Age: 56.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Illness, Limb discomfort, Myalgia, Ocular discomfort, Vertigo
Clinical narrative: Vertigo; dizziness/super dizzy; blurred vision; experienced hair loss; felt fatigue; muscle aching; debilitated; sick out of both ends; legs felt like boulders; pressure in the caller's head and eyes; pressure in the caller's head and eyes; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient herself) via Medical Information Team. A 56-year-old female patient received BNT162b2 (PFIZER BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, Solution for injection, Lot number- UNKNOWN) via an unspecified route of administration on 22Apr2021 as dose 2, single (at the age of 56-years-old) for COVID-19 immunization. Patient medical history included regular aging stuff like sore shoulders and sore hips, had a bad reaction to anaesthesia and had to have a surgery wide awake because the anesthesia almost killed her, vertigo around 2 years ago. The only vaccine that the patient has ever had was a hep B because she did not like vaccines. She tends to have extreme reactions. Patient has never had any reactions to things like Naprosyn or Motrin which she did not think that she took prior to the vaccine. The concomitant medications were not reported. Historical vaccine included BNT162b2 (PFIZER BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, Solution for injection, Lot number- UNKNOWN) via an unspecified route of administration on 01Apr2021 as dose 1, single for COVID-19 immunization. A few days after the 2nd dose of vaccine she felt fatigue with muscle aching. Later she experienced hair loss, blurred vision, and dizziness. Patient experienced super dizzy, blurred vision, vertigo, got debilitated and she lost a bunch of hair (hair loss), sick out of both ends, legs felt like boulders, pressure in the head and eyes. After 1st dose patient experienced really mean and irritable due to sickness. The reported causality between the vaccine and the events was related. Her vertigo became pronounced recently. Patient was not sure if it was from the vaccination but she was suspicious that it was. The reported seriousness for the events super dizzy, blurred vision, vertigo was disabling while of the event hair loss was medically significant. Patient took the first one and then got kind of sick afterwards. After the second dose, the patient got debilitated and she lost a bunch of hair, she felt like she was balding, she typically had super thick hair like you could not find her scalp. The patient had super blurred vision, so blurred that she could not make out the trees three feet in front of her. She was usually a 20/20 vision person. Patient thought the blurred vision went away but all of the sudden she was sitting in on the couch and the dizziness and blurred vision pressured in her head. She got sick out of both ends because she was so dizzy. She had anxiety and she has had a lot of grief and loss around her. It was not far fetched to say that the shock of the vaccine made her hair fall out. She thought the vaccine had stressed her body so bad that her hair fell off. Patient was not going to get the vaccine but she wanted to do her part, she was really scared. After the first dose the patient got sick and really mean and irritable and out of character because she was sick and did not realize it. This happened 2 or 3 days after the first dose which was on 01Apr2021. The patient could not be around people because she was so sick. It went away within a couple of days. When the patient was going for the second shot the caller ended up in bed she could not walk, her legs felt like boulders. The hair loss was an overnight thing. Her hair was brittle and breaking off and all over her pillow and clogging her drains. Patching of bald spots on the top of the her head could be seen, it was like the underlayer of her hair. She thought it was from the stress of the vaccine. She did not even know if it is vertigo, she had vertigo 2 years ago. This vertigo was not triggered by movement. This time the caller could not drive because she could not see. She vomited yesterday, it comes and goes. The caller felt like the dizziness was starting to subside. There was a pressure in her head and eyes. All of the symptoms were swift and sudden. She did not feel she needed to go to an Emergency Room. She was falling apart. The outcome of the events was unknown.   Information on the lot/batch number has been requested.; Sender's Comments: Based on known drug safety profile and temporal relationship there is reasonable possibility of causal association between the reported events and the suspect drug BNT162B2.