Age: 73.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Weight
Clinical narrative: feels like she was dying; diarrhea; hot flushes; sweating; chills; insomnia/has trouble sleeping; lack of appetite; did not have a fever/ felt like she has got a furnace inside her/ burns and burns, it was hot; feels depressed and hopeless; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team. The reporter is the patient.  A 73-year-old female patient received BNT162b2 (BNT162B2), on 11Nov2021 as dose 3 (booster), single (Lot number: 330268D) at the age of 73 years for covid-19 immunisation. The patient's relevant medical history included: "antidepressant " (unspecified if ongoing); "needing a magnifying glass to read labels " (unspecified if ongoing). The patient took concomitant medications. Vaccination history included: BNT162b2 (DOSE: 2, Her second dose was 03May2021 and says Pfizer with potential LOT: FWA72.), administration date: 03May2021, when the patient was 73-year-old, for COVID-19 immunization, reaction(s): "does not feel well", "depressed/feels depressed and hopeless", "She doesn't have a fever, she takes her temperature, but her core body temperature feels like she has got a furnace inside her", "feels like she is dying", "Insomnia"; BNT162b2 (DOSE: 2, Her second dose was 03May2021 and says Pfizer with potential LOT: FWA72.), administration date: 03May2021, when the patient was 73-year-old, for Covid-19 immunization, reaction(s): "needing a magnifying glass to read labels is normal for her lately", "Chills", "Sweating", "Hot flushes", "Diarrhea"; BNT162b2 (DOSE: 1, Her first dose was given 03Apr2021 and has a little sticker that provides LOT: EW0151., first dose injected in left arm), administration date: 03Apr2021, when the patient was 73-year-old, for COVID-19 immunization, reaction(s): "a cycle of hot and cold"; BNT162b2 (DOSE: 1, Her first dose was given 03Apr2021 and has a little sticker that provides LOT: EW0151., first dose injected in left arm), administration date: 03Apr2021, when the patient was 73-year-old, for Covid-19 immunization, reaction(s): "Diarrhea", "Hot flushes", "Chills", "Insomnia", "lack of appetite"; BNT162b2 (DOSE: 1, Her first dose was given 03Apr2021 and has a little sticker that provides LOT: EW0151., first dose injected in left arm), administration date: 03Apr2021, when the patient was 73-year-old, for COVID-19 Imuunization, reaction(s): "Sweating"; BNT162b2 (DOSE: 1, Her first dose was given 03Apr2021 and has a little sticker that provides LOT: EW0151., first dose injected in left arm), administration date: 03Apr2021, when the patient was 73-year-old, for Covid-19 Immunization, reaction(s): "feels like she is dying", "She doesn't have a fever, she takes her temperature, but her core body temperature feels like she has got a furnace inside her". The following information was reported: FEELING ABNORMAL (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "feels like she was dying"; DIARRHEA (non-serious), outcome "not recovered", described as "diarrhea"; HOT FLUSH (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "hot flushes"; HYPERHIDROSIS (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "sweating"; CHILLS (non-serious), outcome "unknown"; INSOMNIA (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "insomnia/has trouble sleeping"; DECREASED APPETITE (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "lack of appetite"; BODY TEMPERATURE ABNORMAL (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "did not have a fever/ felt like she has got a furnace inside her/ burns and burns, it was hot"; DEPRESSED MOOD (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "feels depressed and hopeless". Relevant laboratory tests and procedures are available in the appropriate section. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of diarrhea.     Additional information: Her second booster was given 28Apr2022, LOT: FK9894, and this was her last dose she got. Patient had been experiencing diarrhea since she first got the Pfizer covid 19 vaccine. She also reported having hot flushes, sweating, chills, a cycle of hot and cold, insomnia, and lack of appetite. She also mentions that her diarrhea was relieved by Imodium but she asks if there was any other medication she could try to treat her diarrhea. Her diarrhea started after her first dose, then it stopped and she connected it to her antidepressant medication that she stopped and the diarrhea stopped when she stopped that medication. Her diarrhea was constant for about two months after her first vaccine. She feels like she was dying, she was desperate to find out what was going on with her and find out how to get it to stop. She had chills and hot flashes and sweating along with diarrhea, a combination of symptoms, that are relentless. She feels like she was melting from the inside out. She did not have a fever, she takes her temperature, but her core body temperature felt like she has got a furnace inside her. She burns and burns, it was hot , so she stops and lays down in front of the AC then she gets cold and covers up because she was feeling chilly. After a certain length of time she overheats. She clarifies her phrase about feeling like she was dying by saying that she feels like she wants to die because she wants it to stop. She feels depressed and hopeless, it affects her in a lot of ways, physically and emotionally. She has been taking Imodium to stop the diarrhea. She has trouble sleeping because it wakes her up at night. She had been taking Imodium and Pepto-Bismol liquid capsules started in May2021 or Jun2021 to treat the diarrhea. The Imodium she takes every twelve hours, one capsule, active ingredient Loperamide HCl 2mg. She was crying.  She was sporadically taking Bismuth subsalicylate 262mg, which she takes maybe every 8 hours. She says she needs a magnifying glass to make it bigger for the Bismuth label to read the word subsalicylate, then clarifies that needing a magnifying glass to read labels was normal for her lately.  The report was considered non-serious. Sender's Comments: Linked Report(s) : PFIZER INC-202201173881 same patient/reporter; different vaccine dose/AE;