Age: 65.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: PPV, VARZOS
Symptoms: Erythema, Feeding disorder, Gastrointestinal disorder, Gastrointestinal sounds abnormal, Herpes zoster
Clinical narrative: She got the vaccines, had just a sore arm for a day or two, could not lift her arm, which she felt was normal.  She had diarrhea for 4 days, and went 12 times a day.  It was terrible, painfully bad, and still did not connect it to the vaccine.  She could not eat, and didn't eat, but is going through some gastric events that she is going through.  After 4 days she started throwing up for 2 days.  She could not eat anything, and she can still barely eat anything.  The gut is making a lot of noise, painful, heavy and feels like it is up from under her boobs and feels like everything is being pulled down by gravity and very stretchy feeling.  Has constant waves or pain, not having diarrhea or vomiting, but the stress in her intestines is unrelenting.  She is amazed how it still could be this bad this far out.  She cannot say that it is the shingles, but may be a combination of both as she is an immunocompromised patient.  She feels it is related to the shingles.  3 days after the shot she began itching, and felt it was due to a bug bite.  She had a stripe/patch, and she saw her sister go through shingles a few years ago.   The stripe was across her lower neck, upper chest and went from her left armpit 3" tall, and went from under her arm, across the to of her left breast to the middle of her chest, and it stayed.  It got red, purple, itchy and was thinking what kind of bug bit her.  She had gotten bitten by a spider prior to this and she is allergic to spider bites.  Then the spot showed up where she got the shot, great big knot, bigger than a golfball, itchy, red and drew a mark around it to see if it was growing.  It had a fever in it and itched like crazy, which was the next day.  It kept getting bigger and redder, and grew to not as big as a softball, and it hurt so bad that her arm was hung down.  She then called the pharmacy and they sent her the info, called her doctor and they felt that she ended up with a mild case of shingles.  There is still redness in the area, does not itch like it did but she does itch at night.  The itchy was so bad that she was gouging at it, not knowing what it is.   She does not know when the stomach is going to go away.  He told her that the only way to figure it out should be going to the clinic and it's not contagious then it must have come from the vaccine.  She was not put on any medicines for the shingles.  She is putting cortisone on it, which did not help it at all.    She did have her COVID vaccines and did not have any reactions.  It's been a week and half of the most severe intestinal problems that she has had in a long time.  She was not having severe problems with her stomach prior to the vaccine, but she has a gastric problem.    she had her kidney removed 3 years ago due to cancer, and the doctor wanted to do 33 rounds of kidney first prior to the removal of it.  She got 1 dose of chemo and came home and it took 4 days and she was sick.  She thought she was going to throw up from the chemo and instead of that she laid on the floor and had 4 grand mal seizures from the chemo.  She was in the hospital for 6 weeks due to that reaction.  She shattered her shoulders, had a replacement, her arms were stuck to her side for almost a year.  She could lift her arms at the elbow, could not feed herself and can never have chemo again.  She has had bladder cancer 3 times.  She may be very reactive to chemo and this vaccine, and may be more reactive than the average person.  They could not figure out what happened and why chemo treatment would turn her upside down, and almost die, but recovered from it.  She also had a ruptured bladder which pushed her stomach into her lungs.    She cannot move her arm since then, and had to surrender her drivers license.