Have you lost your cycle due to stress? How long?

I’m sorry—that sucks!

I’ve skipped the odd period here and there due to stress, but never more than one in a row. I recently went 5 months! But I AM perimenopausal, so that made sense. Unfortunately, I got it again last month, and it was a doozie!

Have you lost weight? My SIL skips periods when she loses too much weight (I wouldn’t know what that’s like).

I would get an IUD before the period from hell begins. I've had one for over 10 years and my periods are non existent.

Longest for me was 16 months. I ended up having a D&C because of it.

Longest period (super heavy too) lasted 2 months solid.

Did you have any bloodwork done?

When I first found out about my now XH and OW I lost a heap of weight and my periods got very irregular. When he moved back home they started back up somewhat but I began to go three or four months between cycles. I put this down to perimenopause. Long story short, when I’d finally had enough two years ago and we split, my periods become sporadic and I would go months. I’m now feeling a lot more settled within myself ......... and they’ve returned, along with the migraines!!!!! I turn 55 this year, and this, whether it’s stress related or prrimenopause has been going on since 2012.

I’m 44 and have started skipping months. I had a couple skips when I was 42-43 and under a lot of stress. Celebrated turning 44 by not having a period for over 3 months. My cycles are short. So 3 months was 4 normal cycles for me. Spoke to my dr after skipping 2 and she said if I didn’t have one by June 1, the 3rd month, she’d check my lining and give me meds to induce. May 29 I started. Haven’t had another since then. Have talked to my primary & my gyn, neither are concerned. I had a full workup with my gyn at 43 due to irregularity that we blamed on stress. I hate not knowing when, but at this point don’t see the need to take medicine to force by body to have a period.

Yes, I did.  When my 8 yo was suddenly diagnosed with a life-threatening illness in Feb 2012, my cycles stopped until about Oct.   My doctor said that sometimes a shock or severe stress can affect your cycles.  When they came back after my daughter had finished her treatment in September, my cycles were all over the place - sometimes 2 in 6 weeks and then nothing for 2 months & I experienced hot flushes. I was super-busy caring for my daughter who had been left with disabilities & we spent a huge amount of time seeing Specialists and visiting hospital and I was trying to get her well enough to return to school (she missed one year of schooling and was part-time for the next year)   In the end, being fed up with never knowing when my cycle was coming & the hot flushes & super-heavy & crampy cycles, the doctor did blood tests and they seemed to indicate I had gone into early menopause.  Nuts.  The doctor gave me some HRT in the interim which dealt with the menopause symptoms but still allowed me to have a cycle if my body wanted it. It was just the sudden shock and ongoing anxiety and stress of it all.  Another year later, and I completely stopped cycling & changed to a different HRT.