Age: 61.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Herpes zoster, Pain
Clinical narrative: Shingles; she is still miserable and in Pain /excruciating pain; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient herself) via Pfizer sponsored program via Medical Information Team. A 61-year-old female patient received BNT162b2 (PFIZER BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, Solution for injection, Lot number- ER8734) via an unspecified route of administration in left upper arm on 08Apr2021 08:30 as 2nd dose, single dose (at the age of 61-years-old) for COVID-19 immunization. Vaccination Facility Type was reported as Walmart pharmacy. Vaccine was not administered at Military Facility. Patient did not take any prior vaccinations with 4 weeks. There was a medical information request. Patient medical history included rheumatoid arthritis and dyslexia. The concomitant medications were not reported. Historical vaccine included BNT162b2 (PFIZER BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, Solution for injection, Lot number- EP7534) via an unspecified route of administration in left upper arm on 18Mar2021 08:30 as 1st dose, single dose for COVID-19 immunization. Patient received her second vaccine on 08Apr2021. She started having symptoms of a rash less than 30 days after, and have been diagnosed with Shingles on 01May2021. She had read that others have also had skin rashes and contracted shingles after the vaccine. She absolutely felt that she got shingles as result of taking the vaccine. She was curious if our research was showing a similar result. The coincidence was too strange not to make that assumption, she was very sick for three days after the second vaccine starting from 08Apr2021. Patient had written Pfizer an email saying she had come down with shingles and she believed there was a correlation. She said the first shingles rash she noticed was on this past Saturday (01May2021). She says it is ongoing, she is in excruciating pain. She said she was dyslexic but confirms the lot numbers are captured correctly. Patient was curious if we were getting any reports of an uptick in shingles after the vaccine. She has read online that people are getting shingles after getting the vaccine but she had not had any luck in finding, there does not seem to be anyone tracking this so she is not sure. she was a 1000 percent sure she got this after the vaccine. The reason why she says that is she was down 3 days after the second vaccine she was very sick after the second vaccine. She thinks it diminished her immune system to the point that the chicken pox virus was able to, she does not know what the word is but her immune system was suppressed and she is 1000 percent convinced that this is related to the vaccine, it cannot be a coincidence. She started feeling sick the day of the second dose but it was about 8 hours after the dose was given. She felt very sick for 3 days she would say she still felt punky for about 5 days. She recovered completely but she does not remember for sure what day she recovered from feeling very sick but it was about 5-7 days after the second dose she was feeling completely normal. She asks will she be holding for a long time, she has already been holding. The adverse events resulted in physician office visit but not emergency room visit. The outcome of the events was unknown.   No follow-up attempts are needed. No further information is expected.