Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Abdominal pain, Blood test, Computerised tomogram, Computerised tomogram abdomen, Herpes zoster
Clinical narrative: abdominal pain and ended up getting shingles; Pain; abdominal pain and ended up getting shingles; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer. A male patient of an unspecified age received the first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, solution for injection), via an unspecified route of administration on 09Jan2021 (Batch/Lot number was not reported) as single dose for COVID-19 immunisation. The patient's medical history and concomitant medications were not reported. A few days after the patient got that first dose of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine, he developed shingles and pain. Shingles is a painful and pretty debilitating condition because the pain is very bad. Further described shingles and pain, he had developed abdominal pains. The patient went to the regular doctor and the doctor could not figure out what it was so the doctor sent him for a CT (computerized tomogram) scan which proved there was nothing abnormal or positive in a bad way. Those CT result was negative or normal across the board. They also did blood tests and urine tests on him, all of the blood tests and urine tests results were negative and normal across the board. A few days after they went to that regular doctor, on Saturday, 16Jan2021 the pains got much more severe so she took her husband to the emergency room. They then ran another abdominal CT scan and they also agreed results of the abdominal CT scan were negative and normal across the board. They again ran blood tests and urine tests on him all with results of negative and normal across the board. They sent him home with a pain killer. About 2-3 hours after he got home from that emergency room visit he developed a rash around his abdomen, on his right side from his groin to the back of his hip on right side; that was Saturday night, 16Jan2021. Sunday they could not go to the doctor's office because they were closed. On Monday 18Jan2021, they went back to the regular doctor who checked him again. The doctor saw the rash and said no wonder they could not find anything on the CT scans, this is Shingles. The doctor gave him a couple of pain killers and an antiviral medication which he has been taking; but one of them he was developing a cough from so he stopped that medication and the cough stopped. Then he was having diarrhea here and there, so they looked up the side effects of the medications he was taking and stopped that medication because of the diarrhea. He was also taking an antiviral medication for the shingles. Clarification of which of those products stopped for cough and which for diarrhea not provided. The patient suspended the treatment with painkillers because he received the information that patients should not be taking painkillers prior to the administration of the vaccine. Patient had an appointment due tomorrow 30Jan2021 to receive the second dose of the vaccine and wanted to know if the patient should take the second dose of the vaccine. The outcome of the events was unknown.  Information on batch/lot number has been requested.