Age: 89.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Arthralgia, Hypoaesthesia, Pain in extremity
Clinical narrative: numbness/ his right hand has gotten very numb at times; Began to hurt in his left hip; hand hurts; This is a spontaneous report from a Pfizer-sponsored program. A contactable male consumer reporting for himself. An 89-years old male patient received the first dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID - 19 VACCINE, Solution for injection, Batch/lot number: EK9231, Expiration date: Not reported), via an unspecified route of administration in right arm on 09Jan2021 (at the age of 89-years old) as single dose for COVID-19 immunization. The patient medical history included left knee replacement in 2005, left hip replacement in 2006, and right hip replacement in 2012. His unspecified medications had not changed in a couple of years. The patient received the second dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID - 19 VACCINE, Solution for injection, Batch/lot number: EL9265, Expiration date: Not reported), via an unspecified route of administration in right arm on 30Jan2021 as single dose for covid-19 immunization. In mid Jan2021, the patient experienced "right hand has gotten very numb at times", " hand hurts" and "began to hurt in his left hip". The patient stated that he was not sure if he had been having a side effect from the Covid vaccine or not, but he got both doses on 09Jan2021 and 30Jan2021, respectively, both in his right arm. Since receiving the vaccine, he has had numbness in his hand mostly at night and if he raises it, it gets worse. He wanted to know if anyone else had reported this or not. The patient stated he did not think he had any problems with the Pfizer vaccine doses, but now he was going back, and he thought that maybe something triggered a problem that he was having. Both shots were administered into his right arm. After the first shot, his right hand had gotten very numb at times. The patient inquired whether anyone else had reported the same symptoms. He thought that this might or might not be related to the vaccine, or it could be something else, but he was not sure. The patient stated that his symptoms started after the first shot. He stated that he did not realize it at that time, but upon thinking back, he thought it could have been from the shot. He mentioned that he was 89 years old and would be 90 years old soon. He had his left knee replaced in 2005, left hip in 2006 and his right hip in 2012. Two weeks prior, his left leg, when sitting down at the table for breakfast, began to hurt in his left hip. He said this had been happening since then. He stated that for some reason, today it was not hurting at all. He hoped that it had resolved itself. He stated that all of his symptoms started in mid Jan2021. The patient was unsure if he had shrunk at all. He was not sure of the specific start dates of his symptoms. He just knew it started after the first dose, sometime in mid Jan2021. He did not make any correlation between the two at first. He took it as something was just wrong with his hand. He started that it happens more at night, when he is sleeping. If he wakes up the hand hurts and is numb. The worst phase was 2 weeks prior. Since then, it had started to improve. Regarding his "left hip hurting", he was unsure if it was still ongoing or what the outcome was. He knew that this morning it had not bothered him at all. The patient did not undergo any investigation or assessment. The outcome of the event right hand has gotten very numb at times and left hip hurt was recovered on an unspecified date in 2021. The outcome of the event hand hurts was recovering.  Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.