6Q2-19291-01999

2 vaccinations 10 coded responses 22 check-ins 10 free-text entries 10 call cases

Sex: Female
Age at first dose: 66+
ZIP prefix: 967 / HI
Registered: 2021-01-12

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

2021-01-11
Dose 1 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-01-12
Registered in v-safe
2021-01-13
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · Site: Pain · None

Adult check-in
2021-01-14
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-01-15
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-01-16
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-01-17
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-01-18
Health check-in — day 7, dose 1
Feeling: Good · None

Adult check-in
2021-01-25
Survey response — day 14, dose 1
MedDRA: Fatigue, Oropharyngeal pain — Feeling: Good · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: Had mild sore throat and very tired for a day.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-01-25
Report sent to call center — day 14, dose 1
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-02-03
Dose 2 — Pfizer-BioNTech
2021-02-03
Survey response — day 0, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Mobility decreased, Pain, Polyarthritis — Feeling: Fair · Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Free text: I have had joint pain that felt like arthritis in my hips and shoulders. It was sometimes so bad it affected my walking. I didnt associate it with the first Pfizer vaccine because it started a week later. It finally started to get better in the last few days but I still feel it.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-04
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Fever · Headache, Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness, Nausea · Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Adult check-in
2021-02-06
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · 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 · Telehealth, virtual health, or email health consultation

Adult check-in
2021-02-06
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)
2021-02-07
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Chills, Headache, Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to work

Adult check-in
2021-02-08
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Adult check-in
2021-02-09
Health check-in — days 1–6 daily, dose 2
Feeling: Poor · Site: Pain · Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Adult check-in
2021-02-10
Health check-in — day 7, dose 2
Feeling: Poor · Fever · Chills, Joint pains, Muscle or body aches, Fatigue or tiredness · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities

Adult check-in
2021-02-17
Survey response — day 14, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Bone pain — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Telehealth, virtual health, or email health consultation, Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit, Emergency room or emergency department visit

Free text: Severe joint pain in hips & shoulders. Feels like vine hitting bone with each step I walk. Its been like this since the day after the 2nd covid vaccine. Had mild joint pain in hips one week after first vaccine but didnt connect it to vaccine.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-17
Report sent to call center — day 14, dose 2
Be unable to work · Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-02-24
Survey response — day 21, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Chills, Office visit, Pain, Pyrexia — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: Symptoms: Severe joint pain, all over body aches, feverish feeling at times with normal temperature, chills. Pain broke thru Percocet. What brings me some relief is methylPrednisolone. But as I began to taper off symptoms returned. Now on 20 Mg/day for week · Healthcare visit (other): 4 visits in a week

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-02-24
Report sent to call center — day 21, dose 2
Be unable to work · Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-03-03
Survey response — day 28, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Feeling of body temperature change, Pain, Self-medication — Feeling: Poor · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: doctor rxd Methylprednisolone due to severe joint pain & body aches after vaccines. pain level down to where I could just use ibuprofen 800 Mg. He started to wean me off & pain was extreme. Had to go on. Also get hot & then cold, changing clothes.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-03
Report sent to call center — day 28, dose 2
Be unable to work · Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-03-10
Survey response — day 35, dose 2
MedDRA: Adverse reaction — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: My sx worsened when the doctor tried to wean me off the corticosteroids. This happened twice. Once in the first week and once last week. We are going to do a much slower tapering off with dropping one pill for a week over 5 weeks. I hope Ill be

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-10
Report sent to call center — day 35, dose 2
Be unable to work · Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-03-17
Survey response — day 42, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Pain — Feeling: Fair · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Telehealth, virtual health, or email health consultation

Free text: Joint pain and body aches return when I try to wean off corticosteroids even more slowly.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-03-17
Report sent to call center — day 42, dose 2
Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-04-09
Call 1 — Left Voicemail
2021-04-09
Call successful
Participant prefers to complete VAERS report online
2021-05-05
Survey response — 3 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Adverse drug reaction, Arthralgia, Myalgia, Self-medication — Feeling: Fair · Be unable to work, Be unable to do your normal daily activities, Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit

Free text: Continued pain in joints and muscles which worsens as I try to lower the dose of Methylprednisolone. I have developed some very adverse side effects from the Methylprednisolone so I need to continue to wean and try to get off of it.

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2023-04,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-05-05
Report sent to call center — 3 months, dose 2
Be unable to work · Be unable to do your normal daily activities · Get care from a doctor or other healthcare professional

1 call case(s)
2021-08-09
Survey response — 6 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Arthralgia, Malaise, Musculoskeletal stiffness, Polymyalgia rheumatica — 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, Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit, Emergency room or emergency department visit

Free text: I was diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rheumatica due to the vaccine. Ive been on Prednisone since February. I have many side effects from the drug but without it I have extreme pain in my shoulders & hips, severe stiffness & malaise. I was unable to wo

MedDRA releases: 2021-09,2024-11 · check-in free text available
2021-08-09
Report sent to call center — 6 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)
2021-08-12
Call 1 — Requested Callback
2021-08-13
Call 2 — Left Voicemail
2021-08-13
Callback requested for
07:00PM ET
2022-02-03
Survey response — 12 months, dose 2
MedDRA: Brain fog, Fatigue, Gait disturbance, Impaired driving ability, Impaired work ability, Loss of personal independence in daily activities, Malaise, Memory impairment, Pain — Feeling: Poor · 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, Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit, Emergency room or emergency department visit

Free text: Unable to work for 3 months. Severe pain. I walk like a cripple. . Rented hospital bed. Unable to drive or do chores. malaise/ exhaustion. Severe brain fog & poor short term memory. doctor increased prednisone & added round the click Oxycodone. .

MedDRA releases: 2024-11 · check-in free text available
2022-02-03
Report sent to call center — 12 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

Telehealth, virtual health, or email health consultation · Outpatient clinic or urgent care clinic visit · Emergency room or emergency department visit · 1 call case(s)
2022-02-04
Call 1 — Left Voicemail

Vaccinations

Dose	Date	Manufacturer	Co-administered
1	2021-01-11	Pfizer-BioNTech
2	2021-02-03	Pfizer-BioNTech

Call center

10 call center cases

8 successful · 2 unsuccessful

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Release 2 — day 14, dose 1

2021-01-25

Symptoms: Had mild sore throat and very tired for a day.

Release 3 — day 0, dose 2

2021-02-03

Systemic reaction (other): I have had joint pain that felt like arthritis in my hips and shoulders. It was sometimes so bad it affected my walking. I didnt associate it with the first Pfizer vaccine because it started a week later. It finally started to get better in the last few days but I still feel it.

Release 4 — day 14, dose 2

2021-02-17

Symptoms: Severe joint pain in hips & shoulders. Feels like vine hitting bone with each step I walk. Its been like this since the day after the 2nd covid vaccine. Had mild joint pain in hips one week after first vaccine but didnt connect it to vaccine.

Release 4 — day 21, dose 2

2021-02-24

Symptoms: Severe joint pain, all over body aches, feverish feeling at times with normal temperature, chills. Pain broke thru Percocet. What brings me some relief is methylPrednisolone. But as I began to taper off symptoms returned. Now on 20 Mg/day for week

Healthcare visit (other): 4 visits in a week

Release 5 — day 28, dose 2

2021-03-03

Symptoms: doctor rxd Methylprednisolone due to severe joint pain & body aches after vaccines. pain level down to where I could just use ibuprofen 800 Mg. He started to wean me off & pain was extreme. Had to go on. Also get hot & then cold, changing clothes.

Release 5 — day 35, dose 2

2021-03-10

Symptoms: My sx worsened when the doctor tried to wean me off the corticosteroids. This happened twice. Once in the first week and once last week. We are going to do a much slower tapering off with dropping one pill for a week over 5 weeks. I hope Ill be

Release 5 — day 42, dose 2

2021-03-17

Symptoms: Joint pain and body aches return when I try to wean off corticosteroids even more slowly.

Release 8 — 3 months, dose 2

2021-05-05

Symptoms: Continued pain in joints and muscles which worsens as I try to lower the dose of Methylprednisolone. I have developed some very adverse side effects from the Methylprednisolone so I need to continue to wean and try to get off of it.

Release 9 — 6 months, dose 2

2021-08-09

Symptoms: I was diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rheumatica due to the vaccine. Ive been on Prednisone since February. I have many side effects from the drug but without it I have extreme pain in my shoulders & hips, severe stiffness & malaise. I was unable to wo

Release 11 — 12 months, dose 2

2022-02-03

Symptoms: Unable to work for 3 months. Severe pain. I walk like a cripple. . Rented hospital bed. Unable to drive or do chores. malaise/ exhaustion. Severe brain fog & poor short term memory. doctor increased prednisone & added round the click Oxycodone. . cut off by CDC

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	Adverse drug reaction	✓	✓	✓
SD	Adverse reaction	✓	✓	✓
SD	Arthralgia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Bone pain	✓	✓	✓
SD	Brain fog	·	·	✓
SD	Chills	✓	✓	✓
SD	Fatigue	✓	✓	✓
SD	Feeling of body temperature change	✓	✓	✓
SD	Gait disturbance	·	·	✓
SD	Impaired driving ability	·	·	✓
SD	Impaired work ability	·	·	✓
SD	Loss of personal independence in daily activities	·	·	✓
SD	Malaise	✓	·	✓
SD	Memory impairment	·	·	✓
SD	Musculoskeletal stiffness	✓	·	✓
SD	Myalgia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Oropharyngeal pain	✓	✓	✓
SD	Pain	✓	✓	✓
SD	Polymyalgia rheumatica	✓	·	✓
SD	Pyrexia	✓	✓	✓
SD	Self-medication	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Arthralgia	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Mobility decreased	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Pain	✓	✓	✓
SRO	Polyarthritis	✓	✓	✓

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