Age: 60.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Arthralgia, Gait disturbance, Pain
Clinical narrative: significant aches; pain in her hips after the first dose/ Joint pain; after the first vaccine, she couldn't stand up straight, she was walking like a monkey; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient) via medical information team. A 60-year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, solution for injection, Lot Number: EM9809), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 24Feb2021 (at the age of 60-year-old) as 1st dose, single dose for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included covid-19 from 21Dec2020 to 11Jan2021, lower back pain (had lower back problem for years), herniated L2 and L3 from 2015, had sciatica on left, but sciatica was lower back and down leg (never joints and hips). The patient's concomitant medications were none. The patient previously received hep B shots (HEPATITIS B VACCINE) for Immunization (had Hep B shots, all vaccines as a child) and flu shots (INFLUENZA VACCINE) for Immunization (flu shots every year and had the herpes). Patient did not have any history of all previous immunization with the Pfizer vaccine and not received any additional vaccines administered on same date of the Pfizer suspect. The patient did not receive any other vaccines within 4 weeks prior to the vaccination. Patient did not have family medical history relevant to adverse events. On an unknown date in 2021, patient experienced significant aches, pain in her hips after the first dose, after the first vaccine. It was also reported, she couldn't stand up straight and was walking like a monkey. The patient experienced joint pain. Her doctor didn't believe that it gave her joint pain. She got a new doctor and told him about the right side which she never had any problems before. He said, "maybe you are overcompensating". The patient had lower back problem for years. It was good to hear that it can cause joint problems. Her doctors did not believe her.  Doctor gave her tramadol which takes the pain away for 1 day but that was it. Further stated, received both doses of the Pfizer covid vaccine. Since receiving the Pfizer covid vaccine, had significant aches and pains in joints. The aches and pains began after the first dose of the covid vaccine. The first dose was not so bad, she felt like maybe it was from the rain. This all started the next day after her first dose, she went to work and it was raining bad, and she told the secretary her hip joints were hurting and she cannot stand up straight but she thought it was the rain and she had turned 60, she thought she would just had joint problems, but she had no problems until the day after the first vaccine, she could not stand up straight, she was walking like a monkey. Everything seemed to be fine, it was easing up. The patient went to Doctor for the first time, he gave her Tramadol, too, and it took away the pain for one day. She had a herniated L2 and L3, she was unsure which was torn. This was diagnosed in 2015, she's been going to Pain management since at least 2017. She never had joint pain in hips ever, especially on the right side, she always had sciatica on left, but sciatica was lower back and down leg, never joints and hips. She had Hep B shots, all vaccines as a child, even had flu shots every year and had the herpes, or whatever one if you had chicken pox as a kid, now you'll get it, she had that as a series, 2 or 3 shots, and had no side effects. The patient used to go to gymnastics when she was little and has two herniated discs and a tear in the back, which was why she goes to pain management. Clarifies she had a herniated L2 and L3, she was unsure which was torn. This was diagnosed in 2015, she was been going to Pain management since at least 2017, but never for hip/joint pain and swelling, like since the COVID vaccine, and also, she had COVID in December and January, maybe she shouldn't have got it, she was hearing the antibodies were good for a year, maybe it was too much on top of her having COVID. She was intelligent and was thinking perhaps she gave herself too much dose, she already had antibodies, the doctors said to get vaccinated even though she had COVID, they did not know how long the antibodies last, they said maybe 3 months, but she got the COVID vaccine within the three-month time, so she was unsure if that was the reason why this happened. There was no investigation assessment and Relevant tests. The patient not visited emergency room and physician office due to the events. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of significant aches, pain in her hips after the first dose. The outcome of event ache and pain in hip was not recovered while unknown for other.; Sender's Comments: Linked Report(s) : US-PFIZER INC-2021642671 Same reporter/ drug,different patient