Age: 27.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Muscle swelling, Muscle tightness, Musculoskeletal stiffness, Myalgia
Clinical narrative: a stiff neck on the right side and has not gone away/Stiffness muscle; muscle pain/Its not excruciating pain.  Its just right there, mild pain; the area of what would be the trapezius muscle and confirms the area on his right side is what is sore, feels swollen, stiff, and tense; the area of what would be the trapezius muscle and confirms the area on his right side is what is sore, feels swollen, stiff, and tense; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team. The reporter is the patient.  A 27 year-old male patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), intramuscular, administered in arm left, administration date 03May2021 11:30 (Lot number: EN0175) at the age of 27 years as dose 1, single for covid-19 immunisation. Relevant medical history included: "food allergy" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: Allergy to egg. Family history included: "Asthma" (unspecified if ongoing). The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. The following information was reported: MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS (non-serious) with onset 04May2021, outcome "not recovered", described as "a stiff neck on the right side and has not gone away/Stiffness muscle"; MYALGIA (non-serious) with onset May2021, outcome "unknown", described as "muscle pain/Its not excruciating pain. Its just right there, mild pain"; MUSCLE SWELLING (non-serious), MUSCLE TIGHTNESS (non-serious) all with onset May2021, outcome "unknown" and all described as "the area of what would be the trapezius muscle and confirms the area on his right side is what is sore, feels swollen, stiff, and tense". Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of myalgia, muscle swelling, muscle tightness.  Additional information: Further stated that, patient described the area of what would be the trapezius muscle and confirms the area on his right side was what was sore, feels swollen, stiff, and tense. "It feels more tense when his wife massages it. It feels like it needs to loosen up but like its tightening." Ice and heat make it feel better. It was not excruciating pain. It was just right there, mild pain. It was not stopping me from my daily routine. It was annoying and the length of it scares me. Would it have anything to do with soft pillows or sleeping in a certain position."He says he had heard side effects should go away after a couple of days. Caller received a call from his doctors office and asked this agent to hold while he took the call. I was unable to hear and capture all details patient gave the physician but I was able to hear him describe some of the same symptoms and said he had used Bengay. When caller returned to the call, he said "The doctor says its probably not to do with the vaccine and the pain was not related to the vaccine but from how I was sleeping." He told him to take a pain killer and to massage it if it hurts. If it gets worse he can come in and they would do x-rays. He had tried ibuprofen, icy hot, and ben gay to relieve the pain from the muscles, it was not lessening though.   No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.