Age: 54.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Axillary pain, Pain in extremity, SARS-CoV-2 test, Vaccination site erythema, Vaccination site mass
Clinical narrative: axillary was tender and occasionally painful; 50 cent size lump on the side of her arm at injection site that was raised, warm, red, and tender at the injection site; 50 cent size lump on the side of her arm at injection site that was raised, warm, red, and tender at the injection site; 50 cent size lump on the side of her arm at injection site that was raised, warm, red, and tender at the injection site; 50 cent size lump on the side of her arm at injection site that was raised, warm, red, and tender at the injection site; patient received the covid vaccine on the 30Dec had a sore arm; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable pharmacist. A 54-year-old female patient received the first dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, lot number and expiry date not reported), via an unspecified route of administration on 30Dec2020 at single dose on the arm for COVID-19 immunization. The patient medical history included "had classic symptoms of COVID, but had a negative COVID test" on Dec2020. Concomitant medications were not reported. The patient previously had a Tetanus vaccine 23 years ago. After receiving patient spiked a fever 101 and cellulitis at the site. Reporter explained she is not 100 percent sure. She is not sure if the nurse used the DTap abbreviation and truly administered the Tetanus shot. Reporter indicated she is not sure which preparation patient got. Patient received the vaccine on 30Dec2020 and her arm was sore that day when went to bed. The next morning (31Dec2020) the site was tender. She then noticed a nickel size (as reported) red lump that had disappeared on 03Jan2021 (The next day she had tenderness and redness that went away after two days). Patient noticed the 50 cent size (as reported) lump on the side of her arm at injection site that was raised, warm, red, and tender at the injection site the morning of 31Dec2020, an exact time was not specified. On 07Jan2021 he had a 50 cent size lump on the side of her arm at injection site in arm received injection that was raised, warm, red, and tender at the injection site. On 07Jan2021 her axillary was tender and occasionally painful. On 08Jan2021 it returned to injection site at 1. That day at 6:30 PM on 08Jan2021 she had an area she had a 50 cent size area that was raised, red, and warm. She took Benadryl the next day. The morning of 09Jan2021 she woke up and had more redness tenderness in her arm, therefore, she called her doctor. Her doctor ordered an antibiotic. On 11Jan2021 they entered in the follow-up notes she had slow improvement even though the axillary area is still painful. Reporter explained it sounds like events are slowly improving, they are not completely resolved. Reporter stated it is so weird that the sore arm went away, disappeared, and then came back again. The final outcome of the events was recovering. The adverse events di not require a visit to the emergency room or physician office. The events were as assessed as non-serious by reporter. The causality of events was considered as related by reporter.  Information on the Lot/Batch number has been requested.