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?

@Terzani

Did you even read the article you linked? A conclusion from the article:

"The findings from both these studies are reassuring: changes to the menstrual cycle do occur following vaccination, but they are small compared with natural variation and quickly reverse." (www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o142)

You disingenuously cherry-picked paragraphs from the article.

No I have read that statement many times and it doesn’t accord with the anecdotal stories you read about on here and more widely. Yes sometimes it is only a few months. My neighbour had flooding every two weeks for six months. She didn’t even tell the GP - e don’t really know though do we?

”do you think these products have been rushed”? I was asked by my friend when I quietly declined. No, I replied, but I like to wait before giving myself I don’t personally need; same with my children. Many didn’t have that luxury and has to take it to attend work or school. Or keep a job.

we need to know why these products do seem to travel around the body albeit in tiny amounts. We found that out from breast milk and they were seen in rat ovaries.

My DD had jab 1 but I am not doing jab 2. She's not started periods yet & I worry about effect when it effected me directly

Not had jab. So none of the side effects at all. Not had covid that I know about. Not worn mask. Not ever used hand gel! What happened to soap and water. Worked all through. Everyone I know that has and had covid has had jab.

Not worn mask. Not ever used hand gel! What happened to soap and water. Worked all through

Washing your hands with soap and water isn't really practical for every single setting someone would need to clean their hands?

If you're using it in the house then yes, ridiculous, hospitals/supermarkets/trains stations making it available makes sense.

Soap and water is more effective in sanitising (the physical movement of water running over your hands), but not always possible @Dijb

Well we now know it’s spread in the air so it was rather theatrical wasn’t it?

I do like a bit of sanitiser to help prevent other bugs but there wasn’t a need to sanitise kids hands after every lesson to help prevent covid.

humans have lived alongside bacteria for millennia. We are bacteria- billions inside us. I’m not entirely sure it’s a great idea to eradicate them everywhere

No-one knew that at the time @BeethovenNinth ?

I find these posts a little ridiculous - hand hygiene can help reduce spread of communicable diseases at very little cost, therefore it made sense to encourage this at a time when it was thought it may help suppress transmission.

humans have lived alongside bacteria for millennia. We are bacteria- billions inside us. I’m not entirely sure it’s a great idea to eradicate them everywhere

The fact that humans have a microbiome is a hardly a logical argument to not try and reduce transmission of infectious diseases like COVID. No one is suggesting we should be trying to eradicate all pathogens.

Seems like a load of COVID-minimising and spurious claims tbh.

I’m no covid denier. But when my child’s hand had open sores on them from the militant use of sanitiser at school - I realised common sense had disappeared. The infection risk from open sores on hands?

the diversity of the microbiome is key to immunity and overall health. I have no doubt this will be shown for covid too. It made little sense to damage the microbiome of young children in the face of a respiratory airborne virus.

I have no antibacterial products in my house at all. We use soap.

Clearly if you're reacting to hand sanitiser to the point it's causing "open sores", you need to stop using it and this becomes a situation where the harms outweigh any benefits.

I work in a lab & I have eczema - long before the pandemic I worked out an alternative protocol with occupational health on hand washing, because for me personally it was exacerbating it.

For the vast vast majority of people, their skin is fine with extra washing and sanitising.

the diversity of the microbiome is key to immunity and overall health. I have no doubt this will be shown for covid too. It made little sense to damage the microbiome of young children in the face of a respiratory airborne virus.

handwashing doesn't "damage the microbiome" - this isn't how immunity works.

Taking reasonable precautions to reduce the risk of certain infectious diseases is sensible, which is why we've done it for the past hundreds of years.

Did you even read what I posted in this thread?
I didn’t comment at all on the serioussness of these side effects. I only commented on patients being ignored and research being postponed. That’s why I linked both BMJ articles, because their author talks about this.
So it's you that disingenuously cherry-picked that paragraph from the article. No idea why.

@Terzani

I didn’t comment at all on the serioussness of these side effects. I only commented on patients being ignored and research being postponed. That’s why I linked both BMJ articles, because their author talks about this.So it's you that disingenuously cherry-picked that paragraph from the article. No idea why.

The sentence I posted from the article summed up the article itself: women should be reassured that Covid vaccination has no effect of menstruation and robust research has been carried out to that effect. To state otherwise is misrepresentation.

I think the main issue is that people reporting any side effects are being ignored and research that shows anything other than ‘safe and effective’ discredited.

Coming late to this discussion I am absolutely horrified how these side effects are being sidelined amongst other women. Anyone who even suspects that any side effects might be related must be mad going for further jabs. This is baby making stuff that’s being affected. There is now so much info regarding serious side effects out on the net for a jab against a virus that is very unlikely to do much long term damage to the majority of people. Look at the excess death numbers. They are higher now than during 20 and 21.

This is completely incorrect.

There is a link just above from the reproductive immunologist who herself conudcted research identifying menstrual side effects.

There is so much research going on investigating prevalence/mechanism/risk strata for side effects, people are actively encouraged to report to surveillance schemes etc.

Carditis, CVSTs, menstrual side effects are amongst those established now to be side effects, and have been added to the patient information leaflet.

To claim people are being ignored or discredited is complete nonsense.

i don’t know how to answer that without being very rude! I’m fighting for recognition of vax Injuries for family and friends and the gas lighting is unbelievable

How many friends and family are you talking about @Dijb ?

I read this on comment on another thread - but:

• the minority of Covid deniers and then those against restrictions, the vaccine resistant are ALSO now the group who distort or anecdotally claim vaccine injury

• the majority - have followed regulations, had the vaccine, have had reactions very much in line to what was predicted/expected and are fine

Surely that tells you all you need to know?

One family member out of 2 so 50%. Friends … well 2 Ironman athletes. A cyclist. A rower. Several swimmers. Several work colleagues. Go onto friends of friends and it’s countless

@Diannejb

well thank goodness that’s not the experience of the vast, vast majority of people and that your anecdotal evidence (and opinions which most consider to be those of a conspiracy theorist) is an extreme occurrence - if, indeed, verified at by a medical professional at all. I mean I could come on here and say that my hair turned grey due to the vaccine - whereas a doctor would give the most likely cause - that it’s due to my age! Oh hang on - maybe he’s in some kind of ‘big hair dye’ collusion with Garnier. Never thought of that!

Weird how conspiracy theorists also ‘just happen to know’ huge numbers of people who are ‘vaccine damaged’…

Dianne just dropped some bogus misinformation link on a thread about getting the vaccine in pregnancy. So I really doubt this.

Er well a couple of the cases have been confirmed by docs. My mothers was too as the ecg dept had such a huge upturn in demand. although they woukdnt put it in her notes as had been told not to. Subsequently other health issues have been confirmed as lots of these unusual cases suddenly.

But not misinformation!! Just utterly shocked since coming in here that people are not questioning all the weird symptoms they are asking about. And accepting they were caused by vax and going back for more!! Utterly unbelievable!

@Diannejb

No - it’s what you are saying that is unbelievable. I’m sorry. It just not the experience of the vast majority of people. There is no cover up. It’s just that we’ve all been through a horrible time - and people are looking alternative answers and the existence of social media means that you’ve accessed echo chambers or groups who are sharing pseudoscience. If you were reported to Mumsnet, your posts would be deleted. They are not ‘in on the cover up’ - it’s just that the content you are sharing can be harmful to others.

It’s amazing how prople will believe some docs snd scientists but not others. And even query ONS data which is now showing more Cov deaths than the same period before jabs. But uou carry on burying your head.

@Diannejb

People believe what the overwhelming and vast majority of doctors are saying. They believe the most reputable and highly qualified doctors which feed our guidelines. They don’t believe cherry picked science by controversial doctors because that could be unsafe as it hasn’t been properly checked.