Age: 85.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Heart rate increased, Hypertension, Pain in extremity, Somnolence
Clinical narrative: joint pain in her wrist, hands, and hips; she slept for a long time; blood pressure was really high; Pulse went up; extreme pain in her chest; couldn't raise her arm high at all; was very tired; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer or other non hcp.  An 85-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, formulation: solution for injection), dose 1 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 05Mar2021 at 12:30 (Batch/Lot number was not reported) as DOSE 1, SINGLE for covid-19 immunisation. The patient medical history major stroke and she was told that should be in a type of home from that. She has been very fortunate. They got her in the hospital quick and she had the best doctor around for the stroke. They said that she is a miracle person. She didn't have to have therapy after her stroke and she had a major stroke. She also has had three heart procedures. They're amazed and her health was great, her heart and lungs are great. Confirmed with caller that the major stroke and heart procedures had occurred prior to her COVID vaccine. she had just seen her doctor the day before and in fact she is waiting to hear results from him. She had lab work and a urine analysis done on 04Mar2021 which she hasn't done for a while. She was waiting for those results. Confirmed with caller that these tests were done prior to her COVID vaccine. Patient from a family of 10 children and out of 6 boys, there was only 1 left. That one brother left has had strokes, heart surgery, heart attacks and basic life that was just buying time for him. One of her brothers was killed, he was a pilot and they directed him into a mountain. A lot of people in her family have died suddenly of heart issues, her mother and grandmother died. She was the only 1 of the 4 girls who have had any problems with heart issues. One brother, at 47 years old had a massive heart attack. Another one died when he had gone to the doctor the day before because he was having heart attack signs. The doctor sent him home to take Aspirin and he was found dead the next morning. Reporter stated that, the patient was going to be 86 years old soon and her sister who is 93 years old got the COVID virus. Her sister-in-law and her family got COVID. The caller has been staying in her house for a year. She hasn't seen her sisters in a year and when she did see one of her sisters for the first time in a year, her sister didn't know it was her. The caller has long hair now and usually she has a pixie cut. Also, her friend she saw just stared at the caller and said she didn't know who she was and they have known each other for 47 years. And that was also because of her long hair. She said so the reason she got her COVID vaccine was because she doesn't want to get this COVID virus. Her sister was fortunate and the caller pushed her sister into going to the hospital and the doctor told the caller that had her sister not gotten there when she did, she wouldn't of made it. The caller pushed her to go and made her sister's son take the sister to the hospital. Another had went in to the doctor and he was told that he was just having issues with his gallbladder and he died that night. So what she experienced was very relevant with her family history. It is kind of selfish to think this, but she hopes she goes that way too. There are very many heart issues in her family. Patient brother took and she says she does not have to provide. It was years ago. They gave him a sticker for his car so that he would not have to walk as far. He had heart surgeries and had all the symptoms at that time he went to the doctor. Even his legs were hurting but they told him to come back the next day, take Aspirin that night, and gave him a sticker for his car. His wife found him dead the next morning. Her 47-year-old brother had 10 kids, he was in the hospital and they had let him go home for his and his wife's birthday, and then he died in his wife's arms.Her heart has been fine since they cleaned out her arteries. It is amazing. She asked her doctor if he attributes that to all of the medications she takes and he said that helps, but mostly is it attributed to her attitude. Her attitude plays such a big role in her health, she was told. Patient had gotten her COVID vaccine then was told to wait 15 minutes. She was sitting in front of where the nurses was and daughter took one look at the reporter and asked if she was okay. The reporter told her daughter that she was not okay and that she was having really bad chest pain. The patient had extreme pain in her chest then the nurses came in with a wheelchair and took her into a cubicle at the facility. She said her blood pressure was really high, her pulse went up, and she doesn't know how long she was there. She heard someone ask if they should call first responders and a doctor, or someone, said to wait a minute and just see how the reporter was doing. She has had 3 heart surgery procedures, but not open heart surgery, and she was with her doctor the day before and he said that her heart was good, there were no fast beats and it sounded good. She was told to always carry nitroglycerin with her and she told the nurses at the facility that she was at that she had it and she took the nitroglycerin since that was what she was supposed to do. Within a few minutes the pain had left. Patient was not visit to the Emergency Room or Physician Office but she had heard one nurse ask should they call in the first responders and there was another woman who came in a couple times into the cubicle that the caller was in and asked how the caller felt and said to just wait a few minutes there. Someone said that they probably should of taken the caller to the emergency room or called the first responders but the caller doesn't know if they should of because she was getting better. She has never had a heart attack before, so she doesn't know what it feels like. Her brother has had them before and he asked her if it felt like a truck was crushing her chest and she said it didn't feel like that, but it hurt a lot. She could breathe and it wasn't like that at all. She said, how do you describe hurt? It is just like "ouch!" But her daughter could see it on the caller's face and her daughter knew right away that something wasn't right. Her daughter asked her to describe the pain she was feeling and she told her daughter that she can't and the caller has never had a heart attack before so she was unsure if that was the type of pain she was having. This morning she was thinking about the pain she had and she said that previously she had undergone a process that was being done to her heart where they were trying to get an artery unplugged. It was an experimental thing. She told them that she didn't want to be completely out, she wanted to know what was happening. All of a sudden she was in pain and they said that pain happened because they just cleared her artery. She was in a 2 year study for that and it worked therefore she didn't have to have open heart surgery. She says that pain was what the pain was like after her COVID vaccine. On 05Mar2021, it was confirmed that her blood pressure and her pulse went high, right after her COVID vaccine and then the nurses took her into the other room to check these. She was not dizzy, but of course she didn't stand up since she was in a wheelchair. Caller was unable to remember the numbers for her pulse. Her blood pressure was 171 over something. She told the nurse to just wait and her blood pressure will come down so they waited and it came down. The lowest it had gotten there was 140-something or 130-something, but it took a long time. Caller says that the chest pain, high blood pressure, and the high pulse all ended on the same day, 05Mar2021. She said after she sat for a while a nurse walked her to her car to be sure that the caller was fine when she left the facility. She had no further issues after that, she was tired when she got home, but no problems after that. The pain went and it didn't come back. Caller confirms that she recovered completely. She told them her blood pressure will go down, she knows how she was, and it dropped and they waited until they were sure that the caller was okay before allowing her to leave. Reporter stated that, the flu shot it normally will hurt a little bit, and the caller's 3 sisters had no problems after their COVID vaccine. They had no problems, she asked them if their arms were hurting and they said no their arms didn't hurt. No further information provided on previous flu shot. She couldn't change and get dressed because her arm was hurting so bad. It still hurts a little but not bad at all. The first couple of days her arm was very sore even though she didn't feel the shot when the nurse gave it to her. She can now lift her arm so she says that she was recovered completely even though it was still hurting some. It was fine. She said it began hurting that same evening, 05Mar2021, but the next day, 06Mar2021, when she tried to lift up her arm it hurt worse. But when it happened it was extreme pain. Then, the next day, she couldn't raise her arm high at all and she was very tired. On 05Mar2021 and went on for two days afterwards and she was still very tired today, she slept in very late so she confirms it was ongoing. It has gotten better, she doesn't feel like she has to go lay down in bed for 2 hours. But she did fall asleep for 2 hours in her chair. She had to sleep for several hours and then the next day the same thing, she slept for a long time. Today she has been fine and she slept fine. Caller confirms this was ongoing and has gotten better since it began. On Saturday night, 06Mar2021, she also had joint pain in her wrist, hands, and hips. She took Tylenol before bed and having joint pain isn't extremely unlikely with her. Once in a while she does get joint pain. Since 06Mar2021 the joint pain has been off and on and it has improved a little bit, it is not like it was when it began. She was wondering if anyone else has had that type of experience? It is very scary. She says she saw no one else in a wheelchair after their COVID vaccine. She thought that it would be important that someone got the information of what she experienced. It says on the information sheet that she has that if she has any side effects to let Pfizer know. She thought what she experienced was a major side effect. It scared her. She doesn't scare easily. She is unsure if she was having a heart attack, she has no idea. It scares her so she doesn't want to take the second shot. Her doctor is going to call her sometime this week, he was going to call yesterday but she had workmen at her house so she thought that it was not a good time. He is going to call and they will discuss what happened and decide if she should receive her second dose or not. She is doing fine now. Caller confirms the blood pressure that was taken after what she experienced from the COVID vaccine was a relevant test result. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included blood pressure measurement: 170 over something on 05Mar2021, blood pressure measurement: 140-something or 130-something on 05Mar2021, heart rate: went up on 05Mar2021. Outcome of the event hypertension, heart rate increased, chest pain recovered on 05Mar2021, somnolence recovered on 07Mar2021, pain in extremity was recovered on unspecified date of 2021. For the event fatigue, arthralgia was recovering.  No follow-up attempts are possible; information about lot/batch number can not be obtained.