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The age significantly affects the cycle of a woman. Cycle fluctuations are normal in the first years after the period has been introduced.

The first two or three years after the Menarche can be very irregular for the period bleeding and sometimes for several months. It usually takes a while until the complicated cycle of the hormones has been properly recorded and a more or less regular menstrual cycle takes place.

In addition, no cycle is chiseled in stone and even with an adult woman is usually only little “regular”.

Unfortunately, it is wrongly taught at school that a “regular” cycle should be 28 days. That’s just an average.

In times when more and more women take the pill and thus have a uniform “cycle”, it is quickly forgotten that it is artificially produced and does not conform to the norm.

Hardly a woman works like a Swiss clockwork and only 3.3% of all women have picture book cycles, which on a year only vary by a maximum of 3 days. The cycle lengths vary by more than 8 days within one year by far over half of all women.

This is not unusual and a menstruation cycle of 21 to 35 days is still considered to be regular in medical terms.

The period can also be postponed or even completely eliminated by psychological or physical strains such as stress, travel, performance, upcoming important decisions or family events.

What happens by such stressors on a hormonal level is not yet fully enlightened. However, one assumes that such situations can trigger malfunctions in the nervous system that affect the regulation of the hormones.

Menstrual disorders can have many reasons. If pregnancy is excluded and there was already a normal cycle before the bleeding for the duration of three months or more is absent, one speaks of a secondary amenorrhea.

Especially in younger women, large weight fluctuations or severe weight loss – often in the case of mager addiction – can also lead to the absence of the period.

In addition, hormone disorders and metabolic disorders are considered as triggers of secondary amenorrhea. Thus, an increased blood level of male sex hormones, as occurs in polycystic ovarian syndrome, leads to the absence of the period.

The thyroid hormones and the sex hormones affect each other and a metabolic position of the thyroid which deviates from the optimal target range can lead to cycle disorders.

An amenorrhea, however, is not a disease in itself and the treatment requirement (i.e. whether further measures are required) results from the complaints or an unfilled child’s request associated with the cycle disorder. A therapy depends on the cause of the disturbance and must therefore be individually adapted.

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