I am having some period issues and wanted to get some input/support.

Last Friday I got my period, which freaked me out because my last one ended just two weeks prior to that. My period has always been clockwork reliable, and I have been tracking it for over 10 years, so I definitely have long term data and know my body enough to know it wasn't normal. I emailed my gyno and she referred me for a pelvic scan to rule out cysts, etc. I'm on day 8 of my period now and just feel tired and honestly a bit scared since my grandmother died of ovarian cancer, so any inkling of an issue down there is terrifying to me. Then something occurred to me.

I got both of my Pfizer vaccines back in April. No major side effects, but I noticed that after both shots my period started a week early and dragged out to more than 7 days. I waved it away as coincidence and didn't think anything more about it. But then I realized I had my booster shot on the 22nd, and checked my period tracker...sure enough this period came on about a week after my booster.

Is this a thing? I have Googled and just feel like it's the usual hemming and hawing from the medical field about "some women" have reported seeing "changes" in their period and longer studies would have to be done. And not to be bitter, but since half the time I feel like the medical field doesn't give two damns about women's health, especially reproductive issues, I'm not holding my breath. I did email this information to my doctor but haven't heard back from her yet. I am trying to be rational since I am also in my early 40's and I know that hormones can start changing and affecting things, but it's hard to ignore that my period has done the same thing 3 times after this vaccine.

Have any of you experienced issues post vaccine with your period?

Edit: Thanks so much to everyone who commented. I do feel slightly more reassured that this is a thing that's happening to other women, but am also so frustrated it's not more publicized. If I'm being honest, this has made me gunshy about getting another booster depending on what the future of this thing is. My periods are already on a good day incredibly draining and leave me tired and weak. I can't have a situation where my period is getting so jacked up that it's coming early and lasting 7-10 days. I already have iron issues and can't be having all that.

This is meta, but this is another area where not being able to have nuanced conversations about a topic hurts everyone. Everyone around me is either "rawr Covid vaccines are poison that inject microchips into you so the lizard people can get you" or "the Covid vaccine is perfect, amazing and cannot be criticized or you're a right wing asshole", so there is literally no one in my life other than my aunt I felt comfortable talking to about this. I love my girlfriends to pieces, but they are pro-vaccine to the point that I just don't feel like I could say "hey love a good vaccine as much as the next person, but this is happening and making me scared to ever get it again" to them. But y'all are rational, switched on ladies who get it, and I'm so grateful to all of you!