Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Condition aggravated, Lumbar radiculopathy, Neuropathy peripheral
Clinical narrative: Lumbar radiculopathy; pain running down from his back all the way to his foot; Lumbar radiculopathy; pain running down from his back all the way to his foot; Neuropathy; tingling sensations on the bottom of his foot; This is a spontaneous report received from a consumer. Other Case identifier(s): NOV25-00101 (Novavax).  A male patient received BNT162b2 (BNT162B2 NOS), as dose number unknown, single (Batch/Lot number: unknown) for covid-19 immunisation; elasomeran (MODERNA COVID-19 VACCINE), on 04Oct2024 as dose number unknown, single) for covid-19 immunisation. The patient's relevant medical history included: "Lumbar radiculopathy" (ongoing). The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. The following information was reported: LUMBAR RADICULOPATHY (medically significant), CONDITION AGGRAVATED (medically significant), outcome "not recovered" and all described as "Lumbar radiculopathy; pain running down from his back all the way to his foot"; NEUROPATHY PERIPHERAL (medically significant), outcome "unknown", described as "Neuropathy; tingling sensations on the bottom of his foot". Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of lumbar radiculopathy, condition aggravated. The patient is going to try NOVAVAX COVID-19, if he and his wife could find a place that gives it, because the website that gave the patient's wife information didn't turn out to be true. They haven't even heard of NOVAVAX, which is kind of alarming. So, the patient had Moderna and Pfizer before (not a bad reaction to the Moderna), but he has an underlying issue with lumbar radiculopathy, he had 3 failed spine surgeries and the last time he had Moderna on 04Oct2024, he always has pain running down from his back all the way to his foot. It's part of his problem, why he had the surgeries and unfortunately, he is worse than before. It's sad, it doesn't work to take pills, so he doesn't do it, but the patient's wife does everything to help him. But when he had the last shot, he had a bit of neuropathy so, he started to have like these tingling sensations on the bottom of his foot, which was kind of unusual for him. So, he had had Moderna before, all the shots they can ever have, they are very careful, since they both have underlying medical conditions, they are still wearing masks and they never had COVID-19. But the patient's wife asked their doctor, what to think and the doctor said it sounds like maybe the Moderna caused inflammation that irritated his issues with his nerves in his spine. The doctor agreed with the patient's wife when she said the patient should try NOVAVAX. The doctor agreed to switch to NOVAVAX next time. So, the patient has some medical procedures coming up where he will have to be unmasked so, the patient's wife would really like to get him protected before then. So, one thought the wife has been working on the assumption that, at least with Moderna and Pfizer, they usually say it won't be effective for about 2 weeks after the shot has been given, so she thought to try maybe Novavax. They should check and see what the interval is because his next event where he must have his mouth open without a mask on, is on 31Mar2025 and then he has another one at the end of Apr2025. They have a usually a six-month interval between, at least Moderna and Pfizer they make them wait six months between vaccines. It's quite been six months, but the wife was pretty sure his doctor would write a prescription for it. The last one the patient took was on 04Oct2024, they usually spread them out, because they get side effects. The patient's wife was just curious, she doesn't know what Moderna and Pfizer what their actual level of effectiveness is these days. She thinks they felt like maybe 50% or something it's not like it used to be in the initial days of the first COVID-19 vaccines effectiveness against the variants. She asked if the company knows what kind of percentage they give the patients, well like Novavax with the current strains is 45% effective. She asked if they have any information or is that still pretty uncertain. The wife knows there are different ways of describing effectiveness like sometimes they will say it may not be as effective, maybe only 30% effective against getting, protection against having the infection but it's 50% effective against people being hospitalized. There are different ways to explain. So many people are like they're not going to bother. The wife knows somebody just took the shot and they still got COVID-19. So, the wife knows people telling me that, not necessarily Anti-vaxxers but sort of shrugging their shoulders and it's like the flu. The wife understands that is probably hard keeping up with all the variants that are coming in that are different and go for it. They know they could easily be those people who say, they don't want to get a vaccine.   No follow-up attempts are possible. Batch/lot number is not provided, and it cannot be obtained.