No period after Astrazeneca vaccine.

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I had my vaccine two weeks ago...no period and its been two weeks!Anyone else had a delayed period?

The AZ vaccine is a viral vector vaccine unlike Pfizer which is mRNA. With any new medicines/vaccines scientists don’t have all the answers right away. This is why everyone needs to report side effects to yellow card and then over time as it’s analysed conclusions can be made

I posted about my own experience with side effects yesterday and mentioned that I’d reported them via the yellow card scheme.

Just to clarify, I wasn’t intended to scare anyone or to suggest people should take the vaccine. I strongly feel that the balance of risks means that as many people as possible should be vaccinated. But I do feel these things need to be noted, especially where it potentially impacts on women’s health, which too often is dismissed and under researched.

There’s still a lot of nonsense out there, even among medical professionals, about ‘the mysteries’ of women’s bodies, and how we’re oh so complicated and baffling to medicine. Frequently there is a lack of research in issues that involve solely women, like endometriosis. Dismissing people’s experiences because ‘many women have irregular periods’ unfortunately plays into that narrative.

Ideally the choice to have the vaccine should be a fully informed one, but it can’t be if we don’t flag these things up. All we can report so those with the expertise can sift through the data and come to a firm conclusion.

@Champersandchips

I’m due to have my vaccine this week (and will have it) but can’t help worry about what on earth we may find this has done to us in the future.

It's between the devil and the dark blue sea at this stage Champers. You have to make an informed choice based on the available information and what sits right with you. If that's the vaccine - go for it and I hope that you're fully protected after it and thank you for helping everyone else out by getting it. I'm totally pro the vaccine and would have had it myself by now except that I was too unwell to go and get it.

Grrr typo: ‘didn’t meant to suggest people shouldn’t take the vaccine’

[quote diddlediddle]**@Therewereroses* strange and unkind response to @FlyingFlamingo* who helpfully and straightforwardly provided a link to information that you said you didn't have.

Clear now that your original statement was sarcastic. Genuinely I wonder how people like you with this kind of communication style get along in real life... you must find yourself in difficulties a lot of the time and you must have very little respect for others. There really is no need for it. One can disagree with someone without being sarcastic or rude.

I agree that there's a possibility of unknown side effects from the vaccine. I just tend to go with Occam's razor in the first instance - the most simple explanation is the most likely.[/quote]
My sarcastic response was in response to this condescending piece of tripe from you.

Genuinely blows my mind how few people understand 1. How the vaccine works and 2. How the body works, even in a basic way.

I think some of you take us all for idiots because we express distrust 'in the science'. Some of us have actually studied science lol. We may have BScs. We might be medically trained. We are also experts on our own bodies believe it or not. If I say that I have had regular periods for 10 years and they suddenly stopped between July and November, do you think I'm making that up? Do you think that I'm imagining it? Do you think that it might be my stressed out little brain causing the sudden changes? Perhaps it was the stress of trying to comprehend what a virus was that messed with my cycle?

Infantalising, dismissing and condescending to women drives me fucking bonkers. note to self - expect no period for the next month while I calm down from my hysterical sarcarstic response

Btw I have NOT had the vaccine, nor indeed have I ever tested positive for COVID so any changes to my cycle can not be attributed to that! Just in case not everyone has read all of my previous posts.

Some of us may also have studied statistics.

@Therewereroses yes I completely believe you that your cycle stopped - I've never said I didn't? I believe everyone's account. I merely said that the underlying reason for it (post virus or post vaccine) is most likely to be relatively benign. And that when people are quick to jump to more complicated and malign reasons it suggests that they haven't fully understood the basics.

And I think it's the jumping to conclusions about the long term effects etc - not the reporting of symptoms - that drives others' health anxiety, vaccine skepticism. I just don't think it's very helpful.

Fascinating to see the tide turning on these types of threads.
Far less scoffers than there were, even from 3 months ago.

Just for the record and because this thread got me thinking...

My cycle was early but now lasted for 11 days. Normally it is up to 6 days. I passed clots and in the last 5 extra days no bleeding but still clots /pieces.

I did not think of link to the vaccine as I had it 2 weeks before my period started but perhaps there is a link.

Astra Zeneca.

I have now reported this via the link.

Unless millions of women report no changes or changes then no link will be made. I’m pro jab (obviously as I had it). I’m fully prepared to be told there is no link or at certain points in your cycle it may make your period quicker or late. But unless we record we have no idea.

Bet your bottom dollar if a hundred men reported lack of erection a week after the jab the medical profession be falling over themselves looking into why. When it’s women’s complex hormones then it’s just one of those things.

It needs to be talked about . What if there is a link and for some fertility is impacted by the vaccine ? Surely that needs investigating.

The truth is nobody knows the effects on fertility. Vaccines during the experimental phase are usually done on animals (not that I’m for animal testing) but this time we are the lab rats. And people and jumping the line to sign up. It’s crazy. Risk vs benefit is what we are told to try and push the vaccine yet for most people COVID is a mild illness with no long term health effects. I don’t see the risk / benefits swaying in the direction of an experimental vaccine that could risk fertility or even worse. Vaccines do not and will not give you health. Without trying to sound like a conspiracy theorist the government / pharmaceutical companies do not care about your health or fertility the pharmaceutical companies make even more from you being sick / infertile so I would rather trust myself to look after my own body and health than something with unknown risks. Those who are immune compromised I can understand but if your immune system is working it will do it’s job.

I've come back to this thread as I'm now late for the second month. I didn't have a period at all last month.
I'm only 41 and my cycle was regular before I had the vaccine.

The truth is nobody knows the effects on fertility

I found it very weird that so many people thought they did. And even more so, that they were telling others that everything was going to be A ok for sure.

Well I’m 48, my reproductive days are over but it still makes you wonder....

I’ve seen bizarre theories to covid, along the lines of it being the ‘great reset’ and it being used to reduce and control the population. I don’t believe any of this nonsense but if women are now reporting menstrual irregularities it’s only a short hop to assuming fertility problems and there you have it, ‘proof’ that the tin foil hat brigade were right all along.

The thing is, the ‘basis’ of the vaccine doesn’t sound all that different to the basic compounds of other vaccines, such as flu etc.

A link to fertility issues seems a bit dramatic, so I never really considered it at all. HOWEVER, I am now suspicious as when I got my vaccine, they didn’t just ask if I was pregnant etc. They asked if I planned to be in the next 3 MONTHS? Why is 3 months so specific?

When I got coronavirus it stopped my period too! I thought I had gone through menopause. It did come back though...

@PlanxyDavis because if you got pregnant you wouldn’t be able to have the second jab.....🙄

@PlanxyDavis
thing is, the ‘basis’ of the vaccine doesn’t sound all that different to the basic compounds of other vaccines, such as flu etc.

The covid vaccines are different from vaccines like flu, polio, HPV etc

AstraZeneca - viral vector vaccine using a chimpanzee virus
Johnson and Johnson - viral vector vaccine using a human virus
Pfizer - mRNA vaccine
Moderna - mRNA vaccine

All of these are new vaccine technologies which have never been rolled out among large populations before. We lack long term safety data about any of them, and the trials are ongoing.

It seems many people are unaware of this. I really wonder if it’s truly informed consent if so many people don’t realise they are taking a product which is still experimental.

Runaway Gosh, I feel a bit silly now not sure why I didn’t make the connection!

Yep, mine was about a week late.

@planxydavis Ha ha! I didn’t even get asked if I planned to get pregnant, I must look past it

@Terracotta9 this simply isn’t true. From the CDC

Scientists began creating viral vectors in the 1970s. Besides being used in vaccines, viral vectors have also been studied for gene therapy, to treat cancer, and for molecular biology research. For decades, hundreds of scientific studies of viral vector vaccines have been done and published around the world. Some vaccines recently used for Ebola outbreaks have used viral vector technology, and a number of studies have focused on viral vector vaccines against other infectious diseases such as Zika, flu, and HIV

It is possible that the side effects are similar to what you'd get when you get covid because the way the vaccine works is to make your body make proteins from the covid-19 virus.

Personally I'd rather have the vaccine than covid-19 because everything I've read suggests that the side effects of covid-19 are likely to be much worse.