<story><title>Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm7201</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>in_cahoots</author><text>As someone who was trying to conceive while the vaccine rolled out, this isn’t surprising. People were regularly reporting basal temperature spikes, delayed ovulation, and delayed periods. This is a community that is extremely data-oriented, since with the right measurements you’re able to predict your fertile (or non-fertile) window.&lt;p&gt;I was disappointed to see how little research there was into menstruation at the time. We were told that the vaccine was perfectly safe, and even questioning the vaccine made you ‘anti-vax.’  Now over a full year later the scientific community is confirming what random message boards have been saying all along. It may be safe, but nobody really cared to look at the impact on menstruation or pregnancy beyond confirming that the rate of miscarriage is unchanged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abathur</author><text>I think (at least) three big problems intersect here:&lt;p&gt;1. the sci&amp;#x2F;med establishment seems to have some ongoing ~bias issues that I don&amp;#x27;t fully understand when it comes to listening to and taking lay people seriously (especially women)&lt;p&gt;2. it&amp;#x27;s hard to do complex synthesis of relative risks and rewards across different studies measuring different things for different reasons&lt;p&gt;3. we&amp;#x27;ve had a lot of uninformed and malicious actors splashing about in the information ecosystem&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a two-way street. Researchers and public health officials both need to take women seriously &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; they need to have faith that they can research or discuss details like this frankly through their normal semi-public publication channels without people who don&amp;#x27;t grok or don&amp;#x27;t care about the nuance of their research using it as an info-cudgel to induce FUD that ruins lives.&lt;p&gt;To toss in the requisite anecdata, my sister got pregnant this past fall. She was due for a booster but FUD about it hurting the baby swayed her mind. She got omicron in late December, post-covid complications nearly took her and the baby in late February, and she had to live in the hospital until she delivered in June.</text></comment>
<story><title>Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm7201</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>in_cahoots</author><text>As someone who was trying to conceive while the vaccine rolled out, this isn’t surprising. People were regularly reporting basal temperature spikes, delayed ovulation, and delayed periods. This is a community that is extremely data-oriented, since with the right measurements you’re able to predict your fertile (or non-fertile) window.&lt;p&gt;I was disappointed to see how little research there was into menstruation at the time. We were told that the vaccine was perfectly safe, and even questioning the vaccine made you ‘anti-vax.’  Now over a full year later the scientific community is confirming what random message boards have been saying all along. It may be safe, but nobody really cared to look at the impact on menstruation or pregnancy beyond confirming that the rate of miscarriage is unchanged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c7DJTLrn</author><text>Many people had concerns about the vaccine rollout. Not because we were worried about some 5G nanoparticle Bill Gates conspiracy nonsense but because of the potential unknown side effects. Doing a trial on a few hundred thousand and then rolling out to billions is like testing your changes locally and then pushing them straight to production.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;But human bodies are not anything like software dev&amp;quot; I hear you say. You&amp;#x27;re right. Biology is way more complicated and we know less about the mechanics of our own bodies than the computers we designed.&lt;p&gt;If we go forward assuming everything we do is infallible and silencing anybody with concerns, someday we will have a real disaster.</text></comment>