From the start of the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) vaccines rollout, many women around the world have expressed concerns about the effects of COVID-19 vaccines on the female reproductive system.1 Recently, women in the United States have reported changes in their menstrual cycles after getting an EUA COVID-19 vaccine.2 3 4
Clinical Trials Did not Study COVID-19 Vaccine Effects on Women’s Reproductive Systems
Women experiencing menstrual cycle irregularities have taken to social media platforms to discuss what has happened to them following one or two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, raising questions about the vaccines’ safety. Clinical trials of experimental COVID-19 vaccines did not evaluate the effects on women’s reproductive health prior to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granting a EUA to Pfizer and Moderna in December 2020 to distribute experimental mRNA Covid-19 vaccines in the U.S.
So far, there have been few official responses from the scientific community to the reports of menstrual cycle disruption following COVID-19 vaccinations due to lack of studies published in the medical literature,5 However, reportedly there are researchers at several universities now looking into the adverse event reports from women concerned about fertility and health of their reproductive systems.6 In the meantime, most physicians continue to express confidence in COVID-19 safety and urge women to get vaccinated.7
Some of the reports on social media include women experiencing menstruation earlier than expected, absent periods, longer periods, painful menstrual cycles, heavy bleeding with clots, bleeding in women who are post-menopausal and menstrual irregularities in women taking hormonal birth control prescriptions.8
Many vaccinated women experiencing irregularities in their menstrual cycles did not immediately associate it with the COVID-19 vaccine. Katy Fyksen had unusually heavy menstruation a few days after she received her second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine but did not make an immediate connection to the vaccine she had recently received.9
A 43-year-old woman, who had not had a menstrual cycle in over a year and a half due to an intrauterine device (IUD) that prevents menstruation, suddenly experienced vaginal bleeding after vaccination. She said, “I didn’t really think that it was anything until I saw that someone had said that, that it might’ve been a symptom or a side effect of the vaccine. It was like, ‘Oh, that’s interesting’”10
Scientists Speculate About COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Inflammation and Menstrual Irregularities…
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