A survey on menstruation and COVID vaccines

[conuly]

https://redcap.healthinstitute.illinois.edu/surveys/index.php?s=LL8TKKC8DP

You do not have to be a woman or currently menstruating to answer, they are careful to provide multiple gender options in the survey. You simply need to have experienced at least one menstrual period in your life.

Comments

[shadowkat]

Thanks, took it.

[reynardo]

Soon as I've had mine (hopefully in 4 days) I'll fill it in.

[conuly]

Note: Some of the questions ask for the symptoms of your first post-vax PMS and period. If you're still currently menstruating, you may want to wait until you get your period - or until you expect to get it - before responding.

If you're not, go ahead and fill it out after your shot.

[reynardo]

TBH, as someone currently without a uterus, I can't answer most of the questions.

I might leave it a week and do it then.

When my doctor was preparing to give me the shot, he asked me the usual "Are you pregnant or do you think you might get pregnant?" and he and I both cracked up, because it's taken me 3 years to get him to remember that if he wants to do a Pap smear on me, he has to go to the University medical centre on the other side of town and hope my cervix is still in a jar somewhere there.

[siderea]

Done.

[marahmarie]

I have a whole post I want to make on this topic someday (probably under lock).

I got my first one since having my second shot, more than two weeks after the second shot, and still going on now, which is not it dragging on (yet). And boy were things a bit different, and coming from me, Queen of The Bit Different, that's saying something.

Upshot is after two of the worst days I've ever had it seems....better than usual now, overall? Already lighter after being maybe twice as heavy to start off with, which is unheard of for me at this point (maybe Day 4/5). It's been weird.

ETA: took the survey.