Women have described experiencing irregularities after being vaccinated. We asked medical experts to weigh in.
“Imagine if you didn’t know that fever could be a vaccine side effect?” gynaecologist Dr Jen Gunter recently wrote on her site,
. “You might be concerned that something untoward was happening to your body, when all you were experiencing was a typical post-vaccine fever. That is exactly the same with menstrual irregularities.”Over the past few months, women around the world have been sharing details online about their experiences of menstrual irregularities after being vaccinated.
, a women’s health doctor – about potential changes to periods after being vaccinated, fertility, and when you should seek medical advice.“A lot of people have reported changes in their periods following vaccination, but we don’t yet know if this is a common side-effect – this is something that is being actively investigated,” explains Dr Male. “I would encourage anyone who notices a change in their menstrual cycle in the month following their vaccine to report it to the.
Previous research has found that other vaccines – such as HPV and the flu jab – have been linked to short-term changes in people’s menstrual cycles. “For these vaccines, the effect is limited to one or two cycles, and there is no long-term impact on fertility,” says Dr Male. “This gives us some assurance that even if disrupted menstrual cycles are a side-effect of the Covid vaccine, we do not expect that they will be associated with any long-term problems.
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