Strange...

[i-love-the-pain.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm new. My name is Jordan and I'm eighteen years old. I have a question about the regularity of my periods.

I got my period when I was eleven and it was pretty normal ( I never skipped periods) up untill I was about sixteen and a half/seventeen years old. I just completely stoped having it. Like I think I got my period all of two times when I was sixteen. I got tested for poly-cystic ovarian and thyroid problems and came back clean.
At first I thought it might have been due to weight gain and or my starting on anti-depressants... But I've since lost weight and stopped taking medication and the only thing that got me going on a regular schedule again was after I started having sex. Even weirder, after I moved away from my SO my period has been MIA.
Has anyone else had this happen to them? Does anyone know anything about sex effecting the menstrual cycle? I'm kind of baffled here.

Any comments, ideas, speculations welcome. :)

Comments

[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

I know sometimes it can "thicken up" a light period, so to speak. I can't figure out why, but a lot of girls I know get heavier when they become sexually active, but I'm not really sure what happens when they stop...

hmmm

[blaire23.livejournal.com]

I kinda just followed the links and here I am, hope you don't mind. As for the menstrual cycle, I don't think there's anyone out there who *truly* understands it. I've never had a regular cycle. Before I started having sex, it was regular to heavy and was always absent for a few weeks here and there. After I started having sex, it went awol and decided to have a mind of its own...which although protection was used, scared me into spending a lot of mine and my boyfriends allowance on pregnancy tests. I got married...then divorced, and haven't had sex for quite a while, and it's back to normal.

As for not having it at all, if you got checked out for any type of ovarian cancer or cysts and the dr cleared ya, I'd say your body is just taking a reprieve.

weight gain and loss are a major factor in there. especially if you add in excercise. regular excercise can cause you're period to go wonky too. I'd say just keep an eye out for it, and damn puberty for being a factor.

~Blaire