When that did little to alleviate her symptoms, doctors prescribed an oral steroid which caused symptoms to improve 60 per cent, but treatment stopped because it was causing the woman abdominal pain.ĭoctors finally settled on a lower dose topical iteration of the steroids dissolved in water and taken consistently for about six weeks until symptoms abated. She was referred to an outpatient rheumatology clinic with suspected Sjogren syndrome, an autoimmune disease which causes the immune system to attack glands that produce moisture in the eyes, mouth, and other parts of the body.ĭoctors first prescribed a topical version of clonazepam, a benzodiazepine that when ingested orally, can treat burning mouth syndrome. She underwent a cadre of blood tests to rule out other diagnoses such as HPV and other infections.
Her symptoms had partially abated before she received the second dose, after which the symptoms returned still more severely. The unnamed patient developed sores in her mouth about three days after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Similar symptoms were also documented in patients infected with coronavirus, which led to the condition being dubbed 'Covid tongue'. The unidentified patient, from Australia, received three vaccine doses in total – two of which formed the initial course, as well as a single booster. Her symptoms were finally cured with a six-week course of topical steroids.ĭoctors chronicled the rare side effect in a report published last month in the American Journal of Case Reports.
She was diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome, a condition that sees the immune system go haywire and damage healthy parts of the body. Her side effects, which also included a dry mouth and inflammation, were so painful she was left unable to eat.ĭoctors struggled to find the culprit for nine months, during which she lost 17 pounds (8kg).īy the time she was finally diagnosed, her swollen tongue had began to split open leaving deep, agonizing sores. A 60-year-old woman suffered 'debilitating' lesions on her tongue after receiving Pfizer's Covid vaccine – with each shot making her symptoms worse.
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