Age: 72.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Feeling cold, Headache, Hyperhidrosis, Pyrexia, Retching
Clinical narrative: Dry heaves; diarrhea; headache; ringing in her ears; dizziness; fever; chills/ shaking with chills; sweats; Freezing; dehydrated; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer who reported for herself. A 72-year-old female patient received the first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), lot number: ER8732, via an unspecified route of administration, administered in left arm on 25Mar2021 at 16:30 as single dose for COVID-19 immunisation. Medical history included ongoing osteoarthritis. She had severe osteoarthritis and took medication for the arthritis pain. She said she had been taking the osteoarthritis pain medication for a couple years. Concomitant medications were not reported. Patient has no additional vaccines administered on same date of the Pfizer vaccine and has no prior vaccinations (within 4 weeks). Patient with a history of severe osteoarthritis said she received the 1st dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine on 25Mar2021. The next day on 26Mar2021, she had terrible diarrhea, headache, ringing in her ears, dizziness, fever, chills and sweats. She was admitted to hospital from 29Mar2021 to 31Mar2021. Consumer wanted to know if she should still receive the 2nd dose. She further reported that she got her COVID-19 Vaccine late in the afternoon on 25Mar2021. She said she seemed fine after she got her COVID-19 Vaccine. She said the next morning on 26Mar2021, she woke up with terrible diarrhea, (really bad) headache, ringing in her ears, and dizzy. She said everything went sideways on 26Mar2021. She clarified she also had the chills, was soaking wet with sweat (but never seemed to have a fever). She said she was either sweating, freezing, or shaking with chills. She said she kept having diarrhea. She said on 29Mar2021 she had dry heaves with the diarrhea, and finally went to the Emergency Room. She said while she was at the hospital, she overhead hospital staff saying they thought she had the COVID-19 Virus. She said she treated as if she had the COVID-19 Virus by the hospital staff. She said she had a negative COVID-19 Virus nasal swab test, and the negative COVID-19 nasal swab test had come back within an hours-time on 29Mar2021. She said she was admitted to the hospital because she was dehydrated, and the doctor wanted to make sure she was over her diarrhea and getting better. The adverse events required a visit to the emergency room. She said she was hesitant about getting the second COVID-19 vaccine because of her severe side effects. She had blood work and a urinalysis done at the hospital in Mar2021. Diarrhea and dehydration treatment: Reported she took 3 doses of anti-diarrheal medication on 27Mar2021, and another dose on the morning of 29Mar2021 before she went to the Emergency Room. She said her diarrhea had kind of stopped after the morning of 29Mar2021, because she was unable to provide a stool sample when she went to the Emergency Room. Reported while she was admitted to the hospital, she was given IV fluids. She said she was unsure which IV fluids she was given. Patient reported she had recovered completely from all her reported symptoms in Mar2021.