Age: 48.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Skin discolouration, Skin disorder, Vaccination site reaction, Wrong technique in product usage process
Clinical narrative: shortness of breath; the person that gave her the injection, the shot, that they didn't go inside her arm enough so they are saying they didn't stick the needle in, it went in tissue and not the vein; suffered a severe burn with blisters; a lot of pain/ now she's getting sharp pains, bad, terrible; muscle weakness; experienced numbness and tingling; experienced numbness and tingling; discolored and bruised; when she felt it to touch it, it felt like alligator skin; discolored and bruised; local reaction; redness; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 48-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), dose 1 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 19May2021 13:00 (Lot Number: EW0158) at 48 years old as single dose for covid-19 immunisation. Medical history included carpal tunnel from 2020 and ongoing (on her left hand, it hasn't  been that long ago, 2020, she got a brace), diabetic from Jul2021 and ongoing, ongoing bipolar depression from 2020 (it just became bipolar depression, she's been in the mood stage, she saw a psychiatrist, she was diagnosed within the last year), ongoing asthma from 2019, ongoing osteoarthritis in her back and legs (within the last year and a half), ongoing hypertension/high blood pressure from 2019 (only been a couple years, maybe 2 years), ongoing obstructive sleep apnea from 2017 (its been she guesses 4 years), ongoing GERD/Acid Reflux (maybe 3 or 4 years as well). No vaccines administered on same date with the Pfizer vaccine. Concomitant medication(s) included amlodipine besilate (NORVASC) taken for hypertension (took that the morning of the shot); lurasidone hydrochloride (LATUDA) taken for bipolar disorder (she did have that in her system before the shot); metformin taken for diabetes mellitus (took that the morning of the shot). The patient suffered a severe burn with blisters, a lot of pain, muscle weakness, the day of the vaccine, 19May2021. She got it at approximately 1pm so about 4 hours later that's when she started experiencing numbness and tingling and when she looked at her arm, it was discolored and bruised when she felt it to touch it, it felt like alligator skin. Her nephew picked her up and went to the closest emergency room. Caller stated they didn't do anything, they gave her an ice pack, outlined her arm, and told her it was a local reaction, and she guesses they have seen it  before. They gave her a Naproxen for pain and that didn't do anything because she had other issues as well and they stated she should go back for her second dosage which she knew she wasn't going to. The patient discharged herself, basically she walked out of the room. The next day, she went to another hospital and the hospital informed her that the person that gave her the injection, the shot, that they didn't go inside her arm enough so they are saying they didn't stick the needle in, it went in tissue and not the vein. The reaction was so severe that it burned her like she was in a fire. The patient had many pictures, since day 1, she's still taking pictures. As of today, she had a burn on her arm that's never going away. Her doctor, the primary care doctor that she gave, she had to drain the blisters, she had 3 large blisters and the fluids came out. Now she's getting sharp pains, bad, terrible. The blisters are gone now, like she said, she took pictures everyday up until now. She's kind of stopped taking them everyday, but now the medicine she got prescribed, Motrin for inflammation and some type of ointment, she can't remember the name of the ointment, her doctor had her putting it on, none of those things worked, what worked was she bought a aloe Vera plant, that's what helped it get to where it got right now. MOTRIN: patient knew it's a Motrin 600, that's all she knows.  Patient confirmed it was in an orange pharmacy bottle. It just says 1 year after disposal date, there is numbers at the top of the bottle. It says Ibuprofen 600mg, take 3 times a day, with food or milk, pharmacy, take by mouth. Patient confirmed name of cream is Aquaphor. Patient stated the symptoms were redness, bruised, painful, burning, blisters and muscle weakness and they all started that day 19May2021. Also the next day 20May2021 is when she went to that second hospital and saw another doctor because she was having shortness of breath with the blisters. They did an EKG and along with a lot of blood work. Patient stated she had shortness of breath anyway because she had asthma but that particular time it was something else going on so that's why she was worried about it. It began 20May2021 that's when she went to the second hospital so early that morning and it lasted through out the day and they said everything was okay. She would say later on that evening, she kind of controlled it, it went down some after she took medicine and stuff, she's on inhalers too. Patient confirmed she has recovered completely. Events resulted in Emergency Room and Physician Office. The outcome of event shortness of breath was recovered on 20May2021, severe burn with blisters and felt like alligator skin was recovered on Jun2021, others was not recovered.