Blythe Terrell

There were, like, weeks and weeks of protests in Portland after George Floyd's murder.

Yeah.

And so a bunch of people reported symptoms that showed up hours or even days later, and

And one of the things that I thought was really interesting is that a lot of people reported gastrointestinal stuff, like diarrhea or cramping.

So about like almost 30% of the people who said that they had some delayed issues, some delayed effects, they experienced GI stuff.

Okay.

And so I asked Jennifer, like, what could explain this?

And she said, we don't really know, but... Oh, right.

Yeah.

So, yeah, that was one thing that was strange, the, like, gastro stuff that was coming up.

But there was this other symptom, Rose, that I found even more surprising.

Yeah.

So a lot of people in this study and some other observational sort of survey studies like this have reported that they were menstruation was all messed up after they got tear gas.

That big survey out of Oregon I was just talking about, about 900 people reported menstrual problems or breast tenderness after they were exposed.

They were reporting stuff like cramping, spotting, more bleeding, longer bleeding.

And there was another paper, also a survey that asked people with uteruses if they had menstrual or breast symptoms after being exposed.

And that paper found that more than 80% of them said they had.

Wow.

Yeah.

I mean, and we know a lot of stuff affects menstruation, right?