Age: 71.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Magnetic resonance imaging, Nail discolouration, Onycholysis, Peripheral swelling, Vertigo
Clinical narrative: his uric acid level was low; he had 5 days of very severe vertigo and dizziness; like he would sit on the toilet seat and the left side was warm  but the toilet seat on the right side felt cold.; His great toe on the left foot was swollen up, the left foot and toe both were swelling; the toe was painful to touch; and the nail on the great toe turned black; his left leg is getting weakness/ weakness noted in the hip and from left leg extends to groin; couple days later the nail fell off; he has also started getting bumble bees in which it's buzzing neuropathy on the left side of his body.; numbness/He also got numbness in the middle of the back mid chest to the spine coming around the mid chest between the nipples, all the way down to the right and left side.; tingling; hard to sleep; arm pain; he had 5 days of very severe vertigo and dizziness; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 72-year-old male patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, solution for injection, lot number: EP6955), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in left arm on 30Mar2021 (at the age of 71 years) as Dose 2, Single for COVID-19 immunization. The patient's medical history included back problems, degenerative disc disease and skin broke out and that was years ago. He was allergic to Ivermectin. The patient's concomitant medications included gabapentin (NEURONTIN, strength: 900 mg) taken for an unspecified indication. Historical vaccination included the patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Formulation:Solution for injection), via an unspecified route of administration 09Mar2021 for COVID-19 immunization. On an unspecified date in 2021 (after the second shot) the patient experienced arm pain, very severe vertigo, and dizziness for 5 days. He also got numbness in the middle of the back mid chest to the spine coming around the mid chest between the nipples, all the way down to the right and left side with weakness noted in the hip and from left leg extends to groin. The shot was in the left arm, but for 3 weeks it felt like a shot was in the right arm, because the left arm never hurt. He would experience severe numbness and tingling, like he would sit on the toilet seat and the left side was warm but the toilet seat on the right side felt cold. He has not experienced incontinence as of now, but he was concerned he will. The right side of his body was normal, it was the left side that had the numb left leg, left cheek, mid back, all numb with no temperature sensation, he also has started getting bumble bees in which it's buzzing neuropathy on the left side of his body. He explains that it was hard to sleep at night and that he had difficulty with his legs buckling. His great toe on the left foot was swollen up, the left foot and toe both were swelling, the toe was painful to touch, and the nail on the great toe turned black, and a couple days later the nail fell off. The doctor said it sounds like gout but he has been going to the doctor, he did a uric acid test and his uric acid level was low. The patient would like to know if these side effects are normal and would it be ok to receive the booster dose of Pfizer Covid 19 vaccine as he was 72 years old and eligible. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included uric acid test with result of acid level low was taken in Jun2021. He also got an MRI on his lower back in mid Jun2021 either 14Jun2021 or 15JUN2021 and MRI of the upper back on 26Aug2021 which resulted in no abnormal conclusions. The patient states that at this moment, events that were ongoing was below his waist on the left side he was still having numbness and tingling and thinks his left leg was getting weakness. The vertigo and dizziness had passed. The Numbness had moved down from the sciatic area to the waist and it was not getting better it was getting worse. The outcome of events dizziness and vertigo were recovered on an unspecified date in 2021 (5 days). The outcome of event numbness, tingling and weakness was not recovered. The outcome of the rest of the events was unknown.