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2 vaccinations 14 coded responses 18 check-ins 14 free-text entries 6 call cases

Sex: Female
Age at first dose: 61-65
ZIP prefix: 164 / PA
Registered: 2021-04-12

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

2021-04-02
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-04-12
Registered in v-safe
2021-04-12
Survey response — day 7, dose 1
MedDRA: Injection site pain, Mobility decreased, Musculoskeletal pain, Pain in extremity — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Beside the injection site, my butt & thigh muscles hurt so badly, I can hardly stoop to pick something up from the floor.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-16
Survey response — day 14, dose 1
MedDRA: Injection site pain, Mobility decreased, Movement disorder, Muscle disorder — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Site of injection still so soar its difficult to lift my arm. The butt muscles & back of thighs are not improving. Sitting down, stooping over getting off a chair is difficult . I am normally not a sit down person, I was active before vaccination.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-23
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-04-23
Survey response — day 0, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Myalgia — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: I still have muscle & joint pain since the first injection.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-24
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Poor · Fever · Joint pains, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Adult check-in
2021-04-25
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Adverse reaction — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Fever · Headache, Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: These symptoms have persisted since 4/5 , 3 days after 1st vaccine

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-26
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Fever · Chills, Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Adult check-in
2021-04-27
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Emergency care — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Fever · Headache, Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Taken to ER

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-28
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Adverse reaction — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Headache, Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Emergency room or emergency department visit

Free text: I keep expecting these symptoms to go away. Ive been experiencing this since 3 days after my 1st vaccination:(

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-28
Report sent to call center — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-04-29
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Anxiety — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Fever · Headache, Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Emergency room or emergency department visit

Free text: Anxious for this to turn around. Had symptoms since 1st vaccine. Its going on a month. This is wearing me down.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-29
Report sent to call center — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-04-30
Survey response — day 7, dose 2
MedDRA: Medical counselling, Mobility decreased — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Fever · Chills, Headache, Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Free text: Systemic reaction (other): Unable to get up from sitting position. · Healthcare visit (other): Called ambulance this am because I couldnt get up from kitchen chair.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-30
Report sent to call center — day 7, dose 2
Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-05-07
Survey response — day 14, dose 2
MedDRA: Medical counselling, Pain — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Free text: Symptoms: The symptoms I experienced were severe and continued until my Dr prescribed methyirednisolone 4 mg for 6 day. Day 2 of this RX was relieving the pain. The morning after the last dose, the symptoms came back with a vengeance. The Dr called in another · Healthcare visit (other): Phone call to DR.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-05-07
Report sent to call center — day 14, dose 2
Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-05-16
Health check-in — day 21, dose 2
Feeling: Poor

Adult check-in
2021-05-21
Survey response — day 28, dose 2
MedDRA: Depression, Fatigue — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Depression, extreme fatigue & no relief in pain. Was referred to a Rheumatologist.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-05-28
Survey response — day 35, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: The severe joint pain does not lesson. Its almost 8 wks. I have an apt to see a Rheumatologist for help.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-06-04
Survey response — day 42, dose 2
MedDRA: Office visit, Polymyalgia rheumatica — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: I was diagnosed by a rheumatologist as having polymyalgia rheumatica. The symptoms started 3 days after my 1st vaccine.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-07-23
Health check-in — 3 months, dose 2
Feeling: Fair

Adult check-in
2021-10-22
Survey response — 6 months, dose 2
MedDRA: C-reactive protein increased, Office visit, Polymyalgia rheumatica — Feeling: Fair · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Free text: Symptoms: Elevated crp level. Diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rheumatica. Treated with Prednisone & Hydroxychloroquine. · Healthcare visit (other): Rheumatologist & Urologist

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-10-22
Report sent to call center — 6 months, dose 2
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-10-26
Call 1 — Left Voicemail
2022-04-23
Survey response — 12 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Office visit, Polymyalgia rheumatica, Psoriatic arthropathy — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

Free text: Symptoms: I was diagnosed with polymyalgia Rheumatica & have been treated for the past year by a Rheumatologist. Yesterday's apt my Rheumatologist added Methotrexate and began weaning me off of Prednisone. She also sees signs of Psoriatic Arthritis. · Healthcare visit (other): Rheumatologist

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2022-04-23
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

1 call case(s)
2022-04-25
Call 1 — Left Voicemail
2022-05-19
Call successful
Reported to VAERS voluntarily prior to GDIT contact

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-04-02	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-04-23	Pfizer-BioNTech

Call center

6 call center cases

6 successful

VAERS report filed, before or during a call: 6

See the call center timeline

Free text

Release 7 — day 7, dose 1

2021-04-12

Systemic reaction (other): Beside the injection site, my butt & thigh muscles hurt so badly, I can hardly stoop to pick something up from the floor.

Release 7 — day 14, dose 1

2021-04-16

Symptoms: Site of injection still so soar its difficult to lift my arm. The butt muscles & back of thighs are not improving. Sitting down, stooping over getting off a chair is difficult . I am normally not a sit down person, I was active before vaccination.

Release 7 — day 0, dose 2

2021-04-23

Systemic reaction (other): I still have muscle & joint pain since the first injection.

Release 7 — days 1–6 daily, dose 2

2021-04-25

Systemic reaction (other): These symptoms have persisted since 4/5 , 3 days after 1st vaccine

Release 8 — days 1–6 daily, dose 2

2021-04-27

Systemic reaction (other): Taken to ER

2021-04-28

Systemic reaction (other): I keep expecting these symptoms to go away. Ive been experiencing this since 3 days after my 1st vaccination:(

2021-04-29

Systemic reaction (other): Anxious for this to turn around. Had symptoms since 1st vaccine. Its going on a month. This is wearing me down.

Release 8 — day 7, dose 2

2021-04-30

Systemic reaction (other): Unable to get up from sitting position.

Healthcare visit (other): Called ambulance this am because I couldnt get up from kitchen chair.

Release 8 — day 14, dose 2

2021-05-07

Symptoms: The symptoms I experienced were severe and continued until my Dr prescribed methyirednisolone 4 mg for 6 day. Day 2 of this RX was relieving the pain. The morning after the last dose, the symptoms came back with a vengeance. The Dr called in another cut off by CDC

Healthcare visit (other): Phone call to DR.

Release 8 — day 28, dose 2

2021-05-21

Symptoms: Depression, extreme fatigue & no relief in pain. Was referred to a Rheumatologist.

Release 8 — day 35, dose 2

2021-05-28

Symptoms: The severe joint pain does not lesson. Its almost 8 wks. I have an apt to see a Rheumatologist for help.

Release 8 — day 42, dose 2

2021-06-04

Symptoms: I was diagnosed by a rheumatologist as having polymyalgia rheumatica. The symptoms started 3 days after my 1st vaccine.

Release 10 — 6 months, dose 2

2021-10-22

Symptoms: Elevated crp level. Diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rheumatica. Treated with Prednisone & Hydroxychloroquine.

Healthcare visit (other): Rheumatologist & Urologist

Release 11 — 12 months, dose 2

2022-04-23

Symptoms: I was diagnosed with polymyalgia Rheumatica & have been treated for the past year by a Rheumatologist. Yesterday's apt my Rheumatologist added Methotrexate and began weaning me off of Prednisone. She also sees signs of Psoriatic Arthritis.

Healthcare visit (other): Rheumatologist

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	Medical counselling	✓	✓	✓
HCVO	Office visit	·	·	✓
SD	Arthralgia	✓	✓	✓
SD	C-reactive protein increased	·	·	✓
SD	Depression	✓	✓	✓
SD	Fatigue	✓	✓	✓
SD	Injection site pain	✓	✓	✓
SD	Mobility decreased	✓	✓	✓
SD	Movement disorder	✓	✓	✓
SD	Muscle disorder	✓	✓	✓
SD	Office visit	✓	✓	✓
SD	Pain	✓	✓	✓
SD	Polymyalgia rheumatica	✓	✓	✓
SD	Psoriatic arthropathy	·	·	✓
SRO	Adverse reaction	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Anxiety	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Arthralgia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Emergency care	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Injection site pain	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Mobility decreased	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Musculoskeletal pain	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Myalgia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Pain in extremity	✓	✓	✓

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