Age: 66.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Bell's palsy, Blood test normal, Computerised tomogram normal, Electrocardiogram normal, Laboratory test abnormal
Clinical narrative: fever blisters; ear ache; stress; 2nd dose of the Pfizer Covid vaccine on 02Mar2021 and on 24Apr2021 she went to the emergency room with Bell's Palsy; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient) via a Pfizer-sponsored program. A currently 67-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in the left arm on 02Mar2021 16:00 (also reported as 16:30) (Batch/Lot Number: Unknown) as 2nd dose, single dose (at the age of 66-years-old) for COVID-19 immunisation. Medical history included bell's palsy from 07Jan2015; and an unspecified risk factor. The patient had no concomitant medications. The patient did not have any prior vaccinations within 4 weeks. The patient did not have family medical history that was relevant to adverse events and no relevant tests were done. The patient previously took shingles vaccine (Merck) that started with the letter 'Z' and had Bell's Palsy in Jan2015 which was exactly 6 weeks after she got a shingles vaccine; tetanus vaccines 10 years ago as a booster and experienced severe swelling on her arm, swelling in her body; Quadravalent flu vaccine and never had a reaction to the flu vaccines; and the first dose of BNT162B2 (reported as 'Pfizer COVID') for COVID-19 immunisation on 02Feb2021 in the left arm. On 24Apr2021, the patient experienced bell's palsy. On unspecified dates, the patient experienced fever blisters, ear ache and stress. The events were reported as follows: Her HCP should have the information on the shingles vaccine she got in 2015. When she had bell's palsy the 1st time in 2015, she had to go to the hospital for a day and a half to rule out everything and the best they found was that she had herpes simplex based on the blood work done at that time and it was what her HCP believed it was at that because it showed she had some kind of virus but neither time she had bell's palsy did she have seizure or other symptoms other than the ear ache she had this time. The patient got the second dose of the vaccine on 02Mar2021 and on 24Apr2021 she went to the emergency room with Bell's palsy. She can talk better when she holds her mouth. She was out of town when she noticed the symptoms of bell's palsy the night before on 24Apr2021 and when she got home she then went to the emergency room on 25Apr2021; she could tell something was happening again and it was noticeable and she had an ear ache the day before and her face was drooping. The HCPs swear there was no correlation between the vaccine and bell's palsy but she found this very coincidental. The patient stated that she would rather get bell's palsy again than get covid. For treatment, the only thing she has done was to call the HCP to schedule the follow-up visit as directed by the emergency room (ER) HCP; she went to the ER to rule out stroke and they did rule out stroke; states the only other thing she can think of is that she had quite a bit of stress because they put down her dog on Sunday and other than that she had an ear ache at her granddaughter's track meet on the day before on 24Apr2021 and the emergency room visit was on 25Apr2021. She has had recurrent fever blisters and her HCP has given her a prescription for Valcyclovir and she takes that at the onset of fever blisters and where she gets the fever blisters is constantly on the previous side where she had bell's palsy and was in the same spot on her left side of her lip. States the Valcyclovir she has was one gram tablets and she takes one when she has a fever blister and one 12 hours later; states she has two prescriptions for the Valcyclovir and they are in orange pharmacy bottles with no lot numbers, expiry dates and NDC numbers and the other prescription for Valcyclovir is also 1 gram and she takes it three times per day now after this outbreak. The patient required a visit to the ER or medical doctor office. The outcome of the events was unknown.