Claim: Covid Vaccines cause menstrual irregularities
This anecdotal claim has been proven in a recent study.
A study published in Science Advances on July 15, 2022, entitled, Investigating trends in those who experience menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, has found that the Covid inoculations cause menstrual irregularities.
Here is the abstract:
Early in 2021, many people began sharing that they experienced unexpected menstrual bleeding after SARS-CoV-2 inoculation. We investigated this emerging phenomenon of changed menstrual bleeding patterns among a convenience sample of currently and formerly menstruating people using a web-based survey. In this sample, 42% of people with regular menstrual cycles bled more heavily than usual, while 44% reported no change after being vaccinated. Among respondents who typically do not menstruate, 71% of people on long-acting reversible contraceptives, 39% of people on gender-affirming hormones, and 66% of postmenopausal people reported breakthrough bleeding. We found that increased/breakthrough bleeding was significantly associated with age, systemic vaccine side effects (fever and/or fatigue), history of pregnancy or birth, and ethnicity. Generally, changes to menstrual bleeding are not uncommon or dangerous, yet attention to these experiences is necessary to build trust in medicine.
The study begins with an indictment on the pharmaceutical companies. The initial trials only followed patients for 7 days and did not look for any problems after this, at which point the vaccines were declared safe. When women complained about changes, pharmaceutical companies and Doctors basically ascribed it to hysteria.
In media coverage, medical doctors and public health experts hastened to say that there was “no biological mechanism” or “no data” to support a relationship between vaccine administration and menstrual changes. In other cases, experts declared that these changes were more likely a result of “stress”.
The New York Times is cited; I looked up the reference and this is how the article framed the issue:
Parents of adolescents I spoke to tended to be concerned about the vaccine affecting puberty and future fertility for their children. Saadia Faruqi, 45, a children’s book author in Houston whose kids are 11 and 14, said that though she and her husband got the vaccine, she worries about how it might affect her kids’ hormones, fertility and their growing bodies.
Ms. Faruqi feels that if she makes the wrong decision for her children, “I’m going to be a bad mom,” she said. “I don’t want either of my kids to turn around when they’re in adulthood and ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”
Dr. Talib has also heard these concerns from parents of teens, and she said that while she understands the worry, there’s no biological mechanism that would make the Covid-19 vaccine worse for teenagers.
So the New York Times gets another award below in the Uncorrected Fact Check Hall of Infamy, as this article still stands, and there is no apology anywhere saying, “Our Doctor might have been wrong.”
In the study, the authors have a long paragraph listing all the possible biological mechanisms whereby the Covid Vaccines might cause menstrual problems, whilst reassuring women that this does not mean it will make them infertile.
There is a long list of references; each of these mechanisms is referenced properly.
The vaccine is an immune challenge (12),
affects hemostasis and inflammation (13),
the reproductive system can handle short term challenges while leaving long-term fertility intact (18, 19).
running a marathon causes problems in the short term while not rendering that person infertile (20),
short-term calorie restriction causes irregularities that can be overcome by resuming normal eating (21),
psychosocial stressors causes irregularities and yet resilience can buffer one from these harms (25–27).
Short-term stressors influence menstrual cycling and menstruation (proven over 40 years of research) (19, 20, 28–30).
Sustained early stressors can influence adult hormone concentrations, short-term stressors resolve and do not produce long-term effects (31).
Menstrual function may be disrupted long term by COVID, particularly in those with long COVID (32–35).
The study had a very large sample size of over 30,000 women, which means the results are dependable. It was a single survey that excluded women in the first 14 days after vaccination.
Despite the authors’ reassurances concerning the overall robustness of the female reproductive system, there is other evidence that Dr. Jessica Rose has put together from DOD data suggesting that the vaccines more than double the number of miscarriages (1,499 miscarriages each year from 2016-2020, 3,527 in 2021); the DOD subsequently claimed that the number of spontaneous abortions was underreported from 2016-2020. Considering they were coercing their members to take the vaccine, do you think they might have a motive for saying this?
Jessica Rose has looked at many of the reasons why women who are pregnant or who are wanting to get pregnant should not continue taking the vaccines. Nonetheless, there is hope apparently at this stage that the negative effects will not be permanent.
But for God’s sake why would anyone give these vaccines to children, since we really don’t know?
And then there’s this study, the most cited study on safety for pregnant women. There’s only one small problem in table 4.
Note the footnotes:
No denominator was available. What use is this study at all?
And Naomi’s Wolf’s summary of information she found in the Pfizer data released under the FOI showing the damage inflicted by their third phase trials on pregnant women and babies is certainly worth reading:
Some more of Jessica Rose’s posts on vaccine safety.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-female-reproductive-issues-in
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/demystifying-the-swedish-data
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/pfizer-adverse-event-data
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-true-under-reporting-factor-urf
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/by-this-time-next-year-at-the-latest
UNCORRECTED FACT CHECK HALL OF INFAMY
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/parenting/vaccine-children.html
REFERENCES
Katharine M. N. Lee, Eleanor J. Junkins, Chongliang Luo, Urooba A. Fatima, Maria L. Cox, Kathryn B. H. Clancy, Investigating trends in those who experience menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, Science Advances volume 8:28, eabm7201, 2022, https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciadv.abm7201
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-true-under-reporting-factor-urf
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/by-this-time-next-year-at-the-latest
Change Log
11:54pm revised to include more information from Jessica Rose and dropped this broken link to the blaze article https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-whistleblowers-share-dod-medical-data-that-blows-vaccine-safety-debate-wide-open, while including more information gleaned from their reasons for dropping the article.
12:00 midnight revised the last sentence.
18th July 10:44 am added the no denominator study plus a few more Jessica links
19th July 1:14am added the link to Naomi Wolf’s article.