Irregular periods

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Hm. I guess this is the best place to ask. I have very very very irregular periods. Like... one every 2-3 months. Is this bad?

I might mention it's always been this way. I figure some one older than myself might be more helpful than my own musings.

If it isn't too personal a question, are you underweight? Low body fat can cause irregularity or even the complete cessation of the menstrual cycle. That's the only thing I can think of, although there probably are other possible reasons.

PFT... No. I am 170, maybe more. It's just slightly overweight, but not enough to cause problems, it's like 10 lbs I'm fairly tall.. -wishes to lose weight but loves the food too much-

its probably pcos. Then depending on what causes the pcos it can be really bad. If your pcos is caused by too much testorone your skipped periods are depositing cysts on your ovaries - if you get too many cysts or to large a one, you'll need surgery to remove it. You'll have no choice but to take birth control to regulate your cycle. if your missed periods are caused by lack of testosterone, then you won't need to worry about the cysts. However the doctor will encourage you to consider getting on birth control because not doing so puts you at higher risk for things like high blood pressure and diabetes.

Well, if it has been years and I have no noticable effects, can I just ignore it? (It's a real bother getting to a doctor from where we live. I rarely go)

Eh I looked it up.

All I have on the symptoms list is the acne (I'm a teenager), and the irregular period.

Edit: I have the ugly too, but that is nothing new xD

its not good to ignore it, especially if its been happening for so long. I had irregular periods like ours from the time I was ten until I was 21, then all the sudden i went three months without one. Got on birth control for a bit. Got off, had semi regular periods, then went a year without ovulation. There are some health problems and risks from that, but I know what they are and am okay with them.

Just go once and get everything checked. They'll draw like 12 vials of blood from you to check things out. Then they'll tell you you aren't pregnant and wait for your sigh of relief, before going on and telling you whats wrong and what isn't. This could also result in your catching things like the beginning stages of diabetes before its too late to reverse it.

*By any chance are you overweight = irregular periods can cause weight gain, and going 3 months or longer without periods can cause you to easily gain 10-20 or 30 pounds in as little as a month. And that weight is quite stubborn to get off, and nearly impossible if you aren't birth control

It might be, but you should see a gyno to be sure. After several years of irregular periods I was finally diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 20. It can be a tricky condition to diagnose though. I don't have a typical case of it. My only real symptom was irregular periods. It's not a condition to mess around with though because if left untreated it can lead to problems in the future such as cancer, diabetes or heart disease, as my endocrinologist reminded me. But it may not be that either, you still should get it checked out.

Get it checked, but I don't think so. Not be cliche, but everyone is different. I have a friend who gets hers every 4 months. i have a friend who always has hers for two weeks. eating does affect your period, but if its always been like that, then i don't think anything is wrong.

Well the sigh og relief would never come. It would be time for the second coming of Jesus if I were pregnant. LOL. The most skin anyone has ever seen from is is shorts and a t-shirt. And not even short shorts.

I am looking up some things, thanks for the advise.

You didn't say anything about your age so I am assuming that you are not menopausal. I am just entering menopause myself so irregular/missing periods are normal at this stage of life. Still, I think you should see a doctor about this

I've been there. I hadn't had sex in 3 or 4 years and they were convinced I was coming to them out of worry that I was pregnant.

However, the doctor that read my tests results had no doubt I was telling the truth about the four year abstinence. he saw that I had zero testosterone. Though its also interesting that I have more of a sex drive when I have no testosterone than I do when my body is producing it. I've no idea what the doctor wanted to do but he asked me several times if it bothered me to not be having sex and said we could talk about ways to get around that. He also said I was the only college age women he ever met who didn't desire sex and wasn't bothered by that lack of desire

It could be a lot of things, really. I had irregular periods for awhile; every two months, usually, but sometimes it varied. My gynecologist eventually decided that I have (had?) an immature fertility lining. All that means if that I don't build up enough to support a baby in the first month, so my body doesn't discard the blood; by the second month, however, I have enough to support one, and that's when I have a period.

It's still good to get it checked out though. It could be something very simple, or it could be something more complex.

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Sounds like a hormone imbalance, which can be caused by sudden weight gain or weight loss. (Obese people or anorexics can get Amenorrhea, or the sudden cessation of the period, which is preceded by very irregular periods like the ones you describe). I was going to ask your age, but you seem a good bit younger than me, so perimenopause is probably out as a possible answer. Go see your OB/Gyn and let them run a few tests. It can't hurt.

I had very irregular periods for years...I also had many other things...sometimes headaches...but not every month...sometimes I was just tired...sometimes grouchy...all kinds of funky symptoms which no doctor could ever relate to one another...at one time, I didn't have a period for almost a year! Well, after doctors not figuring out what was wrong with me, I went to a Chinese medicine doctor...who told me all these symptoms (I never told him my symptoms, he told ME my symptoms) were related...

In fact, I then searched the internet and found that I possibly had a tumor on my pituitary gland...sure enough, after going to the GYNO, I told him to check specifically for a "prolatinoma"...he thought I was crazy, but did anyway....and sure enough, that's what it was...They put me on some meds, they were horrible and I stopped taking them...then another med and I took for a while...eventually, the thing just disappeared...nobody can explain it, but it did...my symptoms all went away and I have been 100% regular since then.

Good luck and have maybe someone outside of regular doctors check on you and then go to your doctor with all the things the other doctor tells you, or check the internet, do your own study and then go to a doctor...Sadly, most doctors miss so many things because they don't even know what to ask...