he absence of menstruation - Amenorrhea

        thats the illness what i suffer from! my doc told me that i have to gasin 5 kilos or ill die... i need you support please.help me!:'(

OMG! I HAV THE SAME PROB......NO PERIOD.

IM 5.1 AND ABOUT 93.5-94 POUNDS

WHAT ARE YOUR STATS.

im 163 sm and i weight 49 kilos. ive hardly gained 2 kilos only! now i should gain 5 kilos....to become 54 or less for little bit...:D
how do you treat yourself?

Could I have that too? I'm about 95 pounds at 5'1"..155 cm about.

If I gain weight, then i will get my period back right?gosh, i wish i could see a damn doctor! my dads a doctor, but he seriously forgot everything and doesn't really care.....never did actually......seriously, i have sucky parents.

yeh i havnt had my oeriod for over a year now which many wouldnt complain at but i do want them back for my health. however i heard they just return normally if u put on weight. i put on a good amount until i was considered average with my bmi but they still didnt return and i just felt like i had ballooned so the repercussion was that i lost a ton of weight until i felt more comforatble again. apparantly the pill start them again and i went to the doctor to start it again but they said not until i had a blood test which i had and came back showing NOTHING! so frustrating!

I havent had my speriod in 2 years and I want to have kids SOMEday so I'm scared.  I'm about 5'4 105 lbs. How much do you think i need to gain to get it back?

Hope it's better soon.

Ammenhoria is a serious indicator of anorexia. I lost my period for about 6 months this way. It is also a dangerous problem leading to osteoporosis, because the drop in hormones in your blood affects how well your body stores calcium. So it's important that you gain weight. :-)

How did I do it? I stopped being anorexic. I ate bread again (I had been avoiding all carbs as somehow "Evil"). I ate peanut butter again. I went out with friends and ate in public and in restaurants *gasp*.

You can do it! If you are suffering from an eating disorder I would absolutely suggest you get help beyond that of your family doctor, at least by seeing a counselor. It can help you deal with the other issues behind why you are so underweight. 

*nods* ainedb is correct. Ammenhoria actually is one of the warning signs of Anorexia. Ammenhoria, compulsion to lose weight and a fear of gaining weight are the hallmarks of Anorexia.

Good luck to you, Anna. :)

thanks lot! also im suffering from cachexcia...but it realy doesnt scares me as much as Ammenhoria!
oh and ive started eatin.. 2days ago i used to be 49 kilos, when i ate sowhere less then 700calories, now im 50 im eating 1200 calories...or more ....i do know that this amount of calories shouldnt be gaining you weight...what happened>??
and again ive got one more question...:D when ill become 53 kilos how can i maintain my weight? i mean how can i survive and start maintaining weight? any answers, please write....
xoxoxo:*:*

I'd recommend that you talk to your parents first, but if for some reason they are not receptive or are unwilling, then get to a doctor, even if your parents don't want to take you.  There are agencies, such as Planned Parenthood, that provide free or low cost medical care to kids who are not able to receive it on their own.  Even if your parents do have insurance, they do understand that sometime it is not possible to make use of the insurance.

^^^
gosh... at fisrt mom is doc... ive been to 10000000000 doctors already! they are telling me the same... just i cant understand if 1200 make people to loose weight, why ive gaine 1 kilos in 1 day, if i didnt eat more than 1200 calories? thats it..
P.S.: tomorrow imgoing to 100000000000001 doc...=D

i have amenorrhea for hormonal reasons, not because of what i eat. you are going to wanna see your gyno, or like the above suggestion, planned parenhood. getting on a low-dose bc pill can starighten you out. otherwise, just try to not OVER work out and maintain a healthy level of protein intake.

good luck, sweetheart!!

 

i'm so sick of my mom nagging me about wy i haven't been getting my period. I got my period three years ago, when I was eleven, for the firs ttime. I was \perfectly normal weight though, but not athletic or anything. The period went away, as is normal sometimes for your first time, then came back at like 12 and began a pretty regular cycle. I would get it atleast once a month. And then at 13 I began being really sick with how I looked- I read an issue of Glamour about how to stay thin and I started follwing it- I lost weight and looked great. Then I joined the cross country team- which was intense running every day, six days a week after school and on saturday. Now, I was training like an athlete but still had the mental mind frame of a dieter. I would come home at like 6 and go straight to homework till like 10. (Running stiffens appetite)  I thought wohoo I'm great at this dieting thing. By mid-season I was so exasperated. I didn't get enough sleep. I had stopped dreaming and the dreams didn't come for another year.

  Worst thing is my period stopped. I mean I'm kind of overjoyed (no more tampons!) , I don't see kids in my near future, but I know I might one day- and my mom is super worried.

Now i'm at perfectly average weight- I stopped cross country. I'm still barely ever hungry though - I get the feeling I undereat- but honestly its not because I'm trying its just i don't feel hungry.

I'm 15 in two months and I still haven't gotten my period. I'm 5'5 and 115 pounds- thats absolutely in the middle range. The doctor says gaining weight might help- but my friends are skinnier than me and I know they all got their period- i'm afraid i might have some ovarian failure or something.

Wat do you think could be wrong with me? Anyone else w/ this prob?

I have this illness too. I've not had a period for, um, 17 months now. I'm so scared, I really don't want to get osteoporosis, this is meant to be the time my bones are building and they won't be able to when I'm older! I've heard osteoporosis is really painful and you end up becoming dependant if it gets really bad! I did have anorexia and then went to treatment and gained weight back but it still didn't come back! I then ate a higher % of fat in my diet, as I heard if I didn't eat enough I wouldn't have the hormones for it. I don't undereat, and I do get lots of iron. I'm really scared and don't have a clue what to do. I don't over-exercise either, in fact, I hardly do much at all.

If anyone has any ideas to help me or anyone else asking, please say, even if you are not sure. I've been trying for months and months to get it back and I don't want to live in pain! I'd rather die...

(I've put stuff that may help any of you in bold.)

yup, in the same boat,

MYNAMEIS-whats your bmi? mine is in the normal range, i dont workout and eat fats, i dont get it either, its scarey+not fair.

good luck

Hmm I'm not quite sure because my weight is always different on home scales (don't use much, they are in a cupboard), doctor's scales and dietician's scales. But the dietician wouldn't have let me have a bad BMI, so it must be in the normal range, I guess. I put on LOADS of weight in treatment, but I guess that's because I lost so much. Well okay, I know I did.

I've just been waiting for months and I'm just getting tired of it and more scared because apparently the longer it is gone for the less chance there is of it coming back. And I don't think waiting is going to bring it back. I want to do something but I don't know what.

(On a side note, business studies coursework is really hard and I'm going to be on this computer forever, I don't understand it!)

Good Luck to you also. I wish we could all be healthy! And happy

i havent had mine fr a few years and am assuming ill need the doctor to prescribe meds to induce it.  i just hope i havent screwed myself over for good.

Original Post by annatokhadze:

oh and ive started eatin.. 2days ago i used to be 49 kilos, when i ate sowhere less then 700calories, now im 50 im eating 1200 calories...or more ....i do know that this amount of calories shouldnt be gaining you weight...what happened>??

 When you start eating more food in the day, it increases water weight - there is just more food moving through your body and stomach.

And sometimes when the body has been starved (like yours on only 700cals!) it may try to grab any extra food to store as weight it can - but once it realises you are going to stop starving it will let you digest normally.

I'm not an expert, so don't know if I explained this right. Oh well.

Original Post by agruskin:

i havent had mine fr a few years and am assuming ill need the doctor to prescribe meds to induce it.  i just hope i havent screwed myself over for good.

 Me too, I'm terrified of that, and am also really worrid for so many people who suffer from it but are like, "It's OK, I don't want children." I just wish they could all know! I don't want children, but I don't do end up in a nursing home when I'm only middle-aged or something! It's the worst to lose it as a teen... It's the crucial time for your bones!

I'm horrified as well. I am 5'2" and weigh about 110 pounds, so I have a healthy BMI. I do want to have children one day and I'm scared. I'm very active- should I just stop running so much? But still, I only about 15 miles a week, more or less.