Age: 69.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Body height, Body height decreased, Hypoaesthesia, Paraesthesia, Paraesthesia oral
Clinical narrative: lost height; Had numbness in both hand & fingers.; Tingling in left hand & fingers / tingling in right hand to wrist / tingling in left hand to wrist; tingling around my mouth /tingling from cheek bones to chin and around mouth; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer. This consumer(patient) reported that the 69-year-old female patient received second dose of bnt162b2 (BNT162B2, PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE ), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 11Apr2021 16:45 (Batch/Lot Number: EP7533) as single dose for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included hypersensitivity from an unknown date and unknown if ongoing. No Family Medical History. The patient previously took first dose of bnt162b2 (BNT162B2, lot number: EN6208) on 21Mar2021 04:45 PM in Left arm for covid-19 immunization and experienced sore arm and mild headache. Concomitant medications were unknown. The patient experienced had numbness in both hand & fingers on 11Apr2021 17:00 with outcome of unknown, tingling in left hand & fingers / tingling in right hand to wrist / tingling in left hand to wrist on 11Apr2021 17:00 with outcome of unknown, tingling around my mouth /tingling from cheek bones to chin and around mouth on 11Apr2021 17:00 with outcome of unknown. She is not pregnant at the time of vaccination. Facility where the most recent COVID-19 vaccine was administered was other. The patient did not receive any other vaccines within 4 weeks prior to the COVID vaccine. No other medications the patient received within 2 weeks of vaccination. No treatment was received for the adverse event. Prior to vaccination, the patient was not diagnosed with COVID-19. Since the vaccination, the patient has not been tested for COVID-19. No  other vaccine in four weeks. No other medications in two weeks. Allergies to medications, food, or other products. The clinical course was reported as follows: "Had numbness & tingling in left hand & fingers. within 15 min after injection of Pfizer vaccine. Approx half hr later numbness & tingling started in my right had & fingers. As of today April 13th still have tingling in both hands & fingers. I also have tingling around my mouth." Caller states that she received second dose last Sunday 11Apr2021. She states that on the first dose she received just a sore arm and mild headache. On the second dose within 10-15 minutes her left hand became numb, and her fingers were all numb. She states that she got the vaccine and that the vaccine was given in her left arm. She says that they had her stay at the facility extra long due to her reaction. She states that after a little while the numbness went away and she just had tingles in her left hand. The nurse at the facility said that if it gets worse then she should go to the emergency room. She states that on her way home the tingling started in the right hand. Since then she has still been having the tingling all in through her fingers and up to her wrist. She states that starting the same evening her cheek bones and around her mouth was tingling. She states that it almost feels like ants are crawling on you. She says it like when your hand falls asleep and the tingling starts and you get the funny feeling. She states that it comes and goes. The tingling is there constantly. She is concerned that it is not leaving her. She wants to know if it will go away, and if it will go away then she is fine, but she is very concerned about the ongoing tingling. When providing height, caller stated she has lost height. Caller asked if other people have been complaining about this. She states she got the vaccine around 4:45 in the evening. She states that ever so often her fingers tips will be a little numb, but it goes quickly. Is basically all tingling. She states that her pinky and ring finger seems to be more severe on her hands. She states that the tingling doesn't go past the wrist. The tingling on her face from her cheek bone through the chin. She states that it comes and goes but it is happening everyday. The numbness started within 10 to 15 minutes and then turned into tinging in her left hand. The tingling in the face was later on that evening. The right hand the tinging started on the way home.  She states the tingling is still ongoing. Each day she wakes up and she thinks maybe it will be gone today. She is very concerned. She states that the tingling seems that it is not as bad as it was the first time it started. However, sometimes it increases in intensity. She states that it is a little over mild, like a notch over mild, not severe but just a notch over mild. She states she got the vaccine because she doesn't want to get COVID. She states it's a no brainer to get the vaccine. She states that she does have little baby grand children, and god forbid she doesn't want them to get anything or vise versa. She states that her husband and daughter and son-in-law got the vaccine, and that everyone is getting it. She states that some people, she has seen, are getting sick, flu like symptoms, headache and fever from the vaccine but she just got the tingling and she is concerned. No Anatomical Location of Administration of Pfizer vaccine considered as suspect. Vaccination Facility Type was (Name) . No vaccine Administered at (Name) Facility. She states that there were (Name)  people there helping out. No history of all previous immunization with the Pfizer vaccine considered as suspect. No AE(s) require a visit to emergency Room or Physician Office. The caller got the second dose of the vaccine on 11Apr2021 and has been experiencing tingling in her hands up to her wrist and on her face from her cheek bones down to her jaw. She stated this started with numbness and went to tingling into her right hand and also in her face, which comes and goes.This started immediately after the vaccine, within 10-15minutes. On the way home from the vaccine it started in the other hand. She assumed this would go away but it has been a little over a week now. She asked will this ever go away. She stated she will give it longer and call her MD. She stated when she got the vaccine on Sunday the nurse said 2 people the day before, 10Apr2021, complained of tingling in their hands and this was the first time she had heard of tingling and numbness in hands.The nurse was was unsure how they made out.   follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.