Age: 70.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Immunisation, Vaccination site bruising, Vaccination site haemorrhage
Clinical narrative: Booster; Bleeding, and subsequent bruising at the site of the shot.; Bleeding, and subsequent bruising at the site of the shot.; This is a spontaneous report received from a contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team. The reporter is the patient.  A 70 year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (COMIRNATY), administration date 16Nov2021 (Lot number: 30155BA) at the age of 70 years as dose 3 (booster), single for covid-19 immunisation. The patient had no relevant medical history. There were no concomitant medications. Vaccination history included: Bnt162b2 (First Dose, Lot number: EN6203), administration date: 25Feb2021, for Covid-19 Immunization; Bnt162b2 (Second Dose, Lot number: EP7534), administration date: 18Mar2021, for Covid-19 Immunization, reaction(s): "pain in her arm"; Flu shots, for Immunization; Dpt shots, for Immunization. The following information was reported: IMMUNISATION (non-serious) with onset 16Nov2021, outcome "unknown", described as "Booster"; VACCINATION SITE BRUISING (non-serious) with onset 16Nov2021, outcome "not recovered", VACCINATION SITE HAEMORRHAGE (non-serious) with onset 16Nov2021, outcome "recovered" (16Nov2021) and all described as "Bleeding, and subsequent bruising at the site of the shot.".  Additional information: For her arm bleeding and having a bruise she stats that this was on Tuesday 16Nov2021 when she had the booster dose. The bleeding was just on 16Nov2021, but she is still bruised. For the pain that she still has in her arm after the 2nd dose, this began on 18Mar2021. She says it is a little better. The patient did not have patient history and other products. A 70-year-old female on the other line who received the booster dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine and is complaining that her arm bled and she has a bruise. She mentioned that she has never had either from a vaccine before and she has had many vaccines previously. She was concerned about the vaccine. She has never had that before. While she was on hold she remembers calling after she had her 2nd COVID vaccine but she doesn't think that anyone transferred her to complete a safety report, but she still has pain in her arm from the 2nd injection. That was the one that really caused her arm to hurt and hopefully somewhere down the road it will stop. It is like a frozen shoulder thing, she can move it but it still hurts, she knows that sounds weird.The reason that patient called is because it was so unusual for her to bleed and be bruised, when they draw blood, she always gets bruised because they can't find the vein. She had asked her doctor's office about this because if she bled then they obviously hit some blood vessel and they said well it could have been just a small capillary, so she doesn't need to worry about it. Her concern and the reason patient called is to see if anyone can answer this question: if they did hit a blood vessel then if the vaccine did go into a blood vessel versus into the muscle in her arm, where it is supposed to go, would that have any effect on the vaccine. She also remembers seeing on TV that the kid's version comes in a vial with an orange top and that the adults have a purple top but when the nurse gave her vaccine this week, they just had the syringes and she didn't see the bottle, but she seemed to remember after she left that she saw something orange, whether it was a tag or something. She wanted to be sure that she didn't have the children dose because then she wouldn't be fully protected, and she had called to ask them if they know figure out which one, she had from the batch number, and they were able to confirm that she had the adult dose and that put her mind at ease with that. It just wasn't an easy situation that day and patient arrived, they said that they couldn't give one to her because she wasn't on the schedule and then they said they found one to give her and she said where did they find it, in the trash, because they were telling her for the last half hour that they didn't have one to give. And then her arm was black and blue and now it is black, blue and green because it is healing but she wouldn't have usually called for this, but she was apprehensive with everything that went on there. She may call the health department on Monday. She has had flu shots, DPT shots and everything else and she has never had this issue before.   No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.