Age: 55.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Pyrexia, Swelling, Swelling face, Vaccination site pain
Clinical narrative: Slight redness in the face; Swelling of lymph nodes; Chronic asthma; a rapid heartbeat; anxiety; felt unwell; had facial swelling which worsened; weakness; her lungs were not able to expand and still has the problem once in a while; felt tingling in her chest; she developed fevers for almost 2 days; after the fever she got diarrhea; allergic reaction; she was very swollen; tightness in her chest; she started getting horrible headaches, started becoming ill; she started getting horrible headaches, started becoming ill/she got very sick; Injection immediate tightness in your racing heart; Loss of appetite; Had some difficulty breathing; slight swelling of the face; dizzy/dizziness; injection site pain; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer. A 55-year-old female consumer reported for herself that:  55 year old female received PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, Batch/lot number: ER8730, Expire Date: unknown ) intramuscular route of administration in upper left arm on 30Mar2021 at 7:09am (at the age of 55-years-old) as dose 1, single for covid 19 immunization). The patient medical history included asthma from unknown date and ongoing yes, allergies to medications which include sulfa, erythromycin, Naproxen and Ibuprofen. The patient did not take any other medication (within 4 weeks) and Prior to Vaccinations. On 30Mar2021, she had an allergic reaction to the first dose of the Pfizer covid vaccine after injection immediate tightness in racing heart.  Racing of heart lasted for almost 24 hours. Loss of appetite. Had some difficulty breathing at 11:00 slight swelling of the face started to become dizzy by 13:00 that afternoon. Swelling of lymph nodes. Chronic asthma. Slight redness in the face. Patient had been told she has bronchiole asthma and has had asthma her entire life; states patient was not on any medications and patient no known sickness other than her chronic asthma which was diagnosed around age 13 when patient remembers being rushed to the emergency room as a young teenager and could not participate in sports but did play softball but could not run track and no physical education due to her asthma. Patient states that the injection site pain began in her arm and resolved a couple of days ago and did not have pain yesterday but the day before on 03Apr2021 was the last day patient had pain at the injection site in her left arm. Stated patient had a racing heart that began right after the vaccine and lasted for almost 21.5 hours and was completely resolved on 31Mar2021 sometime and thinks it was about 4:30am when patient noticed her heart was not racing anymore. Stated patient had tightness in her chest that began right after the vaccine when patient noticed a slight tightness in her chest and still had currently and it had not gone away and would say it was either about the same or slightly worse. It was reported that patient was on a 30 minute watch after the vaccine because of her history of medication allergies. Patient would be contacting her doctor; for treatment, patient had been using her inhaler. Primatene Mist and thinks you can use it twice every four hours and then had to wait and no more use of it than 8 in a 24 hour period; caller was asked for the dosage but did not state the dosage; states the Primatene Mist has lot PR303A0, expiry dateDec2021 and the UPC from the box. Stated patient was trying not to use the Primatene mist inhaler and used it a couple of times per day; and patient did not have the tightness in her chest when she used the prescription inhaler Proair Respi Click and it has lot AB7188, expiry date Feb2021 and NDC #. Caller states she was using the Proair Respi Click prior to the Pfizer vaccine. Stated the nurse dismissed her and said she felt that the patient had anxiety in getting the Pfizer Vaccine but the racing in her heart continued for almost a day. Patient states that by 11:00am that day of the vaccine, patient started getting horrible headaches, started becoming ill, got 10 of the 12 listed possible side effects for the Pfizer vaccine plus two other side effects. Patient experienced swelling and a slight difficulty breathing due to the tightness in her chest; noticed the swelling started on her face by 11:00am right under the dark circles of her eyes; patient was very swollen and started swelling under both dark circles of her eyes and then by 1:00pm in the afternoon patient started to become dizzy and the swelling later in the day worsened and the swelling went down from the bottom of her eye circles down the tops of both cheeks and turned red. Patient stated swelling and redness of face was not ongoing and took a few days to go away, patient developed fevers for almost 2 days, had lymph nodes swelling really bad in the bottom part of her neck and the lymph nodes were huge. Patient lost her appetite during the fever and after the fever patient got diarrhea. Stated her husband was working and patient was the one that became very ill after the 1st dose; patient needs to know if the 2nd dose was stronger than the 1st dose. Patient states she just wanted it to be known she got very sick and did have some of the severe symptoms but they were obviously not severe enough to put her into the hospital but she did experience facial swelling and redness. The patient received treatment tightness in her chest, lungs were not able to expand. The outcome of injection site pain recovered on 03Apr2021 and racing heart recovered on 31Mar2021, Headache, swollen, face swelling, redness of face recovered on unspecified date in 2021, outcome of tightness in her chest not recovered and rest of the events were unknown.  No follow-up attempts are possible. No further information is expected.