Age: 78.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Vaccination site pain
Clinical narrative: injection site pain; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP). The reporter is the patient.  A 79-year-old female patient received BNT162b2 (BNT162B2), on 17Feb2021 as dose 2, single (Lot number: EN6201) at the age of 78 years, in right arm for covid-19 immunisation. The patient's relevant medical history included: "Bronchitis" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: she gets this condition once a year; "Asthma" (ongoing), notes: she was diagnosed with this condition when she was 58 years old.; "Breast cancer", start date: Dec2007 (unspecified if ongoing); "Fibromyalgia", stop date: 1999; "Pneumonia" (unspecified if ongoing); "Type 2 Diabetes", start date: 2000 (unspecified if ongoing); "Right ankle fusion surgery" (unspecified if ongoing); "allergic to:sulfa drugs" (unspecified if ongoing); "Supplementation therapy" (unspecified if ongoing); "Restless legs" (unspecified if ongoing); "lymph nodes removed from her left arm" (unspecified if ongoing). Concomitant medication(s) included: METFORMIN taken for diabetes mellitus, start date: 2000; METOPROLOL; FENOFIBRATE; LISINOPRIL; LORATADINE; CLONAZEPAM; LEVODOPA-CARBIDOPA taken for restless legs syndrome; ZINC taken for supplementation therapy; FOLATE taken for supplementation therapy; FOLIC ACID taken for supplementation therapy; VITAMIN D3 taken for supplementation therapy; MAGNESIUM taken for supplementation therapy; CITRACAL + D3 taken for supplementation therapy. Past drug history included: Actos, reaction(s): "allergic to: Actos"; Levaquin, reaction(s): "allergic to: Levaquin"; Amoxicillin, reaction(s): "allergic to: amoxicillin"; Doxycycline, reaction(s): "allergic to: doxycycline"; Azithromycin, reaction(s): "allergic to: Azithromycin"; Augmentin, reaction(s): "allergic to: Augmentin"; Statins, reaction(s): "allergic to: Statins"; Clindamycin, reaction(s): "allergic to: Clindamycin"; Montelukast. Vaccination history included: BNT162b2 (Dose number: 01, Batch/lot number: Unknown, Anatomical location: Right arm), administration date: 27Jan2021, when the patient was 78-year-old, for Covid-19 Immunization. The following information was reported: VACCINATION SITE PAIN (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "injection site pain".  Additional information: Caller states that she was currently 80 years old and had three doses of the vaccine. First one on 27Jan2021, second one on 17Feb2021, and the third one on 10Sep2021. Caller states that she was due for another booster and was told she could get it this Friday at the place where she got her last booster. Caller states that she was not prone to headaches. States that if she ever did get a headache it would be a sinus headache in the forehead area. States she wasn't expecting any side effects from the vaccines, has a lot of faith, and was grateful for the vaccines. States she doesn't listen to all the negative. Caller states that approximately the time she got the booster dose of the vaccine she started having headaches that were weird. States they kind of feel like if you took a mans big hand and put it on the back of your head, just above your neck, that's the location of the headache. States it has remained consistent since then. Caller says she was debating on the second booster. She wants to go got withheld to see her grandkids. States she was wondering if this was a side effect. Caller states that her hair was long and she wears a lightweight headband; even that feels swollen, like she can press the pain with her hands. States that the pain will get worse as the day goes on. Caller states that she just turned 80 in Feb2022. She was 79 when she got her vaccines. Caller states that she was not happy with her primary care provider at the moment. States that the provider was only there 4 days a week in the morning, and the caller was not a morning person. Caller states that the doctor she had before retired and moved to withheld. Caller states that she has about 9 antibiotics she was allergic to and she gets bronchitis once a year. Caller states that her primary care provider called in a prescription for her for Erythromycin, caller states that was one of the ones she was allergic to. Caller states that she took 2 of them, 12 hours apart and felt like her throat was starting to close up and she was itching so she didn't take anymore. Caller states that she called the nurse and they switched it to Doxycycline. Caller states that was also on her allergy list. States that she took it and broke out in the worst hives. States her friends husband had to drive around to find her Benadryl. Caller states that she was so itchy, she scratched her arm until it bled. States that her doctor said that since the caller was allergic to all antibiotics she just needed to go to the emergency room. Caller states she did not do that, she just treated herself by breathing in steam from a pan of water on the stove and using her asthma inhalers. Caller states that the doctor also had her on Montelukast and Glipizide. States that during the time with her issues with the antibiotics and the bronchitis her A1C was 10.2. Caller states that her A1C had never been that high. Caller says that it may have been due to stress. States that her whole family was on the withheld and she was alone. Caller says that she was in the process of looking for a new doctor. Headache: Caller states that with the headache she doesn't know if she should rock the boat by getting the second booster on this Friday. Asks if she possibly had Covid sometime and did not know? Or could the headaches be from the vaccine? Caller says the headaches were strange and she doesn't understand why she can press it and it will hurt, almost like inflammation. Caller states that her headaches have felt a little better. She feels the doctor had her on too much medicine. Caller states that she cannot pinpoint when the headaches started exactly because she has had so much going on. A1C was 10.2: Caller states she cannot pinpoint the dates for this either. States it was around the time that her house almost burnt down in Oct or Nov2021. Caller states that she turned on the furnace in her home and half of her electricity would go out. States that when her A1C went to 10.2 her doctor wanted to take her off Metformin. Caller states that she had been on Metformin since 2000 and was taking three a day. Caller says that the doctor wanted to put the caller on Januvia. The caller refused to take, and never consumed the Januvia after reading about it. Caller states that she was delivered from fibromyalgia after having it for 11 years and did not want to risk it. Caller states that the doctor then prescribed Glipizide. The caller states that she has been allergic to sulfa drugs since she was a child, doesn't know why or what happens, that was just what she has always been told. Caller states that she took the Glipizide and then was driving and felt like she was going to pass out and had to pull off the road because she was swimmy headed. Caller states that by swimmy headed she means disoriented and dizzy. Caller state that the pharmacist told her there was very little sulfa in Glipizide and to talk to her doctor. Caller states that her doctor told her to continue to take it. Caller states that she was still taking Glipizide twice a day with Metformin and she just kept getting worse. The caller was also taking Montelukast. Caller told one of her friends that she felt like she was losing her cognition and doesn't feel like herself. Caller states it was all around the same time as the booster. She didn't know if it was the vaccine or the pills, or just her being old. Caller states that she finished the 90 day supply of Glipizide then took it for 20 more days and it was still making her swimmy headed. Caller states that she was in the kitchen making bacon and had to sit down because she almost passed out. It was then she decided to stop taking it. States she stopped taking Glipizide on 30Mar2022. States that her A1C in Feb was back down to 7.2. Caller also states that sometime in Apr2022 she took herself off of Montelukast. States after reading about it, she doesn't know why she started taking it in the first place. States she feels so much better since being off of it. States that about 4-5 days later she felt like her cognition was coming back, she feels so much better after being off of Glipizide and Montelukast. NDC, Lot Number, Expiry Date for Montelukast were unknown by the caller. Caller states that she had all her shots in her right arm. States she had breast cancer in Dec2007. She had lymph nodes removed from her left arm and that area was always numb. States that after the booster, that area started driving her up a wall. States it was itchy and crawly, especially at night and she would scratch until it bled. Caller states that she has some stuff called Real Time Max Pain Relief analgesic lotion that helps. Caller says she read the information from the vaccine and it says it can cause swollen lymph nodes, lymphadenopathy. Caller states she wonders if that was related to this for her? Caller mentions that she also had injection site pain. Caller states that she was allergic to several drugs. Asks if Levaquin and Cipro were the same drug. Caller states that she was a technophobe. Says that she has 2 yards and has been mowing them herself.  No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.