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2 vaccinations 15 coded responses 23 check-ins 15 free-text entries 1 call case

Sex: Female
Age at first dose: 66+
ZIP prefix: 922 / CA
Registered: 2021-01-25

Relationship: Self
Race: White
Ethnicity: Not Hispanic or Latino

Timeline

Registration Vaccinations Survey responses Call reports Cases without a report Call attempts Call successful Pregnancy survey

2021-01-25
Registered in v-safe
2021-01-25
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-01-25
Survey response — day 0, dose 1
MedDRA: No adverse event — Feeling: Fair · Fever · Chills, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness

Free text: No

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-26
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Fair · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness

Adult check-in
2021-01-27
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Unevaluable event — Feeling: Fair · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: I have had joint pains before getting the vaccine.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-28
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Chills, Migraine with aura, Pyrexia — Feeling: Fair · Headache, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Had joint pains before vaccine, so will not conginue to report. Fever comes on late afternoon and evening....99.2 or 4, chills also. Had 2 migraine auras in the last 24 hours. Used to get one about once a month.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-29
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness

Adult check-in
2021-01-30
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Myalgia — Feeling: Good · Muscle or body aches

Free text: A couple of muscles are still sore

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-31
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · Muscle or body aches

Adult check-in
2021-02-01
Health check-in — day 7, dose 1
Feeling: Good · Fatigue or tiredness

Adult check-in
2021-02-08
Health check-in — day 14, dose 1
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-02-15
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-02-16
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Decreased appetite, Pre-existing disease, Sciatica — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain, Swelling · Fever · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: No appetite, sciatica left leg is back again

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-18
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Pre-existing disease, Sciatica — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: I sometimes have sciatica. After the shot , it came back and is very painful.k

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-19
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Muscle spasms, Sciatica — Feeling: Fair · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Sciatica continues, muscle spasms in shoulder, large muscless

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-20
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Muscle spasms — Feeling: Fair · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Spasms in leg muscles

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-21
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia — Feeling: Fair · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Every joint in my feet ache. Usually not at all

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-23
Survey response — day 7, dose 2
MedDRA: Pyrexia, Self-medication — Feeling: Fair · Fever · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: I took tylenol all week except today, hence low grade fever came back

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-01
Survey response — day 14, dose 2
MedDRA: Breast swelling — Feeling: Good

Free text: After both shots, my left breast swelled. I did not dream it could be vaccine related so I didnt report it, but when I tried to schedule a ma.mogram, they told me to wait 6 weeks until the swelling was over. They blamed the vaccine.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-08
Survey response — day 21, dose 2
MedDRA: Breast pain, Breast swelling, Fatigue, Pain, Pyrexia — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Periodically, I have a day where the echaustion comes back and all over aches . And the breast swelling will seem bigger and sore. On other days, the low grade fever returns. Seems like my body is still trying to fight the vaccine.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-17
Health check-in — day 28, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-03-22
Health check-in — day 35, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-29
Survey response — day 42, dose 2
MedDRA: Breast swelling, Fatigue, Pain — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: My breast swelling reappeared for about 2 days, then went down. And yesterday, I was greatly fatigued despite doing almost nothing all day. This was followed by aches all over today, similar to what I felt earlier, post shot. Next time, no Pfizer.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-05-17
Survey response — 3 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Breast swelling, Fatigue, Pain, Pyrexia, Swelling — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Swelling in breast opposite shot site arm reoccurs on and off. Also tissue swells a little abd really hurts in various parts of me, like my right cheek. I massage it and the swelling and pain disappears. I have low grade fever and fatigue sometimes.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-08-16
Health check-in — 6 months, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2022-02-15
Survey response — 12 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Conjunctivitis, Office visit, Pain, Pyrexia — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: Symptoms: Conjunctivitis. Not related to vaccines. Vaccine symptoms the same as always, all over body aches with low grade fever. Blood tests taken at same time indicated no infections of any kind. This happens about a 3rd of every month. Doctors say ???? · Healthcare visit (other): Regular primary checkups, no treatment

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2022-02-15
Report sent to call center — 12 months, dose 2
Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit · 1 call case(s)
2022-02-17
Call successful
Participant prefers to complete VAERS report online

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-01-25	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-02-15	Pfizer-BioNTech

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Free text

Release 2 — day 0, dose 1

2021-01-25

Systemic reaction (other): No

Release 2 — days 1–6 daily, dose 1

2021-01-27

Systemic reaction (other): I have had joint pains before getting the vaccine.

2021-01-28

Systemic reaction (other): Had joint pains before vaccine, so will not conginue to report. Fever comes on late afternoon and evening....99.2 or 4, chills also. Had 2 migraine auras in the last 24 hours. Used to get one about once a month.

Release 3 — days 1–6 daily, dose 1

2021-01-30

Systemic reaction (other): A couple of muscles are still sore

Release 4 — days 1–6 daily, dose 2

2021-02-16

Systemic reaction (other): No appetite, sciatica left leg is back again

2021-02-18

Systemic reaction (other): I sometimes have sciatica. After the shot , it came back and is very painful.k

2021-02-19

Systemic reaction (other): Sciatica continues, muscle spasms in shoulder, large muscless

2021-02-20

Systemic reaction (other): Spasms in leg muscles

2021-02-21

Systemic reaction (other): Every joint in my feet ache. Usually not at all

Release 4 — day 7, dose 2

2021-02-23

Systemic reaction (other): I took tylenol all week except today, hence low grade fever came back

Release 4 — day 14, dose 2

2021-03-01

Symptoms: After both shots, my left breast swelled. I did not dream it could be vaccine related so I didnt report it, but when I tried to schedule a ma.mogram, they told me to wait 6 weeks until the swelling was over. They blamed the vaccine.

Release 5 — day 21, dose 2

2021-03-08

Symptoms: Periodically, I have a day where the echaustion comes back and all over aches . And the breast swelling will seem bigger and sore. On other days, the low grade fever returns. Seems like my body is still trying to fight the vaccine.

Release 6 — day 42, dose 2

2021-03-29

Symptoms: My breast swelling reappeared for about 2 days, then went down. And yesterday, I was greatly fatigued despite doing almost nothing all day. This was followed by aches all over today, similar to what I felt earlier, post shot. Next time, no Pfizer.

Release 8 — 3 months, dose 2

2021-05-17

Symptoms: Swelling in breast opposite shot site arm reoccurs on and off. Also tissue swells a little abd really hurts in various parts of me, like my right cheek. I massage it and the swelling and pain disappears. I have low grade fever and fatigue sometimes. cut off by CDC

Release 11 — 12 months, dose 2

2022-02-15

Symptoms: Conjunctivitis. Not related to vaccines. Vaccine symptoms the same as always, all over body aches with low grade fever. Blood tests taken at same time indicated no infections of any kind. This happens about a 3rd of every month. Doctors say ????

Healthcare visit (other): Regular primary checkups, no treatment

Each entry is dated by the survey it was written in (the CDC re-sent the releases with survey dates in 2025); click a date to see that survey response. The CDC cut some text off at about 250 characters: symptoms in every release, and the other two fields in releases 9-12. Those entries are marked "cut off by CDC".

MedDRA terms by release

Field	Preferred term	2021-09	2023-04	2024-11
HCVO	Office visit	·	·	✓
SD	Breast pain	✓	✓	✓
SD	Breast swelling	✓	✓	✓
SD	Conjunctivitis	·	·	✓
SD	Fatigue	✓	✓	✓
SD	Pain	✓	✓	✓
SD	Pyrexia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Swelling	·	·	✓
SRO	Arthralgia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Chills	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Decreased appetite	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Migraine with aura	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Muscle spasms	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Myalgia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	No adverse event	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Pre-existing disease	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Pyrexia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Sciatica	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Self-medication	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Unevaluable event	✓	✓	✓

✓ active code · ○ coded but marked inactive · blank = not in that release