Age: 65.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Headache, Herpes zoster, Malaise
Clinical narrative: sick; Broke out in shingles; Headache; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 65-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), dose 2 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left at the age of 65-years-old on 31Mar2021 (Batch/Lot Number: EW0150) as 2nd dose, single for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included ongoing osteoporosis and "thyroid". The patient previously took the first dose of BNT162B2 on 10Mar2021 (lot number: EN6208) in the left arm. Concomitant medication included levothyroxine sodium (SYNTHROID) taken for thyroid therapy from 1977 to an unspecified stop date. After the first vaccine she broke out in a rash, and after the second vaccine she broke out in another rash which was worse. She still has it in the neck area. She put Cortisone lotion on it and it goes away and comes back. She usually uses the size of a dime or a quarter. She also broke out in Shingles. It's clear across her back. She was still itchy. After the second injection she was itching all over her head, hands, arms, legs, and feet. She was reading about the side effects of a rash, but her whole body was itching. She broke out in shingles and she never had that before. She needs to get Temlos injections for her osteoporosis, she was supposed to start, but she refrained from doing so because she was afraid it might affect the COVID vaccine or the COVID vaccine will affect these injections. The second injection made the 2-inch slough on her arm from the first dose worse, but it went away faster. She also got a 2-inch slough on her neck and she still have it. That was what she was concerned about. The one on her neck came back in a flurry after the second injection, and that was when she broke out in shingles, it blew up like fire on back and neck. Its drying up. The one neck was flaring, red, itching and dry. She put Cortisone lotion on it. Her lower back still has the rash. The rash lasted for about 3 days to a week after the second injection. It came back worse, the second injection did a number on her skin, from top to bottom, but the worst area was the neck, and right where the back attaches to the butt, in that area, in the lower back. The itch was there like phantom itch, there are no bumps or rash on her upper legs and lower legs, her head, back my arms, all night long she was itching. The second vaccine was when she got sick. She also had a major headache for 2 days. 2 days of major headache, and the rest of week if she bent over too fast, she would feel remnants of the headache, especially on the right side over her eye and temple area, went on for about a week. The patient had no previous immunization on the day of vaccination and within 4 weeks. The events did not require a visit to the ER or physician office. The events shingles and headache started on 01Apr2021 while sick on an unknown date. The patient used Cortisone and Benadryl lotion for a rash and itch and it didn't go away. The outcome of the event headache was recovered on Apr2021 while for shingles and sick was unknown.