Age: 73.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19, COVID19, VARZOS, VARZOS
Symptoms: Herpes zoster, Pain
Clinical narrative: shingles; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team. The reporter is the patient.  A 73 year-old male patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), administration date 09Nov2021 (Lot number: FH8028) at the age of 73 years as dose 3 (booster), single for covid-19 immunisation. Relevant medical history included: "Chicken pox" (unspecified if ongoing); "Blood pressure" (unspecified if ongoing). There were no concomitant medications. Vaccination history included: Bnt162b2 (Dose: 01, Lot Number: EL3302), administration date: 25Jan2021, when the patient was 72 years old, for COVID-19 Immunization, reaction(s): "He had no problems with his 1st and 2nd dose."; Bnt162b2 (Dose: 02, Lot Number: EN6201), administration date: 15Feb2021, for COVID-19 Immunization, reaction(s): "no problems with his 1st and 2nd dose."; Shingrix shots (1st Shingrix Shots), administration date: 29Jan2019, for Immunization, reaction(s): "So he has had three of these shots and then"; Shingrix shots (2nd Shingrix Shots), administration date: 08Apr2019, for Immunization, reaction(s): "So he has had three of these shots and then"; Shingles zoster shot, administration date: 2008, for Immunization, reaction(s): "So he has had three of these shots and then"; Flu shot (Annually). The following information was reported: HERPES ZOSTER (non-serious) with onset Dec2021, outcome "not recovered", described as "shingles". The event "shingles" was evaluated at the physician office visit. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of herpes zoster.  Additional information: He had the Pfizer COVID 19 shots on 25Jan2021 and 15Feb2021 and then he had the booster on 29Nov2021. It was said that on the second week of Dec2021 he developed shingles and there were still there. Also mentioned that he had SHINGRIX vaccine, shingles zoster vaccine but still develop shingles and wanted to know what the booster shot did to his immune system, if there is any correlation between shingles and the vaccine. About 1 month after he had the booster he broke out, and still has, the worlds worst case of shingles. He sees a connection here. All of his life he has never had shingles, he also had the shingles zoster shot in 2008. He was doing good until he had the Pfizer booster shot and now he cannot get rid of his shingles. He has been to his physician and now he was on a prescription medication for the shingles. He has been scratching and itching like a dog for far too long. He was on the prescription that his physician gave him, it was pregabalin 75 mg. He always takes a flu shot annually. He blames the third dose, his booster dose, so put a big asterisk near this one. He has been on blood pressure medication for the last 40 years and he has never had any problems with that so he was good there. There was nothing. He thought that the shingles was going away but they come and go and he has found that he is in a downhill slide. Then, all of a sudden, poof they are all over his body and they moved down to his legs and they attacked his back. They will itch, itch, scratch and itch. He has tried every lotion. He is on the prescription that his physician gave him, it was pregabalin 75 mg. He has tried everything. He was talking about shingles for some reason and said that the best thing for shingles is colloidal silver so the caller got some. Dr. was right because as soon as the caller sprayed this on his shingles the itch disappeared. He was unsure if this agent has heard many talk about it shingles but he has and he always thought, boy he never wants to get that because they are mean, painful and they itch. He was scratching like a dog with fleas. He knows that he is not supposed to scratch. He has trimmed his nails down and he has done everything that he can think of.