Age: 56.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Vaccination site pruritus, Vaccination site swelling, Vaccination site warmth
Clinical narrative: she thinks may be blood clot or a muscle but not really sure; passed out; very anxious and nervous; her heart is beating fast and she is nervous.; burning sensation in her ear; tiredness; headache; heaviness on her back and chest on the left side; heaviness on her back and chest on the left side; no appetite; nauseous; diarrhea; throbbing is almost like a band-aid is too tight. If she rubbed her hand across her thigh she could feel crushing and throbbing; her heart is beating fast and she is nervous.; sharp pain in her thigh/pinching sensation on inner thigh; sick; throbbing; muscle pain; weird sensation; throbbing sensation to the left side of her belly button/It was like at her stomach; fever of 100.3F; had a feeling of heat on her neck, face, and ears; redness and itchiness at the injection site; redness and itchiness at the injection site; the injection was large, red, hot, and itchy; the injection was large/ the swelling went down; dizzy; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer reported herself. A 56-years-old female patient received the first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE) via an unspecified route of administration on 22Apr2021 (Batch/Lot number was not reported) as 1st dose, single for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included disability, obese, covid-19 when she was sick with COVID last year, she has never been that sick. she thinks she made it through because she owns a nebulizer and can say her lungs have never felt like they were full of fluid. If anything, they felt heavy. It was heavy in her back and chest. She also had a fever. She guesses she would be considered obese. Concomitant medications included paracetamol (TYLENOL). The patient received the first dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine last week and she has experienced several side effects and is very anxious and nervous. She experienced redness and itchiness at the injection site, pinching sensation on inner thigh that she thinks may be blood clot or a muscle but not really sure, fever of 100.3F from 24Apr2021, burning sensation in her ear, tiredness, headache, heaviness on her back and chest on the left side, no appetite, nauseous, diarrhea, had a feeling of heat on her neck, face, and ears, throbbing sensation to the left side of her belly button from 26Apr2021 and she felt dizzy from 22Apr2021. The patient stated there was a bad connection and she was having difficulty hearing. The patient was a little nervous. Maybe this was a psychosomatic issue and she was thinking of things too much. She was sick for 5 weeks. She was never in the hospital or intubated. The site where she had the injection was large, red, hot, and itchy. It was from 22Apr2021 (Thursday) for the next maybe 3 days. Now the color is diminishing, the color is going down more like to pink and smaller and it not itching anymore. Once in a while she got a pinching sensation on her inner thigh ever since she had the injection. In the last couple days, she has been feeling a that a little more. She wanted to make sure it was not a symptom of a blood clot. She doesn't feel short of breath. She was nervous talking the call handler so that is why she is talking fast. She doesn't want to feel so sick like she did last year when she had it in March or April. She wanted to know that it's not a symptom of a blood clot. It was a throbbing pinching pain that goes and doesn't come back for a little bit, but it might come back a little bit later. It happened when she woke up. She has no swelling in her legs or thighs or anything else. She says she would not be talking this fast, but her heart was beating fast and she was nervous. She tended to be an anxious and nervous person. The patient never had blood clot issues. She wanted to make sure with everything that she has heard about Pfizer she hasn't heard of anyone having blood clot issues. She had to read to calm herself down a bit. It is a sharp pain with throbbing that comes and goes. She didn't read where it could be a blot clot, she just wanted to know. She is horrible at running to the hospital when she feels something because she gets so nervous and she thinks knowing is better because she's a realist. It takes her a minute to go to the hospital to figure it out. If she continues to feel like this she and her daughter will go to the emergency room. It is 5 blocks away. It is a small little hospital and they will be able to ease her mind. It could be her nerves getting to her too. Her fever got up to 100.3 and that was only on Saturday, 48 hours after the vaccine. Once she took Tylenol it was gone and didn't return again. She took her temperature; it was a beeping one. She always says she would take like 2 out of 3, and every time she took it went up. She felt a weird sensation of burning in her ears, the same as when she first had Covid, feeling like a fever. It brought her back to a bad place and it freaked her out. She is on disability and has people go to the store for her. She did that for 3 to 4 months. She is not agoraphobic, but she hadn't gone out until she got the vaccine. It took her all day to get back home because she loves the outdoors. It is kind of sad, and she knows she is not the only one who experienced that. She was able to actually stay at home, and when she went out, she wanted to stay. She still has her second dose to take, not everyone in has this and she doesn't want to feel that sick again. Eventually she will perish away one day, from God knows what but a slow death of not being able to breathe she cannot picture for herself or anybody else. She tries not to watch the news, it was depressing, because it is all over the news, she tries to stay in the loop. She was tired and had a headache. She took Tylenol and slept for an hour or hour and half. When she woke up she felt heaviness on her back and chest on the left side, and as she moved around more it was on her back and less on her chest. It was the same as she felt when she had Covid. She didn't have any aches or pains. The other thing was she had no appetite for the next 3 days. Every time she woke up, she felt extremely nauseous but had nothing to vomit. For the next 3 days or 72 hours, she had diarrhea. If she ate anything, she was in the bathroom. On 24Apr2021 (Saturday) after 48 hours she started to feel the heat in her neck and face and ears like right on her ears. She was talking to her daughter and her daughter said these are normal. Where she got the injection was itchy and a little more red. She told herself not to scratch it in her sleep, she is one of those people if something itches, she scratches. What she would do is rub her arm up and down on the site. It was almost the size of an 8 ounce tomato sauce can or maybe the size of a baseball. Then the third day it got redder. In her sleep she was rubbing her arm because it got itchy. Today the swelling went down, the color is like a light pink, and the size is also minimized. The fever lasted that night. She took her temperature again the next day and it was 97.9. That is usually what it is when she wakes up. She is not just tired; she is exhausted and feels like she has to go to sleep. Her daughter came with her granddaughter who is a baby, and she didn't know how to tell them. She was happy to see them but so exhausted. She worries about the sharp pain in her thigh. The other thing is she started getting pain in the middle of her thigh, her inner thigh. A sharp pain with like a throbbing is almost like a band-aid is too tight. If she rubbed her hand across her thigh, she could feel crushing and throbbing. She can feel it from touching the area. She had this before like when she is stretching. It started maybe 3 months ago and went away but then after she took the injection and heard about thing, she worried about a blood clot with Johnson & Johnson, not that she would know because she has never had a blood clot. It could be psychosomatic and all working in her head. It started the last 2 days when she woke up, she felt fine and as she was lying in bed, she started feeling a sharp throbbing pain that eventually goes away. She has no swelling of her legs or thighs, and her daughter said it looks fine. She is semi-terrified of hearing bad news. It takes her longer to go to the hospital. If she starts feeling worse, she will be there in no time. She does not want to wait until it is worse, but she does not want to spook herself into going. She suffers from anxiety. She definitely had the fever not like she was just tired it was like she was exhausted. She got up early and would take a little nap because she was doing a bunch of stuff. That hasn't happened, but that's her. It will be 2300 when she goes to sleep. She was doing a bunch of stuff and felt like she just needed to take a nap. Maybe it is part of that too, but usually she doesn't feel tired like this. After her daughter left, she read something on her phone and passed out. When she woke up, she saw she actually dropped her phone. Her thigh is now not a pinch but more a little bit of a muscle pain. Now it is not like the inner thigh, it is more behind the thigh now, but not below the knee, right behind the thigh, closest to the knee but not on the knee. It is the same thing as if the middle had gone behind her thigh a bit. The little pillow on her chair is not helping anything either. It feels like it maybe muscular, its deep feeling. It feels like it could be muscle, if she rubs it, she can feel it. When asked has it improved persisted or worsened, caller states it is there, but it is dull. She can say there is pain, but it is a little duller just because it is more in the muscle. It is hard to explain, it was not the same throbbing pain but there is a dull pain, it goes around the chunkier part of her thigh, like the inner thigh. When she rubs it there is pain but a dull pain. When she rubs it, it feels better but she can still feel the site where it hurts. When she rubs it, it is still located right in the lower middle going toward her knee but not at the knee, maybe 3 to 4 inches away from the fold of her knee, almost at the center of her thigh almost. Almost like a dull muscle ache, there is a bit of throbbing with it. She will go to the doctor if something weird happens and will call back when they have an idea of what happened to her. This will sound crazy. The next thing she felt was a light throbbing where her belly button is but more to the left side, but not at the belly button. It was like at her stomach, not right at the belly button but right on the same line as her belly button but more at her waist. It was a small throbbing started today about an hour ago. She is hoping it is gas. Her fever went away pretty fast. She was on the phone and took her temperature to tell what it was. The woman said to take some Tylenol. It went from 99.9 to 100 to 100.3. She thought oh no. That was the highest she saw. Then eventually it started going down to 99.4, and then by morning it was back to normal. She only took Tylenol the one time. She is thinking maybe it is from being nervous and causing her body to heat up. She doesn't know she is just thinking. She thinks the fever went away the same day within an hour to 2 hours. She also wasn't drinking enough water. When asked if her fever has recovered completely or with last effects, caller states that is fine now, her temperature today was 99.4 without the fan on, she says she thinks that was pretty normal. When she first wakes up it is 97.9 usually. There was also a 98.4. The redness and itching at the injection site started 3 hours after the injection. She took her 2 sons with her. She took it and then her son took it. They said to wait 15 minutes. As soon as she stepped out, she looked up and felt so dizzy. It looks like when in summer and it seems to be boiling hot, that is how it got for her. Things got blurry. It was not like she was going to black out, but she had to close her eyes because the room was going to spin. She knocked back on the door and took a seat, so she sat down because she was not feeling right. When she gets nervous, she chews gum as a coping mechanism. Her son got some gum for her. She felt better but kind of nervous waiting for 15 minutes to go by, what if she felt dizzy again. She let 20 minutes go by and she got up and was fine. She wanted to be out of there and in the cool air outside. That is the first reaction that she had. She is one of those people that feel so nervous she is sure that happens that they feel like, oh they are so nervous, and they read so much, and it is in our faces everyday no matter what. Maybe it had nothing to do with the injection, maybe more that she was so nervous, but it was a weird sensation after. She knows when people first started getting the COVID vaccine, people were just like falling to the ground, she was like that would be terrible. She went with high expectations and was also nervous. Her heart was beating, and she could hear her own heartbeat. She still feels tired and like she can go take a nap now. She asks if that is normal. She would rather talk to Medical Information now. She is over this statistics part of it. She doesn't feel a release, she is just giving her information and she doesn't feel any better. Outcome of the event throbbing sensation to the left side of her belly button/It was like at her stomach was not recovered; of the event dizzy was recovered; of the events the injection was large, red, hot, and itchy/ the swelling went down, tiredness was recovering; of the other events was unknown.  Information about lot/batch number has been requested.