Age: 48.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Lymph node pain, Lymphadenopathy, Neck pain
Clinical narrative: headache; trouble sleeping and then one night slept a lot; She has some histamine issues and has been eating bone broth; swollen lymph nodes all in her neck that are really really sore; she is really sore around her upper neck all around,; swollen lymph nodes all in her neck that are really really sore; some mild diarrhea before the second dose and it continued after the second dose; chills; This is a spontaneous report received from a contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team. The reporter is the patient.  A 48 year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), administered in arm left, administration date 29Apr2021 10:00 (Lot number: EP8736) at the age of 48 years as dose 2, single for covid-19 immunisation. Relevant medical history included: "Schizoaffective disorder" (unspecified if ongoing); "eye problems" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: she was diagnosed with eye problems since she was 1 year old, she had a lazy eye,; "mental health" (unspecified if ongoing); "exposed to poison ivy.", start date: 13Apr2021 (unspecified if ongoing); "COVID-19 virus test negative", start date: 13Apr2021 (unspecified if ongoing). The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. Vaccination history included: Bnt162b2 (Dosage text first dose, injected in her left arm, Batch/lot number: EP7533, EPZ533, though the Z could be a 7 with a line, thru it. She clarifies that it does look like a 7.), administration date: 01Apr2021, when the patient was 48 years old, for Covid-19 Immunization; Flu shot. The following information was reported: DIARRHOEA (non-serious) with onset Apr2021, outcome "unknown", described as "some mild diarrhea before the second dose and it continued after the second dose"; INITIAL INSOMNIA (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "trouble sleeping and then one night slept a lot"; HISTAMINE ABNORMAL (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "She has some histamine issues and has been eating bone broth"; CHILLS (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "unknown", described as "chills"; HEADACHE (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "headache"; LYMPHADENOPATHY (non-serious), LYMPH NODE PAIN (non-serious) all with onset 06May2021, outcome "unknown" and all described as "swollen lymph nodes all in her neck that are really really sore"; NECK PAIN (non-serious) with onset 06May2021, outcome "unknown", described as "she is really sore around her upper neck all around,".  Additional information: It was reported that patient received first dose of Pfizer BioNTech Covid 19 vaccine on 1Apr2021.Then 13Apr2021 she had what she thought was poison ivy but not sure because she also was experiencing shortness of breath. She was however exposed to poison ivy.  She went to urgent care and she was told it was contact dermatitis.  She was given medicine but didn't take them and it finally went away. She had some mild diarrhea before the second dose and it continued after the second dose which she received on 29Apr2021. She had some trouble sleeping and then one night slept a lot.  She has some histamine issues and has been eating bone broth.  She had no fever with a temperature of 98.9 F, but did report having chills, and headache. She is mainly calling about side effects she developed today, which is swollen lymph nodes all in her neck that are really really sore. Is this a side effect What can she take for the soreness. It was reported that she called about the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine because it gave her side effects, like on the list they gave her, she had a lot. She says it has been about a week since her second dose on 29Apr, and today she is noticing she is really sore around her upper neck all around which she assumes are swollen lymph nodes, which is also on the list. She says she wants to know will that go away, and is there something she can do about it She says she is pretty sure it is from the vaccine. She says her neck feels like some one put a rope around her neck and strangled her, but it is not a problem with breathing, her neck hurts. She says that the LOT for her first dose was EPZ533, though the Z could be a 7 with a line thru it. She clarifies that it does look like a 7. She says she got her first dose 01Apr injected in her left arm. Second dose AE: she has never had swollen lymph nodes before. She says her swollen lymph nodes began a week later, after her second dose, she was like wow, ok. She says she has done no treatment, and it has gotten a little worse over the day. First dose AE:Caller says she had other side effects, like she was sore the first time, which was more than the second time. She says she has been losing sleep, but she doesn't know if that is related, there was one night she slept for hours because she hadn't been sleeping. She says she had chills, and she hurt where they gave her the shot, on her upper arm,which was sore for a while. She says she had been hurting, but her right hip was hurting which was unusual, that was the second day or third day, or a couple days after this. She says the lymph node swelling is the most noticeable she has that is on the list. Caller says her first dose was April 1st, then the second was on April 29th, so four weeks apart. Caller doesn't clarify which events listed after beginning to talk about her first dose side effects were only for her first dose or second dose, or for both. Caller says she did not have any other vaccinations the same days as her doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, or in the four weeks prior. She says she hasn't started any new medications. Caller says she hasn't gotten any vaccines other than the COVID vaccines since she got the flu shot. No further information provided about unspecified flu shot. Caller says she has mental health and eye problems. She says she was diagnosed with eye problems since she was 1 year old, she had a lazy eye, all that. She says she was diagnosed as schizoaffective, but she doesn't agree with that, they had her on psych meds a while, but she is not on those anymore. No further details provided about her psych meds. Caller says she went to an urgent care before, because she was having shortness of breath and diarrhea and like poison ivy rash. She says that they tested her for COVID, but that was negative. She says that they didn't do other lab work. She says she thinks that was after her first dose but before her second dose.  She says she doesn't know if it was related, she says she thinks they said eczema and not poison ivy, and she thinks it was the food quality for the diarrhea. She clarifies that she went to the urgent care 13Apr, for suspected contact with COVID-19 and cough, but she didn't have a cough. She says it also says she had contact dermatitis after contact with poison ivy. She says that was really itchy, she never had a reaction before, she doesn't know if that is related or not. She says her shortness of breath and her diarrhea kind of got better, they have gone away, it took a while. She says they gave her some steroids but she didn't take them, and it went away in a day or so. She says it shook her up though, because she had never had shortness of breath before.  No follow-up attempts are needed. No further information is expected.