Sex: F
Vaccine: FLUX
Symptoms: Drug dependence, Herpes zoster, Memory impairment, Pain
Clinical narrative: addiction to Lyrica; exasperating her memory problems; shingles; unbearable pain; Initial information was received on 01-Oct-2021 regarding an unsolicited valid serious case received from a consumer/non-health care professional via social media under the (reference number: US-SA-SAC20211006000404).  This case involves adult female patient who experienced shingles (herpes zoster), unbearable pain (pain) after she received vaccine INFLUENZA VACCINE and had addiction to lyrica (drug dependence) and exasperating her memory problems (memory impairment) after she started on Lyrica (pregabalin).  The patient's past medical treatment and family history were not provided. Patient has had flu vaccine in the past that resulted into acute pancreatitis.  On an unknown date, the patient received a dose of suspect INFLUENZA VACCINE produced by unknown manufacturer (lot number and expiry date not reported) via an unknown route at an unknown administration site for prophylactic vaccination.  On an unknown date the patient developed a non-serious shingles (herpes zoster), unbearable pain (pain) (unknown latency) following the administration of INFLUENZA VACCINE.  On an unknown date, the patient started therapy with Lyrica for pain (related to herpes).  On an unknown date the patient developed a serious addiction to lyrica (drug dependence) with following the administration of INFLUENZA VACCINE. This events was assessed as medically significant.  Reporter commented that their mom contracted Shingles after a flu shot. She is going on 3 years of unbearable pain now, with a major addiction to Lyrica that is exasperating her memory problems. She also came down with acute pancreatitis right after a flu shot a few years before that but they did not make the connection until they started researching the connection between flu shots and Shingles. Reporter also comments that reporter would personally rather have the flu for a few days than acute pancreatitis and shingles. Reporter also have a friend who used to do mission work in other countries. After her last round of vaccines so she could travel, she contracted Transverse Myelitis and hasn't been able to walk for more than 5 years now.  Laboratory details were not reported.  It was not reported if the patient received a corrective treatment for all the events.  At the time of this report, outcome of the events (pain, drug dependence) were not resolved.  The event outcome was unknown for the events (herpes zoster).  Information on the batch number was requested.; Sender's Comments: This case involves adult female patient who experienced shingles (herpes zoster), unbearable pain (pain) after she received vaccine INFLUENZA VACCINE and had addiction to lyrica (drug dependence) and exasperating her memory problems (memory impairment) after she started on Lyrica (pregabalin). The time to onset is unknown. There is no further information regarding patient's medical condition at the time of vaccination and laboratory tests ruling out other alternate etiologies were not reported. Based upon the reported information, the role of the suspect vaccine and drug cannot be assessed.