Age: 70.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Musculoskeletal stiffness, Neck pain, Pain in extremity
Clinical narrative: severe left side neck pain/neck was so sore; stiffness in her neck the next morning when she woke up. She could hardly move her neck and could not move to the left for 2 to 3 days and it was bad for a week; sore arm; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient) via Medical Information Team. A 70-years-old female patient received first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Solution for injection, lot number: EL3247 and expiry date not reported, patient was 70 years old at the time of vaccination, Weight (kg): 81.65, Height (cm): 168), via an unspecified route of administration in Arm Left on 22Jan2021 at 14:30 as single dose for COVID-19 immunisation. On an unspecified date to ongoing, the patient's medical history included cholesterol (taking for a long time), allergy (taking for 10 years), thyroid is removed (taking for 25 years). On an unspecified start date to ongoing the patient's concomitant medication(s) included rosuvastatin calcium (CRESTOR, 5mg once daily by mouth) taken for cholesterol; mometasone furoate (FLONASE [MOMETASONE FUROATE], 50mg; two sprays per nostril as needed) taken for allergy; levothyroxine sodium (SYNTHROID, 75mg; take once daily by mouth) taken for thyroid is removed. On 22Jan2021, the patient experienced sore arm, and on 23Jan2021, the patient experienced severe left side neck pain/neck was so sore, stiffness in her neck the next morning when she woke up. she could hardly move her neck and could not move to the left for 2 to 3 days and it was bad for a week. It was reported that 70-year-old female consumer received the first does of Pfizer's COVID vaccine on 22Jan2021 and experienced stiffness in her neck the next morning when she woke up. She could hardly move her neck and could not move to the left for 2 to 3 days and it was bad for a week. She feels better now. patient asking if anyone has gone through this and if so, what is recommended? reported by DSU: patient already spoke to someone earlier regarding side effects, thus, did not warm transfer. E-transmitted AE. it was reported that patient and her husband both had the Pfizer vaccine on 22Jan2021 at (Institute name). He only had a sore arm. Reported that she took it in her left arm, they both did, because she is right-handed, but her neck was so sore, she could not move it to the left for two days. The soreness continued several days and she couldn't hardly turn over in bed due to the pain in her neck. Adds she never had a pain like this before. She did speak to her HCP who advised it was probably due to the vaccine and she should report it. Clarifies she received the first dose of the Pfizer COVID 19 vaccine 22Jan2021 at 1430PM in the left arm. Her arm was sore but her neck was crazy when she woke up the next morning. She is scheduled to received the second dose on 14Feb2021. reported that Vaccine was not administered at  Facility, no any history of all previous immunization with the Pfizer vaccine considered as suspect, no additional Vaccines Administered on Same Date of the Pfizer Suspect. no any AE(s) require a visit to physician or ER, no prior Vaccinations (within 4 weeks), no family medical history. Reported that when ask to provide information for a clone report to document her husband's experience she initially stated he is not available but agreed. Now states she is not going to answer all these questions about him. The outcome of event "sore arm" was recovered on 24Jan2021, the outcome of event "severe left side neck pain/neck was so sore and stiffness in her neck the next morning when she woke up. She could hardly move her neck and could not move to the left for 2 to 3 days and it was bad for a week" was recovering.  Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.