There have been a lot of anecdotal reports, on various social media outlets, where women have said after vaccination they’ve experienced changes in their menstruation, such as heavier menses, earlier onset of menses, or more painful periods. This is typically more of a taboo subject, but so many women have come out and expressed their experience about menstruation following vaccination and I’m glad that their voices are being heard. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so surprised ,but it’s pretty clear that menstruation is a really important health outcome for women and it’s great to see so many women talking about this. Lauren Wise: I just want to say how surprised I was to see so many comments on The Brink about this topic. BU Today: How did researchers come to this idea of studying whether the COVID vaccines may be affecting menstruation? Our conversation was recorded, so you can read along with the transcript, and hear personally from Wise about her work.īoth the recorded conversation and this transcript have been condensed and edited for clarity. Since we spoke, another research team funded by the NIH published a paper in early January indicating that COVID vaccines were associated with a small, temporary increase in menstrual cycle length (one day on average). We reconnected with Lauren in December her for an update on her research. It follows women trying to conceive from preconception through six months after birth, and it’s been collecting data since 2013 on a range of aspects related to female health and fertility. Lauren Wise, a School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, is looking for evidence of COVID vaccines affecting periods through PRESTO (Pregnancy Study Online), an NIH-funded online study she runs. The story moved readers, and to date it has almost 500,000 page views, and 400 passionate comments from people sharing their personal experiences after being vaccinated. One of the most-read articles we published in 2021 was about a Boston University professor who was leading one of five teams awarded $1.67 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health to study whether COVID-19 vaccines impact menstruation. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.
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