Age: 66.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Anaphylactic reaction, Dyspnoea, Feeling abnormal, Magnetic resonance imaging, Pain in extremity
Clinical narrative: get sore arm; Anaphylactic reaction; Shortness of breath; look miserable; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient).   A 66-year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Right on 09May2021 (Lot Number: EW0177; Expiration Date: Aug2021) at single dose for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included asthma since she was 8 years old, when she was a child her asthma was really bad and then she would say after 2004, she would say she went to chemotherapy and then 2005 her asthma got a lot better, didn't have it really bad as she used to, one doctor said he had heard that from patient they go through the chemo and their immune system change, she carried her little inhaler, but she don't have (incomplete sentence), she had asthma but not really bad, she was not like walking around every day with asthma packs but she have asthma and she keep little inhaler, for eg; if there is lot of pollen in air then she will need to take out her inhaler; breast cancer; seizure; hypertension, high cholesterol. Concomitant medications included zonisamide taken for seizure, lacosamide (VIMPAT) taken for seizure, losartan taken for hypertension, atorvastatin taken for high cholesterol, all start and stop date were not reported. Some years ago when she in 2005 when she was on the end like she said its 2005 and she was right on the end of being treated for breast cancer. she was taking, the doctor put her on Tamoxifen and she woke up one morning to really short of her breath and she thought it was her asthma, so the lady she was staying with said you look miserable and she said let her get back on the store and have her take her to the ER she said call now and it turned she had a blood clot in her lungs but 'Dr PRIVACY' (not spelled) who was treating her, he was a cancer specialist he said PRIVACY she was so proud of her, he said that she got to take you off the Tamoxifen, it was that Tamoxifen that caused blood clot in your lung. A blood clot in the lungs was the side effect of the Tamoxifen. Tamoxifen was one of the drug they give women who have had breast cancer and are right at the end of the treatment and put us on Tamoxifen and she ended up with a little bit of blood clot in her lungs. He said that was one of the effects of Tamoxifen. So, that was like in 2008, 2009 it was 12 years ago, could have 11 years ago but this goes to show her body may have potency for allergic reaction. The patient stated she had short of her breath because she did have allergic reaction shortness of breath with Pfizer Vaccine first dose at a pharmacy yesterday 09May2021, had been given Prednisone so. She did shortness of breath about 45 minutes after she took it because we had to sit there about she would say we were sitting there about 20 minutes and he finally said well you all can get up and leave and then about say 15 minutes later she start getting shorter and shorter of her breath. " The patient stated, she just needed to Pfizer certainly reporting acting as if this was just a completely safe vaccine there are unsafe reaction to this vaccine so she wanted to get this going okay, she was 66 years old she end up going to the ER,  they didn't give her Epipen' (not clarified further) so that's when she started to get sore arm, she had an anaphylactic reaction to this drug. Now if this was the wrong number to report it to then she would call to get to agency she needed to report it to. she was on the Prednisone now. Sometimes it was difficult for she to breathe, so the emergency room they 'have' (not clear) she up with enough medication now, so she had got plenty of medication now." She stated it just happened yesterday, when she saw on the news that they hadapproved it to be for children and it bothers me that they, this was  just a break simple drug no very safe. Yesterday when she  first started getting short of her breath she was in denial and didn't want to because she was really started shorter of my breath and the pharmacist that administered he even said he knew that it was the reaction to the drug because she was full animated before he administered the vaccine because she  was sitting there talking to the two ladies and you know jabbering and remember the days because of flu shots and how the government used it, they didn't wanted knowledge when people talked about how the flu shot (Unspecified Shot) made them sick and she  was just jabbering so he knew it was reaction to the vaccine. Here was this lady 'who was so animated and talking and now she can barely hold her head up' (not clarified further). Patient confirmed Prednisone as treatment. As for the treatment patient stated, "Took the 2 Prednisone and what happened was, if I wasn't even going to go get Prednisone, but the shortness of breath was going transient, what I mean is first of all I talk and I do fine and then all of a sudden I get short of my breath again and then looked like I had a good night and then I woke up and my lungs tightened up again and then earlier this evening I called on phone and tell them I have to take Prednisone because my breath was getting short again." Prednisone details were 10 mg 4 tablet by mouth every day for 5 days then 2 tablet every day for 3 days, so 1 every day for 2 days. As for other medications: patient stated she was on seizure medications daily. She was on treatment for asthma, she had a little inhaler she keep in her purse for eg; if there's pollen in the air, when she got out and then maybe get short of her breath if there's pollen in the air yeah she need her little inhaler, but she was on daily treatment for her seizures she was on 800 mg a day for the seizures, Zonisamide and Vimpat. In fact that day she wouldn't take any other medication because she thought well she was not taking any other medication' (not clarified further) to mix it with this vaccine. Normally she take the 25 mg for high blood pressure but she won't take it that day she think it's called Losartan or something. Little bit of high blood pressure they cut that down because her blood pressure had gotten, she had some high blood pressure yes it's called 25 mg of Losartan. Yeah she thought, she won't take it that morning because she though well just lay off all of that stuff that day and so we can take the vaccine, 'mix none of that with vaccine' (not clear), that day the only medication that she was taking was her seizure medication (Zonisamide and Vimpat) because you can't skip medication but the Losartan and Atorvastatin that's for high cholesterol she won't take that either that day. The asthma now, she did have asthma but it's a kind of that's one the things that you have it but you are not on daily medication for it. She do keep her inhaler with because sometimes she go in buildings where they have air condition on really high and it gets to her lungs. In fact when this happened and the guy wanted to call 911 we decide well let's see if new inhaler (Unspecified Medication) worked and it wasn't quite rescuing her lungs like it should." For Vimpat details patient stated, it's a pill (formulation not clarified further), it's 100 mg so she took one in the morning and one in the evening. For Zonisamide details patient stated, Each capsule was 100 mg, so she take two 100 in the morning and two 100 before she go to bed." As for lab Test patient sated, "Just had a MRI but no dye just the plain MRI with no dye or anything. Had MRI without dye, no dye." hen probed for the MRI result, consumer stated, "No because this was the seizure doctor ordering that." As for date of MRI patient stated, "That was on the 4th I think, but what was the MRI have to do with having a reaction to this vaccine, because the MRI. Doctor want specifically had no dyes it was just no dyes but that was the doctors that treat me for seizure he wanted the MRI done, yeah this was the 4th of May." When probed if adverse events are improved, worsened or persisting, consumer stated, "today you know just a short of the breath I am really short of my breath but now when I have taken the Prednisone I am breathing a lot better, breathing so much better yes, you can mark improve (not clarified further)." The outcome of the event shortness of breath was recovering, of other events was not recovered.