Age: 68.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Apathy, Dizziness, Fatigue, Headache, Hypersomnia
Clinical narrative: Headache; whole body hurts; Fatigue; Loss of ambition; hands ache a lot; Nauseous; sleeps a lot; dizziness; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 68-year-old male patient received second dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, formulation: solution for injection, lot number: EN6209, expiration date was not reported), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in left arm on 16Feb2021 (at the age of 68-years-old) as dose 2, single for covid-19 immunization. The patient medical history included surgery from 20Nov2020. There were no concomitant medications. The patient historical vaccine included first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, formulation: solution for injection, lot number: EL3247, expiration date was not reported), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in left arm on 22Jan2021 (at the age of 68-years-old) as dose 1, single for covid-19 immunization. It was reported that, patient reports that he received second dose of vaccine on 16Feb. Patient reports after second dose he experienced the following: headache, body and hand ache, fatigue, no ambition, nausea, and dizziness. Patient reports his girlfriend is a nurse and she told him it may last up to 7-10 days. Patient would like to know how long his symptoms may last. Patient reports he has tried resting, took Tylenol and Advil.  Patient reports there has not been anything wrong with him until he took this vaccine., Patient reports that he is not satisfied with the outcome. Patient calling about the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, who says he got his first vaccine dose of the vaccine at 22Jan at the (facility name), then his second dose 16Feb, which was a Tuesday at the same place. He says after his second shot, the last five days he has had a headache, his whole body hurts, he has fatigue, no ambition, his hands ache a lot, he kind of feels nauseous, he sleeps a lot. He says he has taken Tylenol and Advil and nothing happens, he does not know how long side effects might last. He says he is a healthy guy normally. He says he had surgery in November, and also had been tested for COVID then and it was negative, he is always fine. He says he took the second dose of the shot and feels like something beat him up, he feels bad. He says he talked to the doctor he had surgery with but not the provider he provided as his general doctor. Patient says he has a handwritten vaccine card, with NDC/EXP not provided for either dose he received. He says he got the first dose 22Jan2021, and whoever wrote the LOT wrote terrible. He provides LOT: EL3247 for the first dose and LOT: EN6209 for second dose given on 16Feb2021. He says that he was given the doses in his left arm when he got each of them.  Patient says that the Tylenol he took came in an orange pharmacy bottle that says take two 325mg. He provides NDC #. He says LOT/EXP were not provided on the pharmacy bottle label. He says that this medication was from when he had surgery20Nov, he still has 4 of them left, he was given 6 of them, he has no refills, the date it was written was 25Nov2020. Patient clarifies that he took Ibuprofen, not Advil, it was over the counter medication, 200mg and he took two by mouth as needed. He provides Ibuprofen UPC #, LOT  941S01, EXP Nov2021. He says when he takes the Tylenol it is during the day, and at night he is taking Ibuprofen, but it does not do nothing but give him a stomach ache from taking so much medication. He says this was how he was told to take these medications. Patient says he is a healthy person, he exercises, he does a lot of things, and after the second dose he feels totally wiped out, his whole body hurts and aches, his back hurts, and resting do not do nothing. He says he called his doctor he had surgery with yesterday, and they said that the side effects mean the vaccine is working, but he feels terrible, if it is working in his system then it goes away. He says his girlfriend is a nurse, and she told him it takes 7-10 days to go away. He says he is calling because he is upset to go through this nonsense, the thing is, he was happy wearing a mask like he has done for a year and a half, he is a healthy person then had to get this. Patient says they have not had any other recent vaccinations or started any new medications. Patient says that when you take the shot something happens, and they give you a piece of paper with all the side effects listed on it. Patient reads details off of the list of possible side effects, unable to capture. Patient says he had no chills, he guesses he has had joint pain, he has had no fever and he took his temperature. He says that he has nausea once in a while. He says after getting the shot the nurses tell you to sit for 15 minutes until you can leave, but the shot is not in, it takes 5-10 min. later when it starts reacting. He says after the dose on the 16th he was fine. He says a couple days after the second shot and for the last 5 days he has been fatigued, he tries to move around, and he still has got an appetite, but he feels almost like he was totally beat up. He says that he would like to know how long this is gone a last that he will feel like this? He says he felt great before he had taken these shots, it is almost like they gave something to him, like when you take the flu shot after a certain age, for a few days his body did not feel too good after those. Unspecified flu shot NDC/LOT/EXP: Unknown. He says he first started getting flu shots when he was 60 or whatever, he has been taking those for about 8 years and that does not happen no more when he gets them, he must have gotten used to them. Product strength and count size dispensed: two doses. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included COVID-19 virus test negative (sars-cov-2 test): negative on 22Nov2020. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of all events. The outcome of the events was unknown.  No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.