Age: 81.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Insomnia, Joint swelling, Musculoskeletal stiffness, Myalgia, Pain in extremity
Clinical narrative: muscle and joint pain; wanting to faint/dizziness; blurry eyes; sweating; unable to sleep the whole night as a result of lots of pain in her wrist and hand but especially thumb/wrist on the right side; unable to sleep the whole night as a result of lots of pain in her wrist and hand but especially thumb/wrist on the right side/she was having pain on her wrist/joint pain; unable to sleep the whole night as a result of lots of pain in her wrist and hand but especially thumb/wrist on the right side; swelling in her hand and was hardly able to bend her fingers; swelling in her hand and was hardly able to bend her fingers; wrist was swollen; itchiness, numbness and tingling in her fingers on the right side; itchiness, numbness and tingling in her fingers on the right side; itchiness, numbness and tingling in her fingers on the right side; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). An 81-year-old female patient received first dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Batch/lot number: EN5318), via an unspecified route of administration on 06Feb2021 15:00 at single dose at left arm for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included wrist had arthritis (pain). There were no concomitant medications. Patient height was a little less than 5. She used to be over 5 but she shrunk. Her weight used to be at 226 lbs, it came up to 230. This year (2021) it went up because, its her, she ate too much and she did not obey the rules. Patient received Pfizer vaccine on 06Feb2021 afternoon at 300 pm in her left arm and that night developed itchiness, numbness and tingling in her fingers on the right side. Last night (07Feb2021) she unable to sleep the whole night as a result of lots of pain in her wrist and hand but especially thumb/wrist on the right side. she also reported swelling in her hand and was hardly able to bend her fingers. She tried to bend her fingers and she can but her wrist was swollen, it was less right now but she still had the pain. She applied muscle relaxant (unclear if topical) and took paracetamol (TYLENOL) and massaged her hand with warm water and then for the second time she used the muscle relaxation. She hadn't taken paracetamol yet she was waiting 4 hours but the pain was still there, it was a little bit less. Not sure if it her arthritis or side effects from vaccine but believes it was from the vaccine. Stated she used to have the same problem with her wrist arthritis (pain). Also reported that she experienced additional side effects on 08Feb2021 which lasted about 5 minutes then went away: blurry eyes; wanting to faint; dizziness, sweating (whole body started to be like sweaty). Asking for information on muscle and joint pain after the vaccine and recommendations on what to do. So far she didn't know what it was, and if it was a side effect of the arthritis, because once in a while that happens but when it happened it went away right away but this time her wrist pain was there still there. Patient sat down and now she was stretching her leg, she sat down on the chair and its gone she had no more problems. Patient said her right hand, she was very slow writing. She said at least she can write her hand was going back to a routine but she was in a lot of pain. Outcome of event wanting to faint/dizziness, blurry eyes, sweating was recovered on 08Feb2021, and outcome of other events was unknown.