Age: 74.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Insomnia, Nausea, Neck pain, Pain in extremity, Tinnitus
Clinical narrative: The ringing in my ear is just depressing me.; Nausea; Has trouble sleeping/she is not sleeping well; Feel weird; Headaches; Gained weight; Felt extremely fatigued; Arm was a little sore; Neck pain around the right side; Tinnitus; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer.A 74-years-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), dose 2 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 26Mar2021 (Batch/Lot Number: ER2613) as 2ND DOSE, SINGLE DOSE for covid-19 immunisation. She has had adrenal insufficiency and took steroids for that for quite some time. On Nov2018 she weened off of steroids after being on them for a long time, and her adrenals kicked in. She has been totally off of steroids since then. Every 6 months she gets her cortisol and ACTH tested which is related to the adrenals, and everything is perfect. Her adrenal insufficiency was probably stress related. Her husband, the woman that raised her, and her dog all died within a year in 2002 or 2003, plus she was holding down and job and flying back and forth taking care of her aunt. They thought she had it for longer than she had symptoms. It started in 2004 or 2005. There were no concomitant medications. Patient previously received the first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE,lot: EN6199) on 03Mar2021 in her left arm for covid-19 immunization and experienced tinnitus.She developed tinnitus after receiving the vaccine. She feels nausea and has trouble sleeping because of that. They are all complaining of ringing in the ear. It is just not Pfizer but Moderna vaccine as well.she received the injection in the left arm. she developed a neck pain around the right side. The neck pain started around the same time as I received my vaccine. she feel nauseous. She just feel weird when she get up. It is quite bothersome and affecting my life. She would be incredible difficult to live like this. She  feel out of center. The ringing in her ear is just depressing me. She can not believe something like this could happened to her.  The intensity is not minimal. She was trying to have an optimist view she thought it will go away but it did not. She felt extremely fatigued on 27Mar2021 with outcome of recovering, arm was a little sore on 26Mar2021 with outcome of unknown , gained weight on an unspecified date with outcome of unknown. She is fairly new to her area. She had an appointment with her physician yesterday, and she did ask if there were any complaints of tinnitus. Her physician answered in the negative, but she had received a complaint of rectal bleeding. She told her physician that her tinnitus was really bothering her. Her physician looked in her ears, nose, and throat, and it did not seem to be allergy related. She was hoping it would be allergies so she could take Allegra and it would go away. She has no email available for her physician. When she lived in (withheld) all of the doctors were in contact through email. Here it seems it is just phone and fax for everything.Second dose Extremely fatigued: She had no other side effects except for the second day after the second dose she felt extremely fatigued and that was it. The second day she noticed the fatigue was more pronounced. Second dose Terrible Tinnitus: Now it is into June, and she wanted to wait until she was sure there was something really going on. She was taking Benadryl, but all it did was make her sleepy. Her sister in law told her to try one of the allergy medications, she can not remember what it was. She only took it once or twice and it did not do anything. It said on the allergy medication package that it relieves symptoms within 24 hours, but it was 48 hours and she had no relief. She does not take the Benadryl any longer. Benadryl lot: LAL0002, expiration date: Dec2022.Second dose Extremely fatigued: Then she woke up and her ears were ringing and she was tired. She thought what is going on here. She slept on and off that Saturday which would have been 27Mar2021 and then it just continued. Every now and then she still feels fatigued. It is pretty typical for her, she is not exercising like she should.  The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included blood corticotrophin: everything is perfect   on   Every 6 months she gets her cortisol and ACTH tested which is related to the adrenals, and everything is perfect.  Therapeutic measures as Benadryl were taken as a result of tinnitus .Outcome of Felt extremely fatigued was recovering, outcome of Tinnitus was not recovered, for remaining events was unknown.