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Both teenage daughters - periods have stopped.

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LittleEsme · 13/07/2023 21:33

DD's are 17 and 15. Neither have had periods in over 6 months (6 months for the 15 yr old and 8 months for the older DD).

GP ran blood tests for the older one and everything came back fine. Told me not to be concerned and wait a few more monthS.

Should I be concerned?

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DeclineandFall · 25/11/2023 11:11

Could they both have PCOS? My periods were v irregular particularly in teens and twenties and could often be v heavy.

Gwenhwyfar · 25/11/2023 11:21

I think that when people say that girls just after puberty can have irregular cycles, it doesn't generally mean no period at all for 6 months after having regular periods for a while! It doesn't sound normal to me at all.

The Covid vaccine affected my periods, but made them much heavier rather than disappear - I'm the age for that to happen anyway, but I'm convinced there was a vaccine effect.

Gwenhwyfar · 25/11/2023 11:22

You say they are average weight, but they both had a late puberty. Isn't it normally slighter girls who have late menarche?

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LittleEsme · 25/11/2023 18:29

DeclineandFall · 25/11/2023 11:11

Could they both have PCOS? My periods were v irregular particularly in teens and twenties and could often be v heavy.

It's something I'll be keeping an eye on, most certainly.

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LittleEsme · 25/11/2023 18:32

Gwenhwyfar · 25/11/2023 11:22

You say they are average weight, but they both had a late puberty. Isn't it normally slighter girls who have late menarche?

The older DD is more tall and willowy but my youngest is quite average - strong looking shape.

They've both had painful hormonal spit breakouts, sore breasts and abdomen in the month before it re-started again, but they've also now suffered from abnormally long periods.

They both had covid - twice each. They re fully jabbed but neither want to even entertain having another covid jab if it was offered.

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AttilaTheMeerkat · 26/11/2023 06:38

A condition called polycystic ovaries cannot be ruled out here.

Blood tests done on the wrong cycle days can give misleading results. A day 2 test should be done to compare levels of LH against FSH, with PCO/S the level of LH is elevated compared to FSH.

itsatravestyy · 26/11/2023 07:06

I’m 25. Started my period at 12 and got on average 2 a year until I was 19/20 and it became regular. I was told it was quite normal and would regulate, which it did.

Gwenhwyfar · 26/11/2023 20:52

itsatravestyy · 26/11/2023 07:06

I’m 25. Started my period at 12 and got on average 2 a year until I was 19/20 and it became regular. I was told it was quite normal and would regulate, which it did.

You were told it's quite normal, but did you have friends who had the same experience? Because I don't think it's that normal.

The only friend of mine who missed periods was anorexic.

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LittleEsme · 27/11/2023 06:34

Thanks @AttilaTheMeerkat .
I'll make a note of this.

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43ontherocksporfavor · 27/11/2023 06:40

@Gwenhwyfar yes it’s quite common. Normal is t a helpful word in these cases. Dd 23 started at 16 the had nearly 9 months without. All tests incl ultrasound was normal. More regular now. DD19 started at 14 and still skips odd months as I did in my teens/20s.

itsatravestyy · 27/11/2023 06:46

@Gwenhwyfar The exact same thing happened to my cousin who was the same age as me. She managed to have 2 kids whilst we were in our teens as well. My periods are now regular so I don’t think anything of it.

Seagrassbasket · 27/11/2023 06:46

The Covid thing is really interesting - I remember there was talk about it affecting periods but as far as I remember the studies showed it hadn’t. Mine have been quite irregular since about January but the last time I had covid was last year.

Glad your girls ones have come back OP. I have to say I wouldn’t have thought missing them for 6 months would fall under the ‘normal’ irregular periods for teens!

kiwiaddict · 27/11/2023 07:06

Stopsnowing · 13/07/2023 22:08

I know that women sync when they live together. Perhaps that applies if one stops.

Nah they don't. It's a well perpetuated myth. I believed it too until I tried to find out the science behind it and discovered it's a complete fallacy

DustyLee123 · 27/11/2023 07:07

Have they been checked for PCOS?

KateLawsonDidIt · 27/11/2023 08:42

You are a kind mum for being on this and caring.

This was me. Late to start - 15. Then they were infrequent and difficult when they came.

Later told had polycystic ovarian syndrome. Took the pill for several years but when I came off it nothing again

Late twenties took metformin which sorted things out enough to allow pregnancy. Everything was fine after that oddly.

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