Age: 69.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Blood cholesterol, Blood pressure measurement, Gait disturbance, Limb discomfort, Neuropathy peripheral
Clinical narrative: neuropathy in his heel; Difficulty walking; fire up the calf of his leg into his knee that lasts like 2 hours; This is a spontaneous report received from contactable reporter(s) (Consumer or other non HCP) from medical information team for a Pfizer sponsored program (159558). The reporter is the patient.  A 70 year-old male patient received bnt162b2 (BNT162B2), administered in arm left, administration date 16Mar2021 (Lot number: EN6205) at the age of 69 years as dose 2, single for covid-19 immunisation. Relevant medical history included: "High cholesterol" (ongoing); "High blood pressure" (ongoing); "broke his back", start date: 2020 (unspecified if ongoing), notes: last year and had physical therapy in the spring. Concomitant medication(s) included: ATORVASTATIN taken for blood cholesterol increased (ongoing); LOSARTAN [LOSARTAN POTASSIUM] taken for hypertension (ongoing); AMLODIPINE taken for hypertension (ongoing). Vaccination history included: Bnt162b2 (Dose 1, Single, Lot: EM9809, Expiration date and NDC number was unknown), administration date: 23Feb2021, when the patient was 69 years old, for COVID-19 Vaccination. The following information was reported: NEUROPATHY PERIPHERAL (medically significant) with onset 17Mar2021, outcome "recovering", described as "neuropathy in his heel"; GAIT DISTURBANCE (non-serious) with onset 17Mar2021, outcome "unknown", described as "Difficulty walking"; LIMB DISCOMFORT (non-serious) with onset 2021, outcome "recovered" (2021), described as "fire up the calf of his leg into his knee that lasts like 2 hours". The patient underwent the following laboratory tests and procedures: blood cholesterol: high; blood pressure measurement: high.  Clinical course: On 17Mar2021, patient experienced neuropathy in his heel the morning after he got the shot and could not walk/difficulty walking the next morning, he got the shot because of the pain and for 3 weeks he could not walk. It was a struggle and had to walk on the ball of his foot. Patient said that he can almost get through a grocery store now without having pain. Patient can still feel it though and it was nagging and stated that if he over does it, like once a month in the middle of the night the heel was throbbing and feels like pins and needles and fire up the calf of his leg into his knee that lasts like 2 hours. It was when he really pushed it. Patient was getting around a little better, his physical therapist apologized for papooing him in regard to complaints about the neuropathy. Patient asked, since he has neuropathy, he wanted to know if the neuropathy patient experienced, is a contraindication from getting the booster dose of the vaccine or if the booster dose will make the neuropathy worse. Patient doctor told him to try a Moderna booster. Patient stated that he was not happy with what he told him and that he was not comfortable with that and that the morning after his doctor told him that, he said that  stopped using Moderna because they were having problems with it. Patient was following up with his doctor in about a month.