With the expansion of fitness, millions of people are getting the COVID vaccine every day, which is great news. But getting the vaccine is not without side effects: sore arms, fatigue, temporary flu-like symptoms are a common side effect that you will be warned about or that you will hear about the vaccine. But one side effect that you may not be warned about and that is only now being discussed is that the COVID vaccine appears to have an effect on menstrual cycles.
In conversation with Today, medical student Katherine Lee discussed how many in conversation with other people who were menstruating who received the vaccine reported that it affected their cycle. But the evidence was merely anecdotal. Therefore, they decided to collect more data after issuing one of her professors at school, Kathryn Clancy. Clancy also experienced an abnormal period after her first ingestion of the vaccine, which is why she decided to call out more information on social media to get a larger sample size.
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(This is a project to investigate whether the covid growth affects the periods. If you have had your period before and the growth has taken, it takes 15 minutes to tell us about your experiences!)
– Dr. Kate Clancy @️🌈 (@KateClancy) 7 April 2021
The survey is still ongoing, but Clancy and Lee hope that any information they receive will help them and the medical community better understand the effects of the vaccine on periods. But only in this article are there reports of abnormally heavy periods, more intense period symptoms and delayed periods.
“A lot of people have noticed something but haven’t heard of it yet (menstrual changes) is a side effect,” Lee told Today Today. “So many things can affect people’s menstrual experiences. So, we just thought if it’s a side effect of … this kind of vaccination, it would be good for people to be prepared. “Some other studies show only a percentage of people who menstruate, who show changes or abnormal periods, and this has not been noticed as a side effect in clinical trials, but experts said today that COVID somehow interacts with has estrogen, which we may not understand can affect periods, just like other stressors on our systems.
On the one hand, it is comforting to know that other people are experiencing irregularities as a result of the vaccine. I received my first dose last week and it was predicted that my period would start the next day and simply not. Knowing that I am not the only one who has experienced this is a relief.
But it is also frustrating that it has not been discussed or understood as a side effect, and that the effect on this cycle of people menstruating may not even have been considered. It feels to me like the bodies of people who are menstruating or have potential consequences for the vaccine developers, that do not need to be taken into account. The same lack of consideration for the health of people who menstruate joins our discussion of how the vaccine Johnson and Johnson was interrupted due to possible problems with blood clotting when people using birth control are asked to do so with a much greater probability of blood to live. decades long chair.
The takeaway here is that you still need to get a vaccine as soon as possible to end this pandemic, but if you are menstruating, be aware that it can be affected, and if so, complete the survey so that the people who have it take. the time to study it has as much information as possible.
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