Age: 69.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Arthralgia, Magnetic resonance imaging, Pain in extremity, Product administered at inappropriate site
Clinical narrative: the healthcare provider placed it in her shoulder rather than her arm; it hits that shoulder and upper arm and the pain isn't going away; it hits that shoulder and upper arm and the pain isn't going away; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer, the patient.  A 69-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2, solution for injection), dose 2 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in arm left on 23Feb2021 between 10:30-11:30am (Batch/Lot number was not reported) as DOSE 2, SINGLE for covid-19 immunization. Vaccination Facility Type Clinic. Vaccine Administered at Facility: No. Medical history included ongoing shaking. Concomitant medication included primidone 250 mg three times a day (expiry date:13Jan2022), taken for an unspecified indication from an unspecified start date and ongoing; spironolactone taken for an unspecified indication, start and stop date were not reported. AE(s) following prior vaccinations: None. Prior Vaccinations (within 4 weeks) If applicable, list any other vaccinations within four weeks prior to the first administration date of the suspect vaccine(s): none. Additional Vaccines Administered on Same Date of the Pfizer Suspect: none. The patient got her 2nd dose of the Covid vaccine 23Feb2021 and the healthcare provider placed it in her shoulder rather than her arm. Stated she had had pain there since then and her doctor injected her with something to assist with that and the pain has decreased. Stated she still felt it if there was pressure in the area or anything like that, she had shoulder pain and she put it in her upper arm but her doctor sent her to an orthopedic doctor who said what she did was she hit a nerve, so since 23Feb2021 she had pain and just figured it would go away but she was still having the pain, they did an MRI which cost her and they gave her a shot in her shoulder where they numb it and a pain shot to do away with it and a 2nd numbing shot, sometimes they sent her for therapy and she took a couple of those and learned what to do and does the therapy at home now, she went to sleep on her right side and invariably will turn over and get on her left side and it hits that shoulder and upper arm and the pain isn't going away, she could not afford to keep going to the doctor because between the shot and MRI it's cost her nearly dollar500 and being on social security she lives with the pain. Reporter Details: Caller stated when she was 15 years old she worked in a nursing home under age. Caller stated the shoulder pain started hurting that day and she went to see her doctor first in Mar2021 and he gave her a few pain pills for it, they helped but she was not the type of person that wanted to take pain pills all the time as they make you sleepy and she won't drive when she's taken them so she usually suffers with it, that nothing she was done had really helped that sometimes it will ease up but when she gets up in the morning in the morning time that's when it's the worst until evening. States she doesn't know if therapy is helping a tiny bit, she doesn't have the pain 24/7 she probably has it about 8-10 hours a day. States those are miserable hours because when it first started bothering her if she had her arm out to the side and she wanted to lift it up to the side there where the shot was seemed like it spread into her shoulder and bothers her and she can't lift her arm out from her hip about 3 inches and now she can lift it higher, probably can get it 8-10 inches. States the pain is a hair better, when it first hit her it was horrible and now it's tolerable, it's painful. States she is hoping this is something she doesn't have to live with. Concomitant Medications: Caller stated her regular medicine for shaking, Primidone 250mg 3 times a day, it was supposed to help the shaking and did not from a car wreck, a teenager in high school was driving under the influence back in 1987 and she had the right to take a left and he ran a stop sign and came on top of her car. Caller states she started taking this years ago. Caller does not have NDC or lot to provide. Expiry date 13Jan2022. Caller states she won't have brain surgery at her age as her blood pressure goes up too high. Caller states she also takes Spironolactone. No further details provided. Caller stated she could not keep going to the orthopedic doctor as she can't afford the copay from her insurance. States she is still paying 1 bill and is the reason she stopped therapy and is doing what they showed her at home. Investigations: stated she thought she had the MRI around 9May2021 or 11May2021 or 9Jun2021 or 11Jun2021, she thought it was Jun2021. Stated they just gave her a shot in her shoulder between her arm and her shoulder blade. Caller stated with the 2nd shot when she gave it it hurt like the dickens and kept getting worse and she finally called her doctor and she can't remember if she saw him or (Withheld) the NP but they called in a prescription for pain called Tramadol 50mg and she doesn't like taking stuff like that is she is going to drive anywhere she refuses to take it. Caller states she got stung by a yellow jacket or hornet when she was grilling for her and her husband when he was alive and they were younger and she wondered how a cockle burr got up her nightgown and it stung her and she told NP she is allergic to hornets and yellow jackets, not breathing problems yet but it makes her deathly sick to her stomach. Stated she has no hard feelings or anything. Stated she gets tired of her shoulder and arm hurting other than that give her the pain in her shoulder and arm what's hard is trying to pick something up with her left arm that pain bothers her then. States it's better since the shot in the shoulder hurt like the dickens and it could have been a whole lot worse, there are people that have it a whole lot worse. States she is 70 and on the tail end of her life and that doesn't bother her, she has been to heaven before with that car wreck and she has 1 more fur baby left, all the others have passed on. She prays to God that she's got to raise her black cat and has to be alive until she's gone and then He can have her. The events resulted in physician office visit. The patient underwent lab test and procedure which included MRI on an unknown date in Jun2021 with result unknown. The outcome of the events was unknown.  Information about lot/ batch number has been requested.