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Question by trashhflvdtrash: I haven’t had my period for almost a year for the second time! What’s wrong?
So, let me give you a little bit of a back story to this. I’m 19 years old, and I started my period two months before I turned fourteen. Take note that at this time, I was overweight. I continued to have my period regularly throughout my freshman year of high school. Eventually, however, my period just all together stopped. The summer after my freshman year of high school, I began to lose weight in unhealthy ways. I was borderline anorexic, I guess you could say; I didn’t allow myself to eat more than 1,000 calories. I also picked up running as a form of exercise, which I continue to do today. At my smallest, I got down to 110 pounds (maybe less, because I weighed myself with clothes and everything) and about five foot five inches at the age of 16.
I have a feeling at what some of your answers might be. “It was your extreme weight loss.” or “It’s your exercise habits.” I was told exactly this by my gynecologist that I visited after not having my period for 11 months.. She told me that if I gained ten pounds, I would most likely get my period. She tested my hormone levels, and the tests came back normal. Then she prescribed me progesterone pills, the ones you take over the course of 10 days and you should get your period. They failed to work. Because they didn’t work, she prescribed me birth control pills. These actually gave me my period, but resulted in depression.
I went back to my doctor and had my birth control switched, and my period was regular on these as well. But I still didn’t like the way the pill made me feel, so I stopped taking them for a while, which resulted in the lack of my period. Over the years, I’ve been off and on the birth control, and every time I am not on the pill, I don’t have my period even though I put on ten pounds, more at some points.
Unsatisfied with my doctor’s answers, I visited another doctor. She told me that she really didn’t know what was wrong; my hormone levels were fine, so it was nothing I should really worry about, she said. So, she too, prescribed me progesterone pills, which did not work again. Let’s just say, I never went back.
At 18, my previous doctor wanted me to get my paps mere exam even though I’m not sexually active. I did, and everything was normal.
Since stopping birth control again, in the month of July 2009, I have yet to have my period again (11 months). I did, however, have spotting in January 2010 and February 2010, but nothing since. I also still continue to exercise almost daily, running about two miles and either doing bench presses or 5 pound arm weights. I fluctuate in weight between 117-120 and I’m about five foot six now.
Thank you for taking your time to read this. If you have any kind of idea what might be wrong, please let me know. I’ve tried researching, and can’t find anything. I would just like to know what is up with my body.