Age: 65.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Palpitations, Vertigo
Clinical narrative: Heart seems to be palpitating; Pain; Fatigue; Shingles; Feeling kind of funny, her hair and skin felt funny; Very bad headache; Vertigo; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 65-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, lot number: EN6200), dose 2, via an unspecified route of administration, administered in the right arm on 19Feb2021 08:15 (at the age of 65-years-old) as 2nd dose single for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included Meniere's disease (onset date in the 1990s, about 1993 or 1994), ongoing allergy to wasps/wasp venom, thyroid disorder, high cholesterol, and lost hearing in left ear. Concomitant medications included levothyroxine for thyroid disorder from 1991 and atorvastatin taken for high cholesterol from Nov2020 - both ongoing. The patient previously took epinephrine (EPIPEN) for allergy to wasps/wasp venom and her arm gets red and irritated; pneumococcal vaccine from an unspecified date in 2020 (around late Oct2020 or Nov2020) and flu vaccine (she always gets a flu vaccine, has had no adverse reaction) - both for immunization. The patient received the 1st dose of BNT162B2 (lot number: EL9264), administered on the left arm on 29Jan2021 09:52 (at the age of 65-years-old) for COVID-19 immunization, and experienced left arm was so sore, hurt. The patient reported that her Meniere's disease started in the 1990s, about 1993 or 1994. Last episode was probably 15 years prior to the time of the report. It was actively ongoing during her 40s and may be to mid-50s. She lost hearing in her left ear, but other than that she thinks that she was ok after this condition. The patient reported that the 2nd dose of her BNT162B2 COVID-19 vaccine was administered on 19Feb2021. Because she is left-handed, the patient had the 2nd dose injection administered to her right arm. On 20Feb2021, about within about 24 hours of administration of the 2nd dose, the patient experienced a very bad headache and vertigo. The patient reported that she does not get headaches. The headache had not gone away and was still ongoing. The vertigo started about the same time that the very bad headache started. The patient described the vertigo as disorientation, like spinning, while lying in bed in the dark late at night or early in the morning, it was not as bad, only pretty slight. The patient also added that it was a very similar feeling to her experience with Meniere's disease years ago. The patient mentioned that as long as she could see out of a window or room, she could orient herself. During the day she does not seem to have this vertigo at all. On 27Feb2021, the patient was feeling kind of funny, her hair and skin felt funny. The patient mentioned that it was funny how one's body know that something is going on before they do. She started looking in the mirror and noted that she looked really old and her skin looked really bad. On 01Mar2021, shingles rash of red spots appeared on right side of the patient's face, forehead, and eye lid - all on right side. She never had shingles before. The patient went to her eye doctor on 02Mar2021 to make sure her eye was not involved in the shingles and the doctor did not think it was. Both her eye doctor and her husband, who is a general practitioner physician, said that it was shingles. On an unspecified date, the patient's heart seems to be palpitating. The patient was not sure if her heart was palpitating, it was hard to tell, but her heart seems to be palpitating a bit. She has not mentioned the palpitating to her husband. On an unspecified date, the patent had a lot of pain and fatigue. The patient was not hospitalized for any of the events. There were no relevant tests done for the patient. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of the events headache (Tylenol) and shingles (valacyclovir 3 g daily). The outcome of the event feeling abnormal was unknown while the outcome of the remaining events was not recovered.