Age: 75.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Contusion, Hot flush, Hyperhidrosis, Vision blurred, Visual impairment
Clinical narrative: bruising close to hand; hot flash; sweating all over; blurry vision/white cloud on her eyes; hard time seeing; This is spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 75-year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), dose 1 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 08Feb2021 12:15 (Batch/Lot number was not reported) (at the age of 75 years) as DOSE 1, SINGLE for covid-19 immunisation; ticagrelor (BRILINTA), oral from 28Apr2020 (Batch/Lot Number: MNO148; Expiration Date: Aug2023) and ongoing, at 90 mg, 2x/day for anticoagulant therapy. Medical history included glaucoma from 2016 to an unknown date, cataract from 2016 to an unknown date, blood pressure abnormal from an unknown date and unknown if ongoing, stent placement from 28Apr2020 to an unknown date. Patient previously took baby aspirin from unknown date and unknown indication and became anemic. Concomitant medication included losartan taken for blood pressure, start and stop date were not reported. The patient experienced blurry vision/ white cloud on her eyes, hard time seeing on 08Feb2021, bruising on an unspecified date, hot flash on 08Feb2021, sweating all over on 08Feb2021. Clinical course was as follows: On 08Feb2021, patient reported blurry vision, hard time seeing for three hours following dose. She woke up with bruising close to hand on side of administration, other bruising. Patient also stated that thirty minutes after she got the vaccine she ate, then an hour after she got the shot while she was going home her vision became very blurry, and she had a white cloud on her eyes, she had a hard time seeing. She says she also got sweaty and had a hot flash, she was sweating all over, this went away 3 minutes later. She says that the "blindness" or blurriness went away after two hours. She says she was also on Brilinta, a blood thinner, and has a big bruise on the arm where she got the vaccine, further down on her arm closer to her hand that is 4 inches, which they say was normal on Brilinta. She then clarified that the blurriness or white cloud got better two hours after she got home. She says she got the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot at 12:15PM, by 04:30PM she could see clear again, she used eye drops and rested and could see clear. She said she has been on the same medications since she started the eye drops in 2016. She clarified that she was leery of getting the second dose and would like to know if she could be getting worse side effects or would be taking a chance for worse side effect than what she had, she doesn't want to go blind. The outcome of events bruise and hot flash was unknown, for events blurry vision/white cloud on her eyes, hard time seeing was recovered on 08Feb2021 16:30, for event sweating was recovered on 08Feb2021. The action taken in response to the events for bnt162b2 was not applicable, for ticagrelor was unknown. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of blurry vision, white cloud on her eyes, hard time seeing.  No follow-up attempts are possible; information about lot/batch number cannot be obtained. No further information is expected.