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Report #2849912

Received Jul 16, 2025

HospitalizedOffice visit
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Overview

Sex
Female
Age
12 yrs
State
TX
Recovered
Not recovered
Vaccinated
Sep 2, 2021
Onset
—
Days to onset
—
Hospital days
—

Vaccines (1)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
COVID19COVID19 (COVID19 (PFIZER-BIONTECH))PFIZER\BIONTECH2EW0175OT

Symptoms (9)

AphoniaBlood testChillsErythemaMyasthenia gravisNasopharyngitisProductive coughPyrexiaTremor

Symptom narrative

Myasthenia gravis; High fever; Got very sick; Chilled and cold; Got very sick; Chilled and cold; Started showing tremor signs/Body shakes; Started turning red; Lost her voice; Phlegm in her throat/Snot in her throat really bad; This is a spontaneous report received from a Consumer or other non HCP. A 16-year-old female patient received BNT162b2 (BNT162B2), on 02Sep2021 as dose 2, single (Lot number: EW0175) at the age of 12 years intramuscular, in arm for covid-19 immunisation. The patient's relevant medical history included: "mild asthma" (unspecified if ongoing). The patient's concomitant medications were not reported. Vaccination history included: BNT162b2 (Dose 1, Single), administration date: 12Aug2021, when the patient was 12-year-old, for Covid-19 immunization. The following information was reported: MYASTHENIA GRAVIS (hospitalization, medically significant), outcome "not recovered"; PYREXIA (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "High fever"; CHILLS (non-serious), NASOPHARYNGITIS (non-serious), outcome "unknown" and all described as "Got very sick; Chilled and cold"; TREMOR (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "Started showing tremor signs/Body shakes"; ERYTHEMA (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "Started turning red"; APHONIA (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "Lost her voice"; PRODUCTIVE COUGH (non-serious), outcome "unknown", described as "Phlegm in her throat/Snot in her throat really bad". The events "myasthenia gravis", "high fever", "got very sick; chilled and cold", "started showing tremor signs/body shakes", "started turning red", "lost her voice" and "phlegm in her throat/snot in her throat really bad" required physician office visit. The patient underwent the following laboratory tests and procedures: Blood test: Unknown results. Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of myasthenia gravis, productive cough. Clinical course: The reporter's daughter received the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in 2021 and 3 to 6 months after she receive that shot, she started having side effects of different things and then six months she was diagnosed with a rare disease. The patient was very healthy before she receives the covid shot and after that, she started showing side effects of things. The disease was not in their family, nobody ever has it, and they believe it's from the covid shot because she started showing side effects because the covid shot made her sick and she took Pfizer. The patient had high fever, and she got very sick and chilled and cold and about two months she had the shot, she started showing tremor signs and they had to take her to a tremor doctor, a neurologist. She started showing tremors, then after tremor she started having body shakes, after the body shake, she started having double vision. She started having snot in her throat really bad. They thought it was a sinus problem. After that she started turning red. Basically, after that she started choking on food, could not swallow, lost her voice and basically when they took her to the doctor, they are saying that she has a rare disease called Myasthenia Gravis (MG). The patient has been seeing a doctor since 2021 with different side effects. The reporter has been telling him it was covid (vaccine) and the doctor did not say anything because they don't want sued and she was in the hospital in February, Feb2025 when they told us that all the symptoms she is been having since the covid vaccine is called Myasthenia Gravis. She has to take medicine for the rest of her life, she has had blood work done (results unknown). Myasthenia Gravis was diagnosed this February saying that all the symptoms of everything that she has had from choking to, with all the phlegm in her throat is Myasthenia Gravis. She is got a disease that she will never get over. It's an immune disease that she will have to take the medicine for the rest of her life. The doctor did not know what was wrong with her until now. The spit on her throat caused from this shot, they thought it was a sinus problem. They did not know why she had double vision. They did not know why she was turning red and running fever. They did not know why she was choking on food and basically, they ran a test where they take wires and stick it in the nerves, and it came back that she has this disease. So, they have been treating her for, like that she has just a sinus infection and it was not that. It's signs of a disease and you have to get a rare doctor, that's a neurologist, finally diagnosed her with this after a test in a (Name withheld). Her regular doctor, none of these people knew what was happening to her. They did not know why. They just did not know it was a side effect of covid shot or if it was sinuses, if it was the flu and then now, they said that she has got a disease, and she started having these problems two to three months after the covid shot and it keeps getting worse and worse.

Medical history

Medical History/Concurrent Conditions: Asthma

Lab data

Test Name: she has had blood work; Result Unstructured Data: Test Result:Unknown results