Age: 63.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Pain in extremity, Prostate infection, Pyrexia
Clinical narrative: body ache; feeling worse; when I went to bed, got chills and shivers real bad; headache; Mild fever; mildly sore arm; Bad prostate and bladder infection; Bad prostate and bladder infection; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient himself) via a medical information team and Pfizer-sponsored program COVAX US Support. A 63-year-old male patient received first dose of bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Formulation: Solution for injection, Batch/ lot number: EL9269, Expiration date: Unknown, NDC number: Unknown), via an unspecified route of administration in left shoulder area on 08Feb2021 16:30 at single dose for COVID-19 immunisation. The patient's medical history included ongoing asthma for about 60 years, ongoing high blood pressure for about 3 years and was on blood pressure medication, issues with thyroid for about 3 years and was on thyroid medication (ongoing). Concomitant medication included ongoing thyroid medication. Patient's medical history (including any illness at time of vaccination) was none. Family medical history relevant to adverse events was none. Prior vaccinations (within 4 weeks) was none. Adverse events following prior vaccinations was none. Additional vaccines administered on same date of the Pfizer suspect was none. The patient experienced bad prostate, bladder infection, sore arm on an unspecified date in Feb2021. On 11Feb2021, the patient experienced body aches, feeling worse, shivers, headache, mild fever. It was reported that, caller received his first dose of bnt162b2 on Monday 08Feb2021. He's reporting adverse events and would like to know: If he takes Tylenol to treat his symptoms, would it decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine or not. Also, if he were to go for a COVID-19 viral test, would the fact that he was received the vaccine interact with the test and cause a false positive result or not. Patient was reporting that yesterday, day 4, he started with body aches, headache, and "when he got in bed, he had chills and shivers real bad, little chilly" so possibly a mild fever. Enquired could these all be side effects of the vaccine or not. If he go for the COVID test - would it be positive or not. He also states he has a history of asthma and has been hypervigilant about avoiding COVID infections. Caller, reporting on the COVID vaccine and who explains that he got the first shot on Monday and he had a mildly sore arm- this lasted 2-3 days, no big deal. Then 5 days later he had really bad body aches and a headache. He went to bed cause he was feeling worse but before going to bed he noticed he had shivers really bad, uncontrollably almost which lasted over an hour. He presume they are fairly normal side effects but wants to confirm this could happen after five days. Also, he was told not to take Aspirin or Tylenol before getting the vaccine because it could affect the efficacy, but he wants to know could he take a Tylenol now 5 days later for the headache and body aches. He was better now than he was doing. Caller clarified the event was 4 days after the shot, the shot was Monday and events started Thursday. On Thursday evening, 11Feb2021, was when he had the bad body aches, headache, and shivers. At this point he still has the headache and body ache. He felt like, last night, he had a fever, but he didn't check it. At the same time, he had the chill and the shivers. Those feelings were resolved by this morning. Caller received COVID vaccine on 08Feb2021-Internal Infection-Bad prostate and bladder infection. Adverse events did not require visit to emergency room and physician office. No relevant tests. No investigation assessment. The events were considered as non-serious by the consumer. The outcome of the events mild fever, feeling worse, bad prostate, bladder infection was unknown, recovering for body aches, headache, recovered on 12Feb2021 for shivers, recovered on an unspecified date in Feb2021 for sore arm.