Age: 71.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Swelling, Visual impairment
Clinical narrative: Swelling and pain on right side of body; Swelling and pain on right side of body; Sore arm; Arm swollen; Everything in vision went white; Felt weak and sick; Felt weak and sick; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 71-year-old female patient received first dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Right on 08Apr2021 (Lot Number: BRZU13) as 1st dose, single for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included ongoing glaucoma (she was diagnosed with glaucoma when she was 37, the glaucoma only started to really get worse over the last few years, her pressure was up pretty high and she has to go on 11May2021 to the eye doctor), ongoing rheumatoid arthritis (she has had rheumatoid arthritis for more than a couple of years, she had rheumatoid arthritis when she was diagnosed as disabled and no one bothered to tell her), ongoing hypertension (it has been 5, 6, or 7 years since she was diagnosed with high blood pressure), ongoing small cataracts (she was diagnosed with small cataracts about a year ago), ongoing severe osteoporosis (it has been a few years since she was diagnosed with severe osteoporosis, reported that some physicians didn't even bother to check to see if she had osteoporosis), ongoing Can't take statins (she can't take statins and her doctor is giving her Omega 3's instead of statins, she tried to take statins and couldn't do it), ongoing allergies (if she eats a grapefruit, her whole face and lips and eyes swell up, she had to go to the emergency room following consumption of a grapefruit, she can't eat oranges or she will have to  be taken to the emergency room, she cannot wash her clothes or sleep on sheets that have been washed in certain things), reaction to polyethylene glycol (25-30 years ago, she went into the hospital to have a colonoscopy, she drank the Polyethylene Glycol, went to the bathroom, and passed out, the hospital staff had to come in and get her from the bathroom, the medical staff figured out it was the Polyethylene Glycol that caused her to pass out and made her sick, she has not had a colonoscopy since the incident 25-30 years ago), problems with her hair and scalp started about a year ago (her hair was just thinning at first, and then it went to going bald and got worse and worse. Even with Rogaine and steroids, the balding was moving to the front of her head. She stopped taking the steroids because she couldn't stop eating). Concomitant medications included amlodipine taken for blood pressure abnormal from an unspecified start date and ongoing (has been taking amlodipine for a year or a year and a half); hydrochlorothiazide taken for swelling from an unspecified start date and ongoing (she retired in 2005 and may have started taking hydrochlorothiazide before she retired); dorzolamide hydrochloride, timolol maleate (DORZOLAMIDE HYDROCHLORIDE AND TIMOLOL MALEATE) taken for glaucoma from an unspecified start date and ongoing (been about a year that she has been using the Dorzolamide/Timolol); latanoprost taken for glaucoma from an unspecified start date and ongoing (has been using the Latanoprost for longer than she has been using the Dorzolamide/Timolol); acetylsalicylic acid (ASPIRIN (E.C.)) taken for an unspecified indication from an unspecified start date and ongoing (she has been taking an aspirin daily religiously for about 6 months); famotidine taken for gastrooesophageal reflux disease from an unspecified start date and ongoing (has been taking Famotidine for a couple of years); hydrocodone taken for pain from 2005 and ongoing. The patient experienced sore arm on 08Apr2021 with outcome of recovered on Apr2021, arm swollen on 08Apr2021 with outcome of recovered on Apr2021, everything in vision went white on 08Apr2021 with outcome of recovered on 08Apr2021, felt weak and sick on 08Apr2021 with outcome of recovered on Apr2021, swelling and pain on right side of body on 09Apr2021 with outcome of recovered on Apr2021. The events were described as everything went white: patient reported that everything went white in her vision while she was sitting and waiting after receiving her first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. She thought that it may have just been her glaucoma. The white out of her vision lasted for 5-10 seconds and then her vision returned to normal. Felt weak and sick: when she left the vaccination facility on 08Apr2021, the sun was beating down and she got real sick. She got into her friend's vehicle and upon arriving home, the patient was unable to get out of the car because she felt like she was about to faint. She sat in the air conditioning in her friend's vehicle for 30 minutes. She was still feeling weak and sick but she went inside her house and got into bed. Swelling and pain on right side of body: when she woke up on 09Apr2021, the whole right side of her body to include her face, arm, hand, and foot, were all very painful and very swollen for about 3 days. She has had multiple surgeries on the right side of her body and all of the sites were very painful. Felt weak and sick: she started sweating a lot while she sat in her friend's truck on 08Apr2021 after the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. She sat in her friend's truck for 30-40 minutes with the air conditioner running full force and felt a little better. She still felt weak and sick, but she went inside because her friend needed to leave. She took off her clothes and tried to eat some soup, but just got into bed and stayed there.  Swelling and pain on right side of body: the swelling and pain was really bad for 3-4 days and eventually went away. The pain and swelling gradually diminished. The bones in her hands, knees, thighs, and feet were all very painful. She has a piece of wire that holds her foot to her leg and a spot on her thigh that was affected when she was being given pain blocks and the provider kept missing the site. She has rheumatoid arthritis in her hands, arms, and shoulders as well as a herniated disk in her neck. Patient reported that all of that was hurting and hurting at the same time. Felt weak and sick: patient reported that it took awhile to start coming back to herself. It took about a week and a half until she finally felt back to normal. The patient reported that she should have gone to the doctor or emergency room when she experienced side effects following the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. She didn't want to go to the hospital because her immune system wasn't right and she didn't want to catch anything.  Information on Lot/Batch number was available. Additional information has been requested.