3HS-10914-59217

2 vaccinations 10 coded responses 12 check-ins 10 free-text entries 2 call cases

Sex: Female
Age at first dose: 66+
ZIP prefix: 064 / CT
Registered: 2021-03-25

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

Possible VAERS report

VAERS ID	Confidence	Score	Runner-up	Shared symptoms	Dose	State	VAERS vaccinated / onset / received	Call case
1726816 (opens in a new window)	low	8 / 11	7	0 of 8 VAERS symptoms	same dose (2)	WA differs	2021-03-23 / 2021-08-21 / 2021-09-23 received the same day as the last call	case 1025934

From the VAERS matching of call center cases (loader/vaers_match_*). Only the best match is shown, and only if it scores 8 or more out of 11. The score adds up timing (VAERS received soon after the call center contact), dose and shared symptoms; state only breaks ties. Confidence is high when the score is 8+ and at least 3 points ahead of the runner-up, medium when 5+ and 2 ahead, otherwise low. A match is a likely link, not a confirmed one.

Timeline

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

2021-02-23
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-03-23
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-03-25
Registered in v-safe
2021-03-25
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Ear discomfort — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Headache, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness, Nausea · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: My ears feel very weird. This happened with both shots. My ears felt like they needed to pop.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-26
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: For some reason my knees are paining me and I have never had a knee issue before my Covid vaccines?

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-27
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Fair · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Adult check-in
2021-03-28
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Neck pain — Feeling: Fair · Joint pains · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Seem to be having a lot of neck pain after my second vaccine, along with bad knee pain. A friend mine said she has been experiencing neck pain after her second vaccine?

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-29
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Neck pain — Feeling: Fair · Headache, Joint pains · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Experiencing pain in both knees and neck since Ive been vaccinated twice. Never had an issue with this kind of pain in my knees and neck until Covid vaccine. What is in this that could do something to your body with issues never had before?

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-30
Survey response — day 7, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Neck pain — Feeling: Fair · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Knee pain in both knees since I received my Covid vaccines, and in my neck after the second vaccine. Never had pain before my vaccines? Why is this happening?

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-13
Survey response — day 21, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Muscle spasms — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Pain in knees I never had before my vaccine and Charlie horses in my lower legs.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-21
Survey response — day 28, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: The pain in both knees I never had before my vaccines is terrible terrible!

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-27
Health check-in — day 35, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-05-04
Survey response — day 42, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Vaccine gave me pain in my knees that I never had before, and its somewhat debilitating

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-06-22
Survey response — 3 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Office visit — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Free text: Symptoms: The vaccine has given me terrible terrible knee pain that I have never had prior to being vaccinated. I should have NEVER gotten the shot. So many people I know have problems after being vaccinated. So very terrible. · Healthcare visit (other): Many doctor visits

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-06-22
Report sent to call center — 3 months, dose 2
Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-06-29
Call successful
Completed over the phone
2021-09-23
Survey response — 6 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Gait disturbance, Office visit — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Free text: Symptoms: Terrible joint pains sustained since receiving the Pfizer vaccine, especially in my knees. Unable to walk like I use to. · Healthcare visit (other): Office visits to Orthopedic Doctors

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-09-23
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)

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-02-23	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-03-23	Pfizer-BioNTech

Call center

2 call center cases

1 successful · 1 unsuccessful

VAERS report filed, before or during a call: 2

See the call center timeline

Free text

Release 6 — days 1–6 daily, dose 2

2021-03-25

Systemic reaction (other): My ears feel very weird. This happened with both shots. My ears felt like they needed to pop.

2021-03-26

Systemic reaction (other): For some reason my knees are paining me and I have never had a knee issue before my Covid vaccines?

2021-03-28

Systemic reaction (other): Seem to be having a lot of neck pain after my second vaccine, along with bad knee pain. A friend mine said she has been experiencing neck pain after her second vaccine?

2021-03-29

Systemic reaction (other): Experiencing pain in both knees and neck since Ive been vaccinated twice. Never had an issue with this kind of pain in my knees and neck until Covid vaccine. What is in this that could do something to your body with issues never had before?

Release 6 — day 7, dose 2

2021-03-30

Systemic reaction (other): Knee pain in both knees since I received my Covid vaccines, and in my neck after the second vaccine. Never had pain before my vaccines? Why is this happening?

Release 7 — day 21, dose 2

2021-04-13

Symptoms: Pain in knees I never had before my vaccine and Charlie horses in my lower legs.

Release 7 — day 28, dose 2

2021-04-21

Symptoms: The pain in both knees I never had before my vaccines is terrible terrible!

Release 8 — day 42, dose 2

2021-05-04

Symptoms: Vaccine gave me pain in my knees that I never had before, and its somewhat debilitating

Release 9 — 3 months, dose 2

2021-06-22

Symptoms: The vaccine has given me terrible terrible knee pain that I have never had prior to being vaccinated. I should have NEVER gotten the shot. So many people I know have problems after being vaccinated. So very terrible.

Healthcare visit (other): Many doctor visits

Release 9 — 6 months, dose 2

2021-09-23

Symptoms: Terrible joint pains sustained since receiving the Pfizer vaccine, especially in my knees. Unable to walk like I use to.

Healthcare visit (other): Office visits to Orthopedic Doctors

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	Arthralgia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Gait disturbance	·	·	✓
SD	Muscle spasms	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Arthralgia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Ear discomfort	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Neck pain	✓	✓	✓

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