Age: 79.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Fatigue, Headache, Illness, Nasal congestion, Pain
Clinical narrative: loss of apatite/can't eat anything- everything tastes like soap; diarrhea; fatigue; body aches; difficulty breathing; congestion; feel sick; chills; cough; headache; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer. This 79-year-old female consumer reported for herself that: A 79-year-old female patient received the first dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Solution for injection, Lot Number: ENG198, Expiration date: Unknown), via an unspecified route of administration with a needle into left upper arm on 06Mar2021 at 9:30 (at the age of 79-years) as (exact dose unknown) single dose for covid-19 immunization. The patient medial history included ongoing neuropathy pain, ongoing asthma (diagnosed when she was a kid), ongoing bladder problem/bladder infections (she kept getting bladder infections; went to a bladder specialist 6 months prior), ongoing high blood pressure (diagnosed for many years), ongoing arthritis (diagnosed for many years) and knee replacement in 2008. The patient had no history of previous immunization with the Pfizer vaccine considered as suspect, was not administered additional vaccines on the same date of the Pfizer vaccine, and did not receive any prior vaccinations within 4 weeks of Pfizer vaccine. The patient had no family history relevant to the adverse events. Concomitant medications included gabapentin (been taking that for years) from an unspecified date to ongoing for neuropathy pain, losartan potassium (been taking this for years) from an unspecified date to ongoing for high blood pressure, nitrofurantoin (MACRODANTIN) (about 6 months) from an unspecified date to ongoing for bladder infections, beclometasone dipropionate (QVAR REDIHALER) (been taking this for years) from an unspecified date to ongoing for asthma, Serevent Diskus (been taking this for years) from an unspecified date to ongoing for asthma, estradiol vaginal cream usp (about 6 months) for "bladder" (bladder disorder), and ibuprofen (if she needs it, but she doesn't always need it). The patient stated she was taking her usual medications-allergy medications, high blood pressure medicine and estrogen. The patient's historical vaccines included shingles vaccine in 2019 with sore arm as the reaction, pneumonia vaccine in 2019 with sore arm as the reaction and tetanus vaccine in 2019 with sore arm as the reaction. She did not have NDC/LOT/Expiration number of the historical vaccines. On 19Mar2021, the patient began to feel sick. She reported the following symptoms: chills, cough, headache, difficulty breathing and congestion starting on 19Mar2021 around noon time, fatigue and body aches starting on 20Mar2021 gradually throughout the day, and loss of appetite/ "can't eat anything- everything tastes like soap" gradually throughout the day and diarrhea starting on 21Mar2021. She thought it was going away, but it didn't. She stated that when the chills first started, she couldn't even hold her hand still, but that had improved. She stated that everything tasted like soap on the third day of the symptoms' onset on 21Mar2021. She stated that she made herself eat a little, but she just couldn't. She stated that she drank as much water as she could. She stated that the taste of soap was there before, but she didn't recognize it for what it was until it started to get worse. She stated that she needed to get her glasses to read the writing on her vaccination record card. She started that she did not want to get the second dose on Saturday, 27Mar2021. The patient inquired what she should do. She stated that to be able to talk on the phone, she had to take paracetamol (TYLENOL) 650 mg, and she had taken one tablet. The patient did not require emergency room or Physician office visit due to the events. She thought it would go away, so she didn't go see her doctor. Treatment received for the events included paracetamol (TYLENOL) 650 mg. The patient had undergone no investigations or relevant tests. The outcome of the event fatigue and loss of appetite was worsened. The outcome of the events difficulty breathing, body aches and diarrhea was not recovered. The outcome of the event chills, cough, headache and congestion was recovering. The outcome of the event "feel sick" was unknown.  No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.