Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Acoustic stimulation tests, Pain in extremity, Sciatica, Tinnitus
Clinical narrative: had constant pain in her right arm; sciatica; tinnitus; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Nurse) from medical information team, Program ID:  The reporter is the patient.  A 66-year-old female patient received BNT162b2 (BNT162B2), on 22Dec2020 as dose 1, single (Lot number: EK5730), in right arm for covid-19 immunization. The patient's relevant medical history included: "mild hearing loss" (unspecified if ongoing); "sedative" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: Concomitant medication(s) included: CLONAZEPAM taken for sedative therapy; PROZAC; XANAX. The following information was reported: TINNITUS (non-serious) with onset 27Dec2020, outcome "not recovered"; PAIN IN EXTREMITY (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "had constant pain in her right arm"; SCIATICA (non-serious), outcome "unknown". Relevant laboratory tests and procedures are available in the appropriate section. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of pain in extremity, tinnitus.  Additional information: Reporter states that she experienced tinnitus after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. "I had a side effect with chronic tinnitus after receiving the 2 injections. The first one was in Dec2020 and the second one in Jan2021". "Now I basically have been suffering from chronic tinnitus for 1.5 years". "Then I got the second shot and it still was going on. She actually got the Pfizer COVID shot herself and she had a ring in her ear." She clarified that she developed tinnitus after her first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine. She additionally clarified that she had mild hearing loss prior to any dose of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine. Second dose administered on 12Jan2021 Lot: EL0142 NDC/Expiry: Unknown, not on the vaccine record card. Dose: Unknown strength/volume/dose might have been 0.5 cc to right arm. She got both doses in the right arm because she has problems sleeping on her left side because she has sciatica on the right. Everything that seemed to have happened to her from receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine injection seems like it's on the right side of her body. She had constant pain in her right arm. She went to the Rheumatologist and he gave her a steroid shot and it didn't do anything. They gave her steroids hoping it would help with the tinnitus and it didn't help. She is just now recovering from COVID, she ended up getting COVID and she is not, and she would not take the booster shot because of the problems that she had. Right now she has finished the last of the Pfizer anti inflammatory packet which she then reported as she just took the last dose of the Pfizer antiviral medicine, the 5 day pack of the antiviral they give you. She felt better once she started taking the medication because at first she was having really bad headaches and she was sweating and had problems with one day she had it from both ways: the diarrhea and the vomiting at the same time. COVID a little disabling, interferes with her taking a nap or rest or concentrate at times as far as reading. Every now and then she has a day it's not loud, it's mild but for the most part she hears; right now while talking to this agent she has a static in her ear; sometimes a combination of 2 or 3 sounds at one time; sometimes; most of the majority of the time the static is there; then the other sound she hears is hissing; and the third sound she hears is ringing. She was having a sizzling sound that scared her in her frontal lobe. That hissing sound in the frontal lobe stopped. It is somewhat disabling as she is not able to concentrate the way that she wants to, to read. She tends to, if she has a bad day, and today is a bad day, she has to force herself to stay up past 9 o'clock because she is taking a sedative Clonazepam. She was already on Clonazepam but was in the process of reducing the dose and had planned on stopping it; but then she had the, she takes Prozac, Clonazepam and Xanax; so now that she actually has COVID and is taking that antiviral kit she can't take anything except for the Prozac. Regarding concomitant products and other medical conditions she explained she has various medical conditions, but she never suffered from tinnitus and as a nurse she didn't know when she saw on some of her patients active profile that had been in the service when they said tinnitus, she thought they just have occasional ringing in their ear; and most people, she talked to a Vet and he said that's why he always has the ear listen to music water sound. Until it happened to her she did not understand. Slightly disjointed information captured as provided by reporter. When she first started she went to see the ENT nurse practitioner and had a hearing test. They said when she called in and complained about the tinnitus that she had to have a hearing test first, then see the nurse practitioner for the tinnitus. The hearing test showed that she had mild hearing loss in her right ear. She had noticed that 2 years prior to that between 2018 and 2019. She listened to audio books and used the ear buds, then she noticed that her hearing was sharper in her left ear than her right ear. It was misconstrued as to what she said; she said people found out that hearing loss and tinnitus go hand in hand so to speak. So the audiologist apparently mistakenly wrote that she had tinnitus for 2 years; she did not say that; she had the mild hearing loss for 2 years. The nurse practitioner ordered the MRI and a blood test for the MRI and the MRI came back normal. The tinnitus got really bad one day at work so she called and talked to a doctor and he said that maybe she could get a steroid shot in the ear. Because of that she called and scheduled an appointment to see the ENT nurse practitioner for the second time and so she asked the ENT nurse practitioner about a steroid shot and the ENT nurse practitioner flipped out on her. The ENT nurse practitioner told her that she had been suffering from tinnitus for 2 years. Patient told her no she had not.  No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.