please help me! i don't know what to do coz my best friends periods have stopped.

[Lucystar]

please help me. one of my best friend has recently informed me that her periods started and stopped when she was thirteen. She is now seventeen and has had no advice on it.  She refuses to talk to her mum and won't see a doctor.  I do not know her mum very well and don't feel i can talk to her about it.  I am really worried because my friends and i have always worried that she is very slim.  Although she eats normally, she exercises extremly, doing about 2/3 hours a day.  Also compared to the rest of her family she is very slim, she is about dress size 6-8 and her sisters and mum are about size 12-14. please help me because i don't know what to do! 

[LiverpoolLou]

Hi Lucy, sounds like your friend has an eating disorder, people with eating disorders eat normally in front of friends and family, but it's what they do in their own time that is worrying. I could be well off the mark here, but it's just a niggling thought. Lucy try to get your friend to visit her GP or a well womens clinic, it's all confidential.

What a lovely friend you are.....have you told her how worried you are about her. I'd say to her, we are going to make an appointment to see the Doctor, go with her to make the appointment, and go with her on the day of her appointment.

Good Luck Lucy.....XX

[Clanad]

Check here for a possible explanation...http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/sma/sma_athameno_sma.htm< /P>

[Clanad]

Let's try it again...

http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/sma/sma_athameno_sma.htm

[LiverpoolLou]

Hi clanad, not my post, but really interesting. We just assume that if a person who is so young and their periods stop that it's some sort of eating disorder, I did reading the post. I'll think again in future.

[cat woman]

HI Clanad, A very informative site you have posted, I thought the young girl was maybe going through an early menopause.  I have put it on my favorites!   :-)

[tracymort]

Our bodies are pretty clever..if it knows it's not up to reproducing it'll try and stop that happening. Also the reason periods are usually delayed by breastfeeding. The body realises there's a baby around already and knows it shouldn't try and have one at the moment!
Your friend isn't physically healthy enough to have a baby so periods stop. Also why depression lowers libido.

[Lucystar]

Thank you very much for all your help.  My friends and I are going to make a doctors appointment and go with our friend to make sure she is ok. Thanks very much!

[kirlee0]

hi lucy i am 24 yrs old and i havent had any periods for about 7 months now i went to the doctors they did loads of pregnancy test and i wasn't pregnant so they said they will have to do tests only to just find out that i have polycystic ovary syndrome maybe your friend could have this nothing to worry about just give you medication etc the pill or utovlan wich is the medication i am on hope this helps

[sam82]

i am eactly the same i got my periods at 17 and they stopped when i was 18, came very irregular for 2 years then i havent seen them since im now 23, i was also very slim size 6-8 its just my build, i ate the same as most teenagers sometimes junk food sometimes healthy and my mums home cooking... my mum thought i had an eating disorder beacuse i was slim, didnt have periods and excersied, well i wasnt that was just normal, my body didnt mature and get the female curves until about xmas there, im now a size 10, although i look the better for it and feel it, my periods still havent returned, but this is supposedly common in females who exercise alot and are of a slim build.

i hope this helps, i wouldnt rush off the deep end, maybe try talking to her without being to over the top..as people made self concious all i got then was "oh your too skinny" , now all i get is "you've put the weight on"