Women's Periods May Be Late After Coronavirus Vaccination, Study Suggests (nytimes.com) 47
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Shortly after coronavirus vaccines were rolled out about a year ago, women started reporting erratic menstrual cycles after receiving the shots. Some said their periods were late. Others reported heavier bleeding than usual or painful bleeding. Some postmenopausal women who hadn't had a period in years even said they had menstruated again. A study published on Thursday found that women's menstrual cycles did indeed change following vaccination against the coronavirus (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). The authors reported that women who were inoculated had slightly longer menstrual cycles after receiving the vaccine than those who were not vaccinated.
Their periods themselves, which came almost a day later on average, were not prolonged, however, and the effect was transient, with cycle lengths bouncing back to normal within one or two months. For example, someone with a 28-day menstrual cycle that starts with seven days of bleeding would still begin with a seven-day period, but the cycle would last 29 days. The cycle ends when the next period starts and would revert to 28 days within a month or two. The delay was more pronounced in women who received both vaccine doses during the same menstrual cycle. These women had their periods two days later than usual, the researchers found. [...] One serious drawback of the study, which focused on U.S. residents, is that the sample is not nationally representative and cannot be generalized to the population at large. The data were provided by a company called Natural Cycles that makes an app to track fertility. Its users are more likely to be white and college educated than the U.S. population overall; they are also thinner than the average American woman -- weight can affect menstruation -- and do not use hormonal contraception. "I want to make sure we dissuade people from those untrue myths out there about fertility effects," said Dr. Hugh Taylor, the chair of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at Yale School of Medicine. "A cycle or two where periods are thrown off may be annoying, but it's not going to be harmful in a medical way."
With that said, postmenopausal women who experience vaginal bleeding or spotting, whether after vaccination or not, should be evaluated by a physician, says Dr. Taylor. It may be a sign they have a serious medical condition.
Their periods themselves, which came almost a day later on average, were not prolonged, however, and the effect was transient, with cycle lengths bouncing back to normal within one or two months. For example, someone with a 28-day menstrual cycle that starts with seven days of bleeding would still begin with a seven-day period, but the cycle would last 29 days. The cycle ends when the next period starts and would revert to 28 days within a month or two. The delay was more pronounced in women who received both vaccine doses during the same menstrual cycle. These women had their periods two days later than usual, the researchers found. [...] One serious drawback of the study, which focused on U.S. residents, is that the sample is not nationally representative and cannot be generalized to the population at large. The data were provided by a company called Natural Cycles that makes an app to track fertility. Its users are more likely to be white and college educated than the U.S. population overall; they are also thinner than the average American woman -- weight can affect menstruation -- and do not use hormonal contraception. "I want to make sure we dissuade people from those untrue myths out there about fertility effects," said Dr. Hugh Taylor, the chair of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at Yale School of Medicine. "A cycle or two where periods are thrown off may be annoying, but it's not going to be harmful in a medical way."
With that said, postmenopausal women who experience vaginal bleeding or spotting, whether after vaccination or not, should be evaluated by a physician, says Dr. Taylor. It may be a sign they have a serious medical condition.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Insightful)
Reports of people dying less than a week after the vaccine -- Anti-science
Because cherry picked anecdotes that don't hold up when investigated with greater scrutiny don't count as science.
Children becoming disabled after the vaccine -- Anti-science
Because cherry picked anecdotes that don't hold up when investigated with greater scrutiny don't count as science.
Women's periods delayad -- We'll allow this narrative
Because anecdotes investigated with greater scrutiny and found to be tangible can be followed up with a proper study and then be considered proper science.
Remember AstraZeneca [wikipedia.org]? We literally just had an example of a COVID-19 vaccine having reported side effects, the side effects being investigated, and the vaccine largely being withdrawn from nations that had the the option as a result.
Why are you suddenly convinced that there's a giant conspiracy to cover up that exact scenario?
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Remember AstraZeneca [wikipedia.org]? We literally just had an example of a COVID-19 vaccine having reported side effects, the side effects being investigated, and the vaccine largely being withdrawn from nations that had the the option as a result.
Which, on further investigation turns out to have been a mistake because, whilst Astra does have rare, blood clotting, side effects, they are much less common than was thought. In fact, the AZ vaccinated population gets far fewer blood clotting incidents than the control population because they get infected with SARS-COV-2 less. Plus Astra seems to drive T-cell immunity especially well. mRNA vaccines may be better on average, but the need for a cool-chain which isn't available in many countries means that
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I know you're making a joke, but a longer menstrual cycle is not the same thing as a longer period. A longer menstrual cycle means more days between periods. And as anyone who's been there will tell you, a surprise longer-than-usual menstrual cycle means you get a couple of fun days assuming you or your girlfriend is pregnant.
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I know you're making a joke,
Well in as much as hur de hur women eh, fellas amiright qualifies as a joke.
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Yes...women and men are different and hence it makes for humor seeing the differences between the two.
I'm sure more than a couple of women out there have made jokes about men, including yourself I'm guessing.
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Yes...women and men are different and hence it makes for humor seeing the differences between the two.
Ok, so you find jokes along the lines of "hur de hur women eh, fellas amiright" funny. You do you.
I'm sure more than a couple of women out there have made jokes about men, including yourself I'm guessing.
I'm a bit mystified as to why you think that matters and why you think I care.
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Why are you suddenly convinced that there's a giant conspiracy to cover up that exact scenario?
Seems like these people only believe in conspiracies that harm, not conspiracies that help.
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Why are you suddenly convinced that there's a giant conspiracy to cover up that exact scenario?
Simple: The more solid the evidence gets, the more these morons ignore it. Otherwise they would have to admit that they were stupid. Of course, you can only ever really learn from admitting to have been wrong, so they cannot do that either. Kind of a self-reinforcing effect on top of Dunning-Kruger.
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Mom! They are making fun of me for being an idiot! Make them stop!
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I think this was posted to be dumb on purpose, but whatever, I'll bite-- You say "reports" as if they're all the same and they're obviously not. For example, in my circle of friends I personally know several women who told me their period was late the month they got the vaccine, and one (my girlfriend) who I know for sure was unusually late when we both thought she was pregnant. In my same circle of friends, I don't know anybody who died from the vaccine.
And the pattern of the "reports" is the same everywhe
Re: Wow (Score:3)
Because anti-Vaxxers do not understand statistics and how risk works. Many studies have shown that the probability of dying from the vaccine is lower than the probability of dying from covid-19. Of course if you only show and make a big deal when someone dies after the vaccine, you can make it look to the weak minded that the vaccine is more dangerous than spreading the disease.
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OK, here: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volum... [cdc.gov] By the way, the purpose behind getting the vaccine if you are young is to reduce the chance of spreading it to a vulnerable person such as grandpa or someone you meet at the grocery store.
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During December 2020–July 2021
That's short-term. Add up the risks from boosters every 6 months and compare that with the risk of catching and then having a bad effect from the disease, and the mRNA vaccines quickly add up to worse.
By the way, the purpose behind getting the vaccine if you are young is to reduce the chance of spreading it to a vulnerable person such as grandpa or someone you meet at the grocery store.
That's an entirely different discussion, but we should protect the vulnerable [gbdeclaration.org].
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Context matters.
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Hmm.. (Score:2, Interesting)
How punctual is the period of someone who's dead from coronavirus?
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It's dead on.
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Beats me, I mostly date women before their periods set in. -- CNN
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Congressman Matt, is that you?
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Well, if this is Toobin [cnn.com], he doesn't have to wait for anything!!
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Beats me, I mostly date women before their periods set in. -- CNN
Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Francisco Cortes, Sean Hannity, Bill Shine, Bob Beckel, Jamie Horowitz, and Charles Payne think that's funny. -- Fox News
A Brief History of Fox’s Sexual Harassment Scandals, From Roger Ailes to Charles Payne [thewrap.com]
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How punctual is the period of someone who's dead from coronavirus?
Way (way) back in middle school I went to the school nurse because I wasn't feeling well. The nurse asked why I hadn't stayed home. I said that my father doesn't think you're sick unless you have a fever. She quipped for him to take the temperature of a dead person and then say that person doesn't have problems.
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We slashdotters are creepy, but we're not necraphiliacs.
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Smart people understand that. Stupid people think it's prophetic.
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A broken clock is correct twice a day.
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Only if you get a reeeally cheap vaccination (Score:2)
that requires anesthesia for some reason.
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You argue as if the alternative to taking the vaccine is nothing at all.
With Omikron, the only alternative to getting the vaccine (all 3 injections) is getting the disease.
And the disease will do to your body what the vaccine does (make some of your body cells produce spike proteins), much more of it, and other things too.
This was known last year (Score:5, Informative)
In May, reports were coming in worldwide [bbc.co.uk] from women whose periods were affected after receiving a vaccine. At the time it was considered a short-term side effect without any other issues, just as what happens to some women who get the flu and HPV vaccines.
In August, when reports continued to come in [npr.org], the data improved though it couldn't be said vaccines were the exclusive cause.
All this study is saying they've had over a year to look the data and it does look like one mild side effect (like a sore arm) is a change in women's period. As was said in the first link above:
The womb lining is part of the immune system - in fact there are immune cells in almost every part of the body.
Immune cells play a role in building up, maintaining and breaking down the lining of the uterus - which thickens to prepare for a pregnancy, and then sheds in the form of a period if the egg is not fertilised.
After vaccination, lots of chemical signals which have the potential to affect immune cells are circulating round the body. This could cause the womb lining to shed, and lead to spotting or earlier periods, Dr Male explained.
In other words, not a big deal though something to be aware of.
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According to this study which has been out for a while: https://jamanetwork.com/journa... [jamanetwork.com]
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Surely every guy here knows a change in a woman's cycle can have the side effect of a sore arm...
The question is why? (Score:1)
Re: Covid pregnancy (Score:1)
You should congratulate the father.
may be (Score:2)
May be. maybe. maybe not.
Ordinary Effect of Immune Response? (Score:2)
It's of course well known that vaccines induce an immune system response (which varies from person to person) as that's their purpose.
Given that on the average people seem to report easily discernible immune system response "symptoms" such as fever of perhaps one day in duration from the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines deployed in the U.S., how do similar immune responses due to minor naturally occurring infections affect menstrual cycles?
That seems to be the appropriate comparison as well as comparing the severity of