Menopause / or Did your periods change after Covid vaccine?

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I'm 51 and last had a period more than 2 years ago. After my Covid vaccine in Feb, my periods 'started again'.

It looks like there are quite a few post-menopausal women who have had the same, and some non-menopausal women who've had their menstrual cycles go awry.

www.redonline.co.uk/health-self/self/a36457082/post-menopausal-women-bleeding-covid-vaccine/

If this applies to you, please do contact your GP for advise and/or to register your experience.

It's not necessarily a problem, but women do
Often accept situations that could do with being explored in more detail, so please do make your experience count if you can.

I had the heaviest period I have had in about 10 years after my vaxx 😬

I've reported via the yellow card scheme

I don’t get painful pre period boobs, but oh my word!!! They are so tender, have to be careful moving in case my arm brushes them.
This is my second period I think after second jab. First time in years I was late after first one and they have been all over since.

Mine are still up the wall 4 months later

Mine are always 28 days, after the 2nd jab I was two weeks late. This last period has lasted 2 weeks. On the plus side its not as heavy as normal . I'm 48 so its difficult to know if this is the beginning of the end and I'm peri or the vax.

@Rabbitheadlights

I've reported via the yellow card scheme

What's the yellow card scheme, @Rabbitheadlights ?

Yes the jab made my period 6 days late and I'm regular like clockwork normally. I reported it.

It's a scheme for reporting side effects of medications in general but at the moment particularly covid jabs to the MHRA

yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/

I've gone from clockwork 26 day cycle 4 day periods to 1 week early, 5 days late, 10 days late and each time have lasted minimum of 10 days.

Yes, I hadn't had a period for 6 months and then, all of a sudden about a week or two after having the vaccine, got a really heavy period and had another one a month later. So pissed off about it. I was hoping I was done with them in my late 40's.

My periods are always heavy, but I had pain with them after the vaccine like I haven't had in years. I'm 46.

Mine have stopped since I got vaxed. After 2 years of period hell I'm so happy I could cry.

[quote Rabbitheadlights]It's a scheme for reporting side effects of medications in general but at the moment particularly covid jabs to the MHRA

yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/[/quote]

That's really helpful, @Rabbitheadlights - I hadn't heard about that.

I will complete ASAP and share, thank you.

coronavirus-yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/about-you?reportId=1a46168d-b292-476e-861d-32d4d273c728

My periods have been incredibly heavy my whole life and last a good week to ten days usually. Since my 2nd Pfizer my period is heavy for one day and lasts a total of 3. This sounds like an improvement but it really worried me? Such a dramatic change. I reported it via the yellow card scheme.

Glad to help

My last two periods have lasted over two weeks each and were extremely heavy
I was actually abit concerned about how much blood I was loosing at one point..
and I am used to very heavy periods ..

I haven't had the vaccine though??
What's going on .... ahhh

Hard to know for me- in peri and everything is all over the shop.

What annoys me about this is yet again how it's being reported etc.

There was an article on BBC a few weeks ago essentially quite patronising saying there's no evidence for this, women are paying attention and thinking there's something when there isn't. Don't worry.

Then recently. Oh there may be something in it but nothing to worry about.

I'm not a scaremonger type but I just think. Why are we not taken seriously? They don't actually know but still we are told yeah it's nothing.

I've had 2 jabs now it's not about that it's about the way women's reproductive stuff is just treated this way.

How old are you oohh? Could it be peri?

I’ve read literally thousands of accounts of this happening, including women in their 70s having bleeds, so you’re definitely not alone. Lots of unvaccinated women are also experiencing this just by being around people who are already vaccinated.

OP, have you spoken to your GP? It's not immediately clear if you have or not but any bleeding in a postmenopausal woman should be urgently referred to the hospital under the two-week wait process as, while the cause may well turn out to be something simple, it can be a sign of cancer and needs to be investigated.

Lots of unvaccinated women are also experiencing this just by being around people who are already vaccinated.

I think you're misunderstanding how both periods and vaccines work.

I'm 37 so not likely to be peri, GP confirmed that irregular menses is an expected side effect to lots of vaccinations, apparently.

Daily Mail sad-face: "I caught menstruation from vaccinated friend".