Covid vaccine and menstruation

[Anonymous]

This thread has me rethinking vaccinating my 14 yo DD, (when it’s approved). I can handle a wonky period, but don’t want to take any risk with my girl, who has been lucky to have very regular cycles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread has me rethinking vaccinating my 14 yo DD, (when it’s approved). I can handle a wonky period, but don’t want to take any risk with my girl, who has been lucky to have very regular cycles.

+1

[Anonymous]

https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/covid-vaccines-periods-menstruation-side-effects.html

"I was reading your Substack and I never knew that the endometrium was a part of the immune system. Could you give us a condensed version of the role that our endometria play in immune response?

There’s a lot of complexity and stuff that happens with menstruation. Your immune system is involved in wound healing, and think about what happens every month with shedding your lining, and then rebuilding. Your endometrium is also connected with the outside world. Your vagina’s got bacteria—and your endometrium actually has a microbiome, although it’s not really well understood. So it has to be able to defend itself. We’ve evolved to deal with exposure to infections, sexually transmitted diseases, or whatnot. And the immune system’s got a super important role in implantation and pregnancy. So it’s a very active part of the immune system."



"We need to expand the list of what we consider to be minor—and when I say minor I mean medically minor, I’m not trying to downplay people’s symptoms—complications related to medications, including vaccines, so that it’s collected. We’ve seen what happens without that information. Now we have anti-vaxxers running wild with it, saying that it’s causing miscarriages. So there’s not only the downstream effect of people wanting to know what happens to their body, but it’s becoming part of conspiracy theories and we’re seeing big people spreading it."

[Anonymous]

It sounds like the women experiencing the worst issues (e.g. prolonged bleeding) with this are in their 40s and 50s. In other words, an age where things can get really funky anyway. It sounds like being perimenopausal or menopausal is somewhat of a predisposing factor for abnormal bleeding after these vaccines, probably because women are generally more prone to abnormalities at that age anyway. It's certainly worth looking into, but also important to keep in mind that the endometrium may be more perturbable at this age to begin with. I had posted earlier in the thread that my own mom had some pretty extreme heavy/prolonged bleeding stuff in her 40s. Hopefully we can learn more about factors that contribute to these effects by gathering data on age, menstrual status, other health conditions, etc.

[Anonymous]

We learn more every day as more and more people get the shot. This is why people are waiting a bit.

[Anonymous]

42 and no issue whatsoever with periods. Had Pfizer. 42 year old friend also no issues.

[Anonymous]

Happy to say (for once) my period resumed right on schedule (received first and second doses of Pfizer right before I was supposed to have my period, and my body just decided not to have a period those months. But I’m back in cycle now. I don’t think it’s a huge deal. Periods change for all kinds of reasons, illness, trauma, stress, etc.

[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.

I was the same. Not even a sore arm. I felt fine.

[Anonymous]

So I got Moderna on the 30th of March, my first dose. I am pretty regular even though I am 50. Got my period today. On-time, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread has me rethinking vaccinating my 14 yo DD, (when it’s approved). I can handle a wonky period, but don’t want to take any risk with my girl, who has been lucky to have very regular cycles.

For real? You are for real?
But, having covid and long covid is so much worse!! Can't compare, no?

[Anonymous]

I am one week past my second vax. My period was due today and came on time. No changes. Yeah!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has me rethinking vaccinating my 14 yo DD, (when it’s approved). I can handle a wonky period, but don’t want to take any risk with my girl, who has been lucky to have very regular cycles.

For real? You are for real?
But, having covid and long covid is so much worse!! Can't compare, no?

Her daughter doesn't have Covid or long Covid. So she is comparing two things that may or may not happen...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has me rethinking vaccinating my 14 yo DD, (when it’s approved). I can handle a wonky period, but don’t want to take any risk with my girl, who has been lucky to have very regular cycles.

For real? You are for real?
But, having covid and long covid is so much worse!! Can't compare, no?

Her daughter doesn't have Covid or long Covid. So she is comparing two things that may or may not happen...

Another dim dcumer... with a hard time understanding simple causation...

[Anonymous]

I didn’t get any weird issues. But I would prefer that side effect over covid. Glad I got vaccinated!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Sadly, it’s usually women who refer to other women as useless drama queens around here.

^ Of course a nasty male doctor would say this.

What? No. I’m a very female non-doctor who truly believes most of the vitriol in this thread is coming from women.