guess who found that out by getting gettysburged yesterday?
like for real. the worst day of menstruation of my life. for people who know their menstrual cycle and havenât gotten a vaccine yet, book it around your cycle if at all possible omg.
we already talked about what this second shot is doing to me today jabes, but i also just realized that it lines up almost exactly with how my period came along after the first shot last month too. đ
getting the little itty-bitty taste of immune reaction and Other from the vaccine makes me so fucking glad that i didnât actually catch covid
kind of frighteningly realizing that in about a day of going around tumblr, this post may have gotten nearly as much self reported data on menstrual reactions to covid vaccine as U of I survey cited in the above link. I doubt this addition will reach as many peeople, but I urge you report your reactions to the U of I survey! Or to the cdcâs v-safe app!
but a quick and dirty summary of the tags and comments iâve been reading ardently??
aside from people being like âthnx for the heads upâ, the most common category of anecdote iâve seen is people being like âoh THATS why my period was heavy/early/unusally crampyâ upon reflection.
like there seems to be a fair mix of people saying 1) well my bleeding was regular but i had monster cramps 2) i had a huge abnormal gush of bleeding, and 3) my period was normal as i experience them but came early right after i got the covid shot.
the 2nd commonest group of comments is a little scarier bc itâs from people on IUDs or other devices that suppress menstruation saying they hadnât had periods for extended time (several years i saw mentioned specifically) but experienced spotting, cramps, or a full period when they had not expected it at all.
also a few people who ddid not get the vaccine, but tested positive for covid and report having heavier periods. (at least one person said all of theirs since since getting covid have been heavier than before.)
but iâve also seen a small portion of responses specifically saying they had unusually light periods during or immediately after their covid vaccine shot.
bc like as a reminder, this is reported to be a side effect, not a guarantee. it certainly affected me, but iâd say my exacerbated menstrual reaction was limited to about 24 hours of very intense bleeding and cramps, before my flow turned back to what i would normally expect.
and i assume there are people who had periods near or around their vaccine who didnât comment or notice bc nothing changed for them.
so like, please donât let this deter you from getting a vaccine! the most alarming part for me was being caught completely unawares. but the more people hear about this potential side effect, the more you can be prepared adequately. literally gird your loins, take extra tylenol (which they recommend for the ânormalâ vaccine side effects anyway), and heating pad it up as much as you are able.
The largest flower ever to bloom here. All in twelve days (Hylocereus undatus)
Esta es la flor mĂĄs grande que se ha abierto nunca aquĂ. Todo en doce dĂas (Hylocereus undatus)
YEEEEEEAAAAAHHH ITS MY GIIIRL!!!
sorry, big love for queen of the night/dragonfruit because itâs got a beautiful, beautiful flower that smells like the perfumed garden of heaven AND itâs an important source of food for nectar-drinking bats AND it makes an absolutely delicious fruit so itâs in my top 5 of plants, and my favorite cactus.
Cleaning symbiosis is a mutually beneficial
association between individuals of two species, where one (the cleaner)
removes and eats parasites and other materials from the surface of the
other (the client). (x)
Nearly 200 German actors just came out via a manifesto in the SĂźddeutsche Zeitung, asserting their own queerness and making a big, concerted push for better representation in German media.
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Kamin Leroy Gibba: âMy dream character would be a black, queer, afrogerman man who has feelings, is conflicted and gets the room to talk about it with more than two sentences.â
Lara Fritzsche: âEvery famous person who comes out, is a visible option to love the way you want, but donât dare to most time of the year.â