Do you get a mammogram shortly after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine? Be warned: the vaccine can cause your lymph nodes to swell, which can be confused due to breast cancer.
“If you get the COVID-19 vaccine, it can cause a temporary enlargement of the lymph node and result in a ‘false positive’ mammogram,” Lisa Ann Mullen, MD, explained in an article by Johns Hopkins Medicine on the subject has been published. The enlargement can cause ‘your mammogram to look abnormal, even if you are OK and there is no indication of cancer.’
Although the reaction is ‘nothing to worry about’ and is a general effect of all vaccinations, it has caused an increase in swollen axillary lymph nodes on various types of breast imaging, which has led to many women undergoing additional testing, and sometimes even biopsies, as well as “unnecessary stress and anxiety,” Penn Medicine wrote in a post.
To prevent unnecessary further testing or distress, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention recommends that people ask their doctors how long they should wait before getting a mammogram after being vaccinated. “Some experts recommend that you take your mammogram before you are vaccinated or that you wait four to six weeks after your vaccination,” the CDC adds.
The reason for the vaccine-induced swelling is very natural.
“The whole point of the vaccine is to make your immune system respond to whatever the vaccine is,” diagnostic radiologist Laura Dean, MD, told the nonprofit Cleveland Clinic’s nonprofit academic medical center. article on the potentially worrying side effect. . Thus, lymph nodes, which are part of the body’s immune system, are known to swell in response to any vaccines, although increasing reports indicate that the coronavirus shot causes a “stronger swelling in lymph nodes” than others. The symptom appears to subside within “a few days to a few weeks,” Dean noted.
When not caused by a vaccination, swollen lymph nodes may be a sign of breast cancer.
“When breast cancer moves outside the breasts, it tends to go to the lymph nodes under the arms because it is the natural drainage pattern of the lymph fluid in the breast tissue,” Dean said. “It’s a very integrated system, so it’s one of the areas that we’re carefully examining.”
The situation is highly predictable, but the failure of authorities and medical professionals to inform the public about it has many people convinced that they have cancer following the routine examinations they expected.
Jezebel reporter Shannon Melero is’ mentally planning her own funeral ‘after a recent mammogram informed her that’ most likely ‘was benign’. However, the fright appears to be a false flag caused by her receiving her second dose of COVID-19 a few days earlier, Melero reported.
The impact of the vaccine on mammograms is not the only topic the medical industry has barely warned the public about. Many also report that the vaccine caused them to have heavier and in some cases unexpected periods.
“It was not a symptom that was on the list,” Washington University research fellow Katharine Lee, Ph.D., told the fringe that she had an unusual menstrual cycle shortly after receiving the vaccine. has. In response, she launched a formal study on the impact of COVID-19 vaccines on the menstrual cycle.
“These are just not things that some people think about,” she said. ‘It’s not part of their daily experience. I think a lot of it has to do with history, and the prejudice around who should decide what is important to consider as a side effect. ”