Age: 73.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Headache, Insomnia, Musculoskeletal stiffness, Neck pain, Pain
Clinical narrative: When breathing, there is discomfort; the face of my neck and and my shoulder is stiff and painful; pain on my left arm, on the back of my neck, bone down in my spine or in my left shoulder; pain on my left arm, on the back of my neck, bone down in my spine or in my left shoulder; sleep weakness; arthritis; chills; left side its just achy and sore; pain in her neck/pain on my left arm, on the back of my neck; pain in her back; pain in her neck/pain on my left arm, on the back of my neck; Headache; Indigestion; Couldn't sleep at night the first night; Tiredness; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer(patient).  A 73-year-old female 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 22Mar2021 (at the age of 73-year-old) as DOSE 1, SINGLE for COVID-19 immunization. She got the vaccine at the convention center. The patient medical history included ongoing oedema began 2-4 years ago, she wears compression socks, ongoing high blood pressure(hypertension) since she was in her late 50s or 60s, ongoing arthritis, sinus disorder from an unknown date. The patient concomitant medications were not reported. Patient had not history of all previous immunization with the Pfizer vaccine considered as suspect. The patient was not administered any other additional vaccines on same date with the Pfizer vaccine considered as suspect. The patient had not received any other vaccines within 4 weeks prior vaccination. No relevant test performed. The patient previously received flu shot via an unspecified route of administration, (Batch/Lot Number was unknown) on an unspecified date in Mar2021 for unspecified indication and experienced muscular pain in shoulder. On 22Mar2021 after first vaccination, the patient experienced couldn't sleep at night the first night, tiredness and indigestion. On 05Mar2021 the patient experienced pain in her back, pain on my left arm, on the back of my neck, left side it's just achy and sore. Headache on an unspecified date in 2021. On an unspecified date, the patient experienced when breathing, there is discomfort, the face of my neck and my shoulder is stiff and painful, pain on my left arm, on the back of my neck, bone down in my spine or in my left shoulder, sleep weakness, arthritis and chills. On an unspecified date, the patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included blood work (blood glucose): result normal (she mentioned was to check for diabetes and she clarifies it was negative, she does not have diabetes but she does not know if she is still negative, she has not been retested. Blood test positive result and X-ray of neck was unknown result. It was reported that, the patient stated she received the first dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine 2 weeks ago with some side effects. Patient experienced tiredness, fatigue, and couldn't sleep at night the first night. The next day everything disappeared. Patient stated now, the face of my neck and my shoulder was stiff and painful. When breathing, there was discomfort. It was stiff all down my back on my right side and gravitated to my left side. Patient received the vaccine on her left side. The patient went to her doctor yesterday, 06Apr2021 because she started having pain her neck and pain in her back on Monday, 05Apr2021. The doctor prescribed Motrin, and patient got some relief, but not full relief. patient still feeling pain and aches. Her doctor told her it was arthritis and has nothing to do with the Covid 19 vaccine. Her doctor gave her some exercise papers too. Her doctor was mostly concerned with her blood pressure. Motrin tablet 600mg take one tablet every 6 hours. It's in a pharmacy bottle. Caller can't read the bottle, she has the wrong glasses. She's going to get her other glasses to read the bottle. Caller can't locate on the pharmacy bottle NDC/Lot/Expiry. Is this pain just arthritis or is it the Covid 19 vaccine. What are the ingredients in the vaccine. Her doctor told her she could take Tylenol also but she hasn't tried that yet. The pain in the left side of her body is midway down. From her shoulder down. It's not sharp pains, just annoying pains. She called her sister and her sister told her she might have some side effects but she doesn't know. When probing for medical history and concomitant medications she reports she does have a history of arthritis like when she wakes up in the morning she has a stiffness in her joints. She also has a history of edema in her feet and legs. She used to take Aleve and it used to help a little bit but it's not working for her headaches. It doesn't work as good like her body got used to the Aleve or she's immune to the Aleve. She has thrown the bottle to Aleve away. NDC/Lot/Expiry not known. The patient spoke to a Pfizer medical doctor. Patient feeling adverse reaction. Patient believe it was The left arm where patient received Pfizer shot 2 weeks ago and only the thing that have since from day patient was being tired. Patient was fatigue in all that. The patient had sleep and weakness. All the things went away. All of a sudden patient got this terrible pain down my back, at base on my neck and on my left arm where received the Pfizer shot (Further clarification was unknown hence captured as Unspecified shot). So, I needed to speak to someone who find out. patient wanted find out is this a reaction from the medicine or this doctor said this is arthritis. She got the Pfizer 1st shot. Also got the 2nd dose 12Apr. Reported that had both doses of COVID vaccine. After each dose had tiredness and chills. With 2nd dose had those symptoms plus headache that wont go away. Wondering if it was a delayed reaction. Still have the headache. Read somewhere that headache can be fatal within 6 months. Was taking Motrin and Tylenol someone told her ephedrine is better. Her sister thinks she might have diabetes. Also has eye problems and Dr told her might have arthritis in her neck.  They told her would have side effects, but the side effects are bothering her so much. She's having these headaches that won't let up. She is having to take Motrin or Tylenol or some kind of an eye pill and it would go away, but the headache will come back. She explained because everything else she was fine with. Caller states that the headaches are not severe, just annoying. She always gets the headache in the front of her head, but it rotates and will go in the back of her head on both sides, but it always seems to be more on the left side. It moves around, she sometimes it's in her left eye, she doesn't have it as bad in her right eye. Caller adds her eye doctor did tell her she has a cataract a long time ago and also she has an astigmatism in her eye. She was wondering when she took the Pfizer COVID vaccine and the headache that they said she would experience and it was still lingering on,  is the vaccine causing the headache? She wants to know what's going on. The patient has been taking Motrin and Tylenol but she stopped taking that because it seems like she just gets sore. She clarifies it seems like the left side of her neck gets sore and going down the side of her back gets sore. But she was mainly worried about the headaches. She wanted someone to talk to her and tell her if this could be from the Pfizer vaccine and tell her what to do about it. Caller explained she uses a shopping cart to do her groceries and the doctor said the soreness could have come from her using her shopping cart and picking it up and taking it up the stairs. The doctor thinks maybe she pulled muscles in the sides her neck and in her back doing that. Caller states it could be like an ache from that. She also sleeps on her side at night, so she could have pulled a muscle from the way she sleeps. However, the caller is worried about the headaches. Caller stated that the headache could be a number of things. She explained to him the headache has remained with her from her first and second dose, it has never stopped. The headache started the second week after the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The headache is not getting any better, it feels like it's staying the same. She explains it is a nauseating, annoying, achy headache. The headache slows down if she takes Motrin or Tylenol or an eye supplement but it will come back hours later. She clarifies when she takes either Motrin, Tylenol or the eye medication, the headache doesn't come right back, it is delayed some hours, but the headache doesn't leave permanently. Caller states that she needs her glasses to see the immunization card, caller states that she has a lot of things going on with her eyes, her eyes are not that strong. Caller again states the only time her headache will leave her is if she takes a Motrin, or Tylenol, or some kind of eye vitamin, so once she takes, it will subside. She really went to the doctor for muscular aches because she was having it Monday down her back and that's why the doctor assumed it came from the caller using her shopping cart and picking up heavy things. The doctor thinks she has arthritis from that.  Caller states that she took the flu shot in February or March of this year 2021 and the only thing she had was a little muscular pain in shoulder. She didn't have any headaches or anything like that. NDC, Lot number expiry date is unknown for the flu vaccine. She adds that she did have a hip pain. She went to the doctor about that, and had x-rays taken on her right side of her hip and that was right after she got the flu shot. Her doctor never did mention the results of the X-ray, but the caller explains it was probably arthritis from her hip on her right side. She still gets stiffness in her joints. It hasn't really left, it's not that painful. When she gets up in the morning, she has that stiffness and soreness and it's just in her hip. She can work through that. She went to see her first and she was telling her that she thinks it is the arthritis, she did not think it was the Pfizer, she did not believe that the headache and pain are coming from Pfizer, the doctor thought she just has arthritis. Caller says she has a shopping cart that she uses to carry groceries or whatever she needs to put in there and sometimes it gets heavy and her doctor said if she is driving that around she may have been pulling a muscle and causing the pain, the doctor did not believe it was the shot.  She got the first dose on the 22Mar2021. She says she will be 74 on her birthday, she was 73 when this started. She got the vaccine at the convention center. It just says CCVC, it does have clinic site, but it has Pfizer 22Mar2021 then it says CCVC. They put a label on it, some kind of label stamped so it may be covering up something. She got tested, they did a blood test months back that came back positive, she didn't have sugar. She has not had her eyes examined, but she is 73 years old and it is possible she has eye problems, possibly degenerative macular, when people get older that can happen. She clarifies the blood work she mentioned was to check for diabetes and she clarifies it was negative, she does not have diabetes but she does not know if she is still negative, she has not been retested, she is 73 now, that test was done when she was 72. She says the  eye doctor said she may have degenerative macular because that happens to older people but he said she don't have it, she was thinking the headache could have come from that but who knows. She was told she should set up an eye doctor appointment but she has not done it yet, they told her she should to see if she is okay. She does not know, it could be anything, she was blaming Pfizer because that is the only thing she had taken, she got the headache and then she got muscular pain, and chills and she thought oh my God this must be from the Pfizer shot so she was blaming that. Primary Care: She went to see her first and she was telling her that she thinks it is the arthritis, she did not think it was the Pfizer, she did not believe that the headache and pain are coming from Pfizer, the doctor thought she just has arthritis. Caller says she has a shopping cart that she uses to carry groceries or whatever she needs to put in there and sometimes it gets heavy and her doctor said if she is driving that around she may have been pulling a muscle and causing the pain, the doctor did not believe it was the shot. She got the first dose on the 22Mar2021. She says she will be 74 on her birthday, she was 73 when this started. The patient did not require to visit Emergency Room. The patient visit to Physician office. The patient received treatment for all the adverse events. The outcome of events pain in her back, pain in her neck/pain on my left arm, on the back of my neck, left side its just achy and sore, headache outcome of not recovered, While the other remain events outcome was reported as unknown. The product complaint Description of complaint: PC 1: She used to take Aleve and it used to help a little bit but it's not working for her headaches. It doesn't work as good like her body got used to the Aleve or she's immune to the Aleve. She has thrown the bottle to Aleve away. NDC/Lot/Expiry not known. PC 2: Her doctor gave her some Motrin and it helps a little bit for a while then the pain is still there. Motrin tablet 600mg take one tablet every 6 hours. It's in a pharmacy bottle. Caller can't read the bottle, she has the wrong glasses. She's going to get her other glasses to read the bottle. Caller can't locate on the pharmacy bottle NDC/Lot/Expiry. Caller reports her experience with the Pfizer COVID vaccine. She had a headache with the first dose that was not that bad but it lingered on and never did really let up. She was taking Motrin and Tylenol. Someone told her to take Excedrin but she only ever took Motrin and Tylenol. No further information provided. Caller has taken both doses of the COVID vaccine. The headache started the second week after the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The headache is not getting any better, it feels like it's staying the same. She explains it is a nauseating, annoying, achy headache. The headache slows down if she takes Motrin or Tylenol or an eye supplement but it will come back hours later. She clarifies when she takes either Motrin, Tylenol or the eye medication/vitamin/supplement, the headache doesn't come right back, it is delayed some hours, but the headache doesn't leave permanently. Follow-up attempts are completed; information about lot/batch number  already obtained.