What could cause your period to be delayed?

Answer 1

Malnutrition and extreme stress are two possibilities. Also not everyone is completely regular, especially very young women. Extreme workout or sports involvement has also been known to cause a girl to miss her period.

Answer 2

There are several reasons why a woman's period might be late.

Popular opinion maintains that stress can have a direct impact on a woman's cycle, although this is debated within the reproductive ecology and related literature. Stress may have an impact on a woman's period since rising cortisol levels may prevent the release of GnRH from the hypothalamus, and consequently, result in lower FSH and LH levels leading to lower estrogen and progesterone.

Other reasons for a later menstrual cycle could be that a woman had poor nutritional intake (diet), high levels of energy expenditure (exercise), or both. Studies suggest, however, that the amount of exercise has a much bigger impact on menstrual cycles than do stress or diet. Women with very low or very high body mass indices (BMIs) may have problems with menstruation.

Cycle quality varies between women; moreover, a given woman's menstrual cycles may vary from month-to-month with some cycles being anovulatory. One's age can affect the timing of your period. Young women are frequently sub-ovulatory (i.e., they don't always ovulate with every single cycle and the cycle date can fluctuate) as are peri-menopausal women.

It is useful to think about menstrual quality as being along a continuum from fully functional on one end, to being completely amenorrheaic (no menstrual period, no ovulation) on the other end. Most women fall at different places along this continuum throughout their lives.

Let's recap! The following may result in a later-than-normal period:

• Stress
• Diet
• Exercise
• Body Mass Index (weight)
• Age (especially young women and women approaching menopause)

If you are concerned consult your physician. Remember that anyone (particularly persons with no medical training or detailed post-graduate research on female reproduction) can contribute to these posts and may often add helpful but unsupported claims.

Answer 3

When you're pregnant, you won't have a period.

Answer 4

Uneven food habits, hormonal changes and stress could also cause periods to be late

In addition if you have low body fat you wont menstrate.

Answer 5

Stress can cause a late period. Also, not all women have their periods every 28 days. Although, most women have cycles about 28 to 32 days long.