Age: 51.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Eye disorder, Eye irritation, Feeling abnormal, Hypoacusis, Illness
Clinical narrative: hard of hearing; Bell's palsy; Left eye felt weird/weird feeling like when went to the dentist and get the Novocain shot; Left side of mouth muscle not holding water while brushing teeth; Cannot close left eye/eye wasn't moving; Left eye burning during shower; sick; cannot move that part of your mouth; Sore Arm over Weekend; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). This 51-year-old female patient received second dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), via an unspecified route of administration in left arm on 12Mar2021 08:15 (Lot Number: EN6204) at single dose for covid-19 immunization.  Medical history was none. Concomitant medication included diphenhydramine hydrochloride (BENADRYL Tablet). The patient previously received first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Lot Number: EN6200) on 19Feb2021 and experienced felt really tired, and received flu shot. The patient experienced bell's palsy on 18Mar2021, sore arm over weekend on an unspecified date in 2021, Left eye felt weird/weird feeling like when went to the dentist and get the Novocain shot on 18Mar2021, left side of mouth muscle not holding water while brushing teeth on 18Mar2021, cannot close left eye/eye wasn't moving on 18Mar2021, left eye burning during shower on 18Mar2021, sick in 2021, cannot move that part of your mouth in 2021, hard of hearing on an unspecified date. She felt great over the weekend other than a sore arm. Morning on 18Mar2021 when she woke up her left eye felt weird.  When brushing her teeth she noticed the left side of her mouth muscle was not holding water to spit out. Looked in the mirror and noticed when she smiled her left eye wasn't moving. Went to the emergency room and the doctor told her she has Bell's Palsy.  Explained that was why she cannot close her left eye. Was given two medications to take; one a steroid and one a antiviral. Left eye has been feeling weird, like when you look away from your cell phone and one eye hasn't dilated or adjusted to the darkness yet. Stated she took a sick day from work today. Mentioned again her left eye burning in the shower and that she has to sleep with an eye patch. She was hard of hearing.  Stated she had hearing aids and can currently hear call handler fine. Had a CAT scan and everything at the emergency room this morning.  Her grandmother and aunt died from a stroke and she was concerned that she had one. She cannot close her left eye completely.  Stated was a weird feeling like when went to the dentist and get the Novocain shot and cannot move that part of your mouth.  The doctor told her he thought it will last for 2 weeks. Stated that it could've started overnight but she was uncertain as she was sleeping and didn't notice it until this morning. Mentioned her husband was at the hospital all day yesterday for procedures. After receiving her second dose of the vaccine she thought she didn't feel to bad at all, not tired like with the first one; until she woke up with this today. Stated no for medications but mentions that on 11Mar2021 she had bad allergies and was like a water faucet.  She took Children's Benadryl 12.5mg 2 tablets and some eye drops.  Stated that it helped.  Thought she was allergic to something in the building. Stated was given Prednisone, as she was reading the label she notices she was supposed to take two a day and had only taken 1 this morning.  Prednisone is prescribed as 20mg 2 tablets by mouth every day for 7 days. Spelt out name of antiviral medication as IC Valacyclov.  Prescribed as 500mg 2 tablets by mouth three times a day. Also has eye drops to keep eye moist. Has eye patch for bedtime.  Was instructed to manually close left eye and cover with eye patch at night. Mentioned that she had a flu shot in October no issues voiced. Nephew with Covid, Niece that had Covid.  Stated she was not around them. There was no physician office visit reported.  The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included blood sugar: normal, blood pressure: normal, CAT scan: normal on 18Mar2021.  There was treatment and emergency room visit except event hard of hearing. The outcome of the events was unknown.