Age: 67.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Blood pressure increased, Blood pressure measurement, Blood test, Dizziness, Fatigue
Clinical narrative: feeling light headed; mild headache; fatigue; erratic bp/ spike in her blood pressure; feeling nauseous; accelerated HR; she had body shakes/body was trembling; to the point she thought she was going to pass out; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 67-year-old female patient received first dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Solution for injection, Lot no: EL1284) at vaccination age of 67-year-old via an unspecified route of administration on 28Jan2021 at a single dose to prevent COVID19 (covid-19 immunisation). Medical history included interstitial lung disease and overactive thyroid (She was treated for overactive thyroid, but it has been stable for five years). Concomitant medication included nitrofurantoin for interstitial lung disease and fluticasone. The patient previously took prednisone [prednisone acetate] (She did ten weeks of Prednisone and has been off Prednisone since the middle of Nov2020. She started at 30mg and tapered down to 20mg then to 10mg and then to 5mg until she was done). The patient experienced feeling lightheaded, mild headache, fatigue, erratic bp 01Feb2021 11:30, feeling nauseous on an unspecified date in 2021. Took Pfizer Covid 19 vaccine last week. Began feeling lightheaded, mild headache, fatigue, erratic BP on Monday, 4 days after receiving the vaccine. Went to Emergency department on Monday evening. Has been continuing off and on since Monday. Can these symptoms occur after 4 days patient questioned. Has already reported to DSU. She got Pfizer's COVID19 Vaccine a week ago today. She was doing fine and then Monday she started with mild headache, erratic blood pressure readings. She ended up in the ER because it was so high. It stabled out and she went home. She was feeling ok on Tuesday, but not quite normal. She was fine yesterday until last night then it started again with erratic blood pressure, fatigue, mild headache and lightheadedness. The headache is never pounding. The lightheadedness won't go away. Is that normal to have that many days after receiving the vaccine? It was four days before she started experiencing it. Now she feels kind of normal as long as she is laying down except for headache. As of 15Feb2021, the patient reported that she called a couple weeks ago and reported adverse side effects and she needed a couple questions answered. She mentioned that she was due to have the second vaccine this weeks (18Feb2021). She was extremely worried about doing it because even some of the effects she had after 4 days in the first vaccination have not subsided. She added that it landed her in emergency room a couple of times (also reported as ended up in the ER twice). She inquired if should she take the second one at this point or can she wait and if she can wait for how long. She mentioned that she had a spike in her blood pressure (BP), she had accelerated HR on an unspecified date in 2021, she was very lightheaded to the point she thought she was going to pass out on an unspecified date in 2021. The second time around, her body was trembling on an unspecified date in 2021, she had body shakes. It was not fun. All of these effects have returned to somewhat normalcy, but she is still experiencing lightheadedness. She has seen her own physicians, but she is not sure if she should proceed with the second vaccine. The outcome of the event lightheadedness was not recovered while the outcome of the other events was recovering.  Follow up (15Feb2021): New information received from a contactable consumer (patient) included: lab data, new event (accelerated HR, to the point she thought she was going to pass out, body shakes/trembling) and clinical course of the events.