Can Stress Cause a Missed or Late Period?

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It’s like peanut butter and jelly, in the worst possible manner. Worse, stress may cause your period and menstrual cycle to be delayed, making it more difficult to obtain your period on time (and where is that cache of dark chocolate?). According to new research, high levels of stress may lead to irregular menstrual cycles.

Yes, that is ironic.

The more you worry about missing your period, the more likely you won’t have one. It’s a classic case of the chicken coming before the egg. Not-fertilized egg predicament, as well as stressing out over it.

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When a woman is stressed, her periods are often delayed, missed, or even late. Why is this the case?

Even if you don’t have to deal with irregular periods regularly, stress may throw a wrench in the works and cause your whole menstrual cycle to go haywire.

Stress may delay or even prevent your period from starting since your body is so worried about keeping you calm and what’s happening around you that it delays the release of hormones crucial to the menstrual cycle, such as ovulation. This can lead to a missed period. Consider it from the point of view of a cavewoman. Your body goes into fight-or-flight mode when you’re under stress, and if you’re racing away from a woolly mammoth, for example, it seems natural that your reproductive systems would be put on hold and put on hold. However, your body presumably believes that Cavewoman-you would have no time to inquire, “Oh crap, why is my period late?” under this situation.

You don’t want to be so stressed that your body thinks you’re fleeing from a woolly mammoth, yet that happens.

How long can you go without a period due to stress? Is it possible to fully halt my menstrual cycle?

Although stress might cause a delay in your menstruation, it should not prevent it. This is excellent news (like, forever). If it’s been more than six weeks since your last period, it’s probably time to visit a doctor to ensure nothing’s gone wrong.

Does stress cause spotting?

Absolutely. As we noted earlier, the fight-or-flight reaction we discussed isn’t restricted to halting or postponing your period for a day or two. Spots, which you may see when you use the bathroom or wipe, may also be brought on by stress, but they aren’t enough to be considered a period. You may wonder, “why are this occurring 15 days early?” when this often occurs in the intervals between periods.

Of course, you’re correct. Lately, I’ve been dealing with a lot of stress. When I’m stressed out, my menstrual cycle becomes messed up. How can I get it back to normal?

You can’t just say, “Hey, I’m done worrying; you can make my period regular again!” to your body and expect it to respond. Don’t neglect the importance of devoting time to activities you find pleasurable. Your body (including your reproductive organs and menstrual cycle) may need doing you right now.

And if you’re always fretting about whether or not your period is on time, it may be time to make an appointment with your gynecologist. Yes, you’ll have to call and schedule an appointment, but the relief you’ll get if your doctor can identify the source of your problem and fix it (or at the very least reassure you by telling you, “It’s no big issue”) may be worth it.

Is there anything else I can think of that might be causing my periods to be irregular? Besides stress, what are some other typical reasons for a late period?

In addition to stress, pregnancy, birth control (both beginning and ending birth control may disrupt your system for a while), menopause, weight reduction, and too much exercise can all affect your menstrual cycle and produce a delayed or late period. If your period is running late, talk to your doctor about whether or not hormonal changes are to blame.

 

The information in this article was interpreted from the following artifact:

https://tampax.com/en-us/period-health/stress-and-periods/