When a girl misses her period, she starts to become scared, she start to skip late night rests everything becomes blurt to her .
All she thinks about is if she isn’t pregnant, but I’m here to tell you that not all missed period means you’re pregnant. You could actually have a missed period cause of so many things, and to crown it all up if she has a missed period and she isn’t pregnant she starts to think the unthinkable.
It’s easy to assume you’re pregnant when you realize your period is late. If you’re trying to conceive, you may feel excitement and a sense of disbelief. If you’re not, you might feel fear or disappointment, not to mention utter confusion if you know there’s no way you could be pregnant.
The truth is that there are so many reasons why you missed your period
Here are the 6 most common reasons for a missed period:
1. Pregnancy : When you miss your period it could actually mean you’re pregnant, if you’re expecting a child you should be happy but if not , you need to go for an abortion. The fastest and easiest way to find out if pregnancy is the cause of your missed period is to take an at-home pregnancy test. These tests detect human chorionic gonadotropin (better known as hCG, the hormone released during pregnancy) in your urine. These tests are most reliable the day after your missed period, but some tests can detect a pregnancy up to five days before you’ve missed your period.
2. Stress: You already know that stress can trigger a number of unpleasant side effects, like headaches, weight gain and acne — and it can also affect your menstrual cycle. When you’re under physical or emotional stress, your body produces the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol. Elevated levels force the brain to decide which bodily functions are essential and which are nonessential until the anxiety-inducing event is over.
3. Illness:Think back to the time you should have ovulated. If you were sick, whether with a simple cold or something more serious, the stress could have put your body into that “which-function-is-most-important” phase mentioned above. So ovulation could happen later than usual or might not appear at all — meaning, your period will also be late or nonexistent. If illness around the time of ovulation is what caused you to be irregular, Aunt Flo’ will likely return once things are back to normal.
4. Weight: Your weight can affect your hypothalamus, a gland in your brain responsible for regulating various processes in the body — including your menstrual cycle. Extreme weight loss, a low caloric intake or being very underweight stresses the hypothalamus, and your body won’t release the estrogen needed to build the lining of the uterus. The same happens with eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia, which also cause estrogen levels to dip too low.
On the other hand, being overweight or gaining a lot in a short amount of time can cause your body to produce too much estrogen. The overload may cause you to go for months without ovulating or cause the endometrial lining to overgrow and become unstable, resulting in heavy, irregular or missed periods. Usually, gaining weight if you’re underweight or losing if you’re overweight should help your periods to return to normal.
5. Excessive exercise
Of course working out is good for you. However, when you overdo it (and possibly also restrict meals to lose weight), your body doesn’t produce enough estrogen to complete the menstrual cycle. Some women — such as ballet dancers, gymnasts and professional athletes — are at greater risk for amenorrhea (missing a period for three or more months in a row). But you don’t have to be a pro for exercise to mess with your system. Working out excessively without taking in enough calories can also cause disruptions.
6. Change in schedule
Believe it or not, switching things up — for instance, working the night shift instead of the day, or travelling across the country — can throw off your internal body clock, which regulates your hormones. Sometimes this results in a missed or late period, but it should return when your body gets used to the change or your schedule goes back to normal.
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