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2021-01-09
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-01-10
Registered in v-safe
2021-01-10
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Immediate post-injection reaction, Pain, Pain in extremity, Self-medication — Feeling: Fair · Site: Pain · Muscle or body aches · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: Right after I got the vaccine in my left shoulder, I noticed that I was having pain in the other arm right about the same area where I got the shot in my left shoulder. It was mild, so I ignored it. This morning, I was doing some gardening, pulling weeds with my right arm, the arm began throbbing, with radiating pain down the entire arm. It was so bad that I had to stop, take an Advil, and lie down. My next door neighbor, a doctor, suggested that I write to V-safe. I should also mention that I have been healing from a rotator cuff injury in my right shoulder but it was almost 100% better. It is possible that my symptoms are unrelated to the vaccine but I did begin feeling the symptoms almost immediately upon leaving the clinic where I got the shot, i.e. within 15 minutes of getting the vaccine.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-10
Report sent to call center — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Be unable to do your normal daily activities

1 call case(s)
2021-01-11
Survey response — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
MedDRA: Pain in extremity — Feeling: Good · Site: Pain · Joint pains

Free text: The pain in both arms has subsided. I'm fine and on the mend. But it was odd that I had pain in both arms and it worse on the non injection arm.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-13
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-01-23
Health check-in — day 14, dose 1
Feeling: Good

Adult check-in

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-01-09	Pfizer-BioNTech

Call center

1 call center case

1 priority 2/3 (triaged and no follow up)

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Release 1 — days 1–6 daily, dose 1

2021-01-10

Systemic reaction (other): Right after I got the vaccine in my left shoulder, I noticed that I was having pain in the other arm right about the same area where I got the shot in my left shoulder. It was mild, so I ignored it. This morning, I was doing some gardening, pulling weeds with my right arm, the arm began throbbing, with radiating pain down the entire arm. It was so bad that I had to stop, take an Advil, and lie down. My next door neighbor, a doctor, suggested that I write to V-safe. I should also mention that I have been healing from a rotator cuff injury in my right shoulder but it was almost 100% better. It is possible that my symptoms are unrelated to the vaccine but I did begin feeling the symptoms almost immediately upon leaving the clinic where I got the shot, i.e. within 15 minutes of getting the vaccine.

2021-01-11

Systemic reaction (other): The pain in both arms has subsided. I'm fine and on the mend. But it was odd that I had pain in both arms and it worse on the non injection arm.

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	Immediate post-injection reaction	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Pain	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Pain in extremity	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Self-medication	✓	✓	✓

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