Age: 53.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Headache, Hypersensitivity, Inflammation, Intervertebral disc annular tear, Magnetic resonance imaging head
Clinical narrative: tiredness; back became inflamed.inflammation in her lower spine; lower back pain; annular fissures; tingling sensation; allergic reaction to the second one; she did the 2nd dose of the Pfizer COVID Vaccine in her right thigh; face got swollen; felt dizziness; headaches; had a half an apple sized swelling in her leg for a couple of days; left side arm was weak; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 53-year-old female patient received a BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, solution for injection, Batch/Lot Number: EP7533), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Right thigh on 02Apr2021 10:30am (at the age of 53 years) as 2nd dose, single dose for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included brain surgery on an unspecified date in 2014 to an unknown date, facial reconstruction on an unspecified date in 2015 to an unknown date, vestibular condition from an unknown date and unknown if ongoing, muscle flap operation on an unspecified date in 2015 (Transfer from her thigh in 2015 for her left cheek so her face after brain surgery. Patient had Gracilis free flap of her right thigh and had a new cheek and had calf nerves grow back). Concomitant medications were not reported. Historical vaccine included first dose of BNT162B2 (Lot: EN6208) on 12Mar2021 10:30am for covid-19 immunisation and experienced dizziness, headaches, left arm, it was swollen, bell's palsy, tingly feelings, tiredness and slurring of speech. The report received as, the patient 1st dose of the Pfizer COVID Vaccine was at 10:30am on 12Mar2021 and the 2nd dose was at 10:30am on 02Apr2021. The patient had brain surgery which saved her life, the HCP said maybe patient should rethink going for the 2nd dose of the Pfizer COVID Vaccine; patient followed up with neurologist and everybody weighed in the benefits outweigh the risk and patient was got the 2nd dose. The patient states she was one of those people who had an allergic reaction to Pfizer, she had both doses. Patient states after a while, the doctor said yes the caller may want to consider getting the second dose. The patient states the benefits outweighed the risk, but the other recommendation, which was brilliant, they said get it in her leg, she did have an allergic reaction to the second one, but not same way. The patient did the 2nd dose of the Pfizer COVID Vaccine in her right thigh and had inflammation in her lower spine after that; Caller states it was the characteristic tiredness. The patient how the shot feels like a shot in the arm or a horse kicked you, states she feels like the Pfizer COVID vaccine felt like a shot in the arm but never felt that pain and had swelling and had a half an apple sized swelling in her leg for a couple of days; The patient also did not feel the face drooping because the 2nd dose of the vaccine was done in her leg. The patient started to get really bad lower back pain and went to the HCP and was maybe sitting down too much; The patient does not have proper posture sometimes and does not want to stand. The patient saw a holistic HCP which is a chiropractor, and that HCP did not touch her spine; The patient saw that HCP on 14Apr2021, and she was diagnosed with annular fissures and they thought patient had a slipped bulging disc and never had that before but had a tingling sensation and they said to take a few weeks to recover. The second time Pfizer COVID vaccine targets places that are weak and that is the weak part in her body regarding her spine. Tthough she went a week and a half later, she thought it was too much zoom fatigue, but the doctor said it sounds like annular fissures. The patient keeps seeing her HCP and has recovered and has to say as soon as they said this is probably related because patient thought the he patient left side arm was weak and the weak side of the face that was where the transfer of nerves was and that had gotten swollen and did not work, she felt dizziness, headaches, she knew what to expect, but she got worried when she was getting a little bit more droopier than usual. The patient was fine and would say patient was better and thinks patient was completely recovered and from time to time still just feels a little tingling still and did not have that before; States because of her brain surgery, the neurologist said patient can tingle independently and does not normally tingle in that area but the patient was better and 90 percent better; The HCP said to give 12 weeks to recover and will see her again next week and sees the HCP every 2-3 weeks, so this was minor. Said they needed the discs to get fluid in them, so they are healing; The neurologist was thinking of those people that as we all learn to live alongside covid she does things to avoid exposure to covid. States the HCP told her if she gets the live version of the covid virus due to how she reacted to the vaccine how would it protect her and obviously it protects her but could give her bells palsy again. The patient back was inflamed, fortunately, there was no slipped disc or bulging discs, it was just annular fissures. It was locally the right thigh, lower back, left arm, left side of the face and it's kind of thematically, spatially related. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included blood glucose; computerised tomogram; magnetic resonance imaging head all were normal on an unspecified date. Outcome of the events was unknown.