Understanding Missing Periods: Causes, Concerns, and Solutions
Are you experiencing irregular menstrual cycles or missed periods? It’s essential to understand the potential causes and know when to seek guidance. In this comprehensive FREE guide, we’ll explore the reasons behind missing periods, common concerns, and solutions to help you get your period back.
Common questions about missing periods:
Can You Miss a Period and Not Be Pregnant?
One of the most common questions women have is whether it’s possible to miss a period without being pregnant. The answer is yes. While pregnancy is a common cause of missed periods, several other factors can lead to missing or irregular menstrual cycles. Stress, overexercise, undereating, thyroid conditions, PCOS and many other factors can all contribute to missed periods.
If you’re experiencing irregular cycles and suspect pregnancy, it’s essential to take a pregnancy test. However, if pregnancy is ruled out, it’s essential to explore other potential causes and seek support.Â
For more in-depth information on missing periods and potential causes, be sure to download our free guide to missing periods above.
How Much Delay in Periods Is Normal?
The question of ‘what’s normal’ is something that comes up again and again at FUTURE WOMAN. There are a lot of myths around this topic. For example, that it’s only normal to have a 28 day cycle! In fact only around 16% of women have a 28 day cycle.
The menstrual cycle can vary in length from woman to woman and even from month to month. If you notice a significant deviation from your typical cycle length or experience irregular cycles for an extended period, that’s the time to seek additional support.
The average menstrual cycle is actually around 29 days, but there’s a wide range that’s still considered normal. We’ll cover all this, and exactly how much variation between cycles is ok, in our free missing periods guide. We’ll even educate you on how to track your menstrual cycles and become familiar with your body’s natural rhythms.
How Common are Missing Periods?
Missing periods are properly referred to as secondary amenorrhea, which means going 6 months or more without a period. And where pregnancy, breastfeeding and menopause have been ruled out.
Research shows that secondary amenorrhea affects between 2-5% of women.Â
What To Do if Your Periods Go Missing?
If you’re experiencing missed periods or irregular menstrual cycles, there are several steps you can take to address the issue and get your cycles back.
We’ll cover all the steps you need to take in detail in this guide – from tracking to comprehensive hormone testing and beyond – in order to identify the root drivers of your missing and irregular periods. We’ll also cover lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise that can influence when your period arrives.
The key to making healthy lifestyle changes as women, is to understand our unique rhythms as women – we’re not small men! And on top of that we’re all individuals with our own unique histories, microbiomes, genetics and habits that make up who we are.Â
By downloading this FREE guide, you’ll understand exactly how to identify YOUR unique drivers which is key to making lasting change.
What Causes a Missed Period?
Several factors can contribute to missed periods or irregular menstrual cycles. It’s important to identify your root cause or root causes with comprehensive and accurate hormone testing in order to make adjustments to bring your cycle back into balance.
We cover the main causes of missing and irregular periods in detail in this guide, and exactly what to do about them. This includes hormonal imbalances such as PCOS and hypothalamic amenorrhea, thyroid conditions and many more. As well as diet and lifestyle factors like diet, exercise, sleep and stress.
Identifying your cause (every woman is different!) is key for helping to bring your cycle back and returning to regular, healthy ovulatory menstrual cycles.
Can Diet and Lifestyle Impact Missing Periods?
Yes, diet and lifestyle factors influence our menstrual cycles and missing periods. Therefore these things can act as both a cause of missing periods, and also they also need to be part of the solution.
One of the common causes of missing periods which we’ll cover in this guide is not eating enough, or exercising too much.
Every woman is individual – and what might be too much exercise for some, is just enough for others. As we’ll demonstrate in this guide, testing cortisol levels is an easy way to understand your own limits when it comes to diet and exercise.Â
Deficiencies in certain nutrients can also influence our menstrual cycles, so understanding the key role nutrition plays is vitally important.Â
Download our free missing periods guide
In our free guide to missing periods, you’ll discover the different root causes of missing periods and how to address them to bring your cycle back. For good. Click the link above to get your free copy.Â
