Sex: F
Vaccine: VARZOS
Symptoms: Furuncle, Injection site swelling, Pain, Pustule
Clinical narrative: taking out her anger; swelling at the injection site; vaccination site pain; she "swelled up"; had boils on face; I was in pain / soreness; This spontaneous report has been received from a currently 70-year-old female consumer who was reporting on herself.  The patient's concurrent conditions included herpes virus infection. The patient's medical history, drug/allergy reactions, and concomitant therapies were unknown.     On an unknown date in 2011, when  the patient was 62-year-old, she vaccinated with zoster vaccine live (ZOSTAVAX) (strength, dose/route/frequency of administration, lot number, and expiration date were not reported) as prophylaxis.  The patient stated, that on an unknown date in 2011, she had swelling at the injection site and then she "swelled up and had boils on face". She sought medical attention, but no treatment was done. No labs or diagnostic procedures were performed. She recovered form the events on an unknown date.  Later, on 05-MAR-2021, she called to request the ingredients of zoster vaccine live (ZOSTAVAX). She had difficult reading the documents on the computer due to her age (70-year-old), but did try to read the entire document and did not find the ingredients in zoster vaccine live (ZOSTAVAX) (also reported as ZOSTERVAX) from 2011 that got from the Health Department.  The patient reported that she reacted to zoster vaccine live (ZOSTAVAX) (also reported as ZOSTERVAX) as she told the person that reported this to the Health Department (in 2011). In the process of getting all her immunizations to the same place of her Health Center, she found that there were no records of reporting what happened to her. She stated "Anyway, I got the results of the 2011 of zoster vaccine live (ZOSTAVAX) (also reported as ZOSTERVAX) vaccine and tetanus "(sp?)"vaccine sent to my new "PA". I relayed on my new "PA", that I got boils that eventually broke and a lot of puss came out, like some huge pimples the size of boils an inch across, besides the pain and they did not seem at all concerned and I am disappointed they did not have a record of my call post-vaccine reactions. Recently, I reported all of this to my new "PA", so they would get the shingles vaccine past due to off my chart". The patient stated that she was currently getting the ingredients for the Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) from other manufacturers and then she would take these to her medical doctor (MD) to make sure there was nothing in these COVID-19 vaccines that she could be allergic to. For that reason, she needed the ingredients of the zoster vaccine live (ZOSTAVAX) (also reported as ZOSTERVAX) to never take those ingredients again.  On 16-MAR-2021, a call to the patient was performed and she stated that 11 years ago, after getting the vaccine, she broke out in boils "all over my face and neck filled with a bunch of puss. I could not leave the house for two weeks." She continued that no physician prescribed this vaccine, and that she voluntarily walked into the Health Department to get the vaccine "because of all of the commercials telling us to get our shingles vaccines." She stated that her new and current health care provider contacted Health Department to follow up on the events, and the health department had no record of her experiencing any side effects. Now, she had concerns about the new COVID-19 vaccines and the ingredients and wanted to know the ingredients that were in the zoster vaccine live (ZOSTAVAX) vaccine. She stated she "finally" had the ingredients for zoster vaccine live (ZOSTAVAX) after looking through "pages and pages." She was very concerned with the commercials and advertisements for vaccines that "are not approved." She stated that she "we are lucky that she did not sue the company years ago for her reaction." She stated clearly that she had been asked "4 times" who prescribed the zoster vaccine live (ZOSTAVAX) vaccine and asked why. She was explained about the company Adverse Event Follow-Up process. The patient stated repeatedly she did not want to be contacted again and apologized for "taking out her anger," on me and that she "was clearly not over what happened." She expressed that she was very pleased with customer service and was appreciative. It was reiterated that there was no permission to contact her or her health care provider any further. No additional information was available at this time. The outcome of the event anger was unknown.   The reporter considered vaccination site swelling, pain, vaccination site pain, furuncle and swelling to be related to Zoster Vaccine Live (ZOSTAVAX). Causality assessment with the event anger was unknown.