Age: 62.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Body temperature, Chills, Fatigue, Headache, Heart rate increased
Clinical narrative: fast heart beat; it was like she didn't feel good; low grade fever; nausea; headaches; chills; sore arm /arm soreness; tired; felt like she had a flu; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 62-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, lot/batch number and expiration date not provided), via an unspecified route of administration on 18Dec2020 at single dose for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included Diabetes, allergies, heart (Heart disorder). Concomitant medications included irbesartan (AVAPRO) for heart, cetirizine hydrochloride (ZYRTEC [CETIRIZINE HYDROCHLORIDE]) for allergies, metoprolol for heart, metformin for Diabetes, all were ongoing. The patient (Hospital scheduler/employee) had been experiencing side effects of the vaccine. She took the vaccine on 18Dec2020 and still experiencing nausea, headaches, and chills. She asked how long she would experience these side effects and if she needed to take anything. Patient reported she was exposed to someone who had COVID, her son's girlfriend had direct exposure to COVID and wanted to know how it would affect her. The patient further stated she was a hospital scheduler, she had the Pfizer Covid vaccine on 18Dec2020. She had a sore arm/arm soreness and was tired immediately after (18Dec2020), stated by Saturday 19Dec2020, she started having a low-grade fever, chills, headache, nausea, and still had the soreness in the arm. This went on for 2-3 days. Patient stated that up until now, she still had nauseous feeling that happened intermittently around early morning or mid-day, the chills were midday to early evening, it was like she didn't feel good, had to leave early from work. The fever only lasted a couple of days. She also had one isolated episode of fast heart rate that woke her up in the early hours of Sunday 20Dec2020. Caller stated she expected some of these effects to only last a couple of days but wanted to know if this was normal. She tried working 2 days last week and by mid-day she was just really tired, like she was about to get the flu, she felt like she had a flu just with no respiratory symptoms (De2020). She knew of one other coworker who was experiencing similar symptoms. No patient identifiers were provided, no further information provided. Patient did have history of allergies from when she was a child and was on medication, she was on over the counter medication Zyrtec for years, she didn't know if there could be a conflict between them. She received her vaccine part of the hospital. She also called because her son and his girlfriend live in her house and his girlfriend was exposed to someone who tested positive for Covid, she wanted to know how this may affect her since she had the vaccine. Investigation assessment was no. The outcome of the event "sore arm /arm soreness" was recovered in Dec2020, of "low grade fever" was recovered on 21Dec2020, of the events "tired", "nausea", "headache" and "chills" was not recovered, of the other events was unknown.  Information about Lot/Batch number has been requested.