Why do not you have your menstrual cycle?

One of the frequent worries of women giora around their menstrual cycle. For some it is not always regular. If it's your case and you ask yourselfwhy if I'm not pregnant I do not menstruate ?, the gynecologist Sandra Girón explains the reasons behind this problem.

It is considered that there is a menstrual disorder when you do not have your period during three consecutive months or if you present cycles of more than 35 days and up to 60 days. These conditions deserve your full attention ", explains the specialist in interview for GetQoralHealth .

 

Why do not you have your menstrual cycle?

The main causes why women do not have their menstrual period in a regular way, once you have had your first menstruation (menarca) have to do with multiple conditions, here we cite some exposed by the Dr. Girón .

 

1. Weight gain

Approximately 30% of the absence of menstruation is due to increase of weight . This is common in women with Body Mass Index (BMI) of over 30 .

 

2. Dramatic weight loss

One of the immediate answers in women with high sports performance , suffering anorexy , bulimia or present a IMC of less than 20 , is that they do not reach to produce hormones necessary for the menstrual cycle to be fulfilled.

 

3. Early menopause

We have noticed that before reaching the age of 40, in many women this physiological process is advanced. In large part it is due to the current lifestyle. For example, highly processed foods are abused, people live with stress and smoking.

In response, the physiological response means that the ovary it ceases to produce its follicles cyclically and regularly, in such a way that the response of the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovary system is seriously affected, which generates absence of menstruation .

 

4. Abuse of hormonal pills

When it is abused at very early ages of hormonal contraceptives , whether prescribed by a doctor or by self-medication, the ovary it remains at rest for too long, generating this secondary effect.

Although, it is less and less frequent that the abuse of hormonal cause absence of menstruation , if it happens to happen despite the fact that the current pills are made with less dose.

 

5. Diabetes

Due to a deficient production of insulin , the ovarian cycle he alter . Not having ovulation , the response at the uterus level is the lack of menstruation .

 

6. Thyroid

Thyroid disorders are associated with Menstrual disorders , since the hormone that stimulates the thyroid is responsible for activating 100% the hormone that drives the ovarian function , causing the absence of menstruation .

 

7. Presence of tumors

Those tumors of central origin; they appear at the pituitary level (structure located at the base of the brain) that is a relay in the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovary axis, fundamental for the hormonal production adequate ovarian

The growth of this area can condition the absence of response in this intermediate relay and, therefore, there is no stimulus at the ovarian level for the presentation of the ovulation and the menstruation .  

 

8. Stress

 

This problem is considered idiopathic, since it is not entirely clear if it causes the interruption of the menstruation , but its relationship .

It has been noted that in periods of much Pressure , the process menstrual it becomes affected, since the reproductive function is not vital to subsist and the body responds by increasing its work in essential functions such as breathe Y decreases stimuli in reproductive areas .

It is important to mention that after two years, from the first menstruation, the menstrual cycle will be regular, before it is completely normal that it is irregular.

 

Many moms are alarmed because the first two years of the menstruation the girls are irregularities . This is fully expected because there is still immaturity in the reproductive system, "stresses the gynecologist Sandra Girón .

However, if this time is longer and there are alterations in the frequency, intensity or duration of the menstrual period, it is essential to go to a gynecological review . It is also necessary that you keep track of the dates to monitor their frequency and, if necessary, take the necessary measures.

 

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