COVID-19 Pandemic

How nice of you, despite evidence that the vaccine often does fuckup the menstrual cycle you still do not take these reports seriously! You do realize that this dismissiveness is the very reason so many people do not trust the new vaccines?

and antivaxxers have been known to lie

Ahh, yes all of the following reports are straight lies and everyone posting is antivaxx:

I commented in another thread about this recently, but I have been on continual birth control for 10+ and do not get a period at all. And I never have breakthrough. About 3 weeks after my first vaccine, I woke up with the worst cramping of my life. I thought my appendix burst - but quickly realized I was also heavily bleeding. It was the worst period cramping I’ve had since I was 13. And I bled for eight weeks straight - heavy and painful the whole time. I got my second shot right around when it started, which i assume didn’t help things.

I got checked for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, everything. All clear. Then I found a study that was tracking menstrual changes in women post vaccine, so I participated in that, and also submitted a vaers report. There were so many gaslighting articles around that time that came out - saying it was probably caused by anxiety about getting the shot, or that it was all in our heads, or that maybe it could happen, but it would be very minor. It sucked to be going through it and have everyone dismiss it.

I did get 2 boosters after all that. And interestingly I had no breakthrough at all after either. I’m so glad info is coming out finally - it’s nice to just be heard. I don’t want this to be an anti-vax message. I had covid recently and it sucked a lot more than 8 weeks of period. But women should know there is potential for things to be weird for a bit after.

I know three women personally who have had full blown periods return after being menopausal for several years. It's been horrible for them.

I commented about this a year back using a different username. I just mentioned how three women in my close circle had their periods missed or cycle completely messed up. I was called an anti vaxxers just for expressing my experience. Four major subreddits banned my account although myself and my family were double vaxxed at that time. Just goes to show why it is important to let people speak even if the opinions are against currently understood facts.

The fact that they denied it for so long and are finally recognizing it after way over a year is sickening. Tons of women I know dealt with this and were told they were wrong or crazy even though they know their cycles.

A depressing reminder that symptoms presented in mainly female patients is considered atypical in our medical textbooks and most medicine we have were never tested on female bodies of childbearing age.

I’m not the least bit shocked that the vaccine was causing abnormal periods or no periods; AND was largely ignored. I’ve had several friends (ages between 20-28) who lost their periods completely for 3-4 months and some who had heavy and painful ones after getting the vaccine. Still pro-vaccine though.

Mine has been so weird since the vaccine. But doctors here in New Zealand just dismiss it. Used to be like clockwork and predictable then it turned into a heavy uncontrollable mess stop start. Felt awful fatigue, headaches. Had blood tests, had an ultrasound, they said they thought they found a polyp. Went for a hysteroscopy today. Couldnt find any polyp at all.

In the past month been drinking a cup of hormone balance tea daily and period seems to be back to normal.

When women first started stating this when the vaccines first start rolling out it was chalked up to "Oh it's just anxiety and stress because of these unprecedented times. So basically it's all in your head. Try to relax more." Pretty common for the medical community to write off women's pain and health concerns. Nothing new.