Age: 65.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Insomnia, Musculoskeletal chest pain, Nausea, Rib fracture
Clinical narrative: coughing up blood; Coughing; Nausea; Headache; extreme fatigue; acute pain on the left side, she thought she cracked her rib/ rib pain; acute pain on the left side, she thought she cracked her rib/ rib pain; didn't sleep at all; difficulty breathing; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 65-year-old female patient received her first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, lot number: ER8757) at the age of 65-year-old, via an unspecified route of administration on left arm on 31Mar2021 at 13:00 at single dose for COVID-19 immunization. The patient's medical history and concomitant medications were reported as none. There were no additional vaccines administered on the same date and no vaccines within 4 weeks prior to the COVID-19 vaccine. The patient previously took aspirin and experienced allergy which was described as deadly. She never took medications since she found that out at 16-year-old. The patient received her first shot on 31Mar2021 at a pharmacy and mentioned that she was not sick at the time of vaccination, but she had a violent reaction to it. When she received it, she didn't feel anything. People said you will get a sore arm, but she got none of that. Then in the middle of the night on Friday (02Apr2021) probably around 3:00, she woke up with acute pain on the left side, it was rib pain, she thought she cracked her rib. On the same day, she also experienced difficulty breathing, and didn't sleep at all. On Saturday morning (03Apr2021), when she woke up, she had nausea, a headache, and extreme fatigue, but wondered if the extreme fatigue was because she did not sleep. The nausea and headache went away 8 hours later, on the same day. On Sunday (04Apr2021), she was coughing and coughed up blood. When she coughed, there was blood in the mucous. She mentioned that she still has acute pain, she could not get comfortable. Her sister passed away in January and she had a 5 pm train she was supposed to catch, she was responsible for the funeral. She was thinking that if she went to a hospital, they would keep her for 24 hours, she could maybe make it to the funeral but that was questionable. By Monday (05Apr2021), the acute pain was gone, she still had a cough, there was still blood in the mucous, she has occasionally blood in the mucous. The cough has not gone away but she was getting better every day. The difficulty breathing continued until about 08Apr2021 (as reported), but she still has some shortness of breath, but nowhere near as bad. She consulted her notes and said she was at 30% on 03Apr2021 and she felt today that she was at 80% and every day she was a little better and better. She has to sleep upright, she was afraid to sleep flat, she slept in her chair, last night for 2 nights she slept upright in her bed. She probably could lay down, but she was more comfortable upright. Because she was sleeping upright, she was not fatigued, she was not sleeping well but she didn't think that has anything to do with what was going on. The events did not result in emergency room or physician office visit. She is supposed to get her second dose on 21Apr2021but she did not want to get the second shot. She asked if she could wait and get the one shot from Johnson & Johnson. She didn't know where to go anymore. The outcome of the event "acute pain on the left side, she thought she cracked her rib/ rib pain" was recovered on 05Apr2021, recovered on 03Apr2021 for "nausea" and "headache", recovered on Apr2021 for "extreme fatigue", not recovered for "didn't sleep at all", and recovering for all other events.