Age: 69.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Investigation, Nausea, Neuralgia, Vertigo
Clinical narrative: Took 1st shot and got anxious; a lot of fatigue; felt something in her chest area/chest feeling funny; Head spinning; Weakness; nerve pain; stomach nausea; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer. A 69-year-old female patient received first dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, solution for injection, lot number: EL3249, expiry date: unknown), via an unspecified route of administration, in the right arm, on 16Jan2021 14:15 at a single dose for covid-19 immunization. Medical history included left-sided breast cancer from 2005 and lymph nodes removed on her left side. Concomitant medications included pravastatin and a lot of vitamins. There was no history of all previous immunization with the Pfizer vaccine considered as suspect. There were no additional vaccine administered on same date of the Pfizer suspect. It was reported that the patient took first shot and got anxious on 16Jan2021. The patient also experienced a lot of fatigue on 16Jan2021, went home and got worse then was hospitalized. The patient had a virtual visit with her doctor and wanted some advice, and her doctor didn't give her any prescriptions. The patient also felt something in her chest area on 16Jan2021, after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Events anxious and fatigue required emergency room visit. The patient was hospitalized from 25Jan2021 to 27Jan2021 for the events anxious and fatigue. The patient also experienced head spinning, chest feeling funny, weakness and stomach nausea on unspecified date in Jan2021. Reported she was given all kinds of medicine in the hospital. She said as long as she was laying down, she was good. She said once she got up, and moved around, she felt the weakness again. She said she was put on depression medicine (Jan2021) while in the hospital, and was given 4 different prescriptions at discharge. She said the only thing that helps her go to sleep at night is a 1/2 tablet of generic alprazolam for anxiety. She said she knows she can't stay on the generic alprazolam forever, clarifying that is why the doctor put her on the depression medicine. Reported she was given the following medications in the hospital, as well as, prescriptions to continue the medications at home after her hospital discharge: escitalopram 10mg for depression. She said she is to take one escitalopram 10mg every evening for 30 days. She said she was given escitalopram 10mg for the two days she was in the hospital. Generic gabapentin 100mg for nerve pain (Jan2021) and she is to take 1 capsule nightly for 30 days. She said she started the gabapentin 100mg while she was in the hospital. Pantoprazole 40mg, she was given a one-time small IV bag of pantoprazole 40mg for her stomach while she was in the hospital (clarified she was given on 27Jan2021 at 05:26). She said she was having some stomach nausea (Jan2021), and the pantoprazole 40mg was to protect her stomach. She said she told the doctor she didn't want to take the pantoprazole 40mg any longer because she thought she was being given too many different medicines. Reported her fatigue is not the same as it was when she went to the hospital, but the fatigue is still there. Reported her lab work (Jan2021) was good, and her test results were fine when she was in the hospital. She said she was told she was 30% from being on the verge of having heart disease. She said her doctor told her the heart disease was preventable if she eats right, and makes some other changes. She said her cholesterol has gone done. She said she just has the fatigue, and that was why she was put on medicine. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of the event anxious, fatigue, nerve pain and stomach nausea. Outcome of the event fatigue was recovering while it was unknown for all the other events.