Age: 54.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Arthralgia, Back pain, Burning sensation, Gait disturbance, Gait inability
Clinical narrative: sore shoulder; I can hardly walk; Muscle cramps in calf; Muscles sore; All of a sudden she couldn't walk; Burning and hurting in her shoulders; hurting in my back, my neck and my shoulders.; hurting in my back, my neck and my shoulders.; Bulging discs in neck and lower lumbar; Burning sore shoulders; first got sick and threw up; felt a faint headache; This is a spontaneous report received from a contactable consumer (patient). A 54-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Lot Number: EW0162), via an unspecified route of administration on arm left on 17Apr2021 at 11:30 (at the age of 54-years-old) as dose 1, single for COVID-19 immunization at hospital. The patient's medical history included Acid reflux like GERD maybe 4-5 years ago; she knows she has been on medicine for this for that long: 4-5 years and ongoing, seasonal things Allergies: to some medicines, seasonal things, dogs, cats and sheep. She has an Epi-pen in case she is around any of those things. Had bad knee, had these allergies for a few years now and ongoing, bad knee and takes Meloxicam every now and then at night because of bad knee. Patient had faint headache before taking dose 1. Concomitant medication included Meloxicam taken for bad knee. The patient did not receive any other vaccines within 4 weeks prior to the COVID vaccine. on 17apr2021, the patient experienced first got sick and threw up and felt a faint headache, on 18Apr2021 the patient experienced burning sore shoulders , on 03May2021 the patient experienced hurting in her back, her neck and her shoulders, bulging discs in neck and lower lumbar, all of a sudden she couldn't walk, burning and hurting in her shoulders, on an unknown date the patient experienced sore shoulder, she can hardly walk, muscle cramps in calf and muscles sore. Consumer stated that she first got sick and threw up, felt a faint headache, sore shoulder; hurting in her back, her neck and her shoulders. Went to the doctor and was told she has bulging discs, she can hardly walk, she will be taking a bunch of medications: 600 mg ibuprofen pain relievers, muscle relaxant; and prednisone for 6 or 7 days, just started it today and will be taking it the day of second dose, should she get second dose?" Caller wanted to know if she should get second dose while taking several medications, including: prednisone and Ibuprofen. The adverse event hurting in my back, my neck and my shoulders, bulging discs in neck and lower lumbar, she can hardly walk, all of a sudden she couldn't walk, burning and hurting in her shoulders and burning sore shoulders resulted emergency room visit. She was not admitted to the hospital. On 03May2021, the patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included Magnetic resonance imaging abnormal: Bulging discs in neck and lower lumbar. She mentioned that she gave blood on 25Apr2021. Then they had to take a bunch of blood after the first Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine but she had no further details on testing/investigations results to provide for report. The patient received treatment for adverse event. Consumer Stated, "She had a got our COVID-19 Vaccine, April 17 and she was supposed to get her second vaccine this Saturday, May 8th, well, she had some side effects from that day and for couple days after that than yesterday she ended up at the hospital it was hurting in her back and stuff, so they had her on 4-5 top medicine (Treatment) and she was just told by the doctor's office that if she was on prednisone (Treatment) which she was, they put her on prednisone that she can't get the Covid-19 vaccine this Saturday because she was still be on it, so how does she go by doing that she doesn't know how to get in touch with people about how do she do." The outcome of events first got sick and threw up was recovered on 19Apr2021, felt a faint headache was recovered on 18Apr2021, burning sore shoulders was recovered on 20Apr2021 and outcome for events sore shoulder, bulging discs in neck and lower lumbar, she can hardly walk, muscle cramps in calf was unknown and for events hurting in her back, her neck and her shoulders, all of a sudden she couldn't walk, burning and hurting in her shoulders and muscles sore was recovering.  No follow-up attempts are needed. No further information is expected.