Age: 40.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Injection site pain, Pain in extremity, Vaccination site erythema, Vaccination site induration, Vaccination site irritation
Clinical narrative: a red area at the injection site /growing red spot at injection site; raised area at the injection site/It was raised; irritated area at the injection site/really irritated; sore arm/arm it would wake her up with pain; itching /painful itchy growing red spot at injection site; normal pain at the injection site; there was an induration there; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable physician reporting for herself. A 40-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, lot number: EJ1685), via unspecified route of administration on 21Dec2020 at single dose for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history and concomitant medications were reported as none. Caller was a ER Physician who received her COVID 19 vaccine last Monday 21Dec2020, and was reporting adverse event at injection site. She reported a red, raised, irritated area at the injection site, stated "thought I got bit by something" and didn't link it to the vaccination, originally. She took Benadryl, treated it like cellulitis by using a heating pad, and applied cortisone. She stated it was persistently getting worse, even seemed worse last night. She had been taking pictures of the skin reaction and wanted to know if there was a way to submit those for follow-up/monitoring. It was also reported painful itchy growing red spot at injection site was reported as worsened. Caller had the vaccine 10 days ago, which was last Monday. She didn't notice at first. She had the normal pain at the injection site. She woke up 3-4 days later, and she felt like she got bit by something. It was a little red. It was painful, itchy, and really irritated. She paid attention to it 3 days ago. She thought this wasn't right. When sleeping on that arm it would wake her up with pain. So she would switch sides. She started taking pics of it yesterday. The redness is getting bigger. She was an Emergency Medicine Physician. She didn't have a prescribing doctor. She got it at (Institution name). She noticed it was there when she first got the shot. It felt like a normal flu shot, and she was fine. She worked out the next day. She had a sore arm like usual with any type of a shot a Tetanus shot or something. She didn't notice anything out of the ordinary until later on, and there was an induration there. It was raised, red, and kind of warm. It was painful and itchy at the same time. It was almost like if a tag in the back of clothes were rubbing it, and she couldn't move all day. There would be an irritated area there. It is getting bigger. Now it was starting to go around her arm. It was not terrible debilitating. She was not allergic to anything. She has put cortisone cream on it, but it didn't change anything. Then, last night, she tried cortisone cream and Neosporin a little later. She then put a medium hot heating pad on it for a nice chunk of the night. It was growing near her lymph nodes now. She said the vial size looked to be about 10 mL. It was a small vial. The nurse did say she could get one more dose out of that vial. She did take Benadryl to sleep at night. So she didn't feel like it was an allergic reaction. Benadryl-Unysom expiration- May2022 Lot: 20E330 Cortisone: Lot: 11885 The Cortisone's lot number was imprinted, and hard to see. The outcome of the events were not resolved.