Age: 68.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19, COVID19, COVID19
Symptoms: Chills, Computerised tomogram, Headache, Influenza, Nausea
Clinical narrative: felt miserable; She was sick for about 44 hours; my stomach was queezy; had body ache all over; chills; temp was 100.5F then up to 101.8F; joints ached/knees and toes ached; knees and toes ached; had a bad headache; dry heaving all night; flu like symptoms; She had the worse case of chills she ever had/ her had ever seen her sick. It was terrible; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient) via Medical Information Team. A 68-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA VACCINE, Formulation: Solution for injection, Lot number: EM9810), via an unspecified route of administration on 06Feb2021 at 11:00 (at the age of 68-year-old) as a dose 1, single for COVID-19 immunization. The patient's medical history included COVID-19 on an unspecified date in Dec2020, she says previously she had COVID-19 in December, pneumonia on an unspecified date in Dec2020, it was here in December she had a bad case she ended up with pneumonia and lung issues are there and lung issues on an unspecified date in Dec2020, it was here in December she had a bad case she ended up with pneumonia and lung issues are there. The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. It was reported that, the caller was a 68-year-old. The caller was told that, if they had covid before they would react more severely to the 1st dose of the vaccine and would be milder for 2nd dose was that correct. The caller stated that, she had covid twice now, had pneumonia and lung problems because of it, the last time she had it was over 70 days ago. Stated that, she had her 1st dose on Saturday 06Feb2021 at 11am, at 8pm her stomach was queezy, then had body ache all over, chills, temperature was 100.5F then up to 101.8F and joints ached knees and toes ached, had a bad headache, she was dry heaving all night. Stated that, she had never been so sick in her life. On Sunday, temperature was 100.6F-101.8F, felt miserable Monday morning had headache and some aches, temperature was 100F and she took a nap after when woke up at 4pm felt fine, so for 44 hours. Stated that, she know 50 teachers who had the vaccine and they say they had high temperature 100F and they felt tired, some had body ached and headache, but no one had anything like she had. Enquired, what should she expect for second dose. The caller was concerned that she will have the same side effects. Enquired, the caller stated that, she was shocked that Pfizer did not study a group of people who previously had covid to know how they would react to the vaccine. It was reported that, the caller got the first shot last Saturday, on 06Feb2021 and experienced flu like symptoms, wanted to ask whether it was normal. The caller stated that, she had the Pfizer vaccine on Saturday and she wanted to talk about that. She confirmed the Pfizer COVID 19 vaccine. Stated that, previously she had COVID-19 in December and her doctor told her to go and make sure she got the vaccine and she was a retired teacher so she got it with the teacher group. In December, it was the second time she had COVID, she also had it in February last year before they new it was here in December, she had a bad case she ended up with pneumonia and lung issues are there, anyhow, she didn't expect the side effects she got. Stated that, she had severe flu like symptoms including high fever, chills, aches, headaches, joint aches, dry heaving. Her concern was, she has heard different things. She heard that if you already had COVID and you get vaccinated you a react more severe to the first shot with side effects than other people and kind of like the same thing if other people had not had COVID their reaction would be more severe to the second shot and if that was the case what was she to expect from her second shot that she gets in 3 weeks. Stated that, she was sick for about 44 hours. She asked, have other people reported this at all. She has been teacher to all of the healthcare providers but she was not a HCP. Stated that, the more they document, the better it was. Stated that, she saw the lot number. She does not see an expiration date or NDC number. She saw the date she got it, 06Feb2021 and then letters STEHS. Stated that, dose was unknown, it was not on the card. Stated that, she was perfectly fine she got the vaccine around 11 AM that day and had a typical Saturday and then around 8PM Saturday evening she started feeling nauseous, she never got sick but her stomach was queasy and she started aching all over, she took her temperature and it was 101.6 and it kept going up and she took Tylenol and it still got worse. She even hurt in her joints her knee cap and toes hurt. She had the worse case of chills she ever had. She was dry heaving during the night, she had a terrible headache all she wanted to do was sleep but she might have slept 2 hours that night if she was lucky. She woke up Sunday and she still was miserable, her temperature got down to 100.5, she couldn't get it any lower then Monday morning she woke up with a little headache and body aches and her temperature was 100 then she took a little nap and woke up around 4 o'clock and everything was gone, she confirmed everything was gone Monday. She has been with her husband for 44 years and he agrees this was the worst he had ever seen her sick. It was terrible. The description of product complaint included that, the caller reported her experience following the first dose of the Pfizer COVID 19 vaccine. Stated that, she was perfectly fine, she got the vaccine around 11 AM that day and had a typical Saturday and then around 8PM Saturday evening she started feeling nauseous, she never got sick but her stomach was queasy and she started aching all over, she took her temperature and it was 101.6 and it kept going up and she took Tylenol and it still got worse. The reporter considered the events as non-serious. Treatment was received for the event temperature was 100.5F then up to 101.8F. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included body temperature, resulted as 100.5F and 101.8F on 06Feb2021, body temperature, resulted as 100.6F on 07Feb2021, body temperature, resulted as 101.8F on 07Feb2021 and body temperature, resulted as 100.5 on 07Feb2021, body temperature, resulted as 100F on 08Feb2021. The outcome of the events was recovered on 08Feb2021 at 16:00.  Follow-up attempts completed. No further information expected.