Does Covid vaccine affect your period? Here’s what you need to know

Closer home, Twitter has been abuzz with doctors and medical practitioners stating that there is no need to worry as vaccinations open for all above the age of 18 years from May 1, 2021

Debunking myths and quashing rumours, experts including medical practitioners are trying to assuage concerns that covid 19 vaccines are affecting menstrual cycles and fertility after some people shared their experiences of heavier, painful or delayed periods after taking the jab.

“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. “Even if there is a connection, one unusual period is no cause for alarm,” reported guardian.com.

Closer home, Twitter has been abuzz with doctors and medical practitioners stating that there is no need to worry as vaccinations open for all above the age of 18 years from May 1, 2021.

Notably, two researchers who received their shots in the UK earlier this year noticed that aside from the usual side-effects — pain at the injection site — they also had temporary changes in their menstrual cycle, reported dailymailco.uk.

Dr Kathryn Clancy, an associate professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Dr Katherine Lee, a post-doctoral scholar in the public health sciences division at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis are now all set to run a study to determine if there is any link between abnormal periods and the COVID-19 vaccine after they shared their experiences on Twitter and received responses with similar experiences.

So, should you be taking the vaccine on or near your period date?

Dr Vaishali Joshi, obstetrician and gynaecologist at Kokilaben Ambani Hospital, Mumbai told indianexpress.com that “Covid vaccination does not have any effect on menstruation”. “There has been no data to validate the claim that Covid-19 vaccine affects the periods and its flow. This has originated from social media where people are sharing their own personal experiences. All international advisory bodies and organisations have not acknowledged it. Also, it’s important to note that one doesn’t need to reschedule vaccination date depending on the presence of periods,” she said.

“So all women above 18 years of age irrespective of their periods, hormonal status, should get vaccinated, apart from pregnant women as currently it’s not recommended in India,” she added.

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