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🩸 This week, a study revealed that almost 35,000 British women have reported that following their Covid vaccination, they have experienced more painful and/or irregular periods.

Why didn't doctors listen? asks @CCriadoPerez telegraph.co.uk/women/life/did…

Dr Victoria Male, a lecturer in reproductive immunology, who led the study, said that all the main vaccines - Pfizer, Moderna, AZ Oxford - were involved, but there has been no suggestion of a long-term impact on fertility

This study is not the first we’ve heard of period disruption being linked to the jab.

💉Ever since the vaccine roll-out began women have been all over social media, talking about how the vaccine seemed to have an impact on their menstrual cycle

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But until this study, there has been little on offer, highlighting how little anyone has thought to consider the chance of a connection

As with most clinical studies, the Covid vaccine trials didn't investigate menstrual cycle effects – in fact, in many trials women are excluded because of potential cycle effects.

"Perhaps we should be grateful...that women were included at all" says @CCriadoPerez

When women first started reporting menstrual cycle irregularities following the vaccine, the lack of data on this issue led doctors to dismiss their concerns

As far back as 1913, a doctor was investigating the potential menstrual impact of typhoid vaccines.

But despite this, many doctors and researchers continue to dispute that there is any biologically plausible mechanism by which the vaccines could affect the menstrual cycle

"In fact, there are several biologically plausible mechanisms, but we lack the research to prove the point either way" says @CCriadoPerez

"Part of the rush to dismiss women on the basis of little to no evidence comes – no doubt – from a well-meaning, but ultimately misguided effort to reduce vaccine hesitancy in young women, although if anything will drive hesitancy it is exactly this kind of medical gaslighting"

"More broadly, being disbelieved and dismissed by the medical establishment is nothing new for women"

🗣️"Women are simply not considered to be reliable narrators of their own bodies" writes @CCriadoPerez
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This type of groupthink may also have contributed to the sidelining of women’s specific health issues throughout the pandemic.

🔴Multiple women reported being unable to access contraceptive coils or injections — or even to have out-of-date ones removed

"This research comes too late for many of us, but it is still hugely welcome. Unlike the medical gaslighting approach, it may actually convince some vaccine hesitant women to get their jab"

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