Age: 67.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Dyspnoea, Dyspnoea exertional, Nasal congestion
Clinical narrative: she still had a hard time with her breathing when she was doing anything that was exerting herself to get things done/ short of breath; she started to feel like her lungs were starting to close up; her nose closed up completely; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 67-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), first dose via an unspecified route of administration, administered in the left arm on 09Mar2021 at 08:30 (batch/lot number: EN6199) as a single dose for COVID-19 immunisation. The patient has no medical history and no concomitant medications. Historical vaccine included flu shot for immunization and got sick on an unspecified date. No prior vaccination (within 4 weeks prior). No family history related to adverse events. The patient experienced she started to feel like her lungs were starting to close up and her nose closed up completely on 09Mar2021. She said that she wanted to let Pfizer know about the symptoms she had gone through when she got the shot. She received her first shot 09Mar2021 and it was at 08:30 am and then around mid-afternoon that same day she started to feel like her lungs were starting to close up and her nose closed up completely. She has a nebulizer machine and she used that and it opened up her lungs but it didn't open her nose up at all. So she sat up for a couple of nights with her nose not working right and she had to breathe out of her mouth. Days later here nose finally opened up and it was breathing good but she still had a hard time with her breathing when she was doing anything that was exerting herself to get things done. She would become short of breath. It was kind of that way when she went in for her second one, she was better at that time but she wasn't the greatest. When she had went in for second shot and told them about what she experienced after the first shot, they didn't do anything and they said that was what should be happening which was scary. They gave her the second shot even though she was very reluctant on it and she did it anyways. With that, what she experienced was even worse than what she experienced with the first shot. She got her second shot on 30Mar2021 in the morning and then the same thing pretty much happened as the first one, only it was a lot worse with her lungs and her nose. Her lungs did the same thing where they had closed and her nose did the same thing where it closed as well. She already had everything ready to use for nebulizing and that opened her lungs but it didn't open her nose for at least 3 days or maybe it took longer for her nose to open. She had sat up for 4 nights trying to sleep. She was breathing through her mouth because she couldn't breathe through her nose. It was a horrible time trying to breathe. It was unreal. It was kind of scary when you're trying to breathe and you're not getting any air. She had went to her clinic and she was put on a heavier nebulizer and that that one kind of opened up her lungs and her nose and then her doctor also put her on prednisone. Besides that she was given another nebulizer that wasn't as harsh or intense for her to use for all of her reactions or if she needed it during the night. Finally she was getting back on the mend now to where at least she can breathe through her nose and her mouth. Her provider thought that she should report this because she just cant figure it out. She knows that when she gets flu shots she gets sick and the same thing happens like now. The first time she got a flu shot she was sick like that for a week and she thought that maybe it was just a fluke so she did it a second time and the same thing happened. With this shot, she didn't know if she would want to get it again or not but people say that you should so she thought to give it a chance and then it turned out the same way with the second shot. It was not good. She doesn't know if there was something in those that was not a good thing or her to have or what. She didn't end up in the hospital even though she was pretty close to going up there. Probed for names, , lot numbers and expiry dates for all previously mentioned medications such as the different nebulizers, prednisone, and the flu shots from previously and she says that they were fairly new, she doesn't have the box now because she used them and when she was done she tossed it. The products weren't old and they didn't have old expiry dates. Probed for information such as , lot number and expiry dates for previously administered flu shots and she declined to provide and said that was many years ago. Provided mailing address and then caller stated that she doesn't want to be bombarded with anything if it has nothing of importance but she doesn't want it really. She doesn't want a lot of stuff to read through if it was not of importance. Informed caller that all information was voluntary in what we ask and she does not have to provide her mailing address was if she was not comfortable doing so and she asked this agent to remove her mailing it's because she always hears stuff on the news. Caller confirmed that this was her first time speaking to someone about what she has experienced. Probed if her side effects began on the same day she received her vaccine, 09Mar2021 and 30Mar2021 and caller said that for the first dose of the COVID vaccine on 09Mar2021 the side effects started mid-afternoon and for the second dose on 30Mar2021 the side effects started a little later and it wasn't on the same day. She had started feeling it that day but she really felt them the next day. She could tell it was kind of starting to do it at a slower process but when it happened it was really worse then the first time. Caller confirmed dates of 09Mar2021 and 31Mar2021 for when her side effects began and she says she was still feeling a little bit like she did with the side effects. She still has where if she was doing a little more exertion stuff then it seems like she still was having to sometimes stop and get her breath but it was getting better now. She doesn't want to go through that again, that was horrible. Caller said it seemed like if you didn't get the COVID vaccine then you couldn't go out in public without a mask on for the rest of your life or even if you go to some places, like a concert or an event, if you didn't have the COVID vaccine then they were going to card you and if you didn't, you know what. She has a friend who went to get it because he was working and he was around people and she thought that was important too with her being around him and that was the other reason she got the COVID vaccine. She didn't really want to but she did it anyways. She probably should of just taken her chances and if she got COVID then she got it and it probably wouldn't be as bad as putting something into her system that doesn't even like her. It was hard. That was just how she was feeling. It was a bad thing, you know. Her mom couldn't (well, she has been gone since 2000) but anyways, her mom could never get flu shots either years ago. The caller doesn't know if there was something with that that she doesn't know. All she knew was that these shots don't like her. Probed for relevant test results, concomitant products and medical conditions and caller says no, she was not sick and she didn't take anything before. She wasn't sick, if she was sick she would have thought that maybe she felt like not from the sock but she didn't feel sick. She takes her temperature every day and she has been for the better part of this whole last year and she never had a fever. She couldn't take her temperature during all this because she couldn't breathe when her mouth was shut. She said that the only thing what she doesn't really understand was that if you can still get COVID after getting the shots, then why were people still doing the shots. It just makes her wonder why was everything doing something like this and it can still happen. To her it didn't really make sense. After she found out that you can still get COVID after this thing she thought well what's the point. She just thought that she would let Pfizer know about what she experienced and that this was a lot worse than when she had the flu shot with the side effects. The flu shot was minor compared to this thing, the COVID vaccines, she felt like she almost could of died. This was most definitely by far a lot worse. She would rather have the flu shot and have a minor thing than this one this was bad. She doesn't know what was in it or what caused her to have this total reaction where she couldn't breath and it was bad. She really doesn't want to do this again either. She doesn't know if there was something in this one or whatever, but it doesn't like her big time. She doesn't know if Pfizer has heard of this where people had trouble breathing after they got this done but she kind of wonders. She listens to the news and on there you don't really hear any side effects caused or how people are dealing with the symptoms. Vaccine was not administered at military facility. Vaccination facility, it was a clinic, well it was between that and the hospital that was connected to the clinic so kind of right inside the hospital area going to clinic, maybe it was the hospital. The adverse events required a visit to a physician's office because she got to the point to where she couldn't breathe. She was even having trouble walking across the parking lot so she ended up going in because she couldn't breathe. No relevant tests done. The outcome of the events "she started to feel like her lungs were starting to close up and her nose closed up completely" was recovering and unknown for the other event.  Follow-up attempts are completed. No further information is expected.