Age: 55.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Blood pressure increased, Blood pressure measurement, Blood thyroid stimulating hormone, Blood urine present, Chest discomfort
Clinical narrative: Elevated blood pressure; heart rate was 125; thyroid is low; very sick; panic attack; chest is tight; irritable and having mood swings; anxiety or panic attack; irritable and having mood swings; pounding head; nausea; horrible body aches; Cramps; Shaking; shivering; gets violently hot; sweating profusely; arm turned dark red, went numb and tingly; arm turned dark red, went numb and tingly; arm turned dark red, went numb and tingly; blood in the urine; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 55-year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine), dose 2 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 04May2021 (Batch/Lot Number: ER8736) as 2nd dose, single for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history includes post-menopausal. The patient has a family history of low thyroid (mother). Concomitant medications included fexofenadine hydrochloride, pseudoephedrine hydrochloride (ALLEGRA-D 12HR) taken for an unspecified indication and paracetamol (TYLENOL EXTRA STRENGTH) taken for pain, start and stop date were not reported. The patient previously received first dose of Bnt162b2 on 13Apr2021 (lot number: ER8729) in the left arm for Covid-19 immunization. After she got the second dose in May2021, she did get very sick for about 48 hours, with a pounding head, nausea, and horrible body aches, cramps and shaking. She clarifies these symptoms lasted for about 24-48 hours. She has been much, much, much worse now since the second dose. It looks like some things were thrown off in the blood tests and stuff that were done in the ER. It's even showing that her thyroid is low and they immediately put her on Synthroid thyroid medication which made her a little nervous. She is not sure that what is showing up is something that is systemic with her or if this is something effecting what is systemic with her or if she is having some reaction. She is a little terrified right now to have her heart rate and blood pressure be up so much all the time. The level it was on Friday (209/100) scared her to death. Last Friday, after she took a shower, she was feeling like she was going to die. She does not know how else to explain it. She does have a blood pressure cuff and she decided to take her blood pressure. Her blood pressure was 209/100 and her heart rate was 125. Her blood pressure has been hovering around the 160s and 170's for the top number. She explains she and her doctors cannot get her to calm down. She called her doctor and she was sent to the Emergency Room. Some of the heart palpitation stuff and other things is coming in waves, it's not like its constant. But the blood pressure being elevated is constant. Also, when she has these waves, she also has perfused sweating. The waves last for about 5 minutes and the perfuse sweating takes a long time to stop. Her body is wet and she is instantly drenched. She is post-menopausal for like 2 years, it's not like hot flashes or anything weird showing up at the same time. She feels like she is in the middle of some sort of panic or anxiety attack 24 hours a day. She is also experiencing a lot of shaking and shivering. All of sudden, she gets violently hot and starts sweating profusely until she is drenched. She wakes up drenched in the middle of the night with her heart beating and high blood pressure, it wakes her up violently in the middle of the night. These symptoms have been continuing the entire time and she thinks it is getting worse. Friday was the highest her blood pressure has ever been. When she tried to use blood pressure cuff, her arm turned dark red, went numb and tingly, and she had tons of pain. She thought her arm was going to explode. She has never had that happen. She thinks the blood pressure was so high that the cuff caused that to happen. This made her think her blood pressure was close to heart attack level. Her blood pressure was 209/100 and her heart rate was 125. Her arm had never done that before. She clarifies she only went to the emergency room and she was never admitted into the hospital. She tried to get them to admit her because this has been going on so long and it's not correcting itself but they did not want to admit her. Clarified she went to the ER on Friday 14May2021. Several things were showing up weird in her blood tests. One of the things that showed up was that her thyroid was slightly low. She clarifies the TSH level was elevated, which meant hypothyroidism (thyroid is low). She was immediately put on Synthroid even though she was telling the doctors she was not so sure if what was happening to her was systemic and that it may be something that is exacerbated by or caused by the vaccine. She had to call into an endocrinologist because wanted her to see the endocrinologist immediately. In the hospital, her heart rate was okay while she was there, this kind of goes in waves. A wave of her heart beat going really, really hard and really, really fast. She states "you can see it through my clothes". The sweating starts at the same time. However, on the regular, like at the time of report, she has been shaking and she can tell her blood pressure is elevated. She has taken her blood pressure twice this morning and it was in the 180s over 90s range and then in the 160/80's range. Constantly, she feels like her heart is racing around and her blood pressure is racing all day long. It feels like what an anxiety attack would feel like. It's like she just can't get her body to calm down. Her heart rate calms down a little bit, she is constantly hearing the pounding in her ears when her heart beats. She is just riled up all of the time and her chest is tight. It's not like a breathing issue, her body is just tight, it feels like when she is scared or alarmed. She also has become very irritable and having mood swings. She thinks that is more coming from her body feeling like her body is on high alert or overly sensitive. It feels like every little thing is gigantic. She has never felt that before. She is normally a fully high functioning person. Because her blood pressure is so high and this isn't stopping. She is literally debilitated and cannot function. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures on 14May2021 which included albumin globulin ratio: 1.1, lowest of recommended low, anion gap: 5, slightly low, blood glucose: 111, elevated, potassium: 3.4, slightly low, blood pressure measurement: 209/100, blood thyroid stimulating hormone: 3.820, slightly elevated (low thyroid), globulin: 3.9, slightly elevated, heart rate: 125, platelet count: 448, slightly elevated, protein total: 8.2 (right at recommended normal high level), blood UA positive 1+ and blood pressure measurement: 171/101; heart rate: 109 both on 17May2021. The patient added that her endocrinologist ran all of her tests last Sept2020 and her thyroid was not even an issue. Some traces of blood in the urine was found in blood UA. Nothing that should be causing that because there is no menstrual cycle or anything else they know is going on. The outcome of event chest tightness was not recovered; all other events was unknown.   Information on Lot/Batch number was available. Additional information has been requested.