Age: 56.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Blood culture, Bursitis, Chest pain, Joint swelling, Peripheral swelling
Clinical narrative: Swelling and rash on left arm, elbow, and forearm; Swelling and rash on left arm, elbow, and forearm; Swelling and rash on left arm, elbow, and forearm; Chest pain; Bursitis; This is a spontaneous report received from a contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP). The reporter is the patient.  A 57-year-old female patient received BNT162b2 (BNT162B2), on 13Jul2021 as dose 2, single (Batch/Lot number: unknown) at the age of 56 years intramuscular, in left arm for covid-19 immunisation. The patient's relevant medical history included: "Gastritis", start date: 2001 (ongoing), notes: Gastritis Had since 2001 because a dog broke her, face. There were no concomitant medications. Vaccination history included: BNT162b2 (DOSE 1, SINGLE, Anatomical location: Left arm, Route of administration: Subcutaneous), administration date: 22Jun2021, when the patient was 56-year-old, for Covid-19 immunization, reaction(s): "while the 1st injection of feeling the vaccine moving thru her arm.", "Burning sensation down arm, across bicep, and into elbow with first dose COVID-19 Vaccine". The following information was reported: BURSITIS (non-serious) with onset 13Jul2021, outcome "unknown"; CHEST PAIN (non-serious) with onset 13Jul2021, outcome "unknown"; PERIPHERAL SWELLING (caused and prolonged hospitalization, medically significant), JOINT SWELLING (caused and prolonged hospitalization, medically significant), RASH (caused and prolonged hospitalization, medically significant) all with onset May2022, outcome "unknown" and all described as "Swelling and rash on left arm, elbow, and forearm". The patient was hospitalized and prolonged hospitalization for peripheral swelling, joint swelling, rash (start date: 12May2022, discharge date: 15May2022, hospitalization duration: 3 day(s)). The patient underwent the following laboratory tests and procedures: Blood culture: Clear, notes: Had a blood culture on each arm, both cultures came back clear; X-ray: Unknown result. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of peripheral swelling, joint swelling, rash.  Clinical course: Her personal doctor did not take care of her at hospital, an infectious disease doctor did. She has to go in and discuss this with her personal physician. The squishy stuff on her elbow has went away, but the bone still hurts from her elbow to two inches into her forearm. This was as a result of receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine as a subcutaneous injection. Clarifies this was how she and the FDA feel, but both of them are just waiting on Pfizer. In May was told to go to the hospital. Last summer, had her last shot in July, the second dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine. The first COVID-19 Vaccine was where the problem started. Caller and husband got their vaccines together. When caller got her vaccine, caller could feel a burning sensation going down arm and across bicep and assuming down into the elbow area. Caller didn't have a problem. Caller went in for the second COVID-19 vaccine and it was done properly, it was higher by the shoulder muscle in that area of her arm. Caller was advised to stay for 15 minutes after her second COVID-19 Vaccine Thought maybe would have some kind of reaction. In May2022, without hitting her elbow or anything else, elbow grew so large that she couldn't straighten it. The arm could not hang down. Noticed a red rash started down forearm, but it was not going up, so she was not too worried about it. Called her doctor and was advised to go straight to the emergency room because it had a little bit of puss had come out of elbow. Caller's doctor was worried that for some reason the elbow had gotten infected and wanted to make sure the infection was not in the joint. By the time she went to the hospital, the rash all the way up the arm. Arm was swollen from shoulder all the way down. It was decided she was going to stay and they started her on antibiotics through an IV every 8 hours. Stayed in the hospital for 2-2.5 days. Was given an oral antibiotics to take at home. Infectious disease doctor said that he did not feel an infection went from the outside to inside, but felt there was already an infection in the elbow and a little piece of white puss came out, and that's why it itched. She went home on antibiotics, called her personal physician because the swelling had gone down. Doctor advised caller to come in to be seen as soon as the oral antibiotics were done. She went in and by that time her elbow was still swollen somewhat when she looked at it, but she could at least see the elbow by now. Doctor looked at it and called it bursitis. Stated a lot of his patients want him to open it up or draw whatever was there out and he does not feel that's good because he doesn't want to introduce anything outside to the inside of the joint. Doctor advised caller to just to wait for squishy part of the elbow to clear up. Caller was talking to someone three weeks later and mentioned he had bursitis because he injured his shoulder playing football, which prompted caller to start looking up bursitis. Caller then states that apparently one needs to do a serious injury to get bursitis because it causes the water sacks to burst. Caller clarifies she has had no injuries. The only thing the caller and the FDA think was the COVID-19 Vaccine went into the elbow and ate at those sacks and released them, which was when the problem started. It went from there to the hospital. In the hospital, she was told every day if the swelling didn't go down, her left arm would have to be cut off and they were trying to keep the infection away from her heart. Reiterates she provided the lot numbers of her Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccines to the previous Pfizer representative. Her husband got his COVID-19 Vaccines in the muscle because he was complaining about how long the needle was and it hurt when she was jamming the needle in there. With caller, she could barely tell she was getting the vaccination. Caller has administered intramuscular shots and subcutaneous shots and there was always literature with the immunization telling you how it's supposed to be given. Clarified caller has never administered shots to people, only animals. She did not eat for over a week because of the condition that it had her in, it didn't matter what she was offered, just could not eat. she assumed that was hooked up with that cellulitis, which was what the hospital had called it, and the bursitis. Clarified the swelling and rash was the cellulitis. The squishiness of her elbow was the bursitis, which occurred two weeks after she went into the hospital. Before she was let out, hospital made sure her arm went down and the cellulitis had cleared up the site. Even though she can see her elbow and does not have squishiness in there, whenever the bone in forearm touches something, she knows about it and doesn't know why. That's why she's going back to her personal physician and let him know that she has pain there and to see what he wants to do or doesn't want to do. Wants to give Pfizer a half fighting change because she thinks it sucks Pfizer was giving out a vaccine on an emergency basis yet Pfizer doesn't have enough people to call people back that are concerned about the vaccine. Pfizer makes too much damn money to not give a shit. Really hopes Pfizer can get ahold of the other report with the previous Pfizer representative. Caller only had two doses of the COVID-19 Vaccine. With the second dose, both caller and her husband had chest pain in the left part of the chest between the breast and sternum bone. This occurred on the date of the second dose, 13Jul2021 for both caller and her husband. Doesn't know if she should go get a booster. Doesn't know what to do. FDA said when she goes in about her bone to talk to doctor as to whether to take a booster or not because of the subcutaneous reaction. Caller hopes those stupid bags go back together in the elbow. If the vaccine went into the elbow and sat there and ate those bags, she was assuming the vaccine will sit in there the rest of her life in the elbow. If she was able to take something over the counter to get rid of the swelling she would have. She was in serious pain. Normally doesn't have a problem with vaccines. That's why she was not thinking about the Pfizer vaccine being linked to her arm or elbow until she got onto the internet and was trying to figure out what the bursitis was about. Then states there it was, that people given a subcutaneous injection, had cellulitis around where the injection was. There was no bacteria that caused anything. When doctor looked at results of the testing done with blood work he said it looked to him like they were all tests monitoring her inflammation. They came in and took an x-ray to show it was not in the elbow. Clarified there was no infection in the elbow joint itself and the bone there. Caller was able to clarify the date of her first dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine was 22Jun2021 and both of her vaccines were received in the left arm.  The information on the batch/lot number for BNT162b2 has been requested and will be submitted if and when received.