Age: 50.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Calcinosis, Crying, Joint range of motion decreased, Pain in extremity, Vaccination site pain
Clinical narrative: Calcium deposit on her tendon/rotator cuff; She cannot move her left arm / She could not lift it; She was crying; Pain at the injection site and all the way down her arm; Reported a "jibby jabby" pain on her left arm, the same arm where she got the vaccine; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 50-year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), second single dose via an unspecified route of administration, administered in arm left on 19Apr2021 (Batch/Lot Number: ER8734) for covid-19 immunisation at age of 50-year-old. The patient previously received fist single dose of bnt162b2 on 22Mar2021 (Lot: ER8727) at left upper arm at age of 50-year-old and having a problem with her arm. Medical history and concomitant medications were none. She took no medications at all. She stated she was usually pretty healthy. The patient reported a "jibby jabby" pain on her left arm in Apr2021, the same arm where she got the vaccine. She said that she cannot move her left arm because of the "unbelievable pain" that even made her cry in May2021. She described the pain as something intense that she cannot get dress, brush her hair or even apply a deodorant. She later visited an orthopedic specialist and calcium deposits was found on the rotor cap of her tendon. Her physician recommended that she got an ultrasound shot for today's appointment. However, findings showed that her arm was healing and that her physician did not see the need to proceed with the ultrasound shot. In line with this, caller would like to know if it is normal that this side effect has been on-going for 2 months since she last got the shot on 19Apr2021. She described that on some days it gets better but it is just this May that it felt a lot worse. Patient reported she may have a side effect from the Pfizer, but she was not sure. She went and got her first Pfizer shot on 22Mar2021 and she has been having a problem with her arm. The second shot was on 19Apr2021. She stated she did not really get sick from the Pfizer shot at the time, but ever since she got the shot, her arm had never been the same. She complained about it every day, it was sore, She stated she kept getting jibby jabs in in Apr2021, she did not know how to describe it, other than jibby jabby pain. She still got pain. She clarified her arm was still sore where she had the vaccine in in Apr2021, her arm had never been the same. At the end of May2021, she was still having problems with it. Her arm got so bad, she could not move it for 3 days, and she actually thought she was having a stroke. She had to actually pick up her arm and move it. She could not get dressed. She could not wash her hair. She cried. She went to the hospital and as she was sitting there, she told them she felt like the pain was spreading all the way up her arm. She wanted to know if this was from the vaccine. She explained the hospital did not know. They took an x-ray, but did not find anything in her arm. They referred her to an orthopedic doctor. She stated it has been like 24 days since she went to the first orthopedic doctor, and he told her she had a calcium deposit on her tendon/rotator cuff. She had to go get some ultrasound shots to have it broke up. She had to call and make an appointment because she had to go see another orthopedic doctor for the shots. Her appointment was today and when she went there, it seemed like her arm was getting a little bit better, so the doctor said he was not going to do the shots. The doctor said he did not want to shoot the shots into her if she was not in pain already. She was wondering if this pain in her arm came from the COVID vaccine shot because her arm had never been this painful. Even though they found the calcium deposit, she still got pain where the vaccine was, at the injection site. She still had pain that shoots down her arm. Even though she guessed the calcium deposit was healing, they never said anything about the vaccine. The patient stated she thought it was coming from the vaccine because her arm had never been the same. She added that she gained a lot of weight with the lock down. She said she went running to the hospital because she was so scared. She could not wash her hair and move her arm for a few days, so she was not sure if it was coming from the vaccine. The caller explains her sister kind of forced her into the vaccine. She kept telling her sister that she was not ready for the COVID vaccine because it was not FDA approved yet, but her sister forced her into it. She kept telling her sister that her arm hadn't been the same after the vaccine. Her arm still wasn't the same, she still got pains in it. The patient said it was hard to describe the pain in her arm. The patient said sometimes it felt like something was in there jibby jabbing her. Sometimes, pain just shoots through her arm. She could not move her arm for days. She could not wash her hair or anything. She could not lift it. She went running to the hospital and was told they did not know what it was, and then she asked if it was from the vaccine and they said they did not know. So, they sent her to the orthopedic doctor. As she stated earlier, the doctor found a calcium deposit, but she did not know if that was part of the vaccine. She just knew her arm still hurts at the injection site where she got the vaccine and her arm has never been the same, it still was not to this day. She still got pain in it. She kept hoping it would go away, but it still had not. The day after she got the second vaccine, her arm started hurting. It was really sore the next day and she knew it was supposed to be. The pain started too but she didn't think much of it. She figured it was because she just got the shot. It seems like it is still there and now she has the issue with the orthopedics and calcium deposits. She does not know if the calcium deposit could be coming from the vaccine because she was told it was from the tendon/ rotator cuff. However, she knows she still feels pain at the injection site itself and all the way down her arm. The orthopedic doctor believed the calcium deposits are healing on its own so that is why she did not have to get the shots today. The patient really thought the pain was from the vaccine, or at least some of it is. She stated it was painful enough for her to go the hospital because she did not ever go to doctors or hospitals since she does not have insurance. She did not go unless she has severe pain, she tried to avoid it. The patient confirmed she was not hospitalized, she just went to the emergency room and was only seen there. She could not move her arm or anything. When her husband saw her having to pick her arm up and move it, he actually thought she had a stroke and did not know it. She confirms she told the hospital she believed it was from the vaccine but the hospital said they could not say that. They did an X-ray and they did not see anything. She clarified her not being able to move her arm and wash her hair started at the end of the May2021, right when she went to the hospital. She believed it was 24May2021 or 28May2021 when she went to the hospital. She was crying. She could not move her arm. She could not wash her hair, get dressed. This pain had improved because she was now able to was her hair and get dressed. She still felt jibby jabby pains in it every now and then, she still felt the pain shoot down her arm at the injection site. The outcome of event crying was unknown, while recovering for other events.   Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.