Age: 73.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Pain in extremity, Pyrexia, SARS-CoV-2 antibody test, Ultrasound scan
Clinical narrative: low grade fever; chills; body ache; generally not feeling well; Her arm is sore; she was exhausted; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient) or other non hcp. A 73-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Solution for injection) via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 09Mar2021 (Lot Number: EN6205, at the of 73-year-old) as single dose for COVID-19 immunisation. Family history includes arthritis. Medical history included in late 40's patient she got hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and superficial thrombophlebitis, patient's legs would get red hot and red and they would do an ultrasound and found she had superficial thrombophlebitis not a Deep Vein thrombosis. The patient had arthritis and had the COVID infection on 05Dec2020 with a fever of 102.4F. The patient stated before vaccination she woke up with a sore neck. She thought that might be as she slept wrong, and it was still sore in certain ways when she turns her head it would hurt. She had a stiff neck. Her allergies would set her asthma off and then she would have to go into the hospital to get breathing treatments and steroids. Her doctor said that the steroids can cause her bones to go bad, so she did not want to take the steroids anymore. She was taking prednisone. Then she was told by someone she knew that she just needed to get her immune system up by taking a daily vitamin and a daily vitamin C and some supplements and she started doing that and it really has helped. Concomitant medications included acetylsalicylic acid (ASPIRIN), diflunisal for arthritis, cetirizine HCL for asthma. The patient previously took diphenhydramine [diphenhydramine hydrochloride] and experienced somnolence, flu and experienced local reaction. The historical vaccine include FLU shots and she gets a local reaction from her flu shot. She usually gets body aches, a knot in her arm and a big red circle around the injection site that feels warm to touch and it gets sore. On 10Mar2021 at 7 to 8 PM, she was exhausted. She usually stays up late to watch television, but she went to bed earlier and slept for 12 hours and then she was waking up every 3 hours to go to the bathroom, but that was normal for her to wake up during the night and go to the bathroom. She confirmed that both began on 09Mar2021. She was exhausted. She feels fatigued, but if she was sitting or lying down, she felt good. She just did not feel well. If she got up to move, her body hurts, and her arm was sore. She has bad arthritis and because of her not taking her NSAIDs, she could be hurting because of that. The weather was changing, and she got body aches with a change of weather. It could be everything combined, and She was not sure. She said all of her symptoms that she was having have stayed the same because she was not taking anything because she did not know if she could. She did not want to take anything that will interfere with the COVID vaccine unless she had to like if her fever were to shoot up and she would need to take Tylenol. The events were assessed as non-serious. She made an appointment on 30Mar2021 for her second dose. The events outcome was reported as not recovered.   No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.