Age: 56.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Ear pain, Headache, Hypoaesthesia, Neck pain, Pain in extremity
Clinical narrative: Neck pain/ severe neck pain on right side of neck; He got vaccine in left shoulder, he had a little soreness within the next day of his left shoulder; Numbness in hand/ severe numbness in right hand and fingers are tingly; Tingly fingers/ severe numbness in right hand and fingers are tingly; Had minor ear pain; Head pain/ severe head pains back of head; Minor leg pain; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable consumer (patient). A 56-years-old male patient received first dose of BNT162B2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE, solution for injection; Batch/Lot Number: EW0178; Expiration Date: Aug2021; NDC number: unknown) via an unspecified route of administration on 27May2021 (at the age of 56-years-old) in left shoulder as a single dose for covid-19 immunization. The patient's medical history, other products, other conditions, and concomitant medications were not reported. After receiving the vaccine on his left shoulder he experienced side effect on the right side of his body: severe head pain, severe neck pain, numbness in hand, tingly fingers. He stated he decided not to get the second dose due to this side effects that he was still experiencing. The patient experienced little soreness in his left shoulder on 28May2021, which was normal for any shot, but all the stuff was on his right side. On 31May2021 he experienced severe neck pain on right side of neck, it comes and goes, but definitely comes, it hasn't gone completely. He had severe head pains at back of head, it travels from back of head to the right, which he never had before, it started soon after neck pain but was there 6 weeks later. He also had severe numbness in right hand and fingers are tingly, which started after the other two, the other were generally at the same time, this started a couple weeks later. He also experienced minor ear pain and leg pain, all on right side, leg pain was within the last week, and was ongoing and improving, hasn't continued, and ear pain started about two weeks ago, and it was ongoing but hasn't continued. The events were assessed as non-serious. His second dose was supposed to be 17Jun2021. It's been 6 weeks he hasn't received the second dose as he had lot of side effects from the first vaccine was afraid to get the second one. He stated he has family and friends who received the vaccine but didn't experience side effects after the first dose, only after the second dose. He asked if someone gets the vaccine in left shoulder does the events happen on right side and why does it go to the other side. He stated a packet was delivered to him with a letter and a bottle. But he wanted to know the substance in the white packet. He was explained about the process of prepaid  mailer. He stated that Pfizer believed he was a healthcare provider. Investigations was not provided. He was concerned about whether he had received the Pfizer one, because he looked at the bottle and he didn't see Pfizer on it. His vaccine card said Pfizer, but he wanted to verify the lot to see if it was the product. Product strength and count size dispensed was not provided. Additional lot numbers was not provided. A sample of the product available to be returned, if requested (Y/N) was not provided. Packaging sealed and intact was not provided. The outcome of the events neck pain and ear pain was not recovered, for headache and pain in extremity was recovering and for all other events was unknown.   Follow-up attempts are needed. Further information is requested.