Age: 39.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Headache, Intracranial pressure increased
Clinical narrative: headache; headache; had issues with her left eye and it was with excruciating pain; had issues with her left eye and it was with excruciating pain; hurt in the back, front and on top of her head; pressure and fluid build up in the brain; pressure and fluid build up in the brain; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient's mother) from a Pfizer sponsored program. A 39-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Lot Number: EW0151), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in left arm on 20Apr2021 13:00 (at 39-year-old) as dose 2, single for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included that the patient has had asthma all of her life, probably diagnosed with at age 5, the asthma was pretty much under control; patient had Covid from Mar2020. The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. No prior vaccinations within 4 weeks. The patient previously received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Lot Number: ER8732), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in left arm on 30Mar2021 10:00 (at 39-year-old) as dose 1, single for COVID-19 immunization, and experienced mild headache. The patient previously has had the flu shot and might of itched just a little bit after receiving the flu shot. Nothing that would deter the patient from taking a vaccine. No shortness of breath or anything significant. The patient experienced severe headaches on 21Apr2021 after receiving the second dose. In Apr2021 she had issues with her left eye and it was with excruciating pain. The patient also had pressure and fluid build up in the brain. She hurt in the back, front and on top of her head and according to the doctor, it was because of the fluids. The patient was seeing a Neuro Ophthalmologist who put the her on Diamox medication. She was still trying to recoup. If the patient's issues did not resolve eventually the patient might have to have a shunt put in her head. The patient reported the headache to her doctor and the doctor thought the patient was having worse reaction and gave it maybe another week. The patient's headaches got worse and worse. The patient's headache was not gone. When the patient started taking Diamox, that has helped the patient reduce the pressure some, but the patient has not been headache free since all of this started. It also helped the patient when fluid was drawn off with lumbar puncture. For less than 24 hours, the patient felt pretty good, the lumbar puncture pulled the pressure off. The fluid began to build right back up. The patient has been moving from one doctor to another through all of this. The consumer stated literally everything started at the same time. When the severe headache started, it all started with the fluid. First it was just the headache when patient got the Pfizer Covid 19 Vaccine. In hindsight, everything happened very quickly and just continued to build stronger. The patient was better simply because of the medicine, but not headache free. If the Diamox medicine was taken away, the patient would be right back where she was in pain. It was completely debilitating. The patient could not let the sunlight touch her eye. The patient can't work. The outcome of event headache was not recovered; outcome of events "had issues with her left eye and it was with excruciating pain" was recovering. Outcome of the other events was unknown.  Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.