Resumo de A Woman Who Misses Her Monthly Period For Five Years

When a woman who has been having regular periods starts missing them or bleeding unexpectedly, there is always great worry. Not having the periods, when a woman has not had sex and therefore is sure she is not pregnant can even be cause for more worry.
Not knowing why menstruation has ceased can be stressful, and waiting for periods to happen again then may feel like a lifetime. stress will not only cause headaches but will also perpetuate the lack of periods. Stress alone can lead to a woman missing her periods.
If a woman, who is sexually active, misses her period this is taken as foolproof for pregnancy. In many, however, if pregnancy is unwanted, by the time they complain they have tried many kinds of herbal arbortfacients, to no avail.
A good number of urban women believe contraceptive pills are supposed to bring back lost periods. Many consume the brown last seven pills on the contraceptive pack wishfully thinking they will get the periods so that if they have had an unwanted pregnancy it will be flushed out.
In the village, lack of periods is equated with pregnancy and has led many people to suspect that women of a certain clan can have their babies overstay in wombs even for years. This has many times raised paternity issues with many men claiming their women are unfaithful.
Amenorrhoea, the absence of menstruation is usual during puberty because the womb has not yet matured enough to bleed regularly, or towards menopause when periods are about to cease.
In primary amenorrhoea a woman has never had any menstrual periods before. This by age 16 is likely to be very significant requiring medical intervention. Secondary amenorrhoea occurs when one was previously menstruating but then stopped.
A symptom, not a disease, amenorrhoea rarely indicates a serious condition and as such it may be associated with other symptoms depending on the cause. These may include headache, breast milk leakage, considerable weight gain or weight loss, dry vagina, increased hair growth in a male pattern (hirsutism), voice changes, and breast size changes. If a pituitary tumour causes amenorrhoea, other symptoms related to the tumour such as loss of vision, apart from headache, may be present.
Yours can be described as secondary amenorrhoea, since you had periods before the last five years.
If you are a woman of reproductive age, pregnancy is the most common cause of amenorrhoea. When a fertilised egg is implanted in the lining of your uterus, the lining remains to nourish the foetus and isn't shed by menstruation. However pregnancy for five years is impossible unless you got pregnant delivered, breastfed, got pregnant again and now you are breastfeeding.
Mothers who breast-feed often may lack periods. However a good number of these women may ovulate without menstruation hence getting pregnant despite lack of menstruation.
Some women who take birth control pills may not have periods. When oral contraceptives are stopped, it may take three to six months to resume regular menstruation. Contraceptives that are injected or implanted, such as Depo-Provera, also may lead to lack of periods during an unspecified period after the injections are stopped.
Mental stress can temporarily alter the functioning of the brain that controls the hormones that regulate the menstrual cycle. Ovulation and menstruation may stop as a result. Regular menstrual periods usually resume after stress decreases. Many Ugandans deny that they are stressed even when doctors tell them so. They usually equate stress with malingering or some degree of madness, which sounds abusive. However drugs for madness and those for extreme stress can additionally lead to lack of periods.
Madness, usually a chronic illness or any other chronic illness may on their own, postpone menstrual periods only resuming after one recovers.
Problems of hormonal imbalance notably male and female sexual hormones, thyroid, and prolactin can lead to missing periods for many months or even years.Prolactin overproduction can result from a swelling (tumour) within the brain, which can lead to a serious headache and vision loss. However five years without periods alone can lead to stressful headaches apart from, those resulting from a nagging husband who wants to use an excuse of lack of periods to terminate a relationship.
Relatively high and sustained levels of female or even male hormones and a breast milk-producing hormone, prolactin interferes with ovulation and menstruation. The so-called polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is associated with obesity; diabetes, acne, beards and lack of periods.
Overproduction of prolactin is responsible for many breastfeeding women lacking periods and not getting pregnant, a fact properly utilised in rural Uganda as natural but mostly accidental family planning. Thyroid gland problems including an under active thyroid gland, can affect the production of prolactin, increasing or decreasing it, many times stopping periods.

Resumos Relacionados