Researchers try to tease out possible ties between long Covid and menopause

Women have been reporting period disturbances after Covid or after receiving a Covid vaccine, though research has often minimized the relevance of such symptoms.

Oct 20, 2023 - 20:00
Researchers try to tease out possible ties between long Covid and menopause

When she stopped getting her period in March 2022, Daryn Schwartz wasn’t especially concerned. At 42, she had recently come off birth control, and figured her cycles were still adjusting. When it hadn’t come back by the summer, she sought gynecological care, but was told to wait it out. So she did, with no changes.

She was having other symptoms, too — fatigue, chronic pain, and difficulty focusing. She would forget names, words even. “I started joking with my friends about cognitive decline,” she said, but “it was terrifying. It really scared me a lot.”

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