Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Arthralgia, Insomnia, Mobility decreased, Pain in extremity
Clinical narrative: Shoulder and hands hurts so bad; Shoulder and hands hurts so bad it's the hand where he got the vaccine; he can't sleep at night or move his shoulder; he can't sleep at night or move his shoulder; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer. This consumer (patient mother) reported for a 45-year-old male patient (reporter son) that he received his second dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, Formulation: Solution for injection, Batch/Lot number: UNKNOWN) via an unspecified route of administration on an unspecified date in Apr2021 as single dose for COVID-19 immunisation. The patient medical history and concomitant medications were not reported. The patient previously received his first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, Formulation: Solution for injection, Batch/Lot number: UNKNOWN) via an unspecified route of administration on an unspecified date as single dose for COVID-19 immunisation. On an unspecified date in Apr2021, the patient experienced shoulder and hands hurts so bad it was the hand where he got the vaccine, and the pain was so bad that he could not sleep at night or move his shoulder and cannot swim. He had both doses of Pfizer vaccine and had the second one seven days after her. Outcome was unknown for all the events.   Caller received the second Pfizer covid vaccine on 20Apr2021, her bones two weeks after started to hurt, extremely bad, started in shoulder, left side, right leg knee, left knee area, excruciating pain, my back hurt, pain in my back too, from the right knee goes up to where I have angioplasty surgery 6 or 7 times, over there the pain very bad, then slowly went away and moved to my left shoulder was still hurting really bad. Saturday was one week started to hurt Left knee in the morning all night and the pain is excruciating, when I got down, mouth was extremely dry and have really bad breathing problem. She went to the ER once was not admitted they ordered x-rays for wrong side, said they would redo them and they said she had to leave, so she did not get them. On Sunday, she was in the hospital in ER, when she got home Monday started first time in the garage, this bothered her, two steps, it felt like someone cut her leg, like have no leg, missed the step and after that it happened a couple times more. It happened at work too, where her leg gave out. Went home and used her right leg to clean with paper towel on the floor. It happened again, and she fell on the floor. When she started all of this pain, down where is the foot both were swollen. They went down after more than one week, very bad swelled. Have varicose veins for 40 years, and doctor thought it was related to that. Left around knee was completely numb, physician ordered x-rays, no answers yet. Called my doctor and seen him two times, on my knee and left leg waiting for x-ray. She just starts to fall on the floor from wherever she is. Today was the first time I did not expect it. Just fell down and hit my elbow on the chair. Takes the Plavix and if she hurts herself, get black and blue, if cut herself, bleed like hell. Cannot work and walk on my floor, and the pain she goes through every single day and night and crucial when she lay down. Do not know what to do. Caller stated that 2 weeks after she got the second shot which was 20Apr2021, her bones started to hurt her extremely bad. It started in her left shoulder then it started hurting in her right leg and knee and then up to where she has had a couple of angioplasties. Started to hurt bad, her back, bones, all over and then slowly they went away. Last Saturday her left leg below the knee started to hurt extremely bad. She does not sleep well at night because the pain was so bad. Her mouth was so dry because she was a diabetic. Has a pacemaker, 4 stents and 6 years ago she had a bad heart attack. When her mouth got so dry, she started to have breathing problem so she called the ambulance and they came out and she told them what happened. They checked her blood pressure and she had took her pills in the morning. She does not feel like she wants to eat anything. Her blood pressure was 189 over she does not know because such was in such bad pain. Her sugar was 312 and they told her they have to go to the hospital and took her to (withheld). The doctor came and talked to her and she told him what happened and asked him what the pain was. They checked her out and did ultrasounds and x rays and right away someone checked her and the doctor told her go to x-ray. They did her right leg instead of her left leg. It was her left leg up to her knee that hurts. She does not know whether he was too stupid, too busy or what, but he ordered everything to the right side, but it was the left leg, her left is bad right now. They took her back to her room and told her they would bring her back for the left side but they never did and they kicked her out so she came home. Monday she walked in the garage and she has 2 steps to go inside the garage. Her left leg started to go down but she held onto something so she did not go down. She went to see her doctor and he ordered x-rays because the pain is so crucial, especially when she lies down. When she was up, it was not so bad. He ordered x-rays one week ago and still no results. Her left knee was numb completely and the doctor told her it was because there was swelling at the knee and he gave her some gel to use. The pain does not want to go away and the numbness does not want to go away. Today she went to work and she was sent on break. When she was done with the work, her dog peed in the corner and she tried to clean it up and her left leg hurt again and she was cleaning it up with a paper towel with her right leg and she fell and hit the chair with her elbow. The pain started in her shoulder, then went to her back, then her right leg and knee and then her right hand and then it moved to her left leg where the crucial pain is in the knee. Her knee got completely numb especially at night and she cannot sleep, no way. She told her doctor cardiologist and he said to take medication for pain. She was calling to try and get answers, see why this was happening and how long it will last. After the first one, she had pain in her arm on the day of the shot for a couple of hours and she had a strong medication taste in her mouth and she had the needing to throw up but it was just saliva. The next day when she went to sleep her arm hurt really bad and she put a frozen water bottle on it and it was gone the next day, she was okay. With the second one, her hand does not hurt and she does not have no taste in her mouth but after 2 weeks this pain started. She was scared to walk because she does not want to fall down and hit her head. When she fell today, she hit the chair with her elbow and bruised it. The left leg goes down when she least expects it. She had her hand on her little dog and her other hand, right hand, was holding the rail and she was almost up the stairs, only had 2 more steps and she was completely up and she was luckily she did not go all of the way back down. Treatment: Tylenol 3 Codeine 2. She takes them 2 times a day because she cannot stand the pain. She got the shot in her right arm because she has her Pacemaker on the left and she does not want to have bad pain there because she does not want to have anything by the pacemaker. She has diabetes mellitus from 2010 to an unknown date she was diabetic, cardiac disorder. She has had 7 angioplasties, she had the first angioplasty in 1001 when they found 3 blockages on a stress test, myocardial infarction from 2015 to an unknown date. In 2015, she had a heart attack and stent implant, stent placement. In 2015, she had a heart attack and stent implant, cardiac pacemaker insertion from 2015 to an unknown date. She has in her heart 3 stents placed, and then the next day they put in a pacemaker, have varicose veins for 40 years, had 6 or 7 angioplasty surgeries from an unknown date and unknown if ongoing.  Follow up (29Jun2021): This is a follow-up spontaneous report from a contactable consumer. This consumer (patient mother) reported for 45-year-old male patient (reporter son).  Information about lot/batch number has been requested.