Age: 56.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Breast discomfort, Cough, Dyspnoea, Heart rate irregular, Palpitations
Clinical narrative: She felt that every day since her heartbeat has been skipping a beat, it made her worry down for there about she shouldn't even get the second dose; Irregular heartbeat; tenderness at the injection site; slept a lot; had heart palpitations making her feel like "breasts taking away"; had heart palpitations making her feel like "breasts taking away"; cough; feels like her breath is taken away and it makes her cough; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer. A 56-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, Solution for injection), dose 1 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Upper Arm Left on 30Apr2021 (Batch/Lot Number: EW0176; Expiration Date: Aug2021) as DOSE 1, SINGLE for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included ongoing High cholesterol (She says she has this condition for about 10 years), ongoing GERD (She says she has this condition for probably 15 years), skipped heart beat from an unknown date and unknown if ongoing (She says she had a skipped heart beat taken about once a year and that's pretty normal), hysterotomy from an unknown date and unknown if ongoing (8 weeks before she had a hysterotomy) and seasonal allergy from an unknown date and unknown if ongoing. Concomitant medication included Antibiotic from 9Apr2021 to 16Apr2021). She said the antibiotic was taken for 7 days for She had surgery 8 weeks ago on 19Mar2021 and got a wound that got infected and was not healing. It was reported that, As per agent, caller is a 56 year old female reporting that, after receiving her first dose of the Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine on 30Apr2021, she has slight tenderness at the injection site, slept a lot, had heart palpitations making her feel like "breasts taking away" and making her cough. Her heart and breasts related symptoms are still present and the rest of symptoms went away. Caller wants medical advice and wants to know if anyone else has experienced the same symptoms. Phone was transferred to the caller's husband (Name) who continued the call on behalf of his wife. He did not provide demographic information for himself, just mentioned he received the Moderna vaccine and that his wife received the Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine. I provided recording disclaimer to husband. Patient has her second dose of the Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine scheduled for tomorrow 21May 2021. Husband wants to know "Given her symptoms should she be getting her second dose of Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine?" and "when should she get her second dose of Pfizer BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine". Additional Context included Warm transfer from (Name) with Support. The caller is (Name), phone number #, he did not provide his mailing address. (Name) says the caller is trying to get a medical representative to talk to in regards to his wife. The caller says his wife had the COVID vaccine, has side effects, and wanted to speak with someone. (Name) says his wife will be in the room in a second. He says he called an hour ago and went through a long conversation which included an audio disclaimer and so forth. He says he did not talk to a person. He says he did contact someone and they read a long disclaimer and put him on hold. He said he was told it was a brief hold for him to talk to a medical specialist about side effects. He says he did not do a report. (Name) gives his wife's name as (Name). Event Details reported as She says she has slight tender at the site and that she slept a lot. She says those don't concern her at all. She says she is experiencing heart palpitations: fluttery, skipped heart beats that take your breath away. She says it happens every day since about day 2 of the vaccine. She says she is kind of nervous to get the second vaccine. She says she had a skipped heart beat taken about once a year and that's pretty normal, but not every single day. She says the first day of the slight tender at the site was that night the first day. For the start date she says she wants to say on 04May2021 or 05May2021. She says her next dose is due the next day: 21May2021. She says she would like to get advice. When referred to her primary care provider for any medical advise she says as the people who own the vaccine you can't tell her what she should do if she weird side effect? Her husband (Name) gets on the phone and says he had a different set of symptoms with a different vaccine and his physician is concerned because there is no central database of symptoms or actions or activities of the vaccine and asks why didn't Moderna give this information? He asks have we seen this (his wife's side effects) before? His wife, the reporter, gets back on the phone and asks if she didn't get the vaccine then how effective is the first vaccine? She says the slight tender at the site was over later the next day and was very mild. She says the slept a lot started the same day as the vaccine. She says it went away and she was fine the next day. She says 2 days later everything was better but then she got the heart palpitations. She says she recovered completely from the slight tender at the site and slept a lot. She says the heart palpitations started day 2 after the vaccine. She says one day 2 days ago it didn't happen but it has happened since. She says the feels like her breath is taken away and it makes her cough started as soon as the heart palpitations happened and that they happen every time. She says it feels like your heart skipped a beat and it makes you breathe in and cough. She says the heart palpitations are not constant; they are sporadic throughout the day and it happens when she is laying down. Products: For the lot number she says it is EW0176 or EW0/76 and that she thinks it is a 1 there. When asked about her husband's side effects with another vaccine and if she has time to file a report, the caller's husband (Name) says in the background it was Moderna, confirmed for COVID- 19, and it was a common reaction. He says it was itchy skin. He says he has filed it with Moderna and declines to go through with filing it with Pfizer now. The caller (Name) does not respond to the request for filing a report on (Name). Reactions reported as She felt that every day since her heartbeat has been skipping a beat, it made her worry down for there about she should not even get the second dose, Irregular heartbeat. Dates for She felt that every day since her heartbeat has been skipping a beat, it made her worry down for there about she should not even get the second dose. Transferring agent stated, She had received the first dose of COVID vaccine and she felt that every day since her heartbeat has been skipping a beat she did not exactly know how to explain that but it made her worry down for there about she should not even get the second dose. Transferring agent stated, "She is wondering if she should even get it since she is experiencing irregular heartbeat after first dose." Caller has been experiencing irregular heart beat every single day since the first dose of covid vaccine. On an unspecified date, the patient experienced, she felt that every day since her heartbeat has been skipping a beat, it made her worry down for there about she should not even get the second dose; irregular heartbeat, tenderness at the injection site, slept a lot, had heart palpitations making her feel like "breasts taking away", had heart palpitations making her feel like "breasts taking away" and cough, feels like her breath is taken away and it makes her cough. Outcome of the events tenderness at the injection site and slept a lot was recovered on an unspecified date, outcome of the event She felt that every day since her heartbeat has been skipping a beat, it made her worry down for there about she should not even get the second dose; Irregular heartbeat was unknown and not recovered from other events.