Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Cataract, Headache, Intervertebral disc disorder, Pain
Clinical narrative: Headaches; Cataract surgery; The pain was in the "senses" and in the forehead; Cervical problems; This is a spontaneous report received from a contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team. The reporter is the patient.  A 67 year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), administration date May2021 (Batch/Lot number: unknown) as dose 2, single for covid-19 immunisation. Relevant medical history included: "Dizziness problems" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: For several years she has had dizziness problems and she goes to balance therapy; "Headache but very mild" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: sometimes she had a headache but very mild; "High blood pressure" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: she also suffers from high blood pressure. The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. Vaccination history included: Covid-19 vaccine (Dose: 1, MANUFACTURER UNKNOWN), administration date: Apr2021, for COVID-19 Immunization. The following information was reported: CATARACT (medically significant) with onset 28Jul2021, outcome "unknown", described as "Cataract surgery"; HEADACHE (medically significant) with onset Aug2021, outcome "not recovered", described as "Headaches"; PAIN (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "unknown", described as "The pain was in the "senses" and in the forehead"; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISORDER (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "unknown", described as "Cervical problems". The events "headaches" and "the pain was in the "senses" and in the forehead" were evaluated at the physician office visit. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of cataract, headache, pain. Clinical course: Patient asked if it is recommended that she received the booster of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine given her health condition. She has already postponed her appointment on two occasions and this is the third. A few months from time of report, after Jul2021, in Aug2021 or Sep2021 she started to have headaches, she went to the neurologist and was prescribed migraine medications, her headaches started after her cataract surgery like after a week. The pain was in the "senses" and in the forehead, and it was a pain that was desperate. Her doctor told her that the operation was fine and that the pain could be for another reason. Sometimes the headache went away but then it came back on the upper part of the head and then on the back part, she also has cervical problems. It used to hurt as if she had hit herself, the neurologist and prescribed some pills for the headache, which calmed the pain approximately 4 hours after having taken it. She wanted to receive the booster vaccine since she is 67 years old and it has been 8-9 months since the second dose, first dose in Apr2021, the date of the second dose she does not remember it exactly and then she had surgery. Her neurologist prescribed her some preventive pills for the headache and she has to take it every afternoon, she also told her that she was going to feel the effects after 2 or 3 weeks of taking it. When she started taking it she had a headache for two weeks and then it went away for 3 weeks and then she had no pain for 6 days. She mentioned that UBRELVY and NURTEC calmed her headaches and then came back for 3 days and calmed down for 3 days and started again until he started taking the preventive medication, which relieved her pain after 2 and a half weeks. About 3 days from time of report, she started to have pain again but it was milder, yesterday she took the UBRELVY that was prescribed at first and it took 4 hours for it to work so the neurologist told her to take it when the pain started. Before administering the two doses of the vaccine, she did not suffer from headaches, the pain started after the cataracts surgery on (28Jul2021). She also mentioned that for several years she has had dizziness problems and she goes to balance therapy and sometimes she had a headache but very mild, she also suffers from high blood pressure. When she had her first appointment to receive the booster, she had a headache the day before so they changed her appointment for a week later, when this second date arrived she still had a headache so she cancelled it. She had an appointment with a physician but she forgot to ask and with her neurologist she has an appointment on 10Feb2022, she would like to put on the booster all at once but she is concerned because she knows that it can cause fever and headache. This last time she took her preventive pill and for like a week she hasn't had a headache.  The lot number for bnt162b2 was not provided and will be requested during follow up.