Age: 72.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Abdominal discomfort, Body temperature, Chest pain, Dizziness, Headache
Clinical narrative: Fever like 100.8; Pain to chest/says it felt like a rubber band was wrapped around her chest and back; Sick on your stomach; Dizzy; felt like a rubber band was wrapped around her chest and back; throat and tongue swelling like an allergy; Throat and tongue swelling; Throat and tongue swelling; Sore Throat; Headache; Pain in Arm; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 72-years-old female patient received BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine, Solution for injection, Batch/Lot number: EW0162, Expiration date: 31Jul2021, NDC number was unknown), via an unspecified route of administration on 10Apr2021 at 08:15 hours as dose 1, single (at the age of 72-years-old) for COVID-19 immunisation. The patient medical history included ongoing pacemaker (implanted 2 years ago), ongoing high blood pressure diagnosed 2 years ago, cholesterol, (diagnosed about 2 years ago), 2 stomach surgeries (many years ago), Back Surgery (many years ago), Diverticulitis (many years ago), removal of part of intestines (about 3 and a half years ago), several allergies (patient cannot take pain medications or most antibiotics, stated they made her sick, patient cannot eat red meat, lactose, cannot digest some meats, chest pain that felt like a rubber band around her chest and back before, unrelated to the vaccine, regulate heart rate, cannot take any pain medications, as they make her throw up and feel sick, had issues when taking almost all antibiotics, sick for about 7 weeks from Nov 2020 to unknown if ongoing, in about Nov 2020 for about 7 weeks, patient had horrible, horrible symptoms, patient was sick to the stomach, throwing up, same chest pain with feeling like a rubber band was around her body, losing weight, difficulty breathing, and fever, called her doctor and got antibiotics, antibiotics were hard for her to take.  Patient took two rounds of antibiotics and was still sick.  Patient went to Emergency Room and tested negative for COVID. Doctor thought false negative because of her symptoms. Patient stated that there was lot of health issues in her family such as heart disease and cancer. Historical vaccine included flu vaccine every year with no issues for immunisation. Patient had no history of all previous immunizations with the Pfizer vaccine considered as suspect. Patient had no prior vaccinations (within 4 weeks). Concomitant medications included unknown medications for high blood pressure and unknown medication to regulate heart rate. Patient was worried about getting the vaccine at first; she did not want to do it because she gets sick from everything. On 10Apr2021, about an hour after the vaccination, patient throat and tongue began swelling a little; like an allergy, sore throat, also had a slight headache and pain in her arm. Patient stated that throat and tongue swelling lasted for about 8 hours. On 11Apr2021, patient had a fever 100.8 degrees, had pain across her chest and stated that it felt like a rubber band was wrapped around her chest and back, was sick on her stomach and dizzy, had a headache, and the fever. Patient asked if it was normal to have side effects after the first shot. Patient heard from everybody not to worry about the first dose, it does not have side effects. They said the side effects come with the second dose. Patient does not know if it was safe for her to get the second dose. Patient had no emergency room and physician office visit for all the events. No relevant tests were performed. The outcome of throat and tongue swelling and throat and tongue swelling like an allergy was recovered on 10Apr2021, Headache, fever like 100.8, pain to chest/says it felt like a rubber band was wrapped around her chest and back, Sick on your stomach, Dizzy was recovered on 12Apr2021, pain in arm was recovering, unknown for felt like a rubber band was wrapped around her chest and back and not recovered for sore throat.  No follow-up attempts are needed. No further information is expected.