Missed Period vs. Stress?

[rhetoricians.livejournal.com]

Hey ladies. :)

I'm 19 and have had a regular period ever since I started having mine ten years ago, always within 2 or 3 days of each other. However, my last period was in late May. I am not sexually active, and have not been on birth control since April.

I am really bothered.

My job has been an unbridled source of stress since late May, however. I have been in an insane amount of high blood pressure and angry sadness since I started working in this place ... is it likely that the stress my body has started to undertake is causing my period to be over a month late? Is this something I need to see a doctor about? I am really worried.

Comments

[sarahbear1.livejournal.com]

If there is no possibility of pregnancy, then stress can certainly change your cycle. If it really bothers you, discuss it with a doctor, but really, cycles can be affected by many things.

[lozoodle.livejournal.com]

I would say that because you only came off birth control in the last few months, your body is still readjusting which is perfectly normal.

When I first came off birth control to try to conceive, I had two very regular periods, and then they went wacky for a while before settling back into a regular pattern again. Its pretty normal and nothing to worry about. Stress can also delay ovulation, which in turn will delay a period :)

[archangelbeth]

My period once went 68 days from the end of one to the beginning of the next -- over the time I was doing finals in college to graduate. (Three pregnancy tests said "Nope!" and they were all right. O:> ) So I'd say don't stress over this, but see a doctor if it doesn't show up in the next month so that it's not a source of subliminal stress.

I hope you can get a better job or otherwise make the evil stress and sadness go away!

[memery.livejournal.com]

I feel you. Mine was supposed to get here sometime in May and I'm still waiting. I'm not prego, but my uterus apparently hates me.