Age: 65.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Induration, Pain, Swelling
Clinical narrative: around my smallpox vaccine site was swollen and hard; It can be very painful, especially when it swells; Sometimes the area feels warmer than the rest of the arm.; around my smallpox vaccine site was swollen and hard/the swelling returned; around my smallpox vaccine site was swollen and hard/the swelling returned; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP). The reporter is the patient.  A 65 year-old female patient (not pregnant) received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), administered in arm right, administration date 25May2021 17:15 (Lot number: EW0185) at the age of 65 years as dose 2, single for covid-19 immunisation. Relevant medical history included: "hypothyroidism" (unspecified if ongoing); "CFS/ME" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: Verbatim: (unspecified if ongoing), notes: Verbatim: CFS/ME; "low adrenal function" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: Verbatim: low adrenal function; "immunocompromised" (unspecified if ongoing); "sleep disorders" (unspecified if ongoing); "eggs" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: known allergies: eggs; "pollen" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: known allergies: pollen; "dust" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: known allergies: dust. Concomitant medication(s) included: SYNTHROID; CYTOMEL; AMANTADINE; ACYCLOVIR. Past drug history included: Aspirin, reaction(s): "known allergies: Aspirin", notes: known allergies: Aspirin. Vaccination history included: Bnt162b2 (Dose Number: 1, Batch/Lot No: ER8737, Location of injection: Arm Right, Vaccine Administration Time: 05:15 PM), administration date: 08Apr2021, when the patient was 65 years old, for COVID-19 immunization, reaction(s): "pain in my left arm", "around my smallpox vaccine site was swollen and hard", "around my smallpox vaccine site was swollen and hard"; Small pox vaccine (Verbatim: smallpox scar right at center), for Immunization, reaction(s): "smallpox scar right at center". The following information was reported: VACCINATION SITE MASS (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "not recovered", described as "around my smallpox vaccine site was swollen and hard"; PAIN (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "recovering", described as "It can be very painful, especially when it swells"; FEELING HOT (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "not recovered", described as "Sometimes the area feels warmer than the rest of the arm."; VACCINATION SITE SWELLING (non-serious), CONDITION AGGRAVATED (non-serious) all with onset 2021, outcome "not recovered" and all described as "around my smallpox vaccine site was swollen and hard/the swelling returned". Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of vaccination site mass, pain, vaccination site swelling, condition aggravated. Therapeutic measures were not taken as a result of feeling hot.  Additional information: The patient did not receive any other vaccines within 4 weeks prior to the COVID vaccine. It was  reported that 45 minutes after first shot the patient experienced pain in her left arm. The next day the area around her smallpox vaccine site was swollen and hard. Affected area was 4-5" in diameter, with smallpox scar right at centre. It remained swollen for 4 weeks. After second shot. It had not fully resolved at all in the last six months. Ibuprofen helped with pain but did not resolve swelling. Prior to vaccination, the patient was not diagnosed with COVID-19. Since the vaccination, the patient has not been tested for COVID-19.  No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.