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'Women said coronavirus shots affect periods. New study shows they’re right,' The Washington Post admitted on Tuesday.

Another study confirms COVID-19 vaccination linked to menstrual cycle changes



A large study funded by the National Institutes of Health has confirmed previous findings that coronavirus vaccination can change the timing of when women get their periods, a fact that was once dismissed as "misinformation."

Vaccinated women on average experienced an increase of less than one day in their menstrual cycle, compared to those who did not receive a COVID-19 shot. The change appeared to be temporary and resolved one cycle after vaccination, according to the study published by BMJ Medicine.

“These findings provide additional information for counseling women on what to expect after vaccination,” Dr. Diana Bianchi, director of NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said in a statement. "Changes following vaccination appear to be small, within the normal range of variation, and temporary.”

The study led by Dr. Alison Edelman at Oregon Health & Science University was funded by a $1.67 million research grant to explore potential links between COVID-19 vaccination and menstrual changes.

Researchers examined de-identified data from nearly 20,000 international women who participated using a fertility tracking app called Natural Cycles. App users provided information on their temperature and their menstrual cycles and consented to share that information anonymously to help scientists conduct their research. Most of the women were from the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Vaccinated women in the study took both the mRNA vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, as well as the engineered vaccines produced by AstraZeneca, Covishield, Janssen/Johnson & Johnson and Sputnik, and the inactivated virus vaccines by Covaxin, Sinopharm, and Sinovac.

Of the 19,622 total participants, 14,936 were vaccinated and 4,686 who were not.

Researchers found that vaccinated women saw an average cycle increase of .71 days after their first vaccine dose and a .56-day increase after the second dose. Women who received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine within a single cycle had a 3.91-day increase in their cycle.

The changes did not differ based on the type of vaccine received.

"A change in cycle length of less than eight days is considered within the normal range of variation," NIH said in a press release. "Although small menstrual changes may not be meaningful to health care professionals and researchers, the study authors wrote, perceived changes in a bodily function linked to fertility may be alarming to those experiencing it and could contribute to vaccine hesitancy," the agency cautioned.

The large international study confirmed the results of a previous U.S.-based study that linked changes in women's menstrual cycles to COVID-19 vaccination.

Before this research was published, public health officials downplayed concerns from women who said they felt their periods change after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

In April 2021, Alice Lu-Culligan and Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein at Yale School of Medicine wrote in the New York Times that there was "no data linking the vaccines to changes in menstruation" at the time.

The San Francisco Chronicle labeled "claims that vaccines may affect women’s menstrual cycles" as "myths and misinformation" in a May 2021 article.

Later in January 2022, the NIH acknowledged that COVID-19 vaccines were "linked to small increase in menstrual cycle length."

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not list changes in women's menstrual cycles as a possible side effect of COVID-19 vaccination.

Largest study to date finds alarming percentage of women experienced menstrual cycle changes after receiving COVID vaccines



A new study discovered that changes in menstrual cycles of women who received the COVID-19 vaccines are far more prevalent than previously acknowledged. The study found that 56% of women experienced changes in their menstrual cycle after being double-vaccinated against COVID.

Over 39,000 adults around the world, ages 18 to 80, who received two doses of the COVID vaccine participated in the study. The participants were vaccinated with Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax vaccines.

An alarming 42% of study participants said they experienced heavier bleeding during their menstrual cycle after receiving the COVID vaccine.

There were 14% of participants who experienced unusually lighter menstrual cycles, and 44% who reported no change.

“In terms of who was more likely to see this effect in our sample … people who were Hispanic were more likely to see heavier bleeding," said researcher and study author Katharine Lee, Ph.D. "People who were older in the pre-menopausal group were more likely to see heavier bleeding. (People) diagnosed with ... something like endometriosis or fibroids were more likely to see heavy bleeding.”

Australia's Nine News reported, "The researchers highlighted that many study participants observed the changes to their menstrual cycles more than a week after vaccination, which is beyond the period when adverse symptom reporting is closely monitored during trials for vaccine reactions."

Science.org – a peer-reviewed academic journal – added, "In the survey results published today, 66% of 673 postmenopausal people reported breakthrough bleeding, as did 39% of the 280 people on gender-affirming hormones."

However, there was a different message about vaccines affecting menstrual cycles earlier in the pandemic.

“So far, there’s no data linking the vaccines to changes in menstruation,” Alice Lu-Culligan and Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein at Yale School of Medicine wrote in the New York Times in April 2021. “Even if there is a connection, one unusual period is no cause for alarm.”

In May 2021, the San Francisco Chronicle called "claims that vaccines may affect women’s menstrual cycles" are "myths and misinformation."

In January 2022, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) assured Americans: "COVID-19 vaccines linked to small increase in menstrual cycle length."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not list changes in the menstrual cycle as one of the "possible side effects after getting a COVID-19 vaccine."

The Science journal noted, "Clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines didn’t look for effects on the menstrual cycle."

Lee claimed that menstruation is ignored by science because "there are very few senior people in science and medicine who are not white men. It’s just not something they are thinking about as part of their lived experience."

"Generally, changes to menstrual bleeding are not uncommon or dangerous, yet attention to these experiences is necessary to build trust in medicine," the authors of the study wrote in the journal Science Advances.

COVID-19 vaccines may impact women's menstrual cycles: Study



A new study states that COVID-19 vaccines may affect a woman's menstrual cycle, according to a Saturday Forbes report.

Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, carried out the study on a total of 3,959 U.S. women ages 18-45.

Some of the women were vaccinated and some of the women were not.

What are the details?

A recent study from medical journal Obstetrics & Gynecology states that the COVID-19 vaccine could possibly result in temporary changes to the onset of a woman's menstrual cycle.

For its results, the study's authors tracked the menstrual cycles of 3,959 participants over the course of six menstrual cycles. The women fell into two groups: vaccinated or unvaccinated.

The vaccinated group was made up of 2,403, women while the unvaccinated group was comprised of 1,556 women.

The study found that those who received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine waited 0.71 days longer on average for their next menstrual cycle when compared to their cycles before vaccination. The minimum increase, according to the report, was 0.63, days while the maximum delay was 1.19 days.

The study also noted that unvaccinated women with normal menstrual cycle histories experienced a 0.07-day increase in cycle length on average.

Researchers said that the delay of vaccinated women's menses appeared to be only temporary and noted that by two cycles later, the vaccinated group reverted to the length of their pre-vaccination cycles.

Alison Edelman, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University, told the Wall Street Journal that the findings were "reassuring" because the change to a woman's menstrual cycle was only small and temporary.

“It’s reassuring that it’s small,” Edelman, who was also one of the researchers on the study, added. “It’s also validating to individuals who experienced [a delay in menses].”