Age: 21.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Oropharyngeal pain, Pain in extremity
Clinical narrative: sore throat; coughing; feels like a mild cold; Loose stool; Headache; Soreness in Left arm - right after administration in the afternoon; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer. A 21-years-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Solution for injection, lot FJ1685, expiry date not reported), via an unspecified route of administration (unable to confirm if given intramuscularly) on 05Jan2021 12:00 at a single dose in the left arm for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included soreness in arms (no matter what vaccines she gets). The patient had no known other allergies. Patient had family medical history of mother has asthma.  Concomitant medications included birth control (unspecified) as the only thing she takes and she did not feel it was relevant. The patient previously took flu shot and experienced arm soreness. Patient had flu shot every year because it is required. She will get soreness in arm and she thinks when she took different vaccines when she started work. She had to take a bunch of them. Soreness was in whatever arm she gets the shot in. Patient works on Covid unit as a recreation aide in a nursing home and received first vaccine on 05Jan2021 and on 06Jan2021 developed headache, and on 09Jan2021 had sore throat, coughing, and felt like a mild cold starting three days after vaccine (08Jan2021), and had been taking cold medicine.  She gets twice weekly for work, and she tested negative (COVID) on Friday (08Jan2021).  Patient asked if this was normal to be developing symptoms that late after the vaccine. She just wanted to know if what she was experiencing was normal because she was freaked out about it. She works on a COVID unit and wears a lot of PPE. She started to experience symptoms after 3-4 days after getting the vaccine. She wanted to know if it was normal to take that long to feel side effects or should she be worried about actually having COVID. There was no prescriber. She had it as a part of work. When it rolled out, they were a part of it and if you work on COVID unit, they said you should get it. She got the vaccine on Tuesday, 05Jan2021, and started feeling symptoms on Friday, 08Jan2021. She started getting worse on 09Jan2021 and 10Jan2021. Furthermore, patient then reported that the headache started 3 days after receiving the vaccine. It persisted for the first 3 days and then after she got other symptoms, it subsided. Headache in the morning when she first woke up and persisted throughout day. Since then she will wake up in the morning with a slight headache. Soreness in arm was when it was first administered (05Jan2021), that was normal and she usually gets soreness no matter what vaccines she gets. This lasted for 2 days and then went away. She did say that the flu vaccine and some other that she did not remember the name of were the ones she remembered getting sore from. She did not have a manufacturer, lot or expiration for any of them. The fourth day was when she had a sore throat and coughing, that started in the morning when she woke up around 10:00. She had it all day yesterday and it was pretty severe and then she started getting better later in the night. Today it was less, but still here. She did take something to try and make herself feel better, so it definitely helped. Loose stool improved and today (12Jan2021) was yet to be known. Loose stool started in the afternoon of 06Jan2021. No ER (emergency room) or physician's office required Prior Vaccinations (within 4 weeks). Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of the events sore throat, coughing, and felt like a mild cold. The patient had not recovered from the event headache. The patient recovered from loose stool and soreness in left arm in Jan2021. The outcome of the events sore throat, and coughing was recovering. The outcome of the event "felt like a mild cold" was unknown.