No period since covid vaccine

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I had my first covid vaccine in August and haven't had a period since. I'm going to book a drs appointment when they reopen but I'm so worried. I know lots of women have had issues with their period but has anyone else missed so many?

Wow , this is quite worrying. Anyone that thinks this is a normal side effect needs to stop and really think about this.

The first actual proper scientific studies on this issue are now in, and they are very reassuring about any impact of covid vaccination on menstrual cycles. Very minor delay following Vax is possible, like many other Vax schedules. Otherwise no effects at a population level.

My amenorrhea turned out to have two causes: Perimenopause and a hormone-excreting UIS. The two together had reached peak ovulation failure at the point I was vaxxed.

Tell you what, I'm very grateful for the vaccines having just has covid for the first time ever. I have no way of knowing whether I'd have been one of the unlucky ones when it came to unvaccinated exposure but for little old vaccinated me it was a non event. Hurray.

^^ This

The impact of coronavirus infection, vaccination & lockdown on the menstrual cycle continues to be assessed, and I find it reassuring how seriously this was taken by researchers when often women's health is not prioritised.

@Nerdygirl it seems you are generally very suspicious regarding coronavirus & vaccination in general.

42% of women had changes to their menstrual cycle after a covid vaccine according to a recent study. But yeah, nothing to see here. Just women getting hysterical again 🙄

Have you actually read the study (and others) and the conclusions drawn by the researchers?

In none are any saying women are being hysterical.

As I said, the impact of coronavirus infection, vaccination & lockdown on the menstrual cycle continues to be assessed, and I find it reassuring how seriously this was taken by researchers when often women's health is not prioritised.

My period stopped for 4 months after my booster...!

Posted back in January, had first vaccine April 2021 booster in July. Periods stopped from April until September. Came back heavy and painful, then last period was in December which lasted 12 days. Nothing since. I declined my Booster.

Had to go for blood tests in March and mentioned to doctor about lack of periods and symptoms of peri, so He also requested fsh tests. Came back that I’m ‘Post’ menopausal really wasn’t expecting that!

I do personally believe vaccines cannonballed me through the menopause earlier than the natural path my body was taking.

• Sorry meant to say second vaccine in July, haven’t had a booster!

Have you had your FSH levels checked since March?

Im 36 and after my first vaccine (was 35 at the time of it) I started experiencing hot flashes and didn’t have a period for 3 months. I had tests done and came back that my FSH was 29. They brought me back a few weeks later and my FSH levels were back down to normal for my age and I went on to have regular cycles again. I had the second jab this June 2022 and unfortunately I’ve had 2 odd periods since and now I’ve completely missed one and am having hot flashes again. Had my FSH levels checked again and they’re 56!! I’m really worried. Just hoping and you praying they go back down again like last time.

A new study - the article is from the Washington Post:

”Researchers don't know exactly why the vaccines seem to affecting menstrual cycles, but Edelman said that the immune and reproductive systems are linked and that inflammation or a strong immune response could trigger menstrual fluctuation.
Any change in getting your period can be stressful, triggering worries about an unplanned pregnancy or an illness, and people have expressed frustration that public health officials didn't warn them about the possible side effect or do more research before rolling out the vaccines.”

news.yahoo.com/women-said-covid-shots-affect-161225523.html

The data showed that vaccinated people got their periods 0.71 days late, on average, after the first dose of vaccine. However, people who received two vaccinations within one menstrual cycle experienced greater disruptions. In this group, the average increase in cycle length was four days, and 13 percent experienced a delay of eight days or more, compared with 5 percent in the control group.

Alison Edelman, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University, who led the study, said that for most people the effects were temporary, lasting for one cycle before returning to normal. She said there were no indications that the period side effects had any impact on fertility.
"Now we can give people information about possibly what to expect with menstrual cycles," Edelman said. "So I hope that's overall really reassuring to individuals."

Sorry only just seen your message.

No I haven’t had my levels checked since, the doctor basically told me That my result were in line with being ‘post’ menopausal when I thought I was still in peri. I can’t remember what my results were exactly but somewhere around the 90+ mark I was offered HRT if I wanted it and that was it.
I did have to have a retest on some other blood tests but Dr didn’t mention that I would need to have another fsh test, am assuming because my levels were so high.

When I had my last period my hot flushes came thick and fast. Anything up to 20 day & night for 5 months solid. I’d had hot flushes here and there before that but this was off the scale. Then after the 5 months they stopped. I have only had a couple since.

I do think personally that this is it for me, but I am older than you (47) and do believe I was in peri for at least 3 years before my vaccine but I’d only missed a couple of periods here and there in that time. So nothing significant.

it’s just weird that I was plodding my way through peri but as soon as I had those vaccines that was it.
But obviously I have no way of knowing for sure.

Any updates on this thread?

Have the ladies cycles gone back to normal yet?

So glad I didn't get the jabbaroo after all these stories. Friend's daughter who is 15 hasn't had a period in eight months.

Had Covid in June and only had a mild headache for a few days. All good.

Hi Everyone.

Has anyone got any updates? I’m still TTC after my miscarriage back in Feb 2021. Had brown spotting for a full week before my period since July 2021 when I had my first vaccine 😞

Lots of my friends have had the spotting since the jab. I have menopause symptoms since mine. Hoping they're not permanent.

@MixedUpChameleon thanks so much for the reply. Do you know if it’s random spotting or leading up to period. Mines now been controlled by progesterone suppositories but no sign of a pregnancy still and they tend to work for people quite quickly.

I hope yours sort out: my friend is only 30 and she’s not had a period since hers so for around 18 months. I’m sure she has an appointment this week at the womens hospital.

Mine started as soon as I turned 35 and I didn’t think it’s menopause already.

I think they have their period and then a week after it's finished they start spotting stringy clots and things. It's odd isn't it. Not sure what the jabs do to us down there. That's not good that your friend hasn't had a period. Does she have any menopause symptoms with it?

I had my first jab May 2021 and didn't have a period for 3 months. I had my FSH levels checked during that time and they were very high 27,5. Then the symptoms (hot flushes) just suddenly stopped one day and a few weeks later my period came. Went back to my usual cycles until my next jab in June 2022 (to go on holiday) and then since then I have had 2 very strange periods and now they've completely stopped and my FSH levels are high again. Hoping that the symptoms disappear and my FSH levels go back down again like they did the first time. They went down to 9.3 which is normal for my age I think.

Are the progesterone tablets helping to stop the spotting?

@MixedUpChameleon It’s just crazy isn’t it. I know she was 29 at the times and no other symptoms but she said the GP tested her hormones and one was really high. I’m assuming the FSH. That’s just crazy how it made yours sky rocket then come back down.

im 36 and mine was like 5.3 last august and then in Feb of this year it was 11! Which is too high for my age. I’m really down since loosing our baby and not being able to conceive again and all this just adds to for worry and the stress.

Yeah the progesterone stops the spotting so it somehow seems like it’s caused me to have low progesterone? I just don’t know. Blood tests have always read okay and I BBT chart and the temps stay high during the spotting so I don’t understand but if the progesterone is stopping it then it must be hormonal.

My cycles were always very regular before getting pfizer...on avg 35 days. I had my 3rd vaccine (1st time getting pfizer) on jan 27th, 2022 and haven't had my period since then. It has already been 7+ months. Blood tests in May and August both show that my fsh level is above 28. Gyno says it means I'm POST menopausal! I did not have any menopausal symptoms at all, no hot flashes, nothing. Cycles were super regular prior to the vaccine. The women in my family all had their menopause in their late 50s. I'm only 39 right now. I can't accept that I'm suddenly and abruptly post menopausal already!? This is confusing, concerning, and crazy.

Same here ….no periods at all directly after the booster jab … it’s now been 12 months. But, I got covid last week, and a period with it. Won’t know if it’s a one off or if the periods are back until next month. Seems this may be more common in women of menopausal age …maybe brings it on early ?

Mine never came back. Almost a year later.

So they can’t explain how this is happening, no idea what the vaccine triggers, who is at risk, for how long and what long term effects are there, but the vaccine is “safe and effective” and there are “no fertility issues “ 🤡 I’d say it’s hard to be fertile without any period but maybe it’s just me, and impossible to say no impact on fertility when you can’t explain what disrupts a fertility process like a period

same to how they can’t explain how myocarditis is triggered, who is at risk etc

the fact that they can’t explain it, plus not even looking into it (myocarditis ) has rang big alarm bells for me

they told pregnant women it was safe to take immediately after the emergency approval, before they did any tests or were able to see pregnancy outcomes. (Which they were able to analyse bc W believed what they were told, and then to this day they have only looked at pregnancy outcomes, how many live births, still births , miscarriages and said is roughly the same as for the unvaccinated, but they haven’t done any blood tests etc to see if any health marker for mothers or babies is off)

so many red flags 🚩 but pregnant women are still taking it, people are taking their children to take it, etc 🐑?

plus not even looking into it (myocarditis ) has rang big alarm bells for me

This is such nonsense @CristinaNov182

Huge amounts of funding have been invested into understanding who is at increased risk of side effects & understanding pathomechanisms etc.

@hangryyhippo has it? Haven’t seen anything official but would love to.

and? What’s the result? For a company that is so confident their product is so safe?

they can’t explain how these weirdly different serious side effects happen and who is at risk - myocarditis, blood clots, period loss - is there any other product with such randomly (in my humble opinion, but probably related somehow) serious issues affecting different body parts/systems?

I’ve heard some attempts at explanations on blood clots (and now periods), but don’t think they were directly from the companies themselves, no exact mechanism described, no who is at risk explained either

some of these issues are very rare but periods is not so much so

its quite common in science for this to happen, you understand the mechanism you’re testing for, you can test for the desired result, you get it = promising drug or treatment

but you test and test, especially with new drugs, bc you don’t know what you don’t know

so far historically, pharma has chosen to take the time rather than the lawsuits, but without any liability now there is no risk for them

so far historically also, for ex, it has been ethical to allow limited release for “promising” cancer drugs, but not yet fully tested, only on terminal cancer patients. And many have been very successful at their target but killed the patients in another way (too toxic, heart attacks, etc) and they were never released

cancer is very serious but people with stages lower than terminal had always been put through decades tested treatments and not the latest “miracle drugs”

imho this should have been released to people at risk only, as by the time we got the vaccine we knew the risk by different age groups & health status and many groups have extremely small chances of death

another unethical thing that happened was to tell pregnant women that it was safe, before they had any data on it. To their record, Pfizer & etc never said on their website that they tested on pregnant women, they had the disclaimer there. The tests that were eventually done were “live”, and so far only looked at pregnancy outcomes, rate of miscarriage, live births, still births and they said that was compatible with unvaccinated population, and again this is very promising, but should continue with blood/toxicology tests for the women and their babies, and so far I haven’t seen anything on that either.

i welcome being “debunked”, would love to see any other tests done (direct sources please) or any official explanations with biological mechanism involved and who’s at risk (once you can understand the mechanism you can say or design a test to tell - like an allergy test or whatever)

I’ve asked for these studies before, but people who so far have been very sure on how safe and tested these things are, go quiet, or send me to some newspaper who refers a test that if you go to its source you find what I’ve said (pregnancy outcomes tested only etc), but ironically people continue to do as before. To each their own.