Age: 68.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Illness, Investigation, Nausea, Pain, Pyrexia
Clinical narrative: Headache; Nausea; Vomiting/she was falling down in the bathroom throwing up.; Extremely dizzy; Body aches; Low grade fever; Fatigue; Very sick; Taste is unusual; Loss of smell; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 68-years-old female patient received first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Solution for injection, Batch/Lot Number: PAA156051), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in left arm on 25Jan2021 12:30 (at the age of 68-years) as DOSE 1, SINGLE for covid-19 immunisation. The patient medical history was none. There were no concomitant medications. The patient previously received flu shot in last Sep2020 for immunization. It was reported that patient's taste was unusual after the vaccine. Patient used a lot of homeopathic things to bump her immune system. Especially when she travels. Patient took vitamin C and a lot of other immune boosters. Patient took homeopathic and naturopathic things. On 28Jan2021 Thursday, by the day four of vaccination, the patient lost taste and smell. Patient was very sick on Friday (29Jan2021). On day 5 she started with everything. On 29Jan2021, the patient was falling down in the bathroom throwing up and had a headache, nausea, and vomiting. She was extremely dizzy. She did not know if her taste was still gone or not at that point. She had body aches and a low grade fever. She also had fatigue. It just kept getting worse. By Saturday 30Jan2021, she realized her taste was back. She had a lot of symptoms, but they were more manageable. On Saturday she was not that sick or dizzy. The patient had a portal appointment with her doctor on 30Jan2021. Her doctor wanted her to get a COVID test since she couldn't smell. On 31Jan2021, Sunday, most had resolved except dizziness. She had her taste back by then. On Monday, 01Feb2021, she tried to get a COVID test. She had no symptoms 20Feb2021- 03Feb2021. On 04Feb2021, in the evening, the patient lost her taste and smell again and couldn't smell sauerkraut and pork chops. On 05Feb2021, she had all the same symptoms again and experienced headache, nausea, vomiting, and crazy dizziness. Her taste was probably back. When it was really bad, she was not eating because she could not keep anything down. She noticed it back again on this Sunday. She won't throw up if she doesn't eat too much. She was still very dizzy. So she tried not to bend over and get the dog food, and that kind of stuff. She still had nausea, and dizziness left. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included IGG antibody test unknown result on unspecified date, COVID-19 PCR test: negative, COVID-19 rapid POC test: negative and Flu test A/B: negative on 05Feb2021. On the 05Feb2021 when she had the reactions somebody took her to urgent care. At urgent care, they tested her for flu A/B and rapid COVID. AE(s) require a visit to emergency room and Physician Office. The outcome of taste is unusual, loss of smell, recovered on unspecified date 2021, headache, nausea, vomiting, extremely dizzy was recovering and fatigue, very sick was not recovered and body aches, low grade fever recovered on 07Feb2021.  Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.