Age: 67.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Chills, Feeling cold, Hypoaesthesia, Influenza like illness, Musculoskeletal stiffness
Clinical narrative: chills/ shivering; feeling cold to the bone with tightness in her legs; feeling cold to the bone with tightness in her legs; her legs have numbing feeling and it is both legs; left leg on the outer part is tender and started right when the band on her left leg started; Flu like symptoms; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team. The reporter is the patient.  A 67 year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), administered in arm right, administration date 05Mar2021 (Lot number: EN6205) at the age of 67 years as dose 1, single for covid-19 immunisation. Relevant medical history included: "Diabetes" (ongoing), notes: takes insulin and has not had problems with that. States she has been diabetic for 20-25 years. The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. The following information was reported: CHILLS (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "chills/ shivering"; FEELING COLD (non-serious), MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS (non-serious), outcome "unknown" and all described as "feeling cold to the bone with tightness in her legs"; INFLUENZA LIKE ILLNESS (non-serious) with onset 08Mar2021, outcome "recovered" (09Mar2021), described as "Flu like symptoms"; HYPOAESTHESIA (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "her legs have numbing feeling and it is both legs"; TENDERNESS (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "left leg on the outer part is tender and started right when the band on her left leg started".  Additional information: Patient reported having chills, shivering and feeling cold to the bone with tightness in her legs after receiving her first vaccine dose. She asked, was this normal and how long should it last. Around her ankles of her feet and legs felt like a tight band was on them real tight and her legs had numbing feeling and it was both legs. The patient was eligible for her 2nd dose 26Mar2021 and she didn't get the 2nd dose. Patient stated she was having side effects to the Pfizer vaccine and was waiting because she thought it would go away. Stated most people say it lasts a couple days and goes away and it hadn't. She wanted to report this and she got a number to call in to do that. Patient relays she only got her 1st dose, and where she got the 1st dose she was going to talk with them when they do the 2nd dose because she had to listen to this disclaimer and they gave phone numbers and she wrote them down. After a couple days she had to find the numbers they had given her and call. Stated she didn't want to call her primary care provider and thought, hey, she better figure out what was going on. She had been on hold for over an hour to talk to someone and there were 19 people ahead of her and she had been on here desperate. Stated she didn't have another hour to hold. Patient stated maybe she should have went to the ER because she was calling for help. She was looking to see if these symptoms had been reported and what to do and see if this is serious. Patient  took the vaccine 05Mar2021 and 3 days later on 08Mar2021 she felt flu like symptoms. Stated lots of people had said they had these. Stated she was cold and covered up, the flu like symptoms left, but she was cold all of the time and she had cold to the bone with flu like symptoms. The flu like symptoms had left, but she had a chill all the time. Caller clarifies that she had cold all the time, that the weather is in the 60's and she had still cold and she had a winter coat on with it buttoned up and tied. Stated the cold was like a chill that goes straight through her bones. States the flu like symptoms stopped the next day and she was so happy someone had told her they would. She got under the blanket and covered up and started watching TV and it lasted a day and left but she was still having shivering. Caller relays that she is inside and is still shivering, that she is cold and it doesn't matter the temperature of the weather, she is still cold. She feels it is basically the same as when it started, that she does have breaks, like she was inside now and had a little shivers but not the coldness but it will hit her again and she will get little breaks. Stated it was her 1st dose. Caller thought she got the vaccine at 4:45 but was not sure it was around there. She kept trying to get another time and they gave her a different time. She knows it was something 45 but was not sure about what hour. Stated she got it in the right arm shoulder area. Caller relays that she was told through email that she had 42 to get the next dose and she was sure it was. Stated when she called she didn't get the 2nd vaccine and they also told her she had up to 42 days to get the 2nd vaccine. She was eligible for her 2nd dose 26Mar2021 and she didn't get the 2nd dose and had not been able to schedule it. She tried to go somewhere else and was told they couldn't give her the 2nd dose she has to go back to original site to get it. She couldn't get an appointment at the first place and when she went they were giving something else that was different and that was the day she was eligible, not the day she was scheduled to get it. she was waiting to get contacted for the 2nd dose. Stated the other place said they wouldn't do it, that they give their patients the first dose and a date and time to return for the second dose and the place she got her 1st dose did not do that. Stated she was sad about the run around and is about to say forget it. She did not understand how if she went somewhere else and she went through the county how are they behind. She did contact the county site and they said they were just hosting and have nothing to do with scheduling. She did also contact the county. she had not contacted her primary care provider.  She was told to contact Pfizer and was given numbers to here. Stated she was put off because she will call and say hey I got a side effect or problem. Stated this doctor who is new and her retired doctor who was a good guy had not done this but her diabetic doctor will say the problem doesn't come from medication so she never goes and tells them anything anymore. she will text her doctor after the report and let him know she made a report and see what he wants her to do. she had one more side effect she wanted to mention. This one started a couple weeks ago, about a week after the chill things. Stated around her ankles of her feet and legs feels like a tight band is on them real tight and her legs have numbing feeling and it was both legs. it was like a band, a tight band on them and up to her lower part of her knee if numb. Her left leg on the outer part is tender and started right when the band on her left leg started. Stated it first felt better and loosened up, she thought it was her socks as she had been out and took off the socks and the next day it was still there so it wasn't the socks. The band had loosened a little and the outer part of her leg is tender to touch. She paid more attention to the left leg band as it felt tighter. Stated it was persisting and the tenderness is concerning, the tightness was loosened a little but she feels it when she moves her feet, but it is not as tight. Relays that it is tight like someone pulling something. Time the Vaccination Was Given: Caller thinks she got the vaccine at 16:45 but was not sure it was around there. States she kept trying to get another time and they gave her a different time. she known it was something 45 but isn't sure about what hour. No Vaccine Administered at Military Facility.No Additional Vaccines Administered on Same Date of the Pfizer Suspect. No Emergency Room. No Physician Office.  Stated she will call her doctor or email him and let him know and what was going on after she speaks with USMI. No AE(s) following prior vaccinations. Patient did not received any other vaccines within 4 weeks prior to the COVID vaccine.  Patient stated what concerns her is yesterday she went to her sons job and was talking to a lady and told her she was so cold to the bone and the lady she told said oh my God, another lady shared that she got the 2nd vaccine and she was so cold and the caller thought wow, this must be connected. States if it was not connected she wants to get ahead of it to see if she needs x-rays and to maybe call her doctor because she couldn't deal with the cold at all, that she is a cold person anyway and couldn't deal with it. Patient declines to make a report on behalf of this lady as she did not know her or anything about her. Stated she took it because everyone was encouraging her she should take and she didn't like needles and didn't want that is one of the reasons. The patient did not underwent the Relevant laboratory tests.  No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.