Age: 90.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Burning sensation, Computerised tomogram, Feeling abnormal, Hypoaesthesia, Limb discomfort
Clinical narrative: neuropathy; foot went dead; arm swelled up on her/swelling in left arm all the way down to her wrist; her lymph nodes would swell up; its a strange sensation that wakes her up at night; a funny pulling feeling in the top of her arm; burning; its a strange sensation that wakes her up at night; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team. The reporter is the patient.  A 91-year-old female patient received BNT162b2 (BNT162B2), on 24Aug2021 as dose 2, single (Lot number: FA7485) at the age of 90 years, in right arm for covid-19 immunisation. The patient's relevant medical history included: "breast cancer" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: removal of left breast and lymph nodes from left side 20 years ago; "high blood pressure" (unspecified if ongoing); "high eye pressure/glaucoma" (unspecified if ongoing). Concomitant medication(s) included: AMLODIPINE BESYLATE taken for hypertension, start date: 2010; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; LATANOPROST taken for glaucoma, start date: 2005. Vaccination history included: BNT162b2 (Dose:1, Lot number: EW0180), administration date: 04Aug2021, when the patient was 90-year-old, for Covid-19 Immunization, reaction(s): "Left arm swelled up". The following information was reported: LIMB DISCOMFORT (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "recovering", described as "a funny pulling feeling in the top of her arm"; BURNING SENSATION (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "recovering", described as "burning"; LYMPHADENOPATHY (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "unknown", described as "her lymph nodes would swell up"; FEELING ABNORMAL (non-serious), SLEEP DISORDER (non-serious) all with onset 2021, outcome "unknown" and all described as "its a strange sensation that wakes her up at night"; PERIPHERAL SWELLING (non-serious) with onset 2022, outcome "not recovered", described as "arm swelled up on her/swelling in left arm all the way down to her wrist"; NEUROPATHY PERIPHERAL (medically significant), outcome "unknown", described as "neuropathy"; HYPOAESTHESIA (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "foot went dead". The events "neuropathy", "a funny pulling feeling in the top of her arm", "burning", "its a strange sensation that wakes her up at night", "arm swelled up on her/swelling in left arm all the way down to her wrist", "her lymph nodes would swell up" and "foot went dead" required physician office visit. The patient underwent the following laboratory tests and procedures: Computerised tomogram: Unknown Results.  Clinical information: It was reported that the patient had her first Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine at the end of Aug and 10 days later she had the second dose administered. Soon after she started getting a funny, pulling feeling in the top of her left arm. The pulling, burning, strange sensation that wakes her up at night and she put ice on her arm to go back to sleep. This went on for a while, but she did not relate this to the shot. All of a sudden, her left arm blew up on her and clarified her arm got swollen all the way down to her wrist. Her left arm got swollen but received the injections in her right arm. She was a breast cancer patient who had her left breast and lymph nodes removed 20 years ago. She asked why her lymph nodes would swell up after the shot and were still swollen and does not go down. She massages a little bit. She only felt the pulling and burning sensation when she lifts her arm straight up and straight back. In Sep, she saw her primary care physician who did not feel any swollen lymph nodes but a couple months ago her arm swelled up on her. Her doctor sent her for a CT scan. These swelling states a couple of months ago. She has no new problems with her health and takes a blood pressure medication and Latanoprost for her high eye pressure. She asked does the shots cause swollen lymph nodes and how long does the vaccines take to get out of her body so her lymph nodes will go back down. She asks what causes this problem. Agent gave the caller all the information she had and referred her back to her healthcare provider. Caller confirms details provided by transfer agent. She did not want to go any further or overreact. She hopes the vaccine would subside in her body and in her left arm. She never had any problems after her cancer treatment or anything like this swelling. She has had a lot of medical situations but states she was not that smart just a little bit more inquisitive and did not want to jump into anything. Patient Details: Age at event onset: Caller clarifies she will be 92 years old in October and was still 91 years old now and this occurred this last August. Caller unable to clarify her age when this first started. She states the swelling started right after the first of the year but she did not notice the swelling until all of a sudden. She got rid of all her deodorant because she was experiencing the pulling and burning and thought the deodorant was what was causing this. She states she got a new deodorant and wrote the date on the deodorant of 06Dec2021. She kept thinking the burning and pulling sensation was from her deodorant. Height: Caller states she shrunk a bit. Weight: always been careful about her weight and watches what she eats.  She states she has Italian in her but was born here in the US. Caller received the vaccines at the withheld right around the corner from where she lives. She was concerned about this and asked the pharmacist and told her about her cancer and lymph nodes and the pharmacist said not to worry about that. Caller was not saying the vaccine caused this, but she wanted more information about what to expect from here on out. Primary HCP Details: The Pharmacist recommended this doctor to her as her home was here now because her son lives her. She does see any eye doctor. Caller does not want her primary care physician to know that she was going this far for information as she was the one who gave her the prescription for the CAT scan for something for her right foot that was affected. She thinks she has a little bit of neuropathy, and her foot does not feel like her foot used to. Mailing address, email address, and phone number was unknown. she call because Pfizer could explain a little more and how long the vaccine would last and for her own information. She does not want the x-rays because those will tell her she has swollen lymph nodes. She just wants to know if she was doing the right thing for her age as she sleeps well and eats well and takes care of herself. Event Details:  Swelling in her left arm: This started sometime this year. Her foot went dead on her and then her foot came back and then the next day her arm was swelling. This was the strangest thing to happen to her. She chalked this up to old age but she put ice on the swelling and the swelling would go away. The swelling disturbed her. She showed the swelling to her son and so she went to see her doctor. She was now being sent for an x-ray before the other doctors take over or what she was willing to do. She just wanted to know if her body was reacting to this will this swelling subside. Outcome: This morning when she got up after she did her exercises in bed, her arm was still swollen, and she put her arm down. She states her arm was not blown up. Her right arm looks like a 92-year-old arm with wrinkles and veins but her left arm looks 20 years old with smooth and white looking skin not like her normal right arm. She states this was hard to explain but has to be seen in person.  Pulling and burning sensation: The pulling and burning sensation started right away after her 2nd COVID-19 Vaccine and thought this was caused because she did to much. She was very clean and a germaphobe and will lift things and do everything for herself. The pulling and burning started when she first got the shot and was worse but now she does not feel this anymore except for when her arm was straight up and straight back. This sensation was fine and does not bother her. She got the vaccine because of family. Emergency room was not required. She needed a physician office doctor and her pharmacist recommended and she went to the doctor last Sep. She told her doctor about her arm and how her arm kind of hurt and the doctor felt through her clothing and said this was maybe her lymph nodes. Caller just ignored this and took months for the swelling to appear. Prior vaccinations within 4 weeks was reported as none. Other vaccinations within four weeks prior to the first administration date of the suspect vaccine was reported as none. Adverse events following prior vaccination was reported as none. She states this would be very easy to speak to someone and explain and if she could show her 2 arms to someone. Caller asks for information about if she should wait a little longer for this vaccine to leave her system. withheld was wonderful and she explained a lot and how each immune system was different and her body could take longer for her body. She states if she went to an oncologist, the oncologist may be able to tell her more. She states she does not want to bother medical information and the previous agent told her everything she could. She was thankful for listening and states she will just wait this out and see what she wants to do about this. She just does not have pain just swelling.