Age: 64.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: FLUX, VARZOS
Symptoms: Influenza like illness, Insomnia, Pain in extremity, Poor quality sleep, Pruritus
Clinical narrative: This is a spontaneous case, reported by other non-health professional to VAERS and initially retrieved on 18-Jan-2019 by Seqirus from VAERS (VAERS ID: 779187), concerning a 64-year-old, adult, female patient. The patient's medical history included hypertension and the patient using medications for hypertension. The patient was allergic to amoxicillin and sensitive to latex. The patient's concomitant medications included metoprolol, NORVASC, escitalopram, Aspirin, multivitamins, amla, and Brewer's yeast. The patient did not have any ill conditions at the time of vaccination. On 02-Oct-2018, the patient was administered INN Flu Vaccine Seasonal [route of administration: intramuscular, anatomical location: right arm, dose, batch number and expiry date: not reported] for influenza immunisation. The patient was also administered non-company suspect vaccine SHINGRIX [route of administration: intramuscular, anatomical location: left arm, dose, batch number and expiry date: not reported] for immunisation. On the same day (02-Oct-2018), after vaccination, the patient was experienced Pain in arm, fever, chills and patient changed pajamas because of too much sweating. The patient also felt flu like aches and slept very badly and napped the next day. On 04-Oct-2018 (reported as Thursday evening) patient felt better and on 05-Oct-2018 patient prepared for a trip to cabin at state park and felt very tired. The patient took oatmeal as breakfast, then stomach started hurting, acid, not able to burp and experienced constipation. On 05-Oct-2018 (reported as by night) the patient felt like stomach is going to burst (pain level 8). On 05-Oct-2018 the patient started yoga poses, walking, drank a lot of water tried TUMS and patient was unable to sleep or eat. On an unspecified date patient started puking about 3:00 am and did not felt better and experienced diarrhea. On 09-Oct-2018 (reported as Tuesday) the patient got headache and took pain pills and got relief, patient also started taking ZANTAC and it started helping stomach but still sore stomach through the week and patient got fever back on 14-Oct-2018 (reported as Sunday). On 14-Oct-2018 (reported as Sunday night) patient got rash on forehead and around left eye, next day patient visited physician clinic and physician said it didn't look like a zoster rash and advised to call pustules formed. Following next day patient made a call to physician office and reported that rash is spreading and pustules visible and Itchy. The patient also felt that don't want the rash to invade the patient eye. The outcome of the events was reported as unknown. The reporter assessed this case as non-serious. Reporter's Comments: A 64-year-old female patient experienced pain in arm, fever, chills, sweating, aches and sleep disorder, same day after vaccination with INN Flu Vaccine Seasonal and co-suspect vaccine SHINGRIX. After three days patient experienced tiredness, gastrooesophageal sphincter insufficiency, gastrooesophageal reflux disease, stomach pain, diarrhea, constipation and vomiting. After 7 days patient experienced headache. After 12 days patient experienced rash on face. After 13 days patient experienced pustular rash. After 14 days patient experienced itchy. The company assessed the causality of the events as related considering the plausible temporal relationship between the events and the suspect vaccine.