5RL-83717-71050

2 vaccinations 9 coded responses 12 check-ins 9 free-text entries 3 call cases

Sex: Female
Age at first dose: 31-35
ZIP prefix: 191 / PA
Registered: 2021-04-03

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

2021-03-25
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-04-03
Registered in v-safe
2021-04-03
Survey response — day 7, dose 1
MedDRA: Mobility decreased, Musculoskeletal discomfort, Self-medication — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain, Swelling · Joint pains · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Inability to use shoulder still even with heat pad and pain meds 9 days later

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-08
Survey response — day 14, dose 1
MedDRA: Loss of personal independence in daily activities, Mobility decreased — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Still cannot lift my arm. Intense pain in shoulder. Unable to even apply deodorant or shave under arms. Have been heat padding and taking approved pain meds. Cannot full extend arm.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-15
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-04-17
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Good · Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Adult check-in
2021-04-18
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Joint pains · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Extreme shoulder pain from first shot

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-24
Survey response — day 7, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Mobility decreased — Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Muscle or body aches · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Still do not have full movement in my shoulder since first shot. Pain is level 8.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-04-29
Survey response — day 14, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Shoulder pain from first vaccine - 3/15/21

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-05-19
Survey response — day 28, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Left shoulder still pain 8/10 from first shot. Someone please help. No one has answers.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-05-20
Survey response — day 35, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Telehealth, virtual health, or email health consultation

Free text: Shoulder pain still from first shot.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-05-20
Report sent to call center — day 35, dose 2
Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-05-29
Survey response — day 42, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Pain, Tenderness — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Telehealth, virtual health, or email health consultation

Free text: Left shoulder pain still from first shot. Shooting pain thats hard to put pressure on

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-05-29
Report sent to call center — day 42, dose 2
Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-07-15
Survey response — 3 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Bursa injury, Office visit, Product administered at inappropriate site — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to work or attend school, Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Telehealth, virtual health, or email health consultation

Free text: Symptoms: I had to consult an orthopedic surgeon for my shoulder pain from the Pfizer shot. They took X-rays and said it injected into my bursa not muscle. Cortisone shot and return in 6 weeks for MRI. Vaccine possibly caused long term damage to my shoulder. · Healthcare visit (other): Orthopedic surgeon

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-07-15
Report sent to call center — 3 months, dose 2
Be unable to work or attend school · Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare pr

1 call case(s)
2021-07-22
Call 1 — Left Voicemail
2021-10-14
Health check-in — 6 months, dose 2
Feeling: Poor

Adult check-in
2022-04-15
Health check-in — 12 months, dose 2
Feeling: Poor

Adult check-in

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-03-25	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-04-15	Pfizer-BioNTech

Call center

3 call center cases

3 unsuccessful

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Free text

Release 6 — day 7, dose 1

2021-04-03

Systemic reaction (other): Inability to use shoulder still even with heat pad and pain meds 9 days later

Release 7 — day 14, dose 1

2021-04-08

Symptoms: Still cannot lift my arm. Intense pain in shoulder. Unable to even apply deodorant or shave under arms. Have been heat padding and taking approved pain meds. Cannot full extend arm.

Release 7 — days 1–6 daily, dose 2

2021-04-18

Systemic reaction (other): Extreme shoulder pain from first shot

Release 7 — day 7, dose 2

2021-04-24

Systemic reaction (other): Still do not have full movement in my shoulder since first shot. Pain is level 8.

Release 8 — day 14, dose 2

2021-04-29

Symptoms: Shoulder pain from first vaccine - 3/15/21

Release 8 — day 28, dose 2

2021-05-19

Symptoms: Left shoulder still pain 8/10 from first shot. Someone please help. No one has answers.

Release 8 — day 35, dose 2

2021-05-20

Symptoms: Shoulder pain still from first shot.

Release 8 — day 42, dose 2

2021-05-29

Symptoms: Left shoulder pain still from first shot. Shooting pain thats hard to put pressure on

Release 9 — 3 months, dose 2

2021-07-15

Symptoms: I had to consult an orthopedic surgeon for my shoulder pain from the Pfizer shot. They took X-rays and said it injected into my bursa not muscle. Cortisone shot and return in 6 weeks for MRI. Vaccine possibly caused long term damage to my shoulder. cut off by CDC

Healthcare visit (other): Orthopedic surgeon

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	Bursa injury	✓	·	✓
SD	Loss of personal independence in daily activities	✓	✓	✓
SD	Mobility decreased	✓	✓	✓
SD	Office visit	✓	·	✓
SD	Pain	·	·	✓
SD	Product administered at inappropriate site	✓	·	✓
SD	Tenderness	·	·	✓
SRO	Arthralgia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Mobility decreased	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Musculoskeletal discomfort	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Self-medication	✓	✓	✓

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