Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Asthenia, Chills, Dizziness, Fatigue, Hypersomnia
Clinical narrative: Fatigue; light headed; weakness; had slept all day; fever; pain on the left lateral side; chills; her arm and her neck and it felt congested; her arm and her neck and it felt congested; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer or other non hcp.   A 63-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, Solution for injection, Batch/Lot Number: ER8729), dose 1 via an unspecified route of administration on 17Sep2021 09:00 as DOSE 1, SINGLE for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included crazy heart rhythm. There were no concomitant medications. Patient previously received hepatitis vaccines and experienced discomfort (The discomfort wasn't as great), Tetanus vaccines with long term issues, typhoid vaccine and The discomfort wasn't as great as it was with the typhoid, she was sick for about 3 months, arm being hugely swollen, red and painful, arm being hugely swollen, red and painful, had fever and fatigue, discomfort, she had arm swelling. Patient had had long term issues with other vaccines like Typhoid, hepatitis, and Tetanus after receiving them, so this not a surprise, but each on of those had a different duration and patient want to know in what classification this was. So she want to know about how long will it take for the symptoms to go away, as I did not expect them to last 4 days. The patient experienced chills on 17Sep2021, fever on 17Sep2021 14:30, pain on the left lateral side on 17Sep2021, fatigue on 18Sep2021 and she has been laying in bed a lot, light headed on 18Sep2021, weakness on 18Sep2021, had slept all day on 18Sep2021, her arm and her neck and it felt congested on Sep2021, her arm and her neck and it felt congested on Sep2021. She confirmed that all of her side effects began on 17Sep2021 except the fatigue, that didn't kick in until the next day, 18Sep2021. She had slept all day Saturday, off and on, and she was drifting and dozing yesterday. It has been 4 days since and she has been taking aspirin to treat her adverse reactions. Transfer agent provided that caller's age is 53 years old. The call did have questions regarding her experience such as how long these symptoms might last for her. She doesn't usually get vaccines. She had the typhoid vaccine and she was sick for about 3 months with symptoms similar to this. It was random and it was not 24/7 but it took her a long time to get over them and she had arm swelling. When caller was providing this information she was very hard to understand and this DSU agent asked her to repeat what she was saying and the caller provided that when she had the typhoid vaccine her side effects had started right away with her arm being hugely swollen, red and painful. She had the painful arm for a good while. She had residual fatigue and fever but it wasn't for 24/7. The typhoid thing lasted off and on for about 3 months. It wasn't 24/7 but it was pretty much every day that she had fever and fatigue. With her hepatitis it was weird because it is normal for her to have to get a couple of vaccines to get the titers up but with the hepatitis it took her 5 to get her titers up. The discomfort wasn't as great as it was with the typhoid but it was there for about a week. She doesn't well with vaccines so she wasn't looking forward to this one. This one was not as bad as the others and she has had no arm pain from the beginning to now. The chills started within no time and the fever and the fatigue have been dragging on. She knows it has only been about 4 days but to her it seems to be dragging on. She also does have a history of a crazy heart rhythm and it may raise but it is not an allergic reaction it is just her body doesn't like stuff sometimes. She was not alarmed when that happened, it did happen but it didn't alarm her. That has been better today. While she was there at the facility where she had her COVID vaccine the only thing that happened was in the first 15 minutes. She had a really sharp pain on the left lateral side. The precise spot is on her left rib about a hand width below her armpit and after that she had from that point along her arm she had something that she doesn't know how to describe. Actually it was not along her arm it went kind of up to the top part of her arm and her neck and it felt congested. You know how when someone pumps it up for your blood pressure to be taken and how it feels. Well the top of her arm and neck felt like that but that didn't last long, maybe 15 to 20 minutes. It wasn't even enough for her to go get anyone it was just interesting and then it went away and never came back. That was the only pain that she had but she has definitely never had that before so she knew it was vaccine related. After that she felt super fine, amazingly fine and she thought that she was off the hook. She had the COVID vaccine at 9:00 maybe and then around 2:30 she started having chills. Who she is staying with had went to the gym so she thought that he had turned down the air conditioner and she had went to turn it back up because she didn't think about the vaccine and the air conditioner wasn't low at all. Then it got worse and worse and she had to turn the air conditioner and the ceiling fans off and that has been the case for 3 to 4 days or whatever day this is now. That happened quickly, well it was 6 hours after and that's it. Then the fatigue set in pretty much then. At first she just didn't feel good because of the chills. The next morning when she went to get up she was light headed and then when she got up the weakness thing set in. She now has power at her house after the hurricane and she had bought some things to her car and she had opened the doors and the hatch and was putting stuff in her car and it was not a long distance, that was yesterday, and she had to lay down for 20 minutes without even closing her doors. She drove an hour to her house and she was okay sitting like that, she was not dizzy or anything. When she got there she made two trips inside her house and then had to leave the rest in the car and drive back. This morning she had got up and she was at an animal rescue and there are special needs animals so she was giving medication to them and she thought how she wasn't going to make it to walk today. She then took some aspirin and some vitamins thinking maybe that could help and 30 minutes after she had to go lay down. Her neighbor had knocked on the door and brought her something and checked on her. The caller had sat outside for about 30 minutes after that and thought she had to go lie down. She was sitting on the porch swing and then she would lay down on the porch swing and then she thought that she needed to go inside and lay down and that's how her day had been. She was knocked out cold at 12:30 when who she is living with had called to see how she was doing and she just woke up again today at 4:00. She had less of a fever and chills in the sense that she didn't take aspirin as often, it was kind of more like every 6 hours that she would feel the fever and chills come back and she would take aspirin and then it would get better. She was trying to fight the fatigue yesterday and do something. Not even for 24 hours could she try and take it easy but yesterday she needed to do stuff to move back to her place and she could just tell that it wasn't working and today it is not working. She was trying to push herself through and she can't quite get it. Maybe she is being wimpy and if this DSU agent says that people do better when they keep pushing through it, even though she doesn't feel like doing that, then she will do it if that's the best way to fight it. She doesn't know. She doesn't have anyone to call because the person that gave the COVID vaccine to her doesn't know her and then her chiropractor doesn't believe in the COVID vaccine in the first place so she will say that she had told the caller not to do that. caller states that she thinks that the fever and chills are better because she hasn't had to take aspirin as often. The longest that she went today was 6.5 hours without taking aspirin for the fever and chills. Inquired for fatigue outcome and she says it is the same, she knows that it is not worse but she doesn't feel like it is better either. The outcome of event Fatigue was not resolved, chills, fever was resolving, pain on the left lateral side, her arm and her neck and it felt congested, light headed, weakness, had slept all day was unknown.