Age: 65.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Illness, Investigation, Loss of personal independence in daily activities, SARS-CoV-2 test
Clinical narrative: Deathly sick; Felt like she was burning up; Arm started going numb; Horrible coughing, wet cough; Second dose: couldn't even get up; She is getting over a second round of shingles.; No longer 100% not able to breathe; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP). The reporter is the patient.  A 65 year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), administered in arm left, administration date 05Aug2021 (Lot number: FC3181) at the age of 65 years as dose 2, single for covid-19 immunisation. Relevant medical history included: "Arrhythmia" (unspecified if ongoing); "A-fib" (unspecified if ongoing); "Pulmonary issues" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: respiratory illness; "reflex sympathetic dystrophy in left foot and ankle" (unspecified if ongoing); "Hypothyroidism" (unspecified if ongoing); "Blood cholesterol increased" (unspecified if ongoing); "eye and sinus infection" (unspecified if ongoing); "allergies" (unspecified if ongoing); "compromised immune status" (unspecified if ongoing); "obese" (unspecified if ongoing); "emergency surgery" (unspecified if ongoing), notes: required emergency surgery. She had an abscess in her eye. The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. Vaccination history included: Bnt162b2 (DOSE 1, SINGLE, Lot Number: EW0187, Anatomical location: left arm), administration date: 15Jul2021, when the patient was 65 years old, for Covid-19 immunization, reaction(s): "Shingles". The following information was reported: ILLNESS (non-serious) with onset 05Aug2021, outcome "recovered" (Oct2021), described as "Deathly sick"; BURNING SENSATION (non-serious) with onset 05Aug2021, outcome "unknown", described as "Felt like she was burning up"; HYPOAESTHESIA (non-serious) with onset 05Aug2021, outcome "unknown", described as "Arm started going numb"; COUGH (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "unknown", described as "Horrible coughing, wet cough"; LOSS OF PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE IN DAILY ACTIVITIES (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "unknown", described as "Second dose: couldn't even get up"; HERPES ZOSTER (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "unknown", described as "She is getting over a second round of shingles."; DYSPNOEA (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "not recovered", described as "No longer 100% not able to breathe". The events "deathly sick", "felt like she was burning up", "arm started going numb", "horrible coughing, wet cough", "second dose: couldn't even get up", "she is getting over a second round of shingles." and "no longer 100% not able to breathe" were evaluated at the physician office visit. Relevant laboratory tests and procedures are available in the appropriate section. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of illness, burning sensation, hypoaesthesia, cough, loss of personal independence in daily activities, herpes zoster, dyspnoea. Additional information: The patient wanted to let Pfizer know and talked to several doctors and her pharmacist, and they were just like totally blown away. With the first shot patient got, ended up with shingles. The second shot, within about 6 hours, patient became deathly sick and that lasted up until this weekend. So, it lasted from August, September, and the first week of October. The patient did not think she was going to make it to age 66. The patient was getting over a second round of shingles. It took them forever to get a nebulizer for her because they weren't doing breathing treatments anymore at the clinic. She mentioned being on antibiotics. There were several times patient did not think she was going to make it. Time the vaccination was given was approximately 14:00-14:15 hours. The patient after the shot within 15 minutes, felt like was burning up, was given an icepack for her neck. The arm started going numb. Then, it was a different kind of sick when patient got home. Immediately, it went into head. The patient had horrible coughing, it was a wet cough, not a dry cough. It was not anything from post-nasal drip. The patient could not even get up when she got home. No additional vaccines administered on same date of the Pfizer suspect. She stated they mentioned the booster and she was like hell no. The patient stated she was supposed to go to emergency room but could not because she had a very bad experience at her last hospital visit. When queried about physician office, stated she talked to a couple doctors. Patient was seeing her cardiologist on the day of reporting. Everyone that patient has spoken to has never heard of this before. The patient asked, how was it she was the only person on the planet this has happened to. She knows she was the trifecta between her age and underlying medical problems but asked anyone else has experienced this. No prior Vaccinations (within 4 weeks). The only issue patient has had was feeling like crap for a few days. Patient has diagnosed allergies, a compromised immune status, and respiratory illness, and unfortunately, may fall under the category of obese. With the last hospitalization patient spoke of previously, was referring to an eye and sinus infection. The best the doctors could figure out was that they happened simultaneously and ultimately it required emergency surgery. Patient had an abscess in her eye, but at first nobody believed her when she said she had something really wrong in her eye. She confirmed this hospitalization was in Dec2018. She has autoimmune issues, confirmed all of these conditions happened prior to receiving the Pfizer COVID vaccine. Adds she has reflex sympathetic dystrophy in left foot and ankle, has hypothyroidism which she has had practically forever, has high cholesterol, has had an eye and sinus infection almost since her surgery because they cut a hole in one of her sinuses which exacerbated the problem. Family Medical History Relevant to events was not provided. Ultimately 3 weeks ago, they did the rapid COVID test and PRN test, tests came back negative. Patient was scheduled to have a blood test to see whether they figure out if she has any antibodies. Patient was still feeling crappy but was not coughing up a lung. She was no longer 100% not able to breathe. She was able to breathe better.  No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.