I have a question...why, besides pregnancy, does a woman miss her period?
Happens often in extremely lean female athletes.
I think there’s the whole running/extreme exercise thing. And there’s illness.
Extreme emotional stress, as well as frequent vigorous exercise, will cause a woman to miss periods.
When I went through Navy boot camp many years ago, almost everyone in my company of 80 recruits stopped menstruating during the 8.5 weeks of boot camp. Boot camp was very stressful.
Premenopause
Stress
Low body weight
Disease
Breastfeeding can extend the absence of it
Quite a few women are irregular
Not Wifey though
Medusa arrives like clockwork
<”I have a question why, besides pregnancy does a woman miss her period?”””>>>
A more important question considering what we are discussing would be is....... what would cause a woman to have a period before the normal 28 days?
The answer is “stress”!
There are many things which may cause amenorrhea, the cessation of a woman’s menstrual cycle. Just a few:
Excessive exercising (it happens frequently to gymnasts)
Malnutrition (amenorrhea is frequent in anorexics)
Extremely low body weight/fat composition
Unusually high levels of stress
Certain infections
Abnormal hormonal balances
Cancer
Ovarian disease