Covid vaccine and menstruation

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any more updates from any of the PP who were suffering? Have these side effects subsided?

I’m one of at least two long bleeders in this thread, and still going on day, uhhh, 46, I think? Lost count. Granted, it is much lighter and not debilitating as it was in the beginning, but it is still very much present. I am managing and dealing with side effects of oral progesterone, which are in some ways worse than the bleeding itself.

Honestly, the most depressing part of all of this is trying to find reliable information on the internet and wading into places where people are just lambasting women for bringing up abnormal bleeding. There’s definitely some anti-vax quackery out there, but there are some legitimate concerns that are being lumped together and drowned out, and that’s a real shame.

How old are you PP? My mom dealt with this prolonged bleeding in her 40s and ended up needing a uterine ablation (I think that's what it was?). I wonder if some women are more prone to these type of things for whatever reason and the vaccine sort of pushes it over the edge.

Yeah, I would buy that—it being some sort of catalyst to something that might have happened otherwise. I’m 44 and I know that this can happen, but it’s really hard to find much information online about this phenomenon in general. I’m starting to feel like so much of what we think we know about women’s health is anecdotal, and yet when women try to share those anecdotes, they’re scorned and ridiculed.

To all the doubters, if you had fairly predictable, unremarkable cycles up to a point in time and then you get a shot, and the very next day you start bleeding continuously for weeks, you’d never once think it could possibly be related to the shot? It just sucks to be made to feel like you’re crazy in addition to all the physical effects you’re already dealing with.

[Anonymous]

NYT opinion piece about COVID Vaccine/Mentstration reports and need to study menstruation more.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-vaccines-menstruation-periods.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage#commentsContainer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any more updates from any of the PP who were suffering? Have these side effects subsided?

I’m one of at least two long bleeders in this thread, and still going on day, uhhh, 46, I think? Lost count. Granted, it is much lighter and not debilitating as it was in the beginning, but it is still very much present. I am managing and dealing with side effects of oral progesterone, which are in some ways worse than the bleeding itself.

Honestly, the most depressing part of all of this is trying to find reliable information on the internet and wading into places where people are just lambasting women for bringing up abnormal bleeding. There’s definitely some anti-vax quackery out there, but there are some legitimate concerns that are being lumped together and drowned out, and that’s a real shame.

I am so sorry! What does your OBGYN say? How old are you? Any solutions?

[Anonymous]

My theory is that the vaccine are stirring up things that may be dormant. Not in everyone but definitely in some people. There are stories everywhere - some minor, some not. It's a crapshoot.

[Anonymous]

My period after Pfizer 1 was VERY clotty - to the point I got scared. I don't normally get clots big enough to notice. These were big enough I knew I needed to get to the Dr to discuss. Like bigger then a silver dollar. Unfortunately they earliest they could get me in was 3 months later so I still have not seen the Dr - but I did then make the connection that I had my first shot about 10 days prior to this horror show period. I had no other reaction to shot 1 other then some fatigue. With shot 2, I had REALLY bad aching pains throughout my hips and low back and down the backs of both legs for about 24 hours.
For me the weird period seems to have been one and done. I have had two normal ones since then, and no period weirdness after shot 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYT opinion piece about COVID Vaccine/Mentstration reports and need to study menstruation more.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-vaccines-menstruation-periods.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage#commentsContainer

Wow, it wasn’t mandatory to include women in government funded research until 1993 (!!!)

Wtf. Sigh.

Happy to have my vaccine, but seriously depressed that the medical community continues to treat menstruation as some medical mystery instead of a biological process that can be studied.

[Anonymous]

Friend and I both had AstraZeneca Friday. She’s a very low key ER nurse and today she messaged to say she had what was like a postpartum period today. She was pretty freaked out.

[Anonymous]

I'm getting my second dose of Pfizer on Thursday and am due to start my period on Friday or Saturday. I'm more than a little worried I've already started having horrible PMS symptoms and don't want to deal with a 1, 2 punch. FWIW, the only side effect I had after my first dose was really bad lower back and shooting leg pains like I have during the first few days of my period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My period after Pfizer 1 was VERY clotty - to the point I got scared. I don't normally get clots big enough to notice. These were big enough I knew I needed to get to the Dr to discuss. Like bigger then a silver dollar. Unfortunately they earliest they could get me in was 3 months later so I still have not seen the Dr - but I did then make the connection that I had my first shot about 10 days prior to this horror show period. I had no other reaction to shot 1 other then some fatigue. With shot 2, I had REALLY bad aching pains throughout my hips and low back and down the backs of both legs for about 24 hours.
For me the weird period seems to have been one and done. I have had two normal ones since then, and no period weirdness after shot 2.

Same with the clots and Pfizer. I’d never seen anything like it. It was like my uterus was trying to expel itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting my second dose of Pfizer on Thursday and am due to start my period on Friday or Saturday. I'm more than a little worried I've already started having horrible PMS symptoms and don't want to deal with a 1, 2 punch. FWIW, the only side effect I had after my first dose was really bad lower back and shooting leg pains like I have during the first few days of my period.

Try not to worry. I had zero side effects from the second Pfizer shot. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My theory is that the vaccine are stirring up things that may be dormant. Not in everyone but definitely in some people. There are stories everywhere - some minor, some not. It's a crapshoot.

I’m not sure it’s thing that are dormant so much as a predisposition. How our genetics ans physiology interact with exogenous substances is so complex. Like why are some people so good at spreading Covid, and why are some people more prone to getting severely ill excluding the obvious risk factors? Why do some women have trouble getting and/or staying pregnant and others are super fertile? Why can some people smoke for many years and no get cancer while others who live a healthy lifestyle due young from it? There’s so much we don’t know. This is yet another example. Research will probably tell us one day but science is slow and incremental, as it must be done so carefully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting my second dose of Pfizer on Thursday and am due to start my period on Friday or Saturday. I'm more than a little worried I've already started having horrible PMS symptoms and don't want to deal with a 1, 2 punch. FWIW, the only side effect I had after my first dose was really bad lower back and shooting leg pains like I have during the first few days of my period.

Try not to worry. I had zero side effects from the second Pfizer shot. Good luck.

+1 same. I got my period on the day of my first shot. It was no big deal. I got my second shot a week before my period was due. The week hasn’t passed yet and I haven’t gotten my period early. Feeling pretty good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any more updates from any of the PP who were suffering? Have these side effects subsided?

I posted a while back that I have an IUD and had lower stomach pain after both doses. After reading this thread I thought maybe they were cramps.

Update- it’s two months after the second dose and I have light spotting. I have not had a period in a very long time. DD has hers right now and I remember how women in the same house get them at the same time. So odd. I’m considering calling the doctor. No cramps.

Calling what dr? They have no idea what to do about these side effects sadly. But keep us posted.

I was considering calling my gynecologist since she put in the IUD to see if something else is wrong. The period seems to have stopped but I’m going to make an appointment if anything else happens.

[Anonymous]

Got my 2nd Pfizer shot 10 days ago. Had normal periods after each shot. Normal flow and right on schedule. If anything, my cramps were milder.

[Anonymous]

Skimmed through the whole thread, so anyone experience just cramping since the 2nd shot and discuss it with their doctor? Is it normal? For how long?