Age: 66.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Vaccination site swelling
Clinical narrative: swelling in the arm at the injection site/swelling in arm has been there since and it has been almost 3 months; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer or other non-healthcare professional.A 66-years-old male patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2, PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Solution for injection), dose 1 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Right on 09Apr2021 10:20 (Batch/Lot Number: EW0150) as Dose 1, SINGLE and dose 2 via an unspecified route of administration on 30Apr2021 (Batch/Lot Number: ER8731) as DOSE 2, SINGLE (at the age of 66-years-old) for covid-19 immunization. Medical history included high blood pressure and pre-diabetes (The patient clarified that he has pre-diabetes and not full. He hopes it doesn't get any worse than that). Concomitant medications included amlodipine (10 mg, once a day) taken for blood pressure measurement, start and stop date were not reported; candesartan (32 mg, daily, oral) taken for blood pressure measurement; metformin (500 mg, daily, Metformin is in the pharmacy bottle and caller doesn't have lot number) taken for glucose tolerance impaired. Start and stop dates of all concomitant medications were not reported. He takes blood pressure medications and is on diabetes pill. He has been taking those prior to getting the vaccine. The patient did not take any vaccines within 4 weeks prior to covid-19 vaccine and no vaccine was received on the same date as Pfizer covid-19 vaccine. On 10Apr2021, the patient experienced swelling in the arm at the injection site/swelling in arm has been there since and it has been almost 3 months. It was reported that after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer COVID 19 vaccine on 09Apr2021 and possibly a week later developed swelling in the arm at the injection site. The patient then received the second dose on 30Apr2021 in the same arm, right. He stated that swelling in arm has been there since and it has been almost 3 months. He reported that it was only a little swelling and not too bad. He could still feel it and when he reaches his arm over to scratch his back, he cannot do it. The patient has appointment on Thursday with his new HCP. He just wanted to know if this is normal, he was concerned that it has stayed swollen this long. clarified that he received the second dose on 30Apr2021. Three weeks before that was when he had the first dose. His arm was swollen a little after the first dose and it never went down completely. Both doses were given in the right arm. The swelling of right arm started the next morning after his first dose, so it was on 10Apr2021. He was not sure if it was the next morning after the first dose. It might have been the next week. He noticed it when he was taking a bath. Across both age groups, 18 through 55 years of age and 56 years and older, the mean duration of pain at the injection site after Dose 2 was 2.5 days (range 1 to 36 days), for redness 2.6 days (range 1 to 34 days), and for swelling 2.3 days (range 1 to 34 days) for participants in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine group. The clinical outcome of the event was not recovered.  Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.