Age: 60.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: VARZOS
Symptoms: Headache, Middle insomnia, Pain in extremity
Clinical narrative: headaches; woke up in the middle of the night; dizzy; left arm sore, hurt for a few days; problems with right shoulder (worsening or flare of pre-existing arthritis); pain in knees causing difficulty walking; aches and pains / everything that I had for my rheumatoid arthritis, my bone jones, it has gotten worsen; ache/pain; pain in knees; This non-serious case was reported by a consumer via call center representative and described the occurrence of headache in a 60-year-old male patient who received Herpes zoster (Shingrix) for prophylaxis.   Previously administered products included cortisone shots in the knees. Concurrent medical conditions included rheumatoid arthritis and shoulder arthritis.   On 03-JUN-2024, the patient received the 1st dose of Shingrix (left arm). On an unknown date, an unknown time after receiving Shingrix, the patient experienced headache (Verbatim: headaches), nocturnal awakening (Verbatim: woke up in the middle of the night), dizziness (Verbatim: dizzy), pain in arm (Verbatim: left arm sore, hurt for a few days), flare up of arthritis (Verbatim: problems with right shoulder (worsening or flare of pre-existing arthritis)), walking difficulty (Verbatim: pain in knees causing difficulty walking), condition aggravated (Verbatim: aches and pains / everything that I had for my rheumatoid arthritis, my bone jones, it has gotten worsen), pain (Verbatim: ache/pain) and knee pain (Verbatim: pain in knees). The outcome of the headache, flare up of arthritis, walking difficulty, condition aggravated, pain and knee pain were not resolved and the outcome of the nocturnal awakening and dizziness were unknown and the outcome of the pain in arm was resolved.   It was unknown if the reporter considered the headache, nocturnal awakening, dizziness, pain in arm, flare up of arthritis, walking difficulty, condition aggravated, pain and knee pain to be related to Shingrix.     It was unknown if the company considered the headache, nocturnal awakening, dizziness, pain in arm, flare up of arthritis, walking difficulty, condition aggravated, pain and knee pain to be related to Shingrix.   Additional Information: GSK Receipt Date: 01-JUL-2024 The patient self-reported.  He had Shingrix shot on 03 June 2024, it was administered into his left arm at his doctor's office.  He reported that he had the shot about a month ago and was still having problems with aches and pains.'  He stated that it seems like everything that he had for his rheumatoid arthritis, my bone jones, it has gotten worse.  His doctor called him about 3 days after he got the Shingrix shot and stated that to wait about 4 more days (to allow his symptoms to resolve).  When doctor's office called him to ask how he was feeling from the shot he told them, he got some headache, when woke up in the middle of the night, and just feel dizzy, the left arm was sore, but he also having problems with his right shoulder, the shoulder blade, he knows he had arthritis in that. He reported that the left injected arm hurt for a few days but then resolved.  He reported that some of these events have not resolved and he still getting the headaches at night on the back of his head not in forehead but the back area and his shoulder.  And now he knows he had bad knees-they told him those were bad and he had rheumatoid arthritis and he was getting cortisone shots in them but it seems that now after he got Shingrix shot, a few days later, the pain would be in the knee where he couldn't even walk good and it had just gotten worse and today was real bad (about a month later).