Age: 84.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Asthenia, Blood glucose, Blood glucose decreased, Blood pressure increased, Blood pressure measurement
Clinical narrative: she felt her blood pressure was up and so she checked, it was at 179; her sugar was down; Dizziness; Weakness; Nausea/felt sick to her stomach; Diarrhea; Headache; Tiredness; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). An 84-year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2 reported as PFIZER VACCINE SHOT; lot number: EL3248; expiration date: unknown) at vaccination age of 84-year-old via an unspecified route of administration in the left arm on 29Jan2021 09:20 at a single dose for covid-19 immunization. Medical history included open heart surgery, diabetic/diabetes, high blood pressure, bone and joint problems, and her bones were already hurting for a long time before. She was calling because she was asked if she was allergic to anything, she is allergic to one medication, but she thinks they need to know more about her health conditions before giving this medication. Familial history included all of her family that has passed, died of diabetes or cancer. Concomitant medications included unspecified other blood pressure medication and nifedipine for blood pressure. The patient did not receive other vaccination within 4 weeks. The patient reported that she took the shot on 29Jan2021 and she stayed for the 15 minutes, but she didn't have any feeling about it. A little more than an hour later (29Jan2021), she had a slight headache, then she got tired and felt like she needed to lay down. She did lay down and slept 9 hours. The patient reported that she felt her blood pressure was up and so she checked, it was at 179 [unspecified unit]. It was at that point she called her children and told them she was not doing well. She does feel this is under control at this point. The next morning (30Jan2021), she had dizziness, weakness, felt sick to her stomach, and had a slight headache. She clarified that the sick to her stomach feeling was nausea and diarrhea both started on 30Jan2021. It had resolved as of 31Jan2021. She mentioned that she feels better but the tiredness is still going on today. It is explained that her blood pressure was up and her sugar was down on 30Jan2021, she is a diabetic. She takes blood pressure medication, but it wasn't bringing it down at first. She explained that when she took her blood sugar it was 70 [unspecified unit] something on 30Jan2021. Her normal is 120-121 [unspecified unit] (unspecified date) and that is where she likes to keep it so that was a problem. She has had to eat sweets to get it up, but it won't stay up. She reported that the tiredness, dizziness, and headache are still going on right now. She was calling because she was asked if she was allergic to anything, she is allergic to one medication, but she thinks they need to know more about her health conditions before giving this medication. She feels they should ask more questions or have the doctor send a recommendation over or information about a person. The outcome of the events headache was not recovered, as for the events dizziness and tiredness were recovering while the outcome of the events nausea and diarrhea were recovered on 31Jan2021. The outcome of the other events was unknown.