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is this normal and if it is when should i worry
Hey i am 17 yrs old....so i began to have a regual menstrual cycle at about 13 or 14 when it started at 12 it was not regular and ever since it became regular i have not missed it. Now however i missed one month and i in the second month and i may not have it . I don't know if this occurred because about four months ago i stop eat all meats but before i only ate fish and eggs as meat ..., i am nervous because i dont talk to anyone about things like this and i am nervous....i lost a little weight which i am going to get back so i started back eating meat but not everyday .... Help please and how can i gain some weight quickly... Oh and i forget i am studying for my last exam in hs so i was wondering if this was a reason ....for my two months of exams (the first month being the time i disnt have my period) i had no energy what so ever ...i took vitamin b tablets....help please..., there is so many reasons and i dont know which it is ....is it the lack of sleep....studying hours or diet
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It could well be a combination of things. While your body may be mature enough to have a reproductive cycle and become pregnant if you so chose, your body is not yet done growing, the changes are subtle, you've probably reached your height and bone structure size but the muscles and such can still be filling in.
Diet: I know vegans who eat no meat or byproducts from animals. they range in ages from young to seniors and they are all naturally very skinny people, but healthy due to their diet.
Vegetarians who eat no meat but do eat more of animal by products like eggs, milk and cheeses, may not be a skinny but they have a bit more weight on them in general from what I've seen with vegans.
I am a part vegetarian. Used to be fully so. But I eat fish and chicken and stay away from red meats and I try to get plenty of veggies and fruit and I am smaller but have gained weight as metabolism slowed.
Most likely with your partial protein diet, you are getting enough protein. The bigger concern which happened as I was older, females lose iron through the loss of blood monthly in periods and my doctor caught that I was low on iron cus didn't have enough iron in my diet.l So while iron may be a health issue, loss of it didnt stop periods. So I don't think it is diet related. Read up on line if you wish what foods are higher in iron and perhaps take supplement as well. The only exception would be a female who is seriously anorexic, not enough nutrition intake for energy to go to the support of vital organs and ones reproductive system so the latter gets cut out of the loop, no more periods until something changes for the better nutrition wise.
The same is experienced by some female athletes who are so into training for what they do that they have unintentionally rewired their body by the amount of exercise they do, so that all nutritional energy going in goes to muscle build up and endurance first and little or nothing to periods. Check out female body builders personal stories or ice skaters. Often, most do not have a period.
So the last thing is stress. Well, it is stressful already to not get the needed nutrition but I am talking of mental stress. Worry and such. SO in your case, the concern and worry over two months about tests and finals is very well able to delay a period. the same goes for it you are currently ill with a flu or other virus or just getting one or at the recovery end. Like a budget that is too tight, and money is taken from another budgeted item to cover an unexpected bill, our bodys pour all energy into fighting the germs and getting better and for a while after, we may s till be depleted and what energy would go into producing a period will stop it. Of course these stops shouldn't be going on longer than a month or two because the stress factor is always a short term thing that crops up.
And you mentioned sleep, each body needs sleep, some more than others to function well. What you require at 17 may not be what you require when 37 or 67. KNow your own body and if you have issues with the amount of sleep you are getting, its an easy fix to get more sleep and see it the stress of lack of it was the issue.
There is no reason why a teen who isn't sexually active can not be examined by a gynecologist. there are the seldom period related issues that can come up regardless so if a 3rd months comes where you don't have a period, you should go see your doctor. Something could have happened to your hormone level that only intake of hormones will fix and bring back your period, and they can check for low hormones. But all in all, it doesnt sound like anything really bad, especially if you are not experiencing any great pain as well in the region, something my doctors always asked if I had ever experienced there.
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