Age: 57.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Fatigue, Insomnia, Nerve injury
Clinical narrative: nerve damage; she didnt sleep; Fatigue; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 57-year-old female patient received her first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, lot number: EK9231), via an unspecified route of administration in left arm on 20Jan2021 at single dose for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included acid reflux which was under control. She has been good for last 2 months. Two years ago (2019), she did have her polyps removed from uterine wall, it was done as outpatient but they still put her to sleep, but it had took her 2 weeks to get over the reaction of being put to sleep, it was the anesthesia, it wasn't pain, but she was very tired and groggy after. She has had no positive antibody or COVID test prior to the vaccine. Concomitant medication included famotidine (PEPCID) for acid reflux. The patient previously took flu vaccine. She was getting flu shot every year with no issue. She had a previous reaction to anesthesia (unspecified) which include feeling tired ang groggy. The patient had a weird, not the usual reactions, like she had read about. On 20Jan2021, she experienced fatigue, achy pain, and shoulder and joint pain. She even went to the doctor yesterday because of it. She was told she has nerve damage from the shot and a high immune response to the shot, which was a good thing, but her question was if she should take the second shot. The nerve damage started on 20Jan2021 at 10:00 that night causing shoulder pain, back pain, and lower back pain; because of it, she was not able to sleep. She only slept for 3 hours on Thursday night. She is a teacher and even had to miss school on Friday. It was just a constant dull aching pain. She was groggy. Some symptoms were typical. She never ran a fever, the pain in her shoulder went to the arms, back across to the front of the chest, she could follow it with her hand, it was achy all on the left side. She went to the doctor and said it was nerve damage. When she got the actual shot, she felt nothing, she couldn't even feel it from nurse, it did not hurt. It was not going away. The patient spoke with her friend, and her friend told her that it sounds like what she was experiencing or how she was responding was as if she has the COVID virus. Then, she was diagnosed with nerve damage by a healthcare professional. Her first dose was on 20Jan2021, the nerve damage symptoms began that same night. She was schedule for the second dose on 10Feb2021. She further reported that the symptoms were ongoing, but it was better. Her lower back pain was gone. Now, it was just localized to her shoulder, upper back, and across the chest. The patient was not taking any new medicine. She actually read to not even take TYLENOL OR ADVIL 2 days prior as it can lessen the effectiveness of the vaccine. That was why she didn't take TYLENOL until Friday afternoon on 22Jan2021. She toughed it out for 2 days. The doctor told her she could take ADVIL right now. The healthcare professional did not do any test, she really just left the office hoping that it would resolve on its own. The outcome of the event nerve damage was recovering and unknown for all other events.   Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.