crampy and aching, her shoulder, back, butt, and her leg were aching, hurting and cramping; vaccine arm was crampy and aching, her shoulder, back, butt, and her leg were aching, hurting and cramping; vaccine arm was crampy and aching, her shoulder, back, butt, and her leg were aching, hurting and cramping; Head hurts, all over body aches, mostly shoulders, and back and lower back, her muscles feel like when having the flu. She felt like the flu.; vaccine arm was crampy and aching, her shoulder, back, butt, and her leg were aching, hurting and cramping; Headache; Body aches; Cramping/vaccine arm was crampy; Her hair hurt; Couldn't sleep; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient) via sponsored program. A 71-year-old female patient received second dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, formulation: solution for injection, lot number: EW0176, expiry date: unknown) via unspecified route of administration, administered in arm left on 28Apr2021 9:00 am (age at vaccination 71-years-old), as DOSE 2, SINGLE for COVID-19 immunisation. The patient's medical history included lack of vitamin D and pale skin, both from an unknown date. Patient had hernia surgery 10 years before and from unknown date, she was arthritic (she adds she has joint problems with her toes/One of her toes sometimes feels like it is a little arthritic). The patient was not sick at the time of vaccination. The patient gets sneezing with dust (She says there are times of the year). Concomitant medications included Vitamin D3 from an unknown date (taking this Vitamin for a very long time) and ongoing at a dose of 200 mcg (8,000 IU), alternate day for lack of vitamin D and curcuma longa (TURMERIC), from an unknown date and ongoing, 1,000 mg, alternate day for arthritic. The patient received the first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, formulation: solution for injection, lot number: ER8729) via unspecified route of administration, administered in left arm on 07Apr2021 9:00 am as DOSE 1, SINGLE for COVID-19 immunisation. Due to first dose her vaccinated arm was hurt and really sore, she could not use her arm or lift anything. On 28Apr2021 22:00, the patient experienced headache, body aches, cramping, her hair hurt, could not sleep. On 17May2021, the vaccine arm was crampy and aching, her shoulder, back, butt, and her leg were aching, hurting and cramping. The patient had Pfizer vaccine second dose, within 10 hours she had, four or five bad hours of side effects, headache and body aches. She did not take anything on 28th or 29th, by 29Apr it was gone, she was normal until this Monday, 17May2021. Monday morning, she had a headache, left arm aching (vaccination site), back, shoulders, legs my butt, aching where she cannot sit or stand up, headache continuing through this morning and residual, she took Ibuprofen to take the edge off, and was taking it every 4 hours, at least one every 4 hours and 2 before sleep, it started backing off as of 11am morning (17May2021). she starting to feel like her herself, but she has cramping, no appetite, (it's not no appetite, it's more like she had a headache, body aches, this was the opportunity to lose some weight and just go with it, but crampy, head hurts, all over body aches, mostly shoulders, and back and lower back, her muscles feel like when having the flu. She felt like the flu. After second dose of the Pfizer vaccine 3 weeks before and the day of or the next day, she had a headache and body aches which went away within a day or 2. After 3 weeks since she had vaccine, she has such bad body aches and a headache again, that it's interfering with her everyday work. She cannot sit and cannot stand. The patient was worried because it has been 3 weeks now. However, she was doing fine. She says the first day of the headache and body aches was the day of the second vaccine which was on 28Apr2021, so that night she had a horrible night of about 4 hours of cramps, she could not get comfortable, her head hurt, her hair hurt, she couldn't sleep. She says she did not want to take anything because she heard that allowing the body to do it's thing in the better way to go. That was miserable, but only lasted for about 4.5 hours and that was it. She says then she was normal for 2 and a half weeks after until this past Monday morning, 17May2021. She says for the first round of symptoms including the headache, body aches, cramps, her hair hurting, and not being able to sleep all started on 28Apr2021, and she recovered completely from the first round on 29Apr2021. On Monday morning, 17May2021, she woke up and all the symptoms were there again. In addition, the vaccine arm was also crampy and aching. She says her shoulder was aching, her butt and legs were hurting and cramping, it was like she wanted to pound on her legs. She says she threw caution to the wind and took an ibuprofen. She would count out 4 hours and take more, because that wasn't even cutting it, it was horrible. She clarifies the ibuprofen took the edge off but still she couldn't lay down because her head hurts, her shoulders were killing her, her legs/butt hurt. She couldn't lay down or sit up. She would walk around, and it hurt. She clarifies the first round of these symptoms started at 10:00PM on 28 Apr 2021 and got worse at like 2:00 am and didn't end until about 7:00 in the morning, like BOOM. She says 29Apr2021 they all ended and there was maybe a little tiny residual that was gone totally by midday on 29Apr2021. She says there was nothing that would bother her after 7:00am. She clarifies at 10:00pm on 28Apr2021, she started feeling a little bit off and didn't get bad until the middle of the night for about 4 or 5 hours, but that morning about 7:00AM or so, she was almost pretty good. Her first round of symptoms were totally gone by midday on 29Apr2021. She adds that she was really surprised her arm didn't bother her. She says her arm didn't bother her at all with the second dose then 2 and a half weeks later her arm began aching and her shoulders began aching. The patient stayed isolated, did not thought going to the doctor's office and did not take medications. She repeats that for the second round of events the vaccine arm was also cramping and aching. She says her shoulder was aching; both sides of her shoulder were really killing her. She says the arm that was not vaccinated never bothered her. She says the vaccinated arm did, as did her shoulder, her back, her butt, and her legs were aching. She says the first shot of Pfizer was excruciatingly painful in her vaccinated arm. For the first shot 07Apr2021 she had a really sore arm. She couldn't use her arm. She couldn't lift anything; she couldn't pick up a cup. Her painful arm after the first shot lasted at least for a couple of days. She says the second round of headache started in the morning on 17May2021 at about 9:00am. She says it is ongoing and improved; she clarifies her headache just now started to improve. She says just about an hour ago, the headache started backing off. She says the second round of body aches started in morning of Monday, 17May2021, and that they are ongoing. The only thing that gives her a break is the ibuprofen. and she has been counting the hours to take it because she wants to take it every 4 hours. She says the last ibuprofen was at 8:30 this morning and she can have another one at 12:30. She confirms the body aches are improving. She says the second round of cramps started the morning of 17May2021. The cramps were ongoing until about 11:00. She was observing her body and she realized she didn't really need to take an ibuprofen, the cramps were improving. She can still feel the cramps, but it has improved. She says the two different pieces between the first round and second round of symptoms are that her hair doesn't hurt like it did with the first round, but the vaccinated arm hurts. With the second round of symptoms beginning on 17May2021, she also had trouble sleeping. She couldn't get comfortable she was getting up and down and her head was hurting. She did sleep for a few hours last night but it's not solid sleep. She would fall asleep and wake up, she couldn't get comfortable, she was moving around, getting up, and checking the time to see if she could take more Ibuprofen. Her vaccinated arm stopped bothering her yesterday, 18May2021. She explains her arm hurting is very minor at this point, she can still feel a little crampiness, but it was very minor. The patient did not visit emergency room or Physician office due to the events. The outcome of the event headache, body aches, cramping/the vaccine arm was crampy and aching was recovering, the outcome of the event hair hurt was recovered on 29Apr2021 and the outcome of other events were unknown.  Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information was expected.; Sender's Comments: Linked Report(s) : US-PFIZER INC-2021575965 Same reporter, same patient and different events