Sex: U
Vaccine: VARZOS, UNK, VARZOS
Symptoms: Swelling, Tenderness
Clinical narrative: Redness; Swelling; crippling my life/ restrict some activities; new areas that are beginning to get inflamed; Tender; Soreness of my hands soreness of my hands. Both the skin, and the joints themselves/ sore; soreness of my hands. Both the skin, and the joints themselves; soreness of my hands. Both the skin, and the joints themselves; some of the red areas start to feel tingly; slight burning sensation; My right toe where I've had a callus my whole life has started itching; Skin has flaked off/ left index finger started off a month ago; This case was reported by a consumer via call center representative and described the occurrence of erythema in a patient who received Herpes zoster (Shingrix) for prophylaxis.   The patient's past medical history included callosity.   In January 2020, the patient received the 1st dose of Shingrix. On an unknown date, between 2 and 3 weeks after receiving Shingrix and an unknown time after starting triamcinolone acetonide, the patient experienced erythema, swelling, activities of daily living impaired, inflammation, tenderness, pain in hand, skin pain, joint pain, tingling, burning sensation, pruritus and skin desquamation. The patient was treated with triamcinolone acetonide and dermatologicals nos (Eczema Cream (Medication Unknown)). On an unknown date, the outcome of the erythema, swelling, activities of daily living impaired, inflammation, tenderness, pain in hand, skin pain, joint pain, tingling, burning sensation, pruritus and skin desquamation were not recovered/not resolved.   It was unknown if the reporter considered the erythema, swelling, activities of daily living impaired, inflammation, tenderness, pain in hand, skin pain, joint pain, tingling, burning sensation, pruritus and skin desquamation to be related to Shingrix.  Additional information was provided as follows: The age at vaccination was not reported. The patient received vaccine 6 weeks before the time of reporting. The patient had been experiencing shingrix side effects for about a month now and wanted to knowhow to continue. The doctor wanted patient to put my Eczema steroid cream  on the redness and swelling and he/she had been doing that for almost two weeks. These side effects crippling his/her life. The patient was treated with Triamcinolone acetonide cream 0.1percent, was told to only use this cream for two weeks at a time, then go off of it for 2 weeks. The patient had some new areas that were beginning to get inflamed, after two weeks of use the initial areas were still somewhat sore and tender. The patient was wondering for how long was this going to go on, was this going to happen for the rest of life. This had restrict some activities in his/her life due to the soreness of hands both the skin,and the joints themselves. Since the cream was a steroid, the patient put it on at night and wear surgical gloves so that he/she won't touch eyes. When take the gloves off in the morning some of the red areas start to feel tingly and had a slight burning sensation. The patient wanted to know, was this normal. The patient stated, this had nothing to do with the injection site, what was happening was any part of patient's body that seemed to had some type of soreness or contact before. The back of his/her left index finger and the right ring finger. The patient had a callus, his/her whole life had started itching.  This was howleft index finger started off a month ago. It was still red and tingling, skin had flaked off, the skin was thin. The patient was going to go through the same cycle with right foot at teh time of reporting.