Another period after vaccine one!

[squiddylama]

Had my first dose Pfizer in feb and came on 2 weeks late.
Had my second dose in mid may and came on 2 weeks early (lasted for normal amount of time etc)

Now on cycle day 45 and officially a week late, I'm not pregnant and there seems to be no reason that I wouldn't have come on! Question is has anyone had the same irregularities going forward. I'm panicking about it now!!!

Hopeful bump

@squiddylama from everything I’ve read, the

Sorry!!
From everything I’ve read - any vaccine or infection can lead to a change in periods as an immune response.

It should settle down after a month or so.

There are false rumours spreading in the internet that the vaccine can effect fertility. There is no evidence for this.

There are - however - studies that show evidence that Covid 19 itself may effect fertility.

I think it's just the fact I only thought it would affect the first period after I had it done not the moths after as well

I had my first on 6th March. Before then my cycle was anything between 30 to 45 days.

Since then it’s been every 28 days exactly. So actually regular but highly irregular for me and yes ongoing. Think I’ve done well out of it to be honest!

I’m like SomebodysMum in that I had long (very irregular, like every 3-4 months) cycles before (I am 46) and the last four cycles have been 28-31 days

@MoreGravy I just don’t know why you feel the need to share that when you know it is pseudoscience, biased and the ‘scientists’ there have dubious backgrounds. It just stokes fear.

I'm 4 months on from my vaccine and my period is still all over the place

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-more-than-13-000-women-report-changes-to-periods-after-having-vaccine-but-experts-say-fertility-not-affected-12350899

This article is far better and based on fact.

Across the four vaccines that were approved in the UK, 65 people became pregnant by accident and they became pregnant equally in the vaccinated and the unvaccinated group, which tells us that the vaccine isn't reducing people's chances of getting pregnant.

"Now that the vaccines have been more widely rolled out, we also have studies in IVF clinics where they keep a track of how likely you are to become pregnant if you're vaccinated, compared to if you're not vaccinated.

"Now that the vaccines have been more widely rolled out, we also have studies in IVF clinics where they keep a track of how likely you are to become pregnant if you're vaccinated, compared to if you're not vaccinated.

"Again, being vaccinated does not reduce your chances of getting pregnant in an IVF setting."

@UndercoverToad can you link to an article or study to back up your claim that having Covid 19 is more dangerous to fertility that having the vaccine please?

If the vaccine is a bit of the virus, please explain the mechanism that makes it not affect fertility, isn’t it essentially the same as the virus? So either they both don’t affect fertility or they both do, please could you elaborate- thanks

If you catch COVID in late pregnancy it is associated with an increased risk of pre-term birth, stillbirth, needing intensive care and your baby needing intensive care.

"So people who are really actively thinking about getting pregnant in the near future might actually even be keener to get the vaccine than they would be otherwise."

There are also reliable, peer researched articles that are investigating a link between Covid and fertility.

So I’d say the risk of Covid on fertility is far, far greater than the risk of the vaccine itself (for which there is no evidence).

But people doing IVF already have fertility issues, it’s hardly an unbiased reference group.

Now that people in the fertile age groups are getting vaccinated we’re hearing more and more about affects on periods etc. This is worrying.

@littlejalapeno

This is from bmj - so a reliable source.

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/2/e045524

@UndercoverToad

If you catch COVID in late pregnancy it is associated with an increased risk of pre-term birth, stillbirth, needing intensive care and your baby needing intensive care.

"So people who are really actively thinking about getting pregnant in the near future might actually even be keener to get the vaccine than they would be otherwise."

There are also reliable, peer researched articles that are investigating a link between Covid and fertility.

So I’d say the risk of Covid on fertility is far, far greater than the risk of the vaccine itself (for which there is no evidence).

Please do share links I would be interested to read them

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7267130/

@littlejalapeno

And the risk to late pregnancy from Covid was from here:

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-more-than-13-000-women-report-changes-to-periods-after-having-vaccine-but-experts-say-fertility-not-affected-12350899

[quote UndercoverToad]@littlejalapeno

This is from bmj - so a reliable source.

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/2/e045524[/quote]
But that is a proposal for a study, not a study itself.

Please can I just say I don't believe that I'm infertile because of the vaccine. I'm grateful to have the vaccine I just wondered if this had been the case for others like me or whether I should make a doctors appointment (for clarity I'm mid 20's)

@Tittyfilarious81

I'm 4 months on from my vaccine and my period is still all over the place

That's reassuring (for me!) that I'm not the only one!

Same sort of experience here..period all messed up since first dose in may..plus I haven't ovulated these two cycles since jab..I do track my ovulation as we are ttc..both cycles there was not a positive ovulation test...I have never had a problem with ovulation prior to this vaccine..I have reported this..
I am to go for my second jab this weekend and I would seriously consider not to..but I also want to see my parents who live abroad and I haven't seen them for over 2 years..

[quote UndercoverToad]www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7267130/[/quote]
Thank you for linking these, much appreciated.

I’ve read this one already- I believe it’s not considered statistically relevant to extrapolate from because of the small sample size of participants.

The problem is we are starting to get reports that Covid 19 affects fertility, but this is only starting to be explored, so we really don’t know anything yet.

Getting Covid is very dangerous, even more so in pregnancy, but there is an emphasis achieving herd immunity not worrying about individual fertility, so I’m sure you understand why there is concern, and these links are only confirming that concern to me. It seems that women who are pregnant might benefit from having the vaccine towards the end of their pregnancy, but for women who want to get pregnant there is concern about how Covid affects their cycles, which might make conceiving harder. Obviously we are between a rock and a hard place.

@UndercoverToad I'm not sure how you can call the discussion in the video pseudoscience, nor how Bret Weinstein has a dubious background (I'm less familiar with the backgrounds of the others). It's three people having a discussion about the fact that we don't know the long term effects of the covid vaccines. Which we don't... because we don't have long term data. They literally say that they don't know what the effects might be, so hardly 'stoking fear' or pushing an agenda!