Age: 57.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Feeling abnormal, Headache, Hypoaesthesia, Hypotension, Investigation
Clinical narrative: stroke like symptoms; on his left side he had face droop; he had a speech slur; he couldn't move his left arm/couldn't lift his left arm; low blood pressure; his face was numb; his lip was twitching; bad headache; brain fog; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 57-year-old male patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), first dose via an unspecified route of administration, administered in the left arm on 21Apr2021 14:00 (Batch/Lot Number: EW0169) as single dose (at the age of 57-years-old) for COVID-19 immunisation. Medical history included stroke from 02Feb2020 to 02May2020 (not ongoing). The patient had 3 stroked last year and he was put on ELIQUIS and baby aspirin and a regimen for his strokes. The last one he had was 02May2020 and he has had no problems since then. Last year when he had strokes it wasn't because of his heart it was because of an artery in his brain that went 90 degrees. In Jun2020 they found out that the problem was an artery and that's when the doctor to do the double dose baby aspirin and then everything was fine and he had no episodes at all. Concomitant medications included acetylsalicylic acid (BABY ASPIRIN), lot number: P116218, expiration date: Jan2022 taken for stroke from 02Feb2020 to an unspecified stop date; and apixaban (ELIQUIS), lot number: 1796050, expiration date: Sep2023 taken for stroke from 02Feb2020 to an unspecified stop date. The patient had no additional vaccines on the same date as Pfizer vaccine and had no prior vaccine within 4 weeks. The patient had his first shot of the Pfizer COVID vaccine on 21Apr2021 at 14:00 and stated that they made him go wait for 15 minutes in his car. 10 minutes into waiting after the COVID vaccine, he had to call over the EMT because he had stroke like symptoms. On his left side he had face droop, he had a speech slur and he couldn't move his left arm. The patient was transferred to the hospital and was hospitalized. His CT scan was fine, the CT scan with dye was fine, his MRI was fine, and his heart was fine. The patient wanted to know if he should get the second COVID vaccine because of the reaction that he had from the first COVID vaccine. The patient got the COVID vaccine on 21Apr2021 and on 23Apr2021 he was still having a bad headache, brain fog and there was a deficit on his left side. He can't grab and hold something in his left hand and he has a slight deficit on the left side corner of his mouth. The patient was planning on seeing the provider in the first week of May2021. The patient added that he was told to wait 15 minutes and then 10 minutes in he could feel his face was numb and his lip was twitching and he couldn't lift his left arm. He laid on the horn and the EMS came over and they said that he had stroke like symptoms so they transferred him out of his car and into an ambulance where he had vitals taken and he had another episode of stroke like symptoms. They took him into a different ambulance and had another episode in that ambulance when they were on the way to the hospital. He didn't have anything after that except a bad headache and a slight deficit on his left side, according to them, and just a brain fog like when he was trying to figure out how to put things together and he was still having those at the time of the report. The patient was discharged from the hospital on 22Apr2021. The patient stated that his last stroke was on 02May2020 and he has had no headaches since until he had the COVID vaccine on 21Apr2021. According to the doctors and the neurologist at the hospital he could've had a stroke, he could've had low blood pressure from the vaccine or he could've had a multitude of other things but they recommended him to call Pfizer and CDC for the report. While in the hospital, he had a CT scan without contrast, a CT with contrast on 21Apr2021; an MRI without contrast on 21Apr2021; an echocardiogram without dye and with dye on 22Apr2021 and they did another MRI but of his neck on 22Apr2021; all were normal. The patient was hospitalized for stroke like symptoms, on his left side he had face droop, he had a speech slur and he couldn't move his left arm from 21Apr2021. The event stroke like symptoms resolved with sequel on 22Apr2021. The patient recovered from on his left side he had face droop, he had a speech slur, and he couldn't move his left arm on 22Apr2021. The patient has not recovered from bad headache, brain fog. The outcome of his face was numb was unknown, his lip was twitching and low blood pressure was unknown.