Age: 67.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19, FLUX
Symptoms: Arthralgia, Back pain, Immunisation, Neck pain, Pain in extremity
Clinical narrative: Soreness of his arms; Pain going down in the arm and in the back and neck; pain going down in the arm and in the back and neck; Pain starts in my shoulder blade; he received the booster of the Pfizer covid 19 vaccine; States he had the flu shot on the same date as his Pfizer booster; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team for a Pfizer sponsored program . The reporter is the patient.  A 67 year-old male patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), administered in arm right, administration date 15Nov2021 (Lot number: FJ1611) at the age of 67 years as dose 3 (booster), single for covid-19 immunisation; influenza vaccine (FLU VACCINE VII), administered in arm left, administration date 15Nov2021 (Batch/Lot number: unknown). Relevant medical history included: "Hip Surgery", start date: 14Sep2021 (unspecified if ongoing). There were no concomitant medications. Vaccination history included: Bnt162b2 (DOSE 1, SINGLE, Lot Number: EN6206), administration date: 10Mar2020, for Covid-19 Immunization; Bnt162b2 (DOSE 2, SINGLE, Lot Number: ER8733), administration date: 29Mar2020, for Covid-19 Immunization, reaction(s): "soreness of the arm/ a sharp stabbing pain in it under his arm", "a very painful scapula", "a sharp stabbing pain in it under his arm; states his doctor said those are lymph nodes". The following information was reported: IMMUNISATION (non-serious) with onset 15Nov2021, outcome "unknown", described as "he received the booster of the Pfizer covid 19 vaccine"; PRODUCT USE ISSUE (non-serious) with onset 15Nov2021, outcome "unknown", described as "States he had the flu shot on the same date as his Pfizer booster"; PAIN IN EXTREMITY (non-serious), outcome "not recovered", described as "Soreness of his arms"; BACK PAIN (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "Pain going down in the arm and in the back and neck"; NECK PAIN (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "pain going down in the arm and in the back and neck"; ARTHRALGIA (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "Pain starts in my shoulder blade".  Additional information: The patient had no prior Vaccinations (within 4 weeks). The experienced same side effects as he had with the second dose of the Pfizer Covid vaccine and that was soreness of his arms, "soreness after the second dose lasted up to 6 months. Now it's happening again with the booster dose." The patient wanted to know how long symptoms would last. pain going down in the arm and in the back and neck, pain starts in my shoulder blade it gets down in his arm not in injections site, it was in arm." The patient stated that he saw doctors left right and center for various reasons and they all think the patient was crazy and was not fact bashing the vaccine and happy for it and believes in it but wanted to know what the side effects are doing to him and had a very painful scapula and a sharp stabbing pain in it under arm; states his doctor said those are lymph nodes and the vaccine generates antibodies and his forearm feels like stretching muscle and was identical for the 1st experience he had after the 2nd dose of the vaccine. The patient had hip surgery in September and after his surgery all those side effects disappeared, and would like to know if this was common and had other people had symptoms of this and what can be done to get it to go away and how long the patient could expect it to last. The patient had the flu shot on the same date as his Pfizer booster Covid vaccine and the flu shot was in left arm and had no name of that flu shot or lot number to provide and has no information for that; stated that had no adverse events after the flu shot.The arm soreness began after the booster Covid vaccine exactly 2 weeks later and was ongoing and getting it feels as though spreading like it did before and it started out as a stiff neck and could not turn his neck and the pain crawled back down his arm right now and feels it in was scapula under arm and all down his arm and forearm area like the muscle between his elbow and wrist and does not know how many muscles are there and it was the big muscle on the top side that was sensitive to the touch and felt like somebody was stretching that muscle like they are stretching silly putty or clay.  No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.