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Re: exercise and periods
From: Anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 13 Jul 2002 20:02:55 -0500 (CDT)
At Sat, 13 Jul 2002, John Essien, M.D. wrote:
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>Irregular menstrual cycle is quite commonplace in young women of your
>age. Exercising would really have to be extreme and maintained over a
>long peroid of time for it to affect your menstrual cycle, largely due
>to the excessive loss of bodyweight. I would suggest you seeing your
>regular doctor and discuss the use of birth control pills for some
>months until your cycles are regular.
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>At Sat, 13 Jul 2002, kelly wrote:
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>>hi there. how are you? I'm 17 and a few weeks ago I started running a
>>mile or two daily. my period is about a week late (it's been 41 days
>>since the start of my last one) and I was wondering if this could be the
>>cause. I've done some research already and I know that "excessive
>>exercise" can cause late or skipped periods, but I hardly consider what
>>I have done to be excessive. could you clarify what kinds of exercising
>>(and how much) cause these late periods? also, just incase this impacts
>>anything, I started my period when I was 12 and it has always been
>>relativly heavy and not increadibly regular (with a cycle varying from
>>29 to 36 days). thank you very much for you time.
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>John Essien, M.D. SOCOG
>Camaguey, Cuba; Basseterre, St. Kitts
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>Kelly, I used to run marathons (training 10-20 miles a day!)and still had regular periods. I ate a lot of calories (5000 per day) to maintain enough body fat for periods. I was very thin, but some of my competitors strove for even lower body fat percentages and had problems with periods. I really doubt 1-2 miles will do anything unless you are eating 1000 calories or less.
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