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Report #2860551

Received Sep 22, 2025

HospitalizedER / ED visitOffice visit
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Overview

Sex
Female
Age
27 yrs
State
LA
Recovered
Recovered
Vaccinated
Sep 2, 2025
Onset
Sep 3, 2025
Days to onset
1
Hospital days
3

Vaccines (1)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
FLU3INFLUENZA (SEASONAL) (FLUCELVAX)SEQIRUS, INC.1407003IM / RA

Symptoms (14)

Bell's palsyCondition aggravatedDiplopiaDisorientationDizzinessFacial paralysisFallHypoaesthesiaImmunoglobulin therapyLaboratory testMigraineOphthalmoplegiaSeizureVertigo

Symptom narrative

Vaccine was received from Employee Health as annual flu vaccine for employees. Received vaccine at 1000 on 9/2/2025 and states was fine all day and most of the next day. On 9/3/2025 started feeling disoriented and dizzy but thought it was her seizure disorder causing her to have an episode. Later on, started having double vision. Called primary provider on 9/4/2025 and was prescribed meclizine for vertigo and after 2 days with no improvment took dramamine over the counter because that has helped her with dizziness in the past. Saturday 9/6/2025 she started having a migraine headache and then on 9/7/2025, fell when got home from work and then had a seizure. Went to Emergency Department because where her neurologis is located and was diagnosed with internuclear ophthalmoplegia of both eyes and was worked up for multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative disorders until told them that she had recently had a flu vaccine and then they started looking into Miller Fischer Variant of EBV. Was treated with IgG and steroids and all symptoms resovled and was discharged. On 9/14/2025 she started with left sided facial droopig and numbness so went back to the hospital and was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy and is being treated with Valtrex for that.

Current illness

none

Medical history

History of pseudoseizures, migraine headaches, and anxiety

Other medications

Topamax 100mg, prazosin 5mg, cymbalta 60mg, sumatriptan 50mg

Allergies

none

Lab data

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