Age: 57.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Nerve injury, Nervous system disorder, Pain, Peripheral swelling, SARS-CoV-2 test
Clinical narrative: Pulse was 58; Her caregiver had to carry her into the bathroom.; can't breathe, it affected her lungs; can't walk; can't breathe, it affected her lungs; the next day at 4:30AM, she had a severe allergic reactions; head was in a vise being squeezed really hard; loss her sense of smell and taste; loss her sense of smell and taste; nerves in her right knee is damaged; it attacked her entire nervous system; it would numb up one spot, and to her back; her feet swelled up that she couldn't walk/ hands swelled up huge; her sciatic nerve inside of both knees that swelled up really big; very emotional; pain; Kept passing out; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer or other non hcp (the patient). A 57-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, solution for injection, Batch/Lot Number: EN6203), dose 1 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in arm left on 19May2021 at 13:30 (age at vaccination: 57-years-old) as DOSE 1, SINGLE for covid-19 immunization. Medical history included migraines from an unknown date and unknown if ongoing. Concomitant medication were not reported. History of all previous immunization with the Pfizer vaccine considered as suspect (or patient age at first and subsequent immunizations if dates of birth or immunizations are not available) was reported as N/A; this was the patient's first dose. Additional Vaccines Administered on Same Date of the Pfizer Suspect If applicable, list all vaccines administered on same date with the Pfizer vaccine: None. (She stated she did not usually get vaccines, but she did it because her landlord was 70 and for her parents). Patient had severe allergic reaction after she had Pfizer BioNTech Covid19 Vaccine. Per patient, she had her 1st dose last 19May2021, the next day at 4:30AM, she had a severe allergic reactions, she could not breathe, it affected her lungs and could even walk. According to the patient it attacked her entire nervous system that's why she would never get the 2nd dose. The severe allergic reactions had been going on since the first dose. She also added, the reaction moved to her body, it would numb up one spot, and to her back, and her feet swelled up that she couldn't walk, and went to her sciatic nerve inside of both knees that swelled up really big and could walk, she called the ambulance and went straight to the hospital but they don't know what to do with her either. She wrote down all her symptoms and took pictures and sent it to her doctor, but her doctor did not believe her. Patient was very emotional, she wanted to know why did this happen to her. She wanted to know what were the ingredients of the vaccine. The patient was calling in regards to the Pfizer vaccine for COVID. The patient stated she had a severe adverse reaction to the first vaccine. She got it at 1:30 in the afternoon and at 4:30 in the morning, it started. She stated it was in her lungs and it would not go away. She was healthy until she got this Pfizer vaccine. She had been to the hospital so many times. The doctors did not do anything about it and won't help. The patient stated her doctor of 5 years would not let her come back ever since she told him what she was experiencing with the Pfizer vaccine. The doctor would not talk about it. She had pictures and videos of it attacking her nerves. She stated she needed help. She had been to the hospital by ambulance so many times. No one seemed to know what was going on. She needed to know what was in the vaccine. She could not walk, she could not breathe. She just wanted to be healthy, she needed Pfizer to help her. The patient stated she could not really walk anymore or do anything. She was in really good shape before vaccine. She could not walk, she could not breathe. She clarified her lungs were the last thing to be attacked, she lost her sense of smell. She had not been able to get help for 3 months, Pfizer had to help her. She had so much damage. She clarified she took the vaccine at 1:30 PM and at 4:30 in the morning, it was like her head was in a vise being squeezed really hard, that was where it started. Then, the bottom of her feet swelled up really big and she couldn't walk. Her hands swelled up huge like baseball gloves. She stated she took pictures and videos. Then, it started attacking her nervous system, down her arms and down her legs from her low back sciatic nerve to the middle of her knee. She was in so much pain she was going to shoot herself in the head. It was too much after 3 weeks and she couldn't take it anymore. She was going to shoot herself and her doctor wouldn't help her. Her doctor wouldn't look at the videos and pictures. She got a caregiver for week who took videos and pictures of her nerves being attacked and the muscles were cramping. She stated one could see the nerves and muscles coming out of her skin. She saw and felt it climb through her lower back. It went into her lower back and it grinded and crunched. Her caregiver said it looked like something crawling through her skin. The caregiver stayed a week and took care of her. Her caregiver had to carry her into the bathroom. She couldn't walk, she couldn't keep food down. She kept passing out. The patient's knees swelled up really. really big from inside where they touched. She stated it was just the inside. She couldn't walk. Her nerves in her right knee is damaged and it's not going away. Right now, it was her lungs that's where it is. It's her low back, lungs, and right knee. The patient stated she had a patient portal where she wrote all of this in the portal to her doctor of 5 years. She wrote every symptom to him. She had not been able to breathe good for weeks. She stated they haven't had a falling out or anything, but her doctor won't help. The caller stated she will go in to the ER but they don't know how to help her. She was given stuff for migraines because she gets migraines. They gave her medicine and sent her home but she didn't fill it because she did not want to be medicated. She has two dates of when she went to the hospital via ambulance, the other dates she did not know. The first date, 26May2021, she was taken by ambulance to the Emergency Room. When she got to the hospital, the doctor wouldn't let her receive pain medications. She was told they had never seen symptoms like hers, but her doctor wouldn't allow her to have any pain medicine at all. The doctor told them not to give her anything. She mentions in 2001, she signed a pain contract saying can't have any pain medication but that was 20 years ago and it's no longer in effect. Her doctor wouldn't let the ER give her any pain medicine although her symptoms were very painful. She was having pain for 3 weeks and she was going to shoot herself in the head. She had a gun and would have done it, but she has 5 kids and 1 grandbaby. She wouldn't live. She stated she can't be in pain anymore, her right knee is so bad. The discharge papers from the hospital say it was body aches after the vaccine, nausea, and adverse reaction after the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. She confirms she was only seen in the ER when she went 26May2021, she was not admitted to the hospital, she wanted to go home. She stated she can't see. She loss her sense of smell and taste. She has had multiple Covid tests and blood tests, and never had COVID. She did not understand how the Pfizer vaccine gives her every symptom of COVID even though she has never had COVID. She stated it was spreading to her lungs, it had damaged her lungs. The caller stated she was currently not suicidal. She did not have any suicidal thoughts right now. She stated she did not want to die. She is sick. Her doctor said she was drama and couldn't handle it and she couldn't go back. She asked the doctor if shooting herself in the head was too much. She stated she still has a gun, but she was going to wait a little while longer. She did not want to live in this pain. She stated someone needs to call her and try and help. She can't live like this. Pfizer needs to help her. The caller also provides the date 12Aug2021. She had texted her sister to help her and she guesses her sister called an ambulance. The ambulance took her to the emergency room. Her pulse was 58 when they picked her up. When asked if she was admitted to the hospital from the ER , the caller stated they kept her for a long time. They didn't check her lungs though. A CT scan of her brain was done, but her lungs were not checked again. She told them she was going to shoot herself in the head, the ambulance couldn't help her. She was told she can't have that second vaccine because it would kill her. The caller stated no one was helping her. She was told since it was an emergency vaccine, no one knows anything about it, except Pfizer. The reporter seriousness for pulse was 58 was hospitalization on an unknown date in 2021. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included pulse: 58 on an unknown date in 2021, CT scan of brain: unknown results, Covid test (sars-cov-2 test): never had covid (negative) and never had COVID, blood test: unknown results on an unknown date. The events resulted in Emergency Room Visit. The outcome of the events was unknown.  Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.