48M-19789-33990

3 vaccinations 17 coded responses 39 check-ins 17 free-text entries 0 call cases

Sex: Female
Age at first dose: 36-40
ZIP prefix: 442 / OH
Registered: 2021-02-05

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

Timeline Vaccinations Free text MedDRA terms

Timeline

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

2021-02-05
Registered in v-safe
2021-02-05
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-02-05
Health check-in — day 0, dose 1
Feeling: Good · Site: Pain · Headache

Adult check-in
2021-02-06
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Hypoaesthesia oral, Swollen tongue, Tenderness, Tongue erythema — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Headache, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: My tongue feels swollen, numb, and tender all at the same time. It started about 24 hours after the vaccine. I have a pineapple allergy and it feels like what happens if I eat pineapple, but I havent had any. I looked up my symptoms online and read about covid tongue. My tongue looks a lot like that. My tongue looks dented and has two redder areas where it looks dented.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-07
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Hypoaesthesia oral, Swollen tongue — Feeling: Good · Diarrhea

Free text: My tongue still feels large and numb

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2021-02-08
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Hypoaesthesia oral, Paraesthesia oral, Tongue discolouration — Feeling: Good · Fatigue or tiredness

Free text: My tongue still feels large and numb. It also still has odd discolored dents that feel tender.

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2021-02-09
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Glossodynia, Hypoaesthesia oral, Swollen tongue — Feeling: Good

Free text: My tongue is still giving me a dull / numb pain and feels enlarged

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2021-02-10
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Facial pain, Glossodynia, Headache, Pain in jaw, Paranasal sinus discomfort, Swollen tongue — Feeling: Fair · Headache

Free text: Still have an enlarged sore tongue, and now also a headache and a lot of sinus pressure that is making my face and jaw sore.

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2021-02-11
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Facial pain, Headache, Pain in jaw — Feeling: Fair · Headache

Free text: My tongue still feels swollen with a full pain, but now I also have lots of face, jaw pain, and a headache from sinus pressure.

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2021-02-12
Survey response — day 7, dose 1
MedDRA: Facial pain, Glossodynia, Hypoaesthesia oral, Pain in jaw, Paranasal sinus discomfort, Swollen tongue — Feeling: Good · Headache

Free text: Still have a lot of face/jaw pain from sinus pressure, and my tongue has a dull numb pain and feels swollen.

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2021-02-19
Health check-in — day 14, dose 1
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-02-26
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-02-26
Survey response — day 0, dose 2
MedDRA: Facial pain, Hypoaesthesia oral, Pain in jaw, Paranasal sinus discomfort, Swollen tongue — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Chills, Headache

Free text: Swollen numb tongue, sinus pressure resulting in severe face and jaw pain

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2021-02-27
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Facial pain, Immunisation reaction, Pain in jaw, Paranasal sinus discomfort, Vaccine positive rechallenge — Feeling: Good · Site: Pain · Headache

Free text: Severe face and jaw pain due to sinus pressure, my covid tongue symptoms are back in full force like it was with the first vaccine too

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2021-02-28
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Facial pain, Headache, Immunisation reaction, Pain in jaw, Paranasal sinus discomfort — Feeling: Good · Headache

Free text: Covid tongue still, face/head/jaw pain from sinus pressure

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2021-03-01
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Sinus pain — Feeling: Good · Headache

Free text: Sinus pain, more covid tongue spots

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2021-03-02
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Immunisation reaction, Sinus pain, Tongue disorder — Feeling: Good · Headache

Free text: Bit of sinus pain and covid tongue still

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2021-03-03
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Immunisation reaction, Sinus pain — Feeling: Good

Free text: Minor sinus pain and covid tongue

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-04
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Facial pain, Immunisation reaction, Paranasal sinus discomfort — Feeling: Good

Free text: Face pain from sinus pressure, and weird covid tongue still

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-05
Survey response — day 7, dose 2
MedDRA: Immunisation reaction — Feeling: Good

Free text: A bit of covid tongue still

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-12
Health check-in — day 14, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-19
Health check-in — day 21, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-03-26
Health check-in — day 28, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-04-03
Health check-in — day 35, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-04-09
Health check-in — day 42, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-05-28
Health check-in — 3 months, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-08-27
Health check-in — 6 months, dose 2
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-09-27
Dose 3 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-09-27
Survey response — day 0, dose 3
MedDRA: Immediate post-injection reaction, Immunisation reaction, Vaccine positive rechallenge — Feeling: Good · Site: Pain

Free text: Started getting covid tongue within less than 10 minutes, which is much faster onset than on my other doses.

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-09-28
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 3
Feeling: Good · Site: Pain · None

Adult check-in
2021-09-29
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 3
MedDRA: Facial pain, Sinus pain — Feeling: Good · Site: Pain

Free text: Mild face / sinus pain

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-09-30
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 3
Feeling: Good · Site: Pain · None

Adult check-in
2021-10-01
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 3
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-10-02
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 3
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-10-03
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 3
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-10-04
Health check-in — day 7, dose 3
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-10-11
Health check-in — day 14, dose 3
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-10-18
Health check-in — day 21, dose 3
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-10-25
Health check-in — day 28, dose 3
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-11-01
Health check-in — day 35, dose 3
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-11-08
Health check-in — day 42, dose 3
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2021-12-27
Health check-in — 3 months, dose 3
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in
2022-09-27
Health check-in — 12 months, dose 3
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-02-05	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-02-26	Pfizer-BioNTech
3	2021-09-27	Pfizer-BioNTech	No

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Release 3 — days 1–6 daily, dose 1

2021-02-06

Systemic reaction (other): My tongue feels swollen, numb, and tender all at the same time. It started about 24 hours after the vaccine. I have a pineapple allergy and it feels like what happens if I eat pineapple, but I havent had any. I looked up my symptoms online and read about covid tongue. My tongue looks a lot like that. My tongue looks dented and has two redder areas where it looks dented.

2021-02-07

Systemic reaction (other): My tongue still feels large and numb

2021-02-08

Systemic reaction (other): My tongue still feels large and numb. It also still has odd discolored dents that feel tender.

2021-02-09

Systemic reaction (other): My tongue is still giving me a dull / numb pain and feels enlarged

Release 4 — days 1–6 daily, dose 1

2021-02-10

Systemic reaction (other): Still have an enlarged sore tongue, and now also a headache and a lot of sinus pressure that is making my face and jaw sore.

2021-02-11

Systemic reaction (other): My tongue still feels swollen with a full pain, but now I also have lots of face, jaw pain, and a headache from sinus pressure.

Release 4 — day 7, dose 1

2021-02-12

Systemic reaction (other): Still have a lot of face/jaw pain from sinus pressure, and my tongue has a dull numb pain and feels swollen.

Release 4 — day 0, dose 2

2021-02-26

Systemic reaction (other): Swollen numb tongue, sinus pressure resulting in severe face and jaw pain

Release 4 — days 1–6 daily, dose 2

2021-02-27

Systemic reaction (other): Severe face and jaw pain due to sinus pressure, my covid tongue symptoms are back in full force like it was with the first vaccine too

2021-02-28

Systemic reaction (other): Covid tongue still, face/head/jaw pain from sinus pressure

2021-03-01

Systemic reaction (other): Sinus pain, more covid tongue spots

2021-03-02

Systemic reaction (other): Bit of sinus pain and covid tongue still

Release 5 — days 1–6 daily, dose 2

2021-03-03

Systemic reaction (other): Minor sinus pain and covid tongue

2021-03-04

Systemic reaction (other): Face pain from sinus pressure, and weird covid tongue still

Release 5 — day 7, dose 2

2021-03-05

Systemic reaction (other): A bit of covid tongue still

Release 9 — day 0, dose 3

2021-09-27

Systemic reaction (other): Started getting covid tongue within less than 10 minutes, which is much faster onset than on my other doses.

Release 9 — days 1–6 daily, dose 3

2021-09-29

Systemic reaction (other): Mild face / sinus pain

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
SRO	Facial pain	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Glossodynia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Headache	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Hypoaesthesia oral	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Immediate post-injection reaction	·	·	✓
SRO	Immunisation reaction	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Pain in jaw	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Paraesthesia oral	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Paranasal sinus discomfort	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Sinus pain	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Swollen tongue	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Tenderness	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Tongue discolouration	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Tongue disorder	○	✓	○
SRO	Tongue erythema	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Vaccine positive rechallenge	✓	✓	✓

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