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Missed Periods During Fasting

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 4:05 am
by Jacob
uhhhokay said in their previous thread:
"My period is usually regular and was supposed to come 4 days ago. I'm currently fasting so my eating & sleeping schedule are messed up."
This is something that can happen and is something that isn't unheard of during fasts like in ramadan.

As described in this thread: M.I.A or, Dude, Where's My Period?, missed periods can have for a variety of reasons... but taking a look at some accademic studies you're right that fasting affects things too.

Here are the results of one study where 20% of respondents had their periods affected during ramadan:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl ... /table/T2/

Re: Missed Periods During Fasting

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 6:01 am
by uhhhokay
Hi - thank you for this thread, and I apologise for violating the new pregnancy scare policy.