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Women are just imagining problem periods after the vaccine

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PenelopeP1tstop · 02/07/2021 16:54

It's a blog post by a doctor on the Zoe COVID study. She's basically saying that all women who've experienced changes and issues are imagining it. Or rather, it's real but it's not down to the vaccine

What do you think on reading it? I KNOW the vaccine delayed my period and then, when it came, it was really heavy. I know this wasn't down to a painkiller I may have taken or a spot of stress I had Hmm

https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-vaccines-menstruation?mccid=0bcd25dee2&mcceid=b394a53244#part2

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SissySpacekAteMyHamster · 02/07/2021 16:55

I had a late period after the first vaccine, I didn't even link the two things until many others mentioned it. I even did a pregnancy test! I was over 2 weeks late.

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PenelopeP1tstop · 02/07/2021 16:55

Actually my title is a bit click bait-y. Apologies

But the article is absolutely playing down concerns

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LaurieFairyCake · 02/07/2021 16:57

It's so weird though as when you look at the ingredients you wouldn't expect any to cause a problem with anything to do with menstruation Confused

QuentinBunbury · 02/07/2021 16:58

I just read that! Infuriating - I had 3 bleeds in 5 weeks after my first vaccine and I'm regular normally
I really hate how women are dismissed like this

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PenelopeP1tstop · 02/07/2021 16:58

@LaurieFairyCake I know. It's the strangest thing ever and I have no explanation. I wasn't looking for a problem with my period and was most surprised when it just didn't come and when it did, it was I like anything I'd experienced in decades

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tigger1001 · 02/07/2021 16:59

Mine went a bit haywire after the vaccine. I had assumed it was because of my age, but speaking to several others who have all experienced issues and are varying ages I think we can't rule out vaccines causing it.

Dragonn · 02/07/2021 16:59

It's strange. And yet here I am with another early period.

TroubleInSnowland · 02/07/2021 17:01

Lots of people had problems after covid infection too so the 2 are probably related rather than it being only a problem with the vaccine.

Justforphoto · 02/07/2021 17:01

I hadn't had a period in over 2 years, assume due to my age and menopause until 3 weeks after the vaccine. could of course be a complete fluke but.....

QuentinBunbury · 02/07/2021 17:02

I read there are lots of ACE receptors on the cells in the ovaries, which is the way coronavirus gets into cells. The vaccine replicates the bit of Coronavirus that is used to enter cells so there was some speculation that it could be affecting the ovaries.

They can't explain why the vaccine might cause blood clots either but noones dismissing that

speckledostrichegg · 02/07/2021 17:03

@PenelopeP1tstop

It's a blog post by a doctor on the Zoe COVID study. She's basically saying that all women who've experienced changes and issues are imagining it. Or rather, it's real but it's not down to the vaccine

What do you think on reading it? I KNOW the vaccine delayed my period and then, when it came, it was really heavy. I know this wasn't down to a painkiller I may have taken or a spot of stress I had Hmm

[[https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-vaccines-menstruation?mc]]cid=0bcd25dee2&mcceid=b394a53244#part2

goady title OP!

She categorically says the symptoms are real but may not caused by the vaccine itself

When she talks about stress it isn't just "oh she got a bit upset and now her period is late, women eh", it's the physiological stress of having an immune response (be it to a vaccine or a natural infection)

ShowerOfShite · 02/07/2021 17:04

I had been period free for 4.5 years. Three weeks after my first Astra-Zeneca dose I had a horrendous bleed, so heavy. Another a month later.

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PenelopeP1tstop · 02/07/2021 17:05

@speckledostrichegg the article reads in such a downplaying way to me. It may read differently to you.

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gamerchick · 02/07/2021 17:07

Course they are. It's wimmins issues and nobody cares about that and it must all be in our heads.

I had early periods after both vaccines, then came on again 11 days early that I'm on day 11 of. Never ever known the like since I first started having them.

Hoping it settles since the GP is like fort knox and I'll probably get fobbed off anyway.

Midnightballerina · 02/07/2021 17:08

This is happening to me, but I'm not sure if it's my age or the vaccine. I had my 2nd shot not long ago. Since my 1st I have bled every 2wks for a couple of days. Woke up again this morning with a surprise!
I'm to old for more kids so I'm not worried from a fertility point but I'm definitely outta whack. I didn't really connect the 2 until now.

gamerchick · 02/07/2021 17:08

Well my Fitbit tracker doesn't know what the hell to do with it anyway. Never seen fertile time merged with period before. It's just give up Grin

Roonerspismed · 02/07/2021 17:08

It just means people trust the official line less.

cirrusminor · 02/07/2021 17:10

Just read this article - glad to see it pop up on here! Half the questions weren't even answered properly (did we need an explanation of how the menstrual cycle works??) and the other half were just dismissed entirely. No real discussion of the article headline, pretty much accusing women of lying/making things up throughout.

Pinuporc · 02/07/2021 17:10

I have a really annoyingly short cycle and heavy periods. The first one after my first vaccine was over 2 weeks late and was horrendous. I had a flooding incident on a scale I wasnt prepared for, at work. Blush
Now I'm still late for my next period by over a week. (I had my 2nd jab today so no idea if that will delay it further)

IndigoC · 02/07/2021 17:12

I just had a 17 day (heavy) cycle after my vaccine, my shortest ever. Prior to that I’d been 26 days for years.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 02/07/2021 17:13

I haven't bled for a year and spotted on both the days I was vaccinated. That's quite a coincidence.

ChateauMargaux · 02/07/2021 17:15

I was talking to a woman last week who went to a fertility doctor before Christmas to see whether she was still fertile, all OK.. her periods stopped after the COVID vaccination and her doctor can now not see any evidence of fertility and she appears to have gone into rapid and complete menopause. Rather than querying the vaccine, he is querying the earlier test results.

OnTheBenchOfDoom · 02/07/2021 17:15

I have endometriosis so I am very aware of my periods, I do not take OTC painkillers because they don't touch it and I am not on the pill. My period came 1 day after my second vaccine and the pain was horrendous. I usually feel like I am in labour anyway but this was something else. It floored me, I was in pain for days whereas usually I can stop using the TENs machine and massage gun after 24 -36 hours.

I have done pain management therapy so a bit like hypno-birthing I have learned to accept and deal with the pain. I am dreading my next period in case I have to endure another one like it.

I understand the article is saying maybe it is other things but it does feel a bit dismissive. I agree with gamer it is seen as wimmins issues.

MrsBobBlackadder · 02/07/2021 17:16

I'd had a mirena coil for eight months with only spotting - no problems at all. Three weeks after my vaccination, an extremely heavy period and the coil falls out 😩 apparently it's unrelated though 🤨

Eloisedublin123 · 02/07/2021 17:18

Yep mine went haywire