Age: 66.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Generalised tonic-clonic seizure
Clinical narrative: Had 2 seizures; Had 2 seizures; Tongue hurts; it was an allergic reaction; Patient reported that next the day her arm was so hot that she could have roasted a weenie over her arm and it was very swollen; Patient reported that next the day her arm was so hot; got shingles again after receiving the vaccination; got shingles again after receiving the vaccination; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient's husband). A 66-year-old female patient received first dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, solution for injection, lot: EN6202), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in left arm on 12Mar2021 10:30 (at the age of 66-years-old) as single dose for covid-19 immunisation. The patient was not pregnant at the time of vaccination. The vaccination facility type was a health clinic. The vaccine was not administered at a facility. The patient had no additional administered vaccines. No prior vaccinations (within 4 weeks). Medical history included ongoing seizures from 1982 (began shortly after she had the surgery for her brain aneurysm (in 1982 to 1982). The patient had not had any seizure activity for 20 years before the seizures that occurred on 13Mar2021. Sometimes electrical activity in the brain hits the metal clamp used to treat the brain aneurysm and that triggers the seizures); migraines (suffered from migraines when she was younger but hasn't had one in umpteen years. The patient gets tension headaches like most people but not very often); shingles (patient had shingles three times. Patient's first case of shingles was in the early 1990's and that patient had recurrences in the mid 1990's and the early 2000's. The first incidence was the worst and that the second and third occurrences weren't nearly as bad as the first); blood pressure high; ongoing cholesterol; ongoing headache (tension headaches) and was adopted. Family history included migraines with grandkids, a couple of them had migraines and had MRI's she'd had a sister that was 6 years older than her that had died of a brain aneurysm. Concomitant medications included levetiracetam (KEPPRA) for seizures from an unspecified date (in the late 90's) to an unspecified date then from Mar2021 and ongoing; nadolol for headache from 2001 and ongoing; lovastatin for cholesterol from an unspecified date (been on it for a long time) and ongoing and on a low dose of medication for high blood. The patient had the Pfizer vaccine first shot on Friday (12Mar2021). The husband stated his wife (patient) had a possible side effect to the vaccine shot and was concerned with getting the second dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine. She had 2 seizures the next morning after the shot (on 13Mar2021) which she hasn't had in 20 years. The patient experienced her first seizure about 11:00 on 13Mar2021. It took the patient about 45 minutes to come out of the first one completely, until she was conscious again. The second seizure occurred about 13:00 on 13Mar2021, about an hour and a half after the patient recovered from the first seizure. fter the second seizure, the fire department was called and she was transported to the Emergency Room. The doctor told the husband that it was up to them if they wanted to receive the second dose. The husband stated, "I know there is something out there that I heard about where you can disqualify yourself from getting the vaccine for medical reasons." Also on 13Mar2021, the patient's tongue hurts in the Emergency Room, no one was willing to give her a new tongue after she bit it. The patient's tongue was what hurt's the most, but that it was slowly healing. The patient seemed to be fine since Saturday. he patient's father was really persistent about them getting the Covid-19 vaccinations. A CT scan and blood work were performed while she was in the Emergency Room on 13Mar2021 and reported that everything was fine. The patient went to the emergency room on 13Mar2021 and physician office on 17Mar2021 as a result of the seizure activity on 13Mar2021. On 17Mar2021, the patient's blood pressure was 130/82 with blood work with result of everything was fine. The patient went to her physician on 17Mar2021 due to concern about getting the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. When asked about prior vaccinations within 4 weeks of the Covid-19 vaccine, the patient stated that she didn't want to get the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine because she's never even had the flu shot. The patient stated that back in 1977 when they first came out with the flu shot, she was unable to receive the vaccine as she was pregnant and she has never gotten the flu. The patient reported that she was unable to get MRIs due to the metal clamp in her. Patient reported that the clamp in her head was metal, not surgical metal, and that she has to be very careful because getting an MRI could kill her. The patient reported that next the day (in Mar2021) her arm was so hot that she could have roasted a weenie over her arm and it was very swollen. The patient reported that she went to urgent care and was told that it was an allergic reaction. The patient also reported that she got shingles again after receiving the vaccination. The husband considered the case as non-serious. The patient recovered from seizure with associated disease recurrence on 13Mar2021; for tongue pain was recovering while for the remaining events was unknown.