Age: 76.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Rash, Urticaria
Clinical narrative: She got her vaccine, that afternoon she was fine.  She went to bed at night,  she was fine.  Her arm did not even hurt, she could feel it but it was not swollen or painful.  Everything was as normal as all the other shots had been.  Two days later she woke up in the morning and the whole front of her body had a red rash and hives/welts.  It was on the front part of her body from her chest down her legs.  Was wondering why did she have that and did not make a connection to a COVID shot and was making the connection to her cough that she had had for a while, off and on.  She does have sinus problems when the whether gets really hot and dry and the weather has been really dry and felt it was related to that.  She watched the rash and it gradually faded away.  The next 2 mornings she woke up fine, didn't have any rash or hives.  On the 3rd day she woke up and the rash was back on her thighs, legs and butt.  She then thought she needed to call the doctor, which she did and they were so busy and she could not get in until just before Christmas.  They told her to go to UC, which she did and saw the doctor there, the VS were fine, and rash was fading.  When she would wake up in the morning she would have the hives, and then gradually they would fade away.  Her doctor gave her a prescription for Prednisone 10 pills for 5 days, 2 a day.  She was also given a generic allergy pill that was based on Benadryl, and he wanted her to take one of those when she got the rash and hives.  She went home and took the Prednisone to get it started, and then 5 hours later she took the allergy medicine and then the rash was gone and was fine for 2-3 days.  She did continue taking the Prednisone for another day.  Prednisone makes her agitated and she knew it was the prednisone and she was told if she got too bothered by it to stop taking it.  She then stopped the Prednisone.  The next time she got the rash/hives it was just on her arms and her chest.  Then that went away for 4-5 days and then all of a sudden it came back to her legs and thighs.  Every time she would get another bout in 3-4 days and would take the Benadryl and within an hour it would go away.  She stopped talking to the doctors and now it's the 2nd or 3rd week, and she decided to take another Prednisone which she did and she didn't have any hives or a rash.  It took a week before she got another bout of hives and rash.  She did not take any medication anymore, and if she did get some hives they were lessening, and usually more in a different places.  Usually legs, thigh, chest, arms and had one on her face.  She then went online and saw something about COVID coming back for this year and this new vaccine that they were giving JN1.   She started reading the comments that people made and in one block there were 25 people getting the shot and 2 of them mentioned hives and a rash, and feels that maybe she may be allergic to whatever was in the vaccine.  She went on her day and was completely over it before Christmas, and it took about 6-7 weeks of different events every 3-4 days and then once a week.  She has never had it since that time.