Age: 77.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Fatigue, Magnetic resonance imaging, Muscle spasms, Musculoskeletal stiffness, Neuropathy peripheral
Clinical narrative: Benign Essential Blepharospasm; her eyes were red and irritated when she was in for her treatment; her eyes were red and irritated when she was in for her treatment; Her vision was blurry; white circle around the cornea; difficulty swallowing; exhausting; end of her fingers and toes are still hurting and feel frozen; end of her fingers and toes are still hurting and feel frozen; slow abnormal blink. Very slow blink; Neuropathy felt worse; Neuropathy felt worse; Her eyes were extremely sensitive to light./She couldn't  open her eyes; muscle spasms in right arm and under right breast and going across her stomach and in legs at times; muscle spasms in right arm and under right breast and going across her stomach and in legs at times; Left arm hurting; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 77-year-old female patient received BNT162B2 (Lot number: EN6201), via an unspecified route of administration, administered in arm left on 19Feb2021 09:30 (at the age of 77-year-old) as 2nd dose, single for COVID-19 immunization. Medical history included multiple myeloma from 2017, fibromyalgia, Raynaud's phenomenon, neuropathy all was ongoing; Bone and blood transplant 3 years ago in 2018, pain, sleep disorder, herpes, cancer, dry eyes, and fungus from the pneumonia. Concomitant medications included ongoing gabapentin, started over 3 and a half years ago (unspecified date) for neuropathy; lorazepam for pain and to sleep; ongoing acyclovir for herpes; ongoing omeprazole (PRILOSEC); ongoing fexofenadine hydrochloride (ALLEGRA); ongoing glucosamine; ongoing cyanocobalamin (VIT B12); ongoing daratumumab taken for cancer treatment; ongoing vitamins; MSN (Did not confirm what MSN was), stuff for bones and for her fibromyalgia. The patient previously received the first dose of (BNT162B2, Lot Number: EL9264) administered in left arm on 29Jan2021 09:30 as single dose for COVID-19 immunization. The patient had a reaction to the second vaccine. The patient experienced left arm hurting on 19Feb2021. She did not feel first one at all. The second one hurt. Arm still hurts when gets up in the morning and reaches for something. She can still feel it. Two (2) days after the second vaccine on 21Feb2021, neuropathy felt worse; her eyes were extremely sensitive to light. She sat inside with shutters closed. She was very sensitive to light. She went outside to walk, wore sunglasses and large brimmed hat. At times she had to stop. She couldn't open her eyes. She felt more on her left side. She had to pull the brim down. She was also getting muscle spasms in right arm and under right breast and going across her stomach and in legs at times. It was more in her arm and stomach areas. She was getting in in legs also. Her eyes are still a little sensitive but not bad. Her doctors wanted her to go off her neuropathy medication. They also talked about replacing the Gabapentin with other medications, but it was explained they all have side effects. She had been taking 2 pills and went down to 1 pill. Neuropathy got worse. They did not think the Gabapentin was part of it. Confirmed with caller that neuropathy medication was Gabapentin. They did not think pill had anything to do with it. Caller stated that she had been on it for at least 4 years. She had been afraid to start on something else. She said everything had something. Caller reported that she has been back on 2 pills of Gabapentin for 3 weeks now. On unspecified date, the end of her fingers and toes are still hurting and feel frozen. At her next appointment, she wanted to know if can go on 3 pills and then cut back. She had it for 4 years, but it got worse. This was under control, the neuropathy, and now all of this threw it out of control. Caller stated that everything calmed down about 9 days later. She had problem with her eyes, she did not have to sit inside in the dark. The neuropathy was there but not quite as painful. After going down to 1 pill of Gabapentin, it got worse. In the past she had dry eyes. She went to 3 different doctors and had different eye drops. They mentioned that her blink was not normal. They put plugs in and for about year, her eyes didn't bother her. At her first appointment, she checked her eyes. She ordered permanent plugs for her eyes for her dry eyes. She had slow abnormal blink on 21Feb2021. Very slow blink. It was causing eyes to be dry. They had suspicion that it was Benign Essential Blepharospasm on unspecified date. She wanted her to stop taking the Gabapentin as side effect is loss of muscle. On unspecified date, her eyes were red and irritated when she was in for her treatment. She was having hard time in there. Her next appointment was 19Mar2021. Caller said her first appointment was 09Mar2021 and she put in plugs. Her vision was blurry. PRIVACY felt she definitely had Benign Essential Blepharospasm. She talked to other doctors and it was agreed this is what she had. The only cure for Benign Essential Blepharospasm is these little Botox injections in her eye. Caller stated on 23Mar2021 she went back. Her eyes were getting worse. She had abnormal blinking problems opening and closing her eyes. She injected Botox on top. Her vision was clear and her blink was back to normal. This only lasted for half an hour. At the visit she saw white circle around the cornea. Caller stated the cure didn't work. Next visit was 30Mar2021. Her eyes were getting worse and worse, mainly only the whites of her eyes were showing. She was having trouble keeping her eyes open. Caller said that a few years ago she got up 3 times in the middle of the night and it took a minute or two to get her eyes open. Her fear was that she couldn't get her eyes open. Caller stated that it was exhausting to keep her eyes open. She got medicine drops to keep her eyes open. 06Apr2021 the white circle around her cornea was getting smaller. It was still blurry. It was burning, but it was a pinch better. She had more control over the muscle. The drops were Apraclonidine ophthalmic drops. At this point her eyes were barely open. Mostly saw whites of eyes. Barely color. Caller stated that she started 2 pills of Gabapentin. On 19Apr2021 white around cornea gone. She had blurry days but also clear ones. They ordered MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging). Her blink was still abnormally slow. When she tried to read or watch TV, it strained her eyes. 02May2021 MRI was done. She saw PRIVACY 03May2021 for treatment and he already had MRI results. MRI normal. They talked about Gabapentin and said he did not believe it was that. Caller says she told him that she had gone back on it. She was getting more muscle control. She continued to use ointment that they had given to her. She told her not to drive. She used the ointment twice daily. It was Erythromycin 5mg. She put in in her eyes twice daily. On 07May2021 appointment PRIVACY said vision was 20/30. It was 20/50 when it was bad. The white circle in her eyes was slightly back. Seeing improvement. On 21May2021 was last appointment. PRIVACY checked her vision and it was 20/25. Caller said she was dancing around. She looked so much better. Her blink was more normal. PRIVACY confirmed that all of the problems were from the second dose. Caller stated that her friend knew a scientist that said that if it was from vaccine, it would take at least 3 months to get normal. It is getting more normal, her eyes. She is driving. Once in awhile it gets a little blurry but mostly pretty clear. It is nothing like before. She could only read one line and texting she knew where it was. She mainly sat around with her eyes closed resting them. Her biggest fear was they would close and not open. Treatment for the events slow abnormal blink, Benign Essential Blepharospasm, her eyes were red and irritated, vision was blurry, white circle around the cornea included Eye plugs, Apraclonidine ophthalmic drops, Botox on eyes, Erythromycin Ointment. She had transplant 3 years ago, bone and blood for Multiple Myeloma. Her doctors researched the chemotherapy she had for the transplant to see if it had anything to do with this. Caller than gave more information regarding the transplant. She had pneumonia. She was supposed to have transplant. There was a shadow on her lung. She had CT scan on unspecified date. She had to cancel her transplant. Something was in the lung. They did a biopsy on her lung (unspecified date). During the biopsy, they pulled her arm down hard. That is when the neuropathy started. She had fungus from the pneumonia. It took 3 months to heal the fungus. Cancer was back up higher than the first time. When it was down low enough, she had the transplant. Caller stated that day or two after blood test for Myasthenia Gravis, she had difficulty swallowing. She looked at internet. She thinks it was just nerves and trying to keep her eyes open. It was exhausting. She called a girl to come stay with her and it went away. When she looked at the internet, she got shook up. The events neuropathy felt worse, extremely sensitive to light, slow abnormal blink, benign essential blepharospasm, her eyes were red and irritated, vision was blurry, white circle around the cornea, muscle spasms in right arm and under right breast and going across her stomach and in legs at times resulted in physician office visit. The patient underwent laboratory test which included Blood test for Myasthenia Gravis in 30Mar2021 with negative result, MRI eyes on 02May2021 with normal result. The outcome of the events neuropathy felt worse, slow abnormal blink, Benign Essential Blepharospasm was not recovered; the events left arm hurting, eyes were extremely sensitive to light was recovering; the outcome of white circle around the cornea recovered on 19Apr2021; and the outcome of the remaining events was unknown.