Menstrual cycle changes and endometriosis symptoms after vaccination

The fear that vaccination may cause a change in the menstrual cycle, possibly disrupting it, may reduce the willingness to vaccinate. For women with endometriosis, menstruation is often difficult anyway, with severe pains, cramps, bloating and heavy bleeding, so I find that some of them are particularly worried about this phenomenon.

 

First of all, I refer back to three previous articles I have published on this subject.

EBBEN in the article I have already interviewed NLC on the subject, here you can also find medical opinions and an exercise from me that will help you to prepare yourself mentally for the vaccination, to become "friends" with it. I will come back to why this is important at the end of this article.

In this article I interviewed Katalin Karikó about the vaccination.

And in the third article HERE I asked doctors, gynaecologists and Professor Zsolt Boldogkői about which vaccines to take if you have endometriosis.

Before you read the results of the poll and survey on Instagram, please read the articles above to get the full picture.

In a story sticker on Instagram, I asked followers of the EndoBlog insta profile if they had experienced any changes in their menstrual periods or endometriosis symptoms after receiving the vaccine. I then asked those who answered yes to this question further about what changes they had noticed.

201 women voted, I checked the profiles to make sure there were no robotic votes, leaving a total of 196 valid responses - not too many, but higher than the number of items a general endo survey works with. Out of 196 women, 124 chose that they had not experienced any change in their menstrual periods in the months following the vaccine, and 72 had experienced some difference.

On the next question sticker, there was a big drop-off in the willingness to answer, as you had to type in what happened, not just press a yes/no button. Just over half of the women who experienced a change (72) responded, with 38 text responses in total.

These showed that these differences were not always negative: some reported less bleeding, some had their cycles that had been too short to reach normal length, and two EndoBlog readers reported that they got pregnant after the second vaccination, even though they had tried for a long time without success.

Some have reported negative experiences, the most common of which are cycle drop-out, shortening of the cycle by 1-3 days, heavier, more patchy bleeding, and the appearance of intermittent bleeding. However, these negative experiences seem to be generally short-lived, not significant, and resolve themselves after 1-3 cycles.

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