Blythe Terrell

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?

Like, stress can affect it.

But there could be other stuff happening, too.

As Jennifer mentioned, there's a bunch of other junk into your gas, which, like, makes the mechanism question even harder to answer.

What part of the chemical?

Don't know.