Published: 17 October 2021
Author(s): Angelos Kyriacou, Stamatina Ioakim, Akheel A. Syed
Issue: January 2022
Section: Internal Medicine Flashcard

A 40-year-old woman developed malaise and severe anterior neck pain 12 hours after the second dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (Pfizer/BioNTech). The pain peaked and plateaued at the fourth post-vaccination day. Her GP prescribed ibuprofen and azithromycin for presumed bacterial pharyngitis, with no avail. She visited our endocrine clinic 26 days post-vaccination with ongoing symptoms including bony aches, exhaustion, emotional lability, palpitations and hyperhidrosis. Upon general examination she was haemodynamically stable but with significant neck tenderness (visual acuity score = 8/10).

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