Age: 68.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Chest pain, Discomfort, Feeling abnormal, Hypoacusis, Immunisation
Clinical narrative: Chest pain (Rt lateral mid chest) with movement; Sitting up + deep breaths increase discomfort; some pain around the injection site; Booster; I have like pleurisy in my right lung lateral chest; lining of my lungs are painful like if we cough or if you are going to just lay on and move or try to sit up so I am going to call it pleurisy type feeling; I laid pretty low this whole time; little hard of hearing; Increased pain and movement worses; Do not reach with Rt arm; This is a spontaneous report received from a contactable reporter (Consumer or other non-HCP). The reporter is the patient. A 68-year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), intramuscular, administered in arm right, administration date 21Oct2021 10:09 (Lot number: FF2590, Expiration Date: 31Mar2022) at the age of 68 years as dose 3 (booster), single for covid-19 immunization. Relevant medical history included: "broken rib" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: I have had a broken rib before; "Depression" (ongoing); "Leg jerks" (ongoing); "Hormone replacement" (ongoing). Concomitant medication(s) included: BUPROPION HCL XL taken for depression (ongoing); PROGESTERONE taken for hormone replacement therapy (ongoing); CARB/LEVO ER taken for dyskinesia (ongoing). Vaccination history included: Bnt162b2 (Dose :1 , No events reported, Anatomical site of injection: Right upper arm, Route of administration: Intramuscular, Batch/Lot number: ER8727), administration date: 19Mar2021, when the patient was 67 years old, for Covid-19 Immunization; Bnt162b2 (Dose : 2, No events reported, Anatomical site of injection: Right upper arm, Route of administration: Intramuscular, Batch/Lot number: EP7533), administration date: 09Apr2021, when the patient was 67 years old, for Covid-19 Immunization. The following information was reported: VACCINATION SITE PAIN (non-serious) with onset 21Oct2021 22:30, outcome "recovering", described as "some pain around the injection site"; PLEURISY (non-serious) with onset Oct2021, outcome "recovering", described as "I have like pleurisy in my right lung lateral chest"; PULMONARY PAIN (non-serious) with onset Oct2021, outcome "recovering", described as "lining of my lungs are painful like if we cough or if you are going to just lay on and move or try to sit up so I am going to call it pleurisy type feeling"; FEELING ABNORMAL (non-serious) with onset Oct2021, outcome "recovering", described as "I laid pretty low this whole time"; HYPOACUSIS (non-serious) with onset Oct2021, outcome "recovering", described as "little hard of hearing"; CHEST PAIN (non-serious) with onset 22Oct2021, outcome "recovering", described as "Chest pain (Rt lateral mid chest) with movement"; DISCOMFORT (non-serious) with onset 22Oct2021, outcome "recovering", described as "Sitting up + deep breaths increase discomfort"; PAIN (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "recovering", described as "Increased pain and movement worses"; JOINT RANGE OF MOTION DECREASED (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "recovering", described as "Do not reach with Rt arm"; IMMUNISATION (non-serious) with onset 21Oct2021 10:09, outcome "unknown", described as "Booster". Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of vaccination site pain, pleurisy, pulmonary pain, feeling abnormal, hypoacusis. Additional information included: The patient concomitant medications included: Bupropion Hydrochloride (BUPROPION HCL XL) via oral route at 300 mg, daily at AM for Depression; Progesterone (capsule) via oral route at 100 mg, once a day, one at bedtime for Hormone replacement. The patient stated that she did have some pain around the injection site, but she had like pleurisy in her right lung lateral chest, and she wanted it to report, and it was finally better today, like at 4 O' clock it started getting better. The patient pressed on her ribs, and she have had a broken rib before (Intent history). This just felt like lining of her lungs were painful like if we cough or if you were going to just lay on and move or try to sit up, so she was going to call it pleurisy type feeling and that happened the next day Friday and she went to get like around 3 and laid pretty low this whole time and now was finally feeling better. Anyway, she looked up the symptoms and did not saw that as a symptom of a typical reaction. She did some yard work on Thursday, and she thought may be that caused it but it was never caused it before. The patient was just little hard of hearing (further not clarified). She put some CBD oil on the site for pain and took some CBD last night under her tongue. The patient did not receive any vaccine Prior to 4 weeks of COVID vaccine. The patient underwent lab tests, and she does not know the results of them as they have been a little while ago (three months ago). She just hoped they were all normal and it was like to check for arthritis, for rheumatoid arthritis (further clarification unknown). On 21Oct2021, 10:09 Am right upper lateral arm injection aching at site and area around it around 10:30 pm. She slept on left side to protect it. Next day she had chest pain (Rt lateral mid chest) with movement. Sitting up and deep breaths increased discomfort. she pressed on ribs, not tender at 3:00 pm and she got to bed because of increased pain and movement worsened it. she spent Saturday in bed till 4:00 pm. The patient had slowly improved enough to get up. she moved slowly and did not reach with Right arm. The patient slowly improved and by Thursday only a slight awareness. She continued to notice an ache with twisting or turning, a deep breath or some reaching. Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.