“Menstruation is something we don’t know enough about...It’s an important indicator of a person’s health, like any other bodily function...For now, scientists are still in the dark about so much of female health. ”

I mean, OMG! THREAD https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇🏽" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (mittlerer Hautton)"> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-vaccines-menstruation-periods.html?smid=tw-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/2...

Maybe TMI for twitter, but in the name of science: I had a truly wild menstrual reaction unlike anything I& #39;ve experienced in my life after the vaccine. It& #39;s fine. The vaccine works. NBD. BUT, I went to the OBGYN and the response was the same response as I ALWAYS get....

which is that you should just take the pill. The pill is great and revolutionary and everyone should have access to it but I don& #39;t like it so I said no thanks.

I& #39;m in a FB group of female academics with children and a bunch of people started sharing wild menstruation stories after the vaccine. Everyone is very pro-vaccine but just curious about what was going on...

A FB group with anecdotal stories is by NO MEANS science and it could be totally unrelated to the vaccine and we all just happened to have weird stuff going on. That& #39;s totally plausible.

But the fact that menstrual side effects are left out of studies (which I know is something scientists have been trying to remedy with mixed success) just means that we are truly not getting a full an accurate picture.

And I know that it& #39;s just easier to do certain studies without having to consider that knotty hormone variable, but some of us have to live with that knotty hormone variable. End TMI thread.