Amenorrhea? How to re-gain period back.

Make an appointment with your GYN. I've been having similar issues, I've only had a few periods this year, and I'm not even underweight. I have an appointment in a few weeks, but yeah, just call and get seen.

Secondary amenorrhea can occur for several reasons. Outside of the obvious pregnancy explanation, two main reasons include excessive exercise stress and low energy availability (net calories) upon 5 consecutive days or more.

It is quite common for people in self-reported surveys to greatly underestimate food intake and overestimate exercise expenditure. Although your net intake range seems satisfactory, are you accounting for everything you eat and weighing all food using a digital scale? Are you perhaps miscalculating exercise energy expenditure?

If your calculations are significantly off, you could actually be netting less calories than you think which would lead to disruption in LH pulsatility and ovarian function.

You can read about how insufficient energy availability to lean to an absence of menses in this study:

http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/88/1/297.full

My bet might be the turbofire. Is it strenuous? My friends would always lose their period during cross country season and gain it back after the season ended (less exercise). I'm not sure if eating more would help, but it might.

what is your body fat%? women need ample body fat for menstruating hormones.

see a Dr

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My doctor told me that the body will stop ovulating and/or stop having periods if there is too much stress on the body to support a healthy pregnancy. Could be anything from lack of enough calories, protein, healthy fats, and/or iron. I did ballet and a lot of the really skinny girls who ate very little and did a lot of exercise tended to go for months without periods. See a doctor but in the meantime eat more, especially protein and iron containing foods. If your hair isn't falling out it may be iron not protein, but a doctor will have to do a blood test, and tell her what you eat each day and how much exercise etc.

Also have them check your B12 levels. If you are not getting enough animal products or B12 vitamin, you could have "pernicious anemia" which looks like low iron, has low iron symptoms like amenorrhea, but is really low B12. Just in case.

I had Provera to treat my amenorrhea in what's known as a "progesterone challenge", which is used as both a diagnostic tool and to induce periods in patients with amenorrhea. I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) which has led to difficulties with my periods from the very first one, and in people with sufficient estradiol (a form of estrogen) giving patients Provera for I think seven days, and then withdrawing it, should induce bleeding withing 2-7 days. If there's something more complicated going on, after 7 days there will still not be bleeding. I don't know if this fits the dosage instructions your doctor gave you, but this is my experience!

In my personal case, I experienced no real problem with taking the Provera beyond a slight increase in the hair on my upper lip, which I will admit was embarrassing, but was easily waxed off. After completing the week long course of Provera, it took the full 7 days for me to get a period. It made no difference to the long-term regularity of my cycle, because of the PCOS - I still need to be on some form of hormone therapy, be it the pill (which I can't take) or Provera, to force periods to occur at the right time.

Really, though, don't sweat about amenorrhea too much. You only need a good bleed every 3-4 months to keep things properly healthy, and I've gone up to 10 months without a period and everything is still in working order. You just learn to roll with it.