Age: 36.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Hypoaesthesia, Paraesthesia
Clinical narrative: Left lower extremity numbness and tingling; Left lower extremity numbness and tingling; Left upper extremity numbness and tingling; Left upper extremity numbness and tingling; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable physician. A 36-years-old female patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2, PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, Solution for Injection), dose 1 via an unspecified route of administration, administered in Arm Left on 19Mar2021 17:30 (Batch/Lot Number: EP7534) as DOSE 1, SINGLE for covid-19 immunisation. The patient medical history and concomitant medications were not reported. There was no illness reported at the time of vaccination. The patient did not receive any other vaccine within 4 weeks of covid vaccine. There were no additional vaccines administered. On 19Mar2021, the patient experienced left upper extremity numbness and tingling. On 27Mar2021, the patient experienced left lower extremity numbness and tingling. The reporter was reporting about the Pfizer COVID vaccine. She personally had an adverse event. She filled out a report online and was not sure if she submitted it. She did not get a reference number emailed to her so she didn't know if it went through or not. She stated that within 3-5 minutes after the injection into her left arm, she developed a tingling sensation and numbness in her arm. It's been over 3 weeks and is ongoing. It happens in her legs, too, especially the left leg. Both ankles and both feet feel like this. She tried Ibuprofen and tried Zyrtec for allergy and that did not help. Ibuprofen 600 mg: NDC, Lot expiry date unknown. She explains it was a bottle she had at home from a while ago. She tried the Ibuprofen much later into the course, she didn't try it right away. Zyrtec: NDC, Lot expiry date unknown, but states it was a new Zyrtec package. The adverse events did not require emergency department visit. She hasn't had a formal work up. As a physician, she has spoken to probably like 10 plus physicians about her symptoms in different departments and no one can come up a with logical explanation for the symptoms, but she is 100% sure the symptoms began within 5 minutes of getting the vaccine. She further asked if it was possible to speak to someone about these symptoms or get any additional information about the frequency of this happening. There are lot of reports of tingling, numbness and paresthesia from physicians. For most people it seems to resolve in hours of days, but some have had it longer like her in a matter of weeks. But it is something that is being talked about with other physicians, about themselves, and not even other patients. She was wondering if there are more reports of this. Is this something that is being recognized. Is there someone she can talk to about it. There are many people on this one physician forum for COVID that reported similar symptoms, but she hasn't spoken to them directly/personally so she doesn't want to report on their behalf. She has heard from other people that have had similar stuff. She mentioned that she was really frustrated because it's been almost a month of this ridiculous numbness and tingling it's making her go crazy. She was really hoping there is someone she could talk to that was maybe tracking this or maybe more directly involved. The clinical outcome of the events was not recovered.  No further information was provided or obtained.