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Some people are reporting abnormal periods after a COVID-19 vaccine. U. of I. professor is looking for answers.
By Nicole Stock
Chicago Tribune |
Apr 20, 2021 at 5:00 AM
When Katy Fyksen got a heavy period a few days after she received her second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, she didn?t consider there might be a link.
The 43-year-old Plainfield woman hadn?t had a period in over a year and a half because of her Mirena IUD, so the sudden red flow was a surprise. But she didn?t think about the timing in relation to when she received her vaccine until she saw a Twitter thread.
?I didn?t really think that it was anything until I saw that someone had said that, that it might?ve been a symptom or a side effect of the vaccine. It was like, ?Oh, that?s interesting,?? she said.
The tweet was from Kathryn Clancy, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who posted April 7 about a new survey she?s running to catalog people?s menstrual experiences after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
The survey is a joint effort between Clancy and Katharine Lee, a postdoctoral research scholar at Washington University School of Medicine. As of Monday, Lee said more than 25,000 people have filled it out...
Hat tip: https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1385218758130679809?s=20
Some people are reporting abnormal periods after a COVID-19 vaccine. U. of I. professor is looking for answers.
By Nicole Stock
Chicago Tribune |
Apr 20, 2021 at 5:00 AM
When Katy Fyksen got a heavy period a few days after she received her second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, she didn?t consider there might be a link.
The 43-year-old Plainfield woman hadn?t had a period in over a year and a half because of her Mirena IUD, so the sudden red flow was a surprise. But she didn?t think about the timing in relation to when she received her vaccine until she saw a Twitter thread.
?I didn?t really think that it was anything until I saw that someone had said that, that it might?ve been a symptom or a side effect of the vaccine. It was like, ?Oh, that?s interesting,?? she said.
The tweet was from Kathryn Clancy, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who posted April 7 about a new survey she?s running to catalog people?s menstrual experiences after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
The survey is a joint effort between Clancy and Katharine Lee, a postdoctoral research scholar at Washington University School of Medicine. As of Monday, Lee said more than 25,000 people have filled it out...
Hat tip: https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1385218758130679809?s=20