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2021-02-16
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-03-13
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-03-21
Registered in v-safe
2021-04-22
Survey response — day 35, dose 2
MedDRA: Back pain, Dysstasia, Intervertebral disc disorder, Magnetic resonance imaging abnormal, Nerve block, Office visit, Pain — Feeling: Fair · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Telehealth, virtual health, or email health consultation, Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: 30 hours after shot 2 I started having bad lower back pain. This grew to the point where I could not stand for minutes at a time. After 5 weeks and three doctors an MRI revealed disc problems at L4-L5. Yesterday a nerve block injection fixed the pain

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-22
Report sent to call center — day 35, dose 2
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-04-24
Survey response — day 42, dose 2
MedDRA: Back pain, Office visit — Feeling: Fair · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Free text: Symptoms: Lumbar pain is returning after receiving temporary relief from the pain following a nerve-block injection. · Healthcare visit (other): Primary care physician and spine and pain specialist

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-24
Report sent to call center — day 42, dose 2
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-06-12
Health check-in — 3 months, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-09-13
Survey response — 6 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Cervical spinal stenosis, Lumbar radiculopathy, Office visit — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Free text: Symptoms: Developed cervical stenosis and lumbar Radiculopathy. Surgery scheduled for early October. · Healthcare visit (other): Office visits. MRIs (3), x-rays (3). Surgical consultation.

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-09-13
Report sent to call center — 6 months, dose 2
Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-09-14
Call successful
Completed over the phone
2022-03-16
Health check-in — 12 months, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-02-16	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-03-13	Pfizer-BioNTech

Call center

3 call center cases

3 successful

VAERS report filed, before or during a call: 3

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Release 7 — day 35, dose 2

2021-04-22

Symptoms: 30 hours after shot 2 I started having bad lower back pain. This grew to the point where I could not stand for minutes at a time. After 5 weeks and three doctors an MRI revealed disc problems at L4-L5. Yesterday a nerve block injection fixed the pain cut off by CDC

Release 7 — day 42, dose 2

2021-04-24

Symptoms: Lumbar pain is returning after receiving temporary relief from the pain following a nerve-block injection.

Healthcare visit (other): Primary care physician and spine and pain specialist

Release 9 — 6 months, dose 2

2021-09-13

Symptoms: Developed cervical stenosis and lumbar Radiculopathy. Surgery scheduled for early October.

Healthcare visit (other): Office visits. MRIs (3), x-rays (3). Surgical consultation.

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	Back pain	✓	✓	✓
SD	Cervical spinal stenosis	·	·	✓
SD	Dysstasia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Intervertebral disc disorder	✓	✓	✓
SD	Lumbar radiculopathy	·	·	✓
SD	Magnetic resonance imaging abnormal	✓	✓	✓
SD	Nerve block	✓	✓	✓
SD	Office visit	✓	✓	✓
SD	Pain	✓	✓	✓

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