Run the other way........you need to to run. Horrible advice.

I'd go to a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner with a specialty in fertility. Usually the top fertility MDs in your area will know who is well trained in fertility as IVF has great results when TCM is used. I'd call around in your area, if you want a referral.

It may cost you $65-80 depending upon your town's cost of living, or you can go to a teaching college lower the cost to $15-25.

oh god, don't take The Pill!!!

You have to figure out how to get your body to work properly on it's own (easier said than done, i know). Flooding your system with synthetic hormones is not going to equalize you or teach your bod how to self-regulate. In fact it'll probably teach it to act in a compensatory way. Science doesn't, and can't really ever, know ALL of the effects and mechanisms of hormones in our bodies. Taking the pill will probably indeed give you very regular periods, but at what cost?

I have never, ever, met someone who has been totally problem-free with the pill. I'm willing to allow that maybe just don't hear about the successes, but still..

Stick with the acupuncture, and keep on the path you're on of properly nourishing yourself. Good luck!

Eat some starch - my period also went AWOL after being very low carb for about 6 months. Lots of panic, stress and pregnancy testing ensued. Then I introduced starches again and got my period back after just one week of eating about 100g carbs from sweet potatoes and such! Anybody know the biochemistry behind this?

Now, I still have a thick pad of fat around my midsection, but I won't be lowering carbs drastically in the future to get rid of it, as I don't want to go through the period loss again. Might have to go back to the old method of reducing food amount and moving more to get leaner :( and learning how to relax better - I am a worrier and a suspect the fat is cortisol related.

BCP's are a bunch of bologne. I wish I had known in my 20's what I know in my 30's! there are estrogen and other reproductive hormone creams you can buy that rub onto your skin. I don't know that much about them but from what I've heard from a couple friends they are much better than pills. I have no idea how to find a good Naturopath, but google will probably tell you. a Naturopath will figure out how to solve your problem without BCP's. Wish I knew more!!

I had no period for three years between the ages of 14-17 (in the UK too) and the doctor put me on the pill. Not knowing any better, I stayed on it for 6 years, until I quit it in January 2010. My period didn't come back. I now live in Japan, but went back to the UK in December and saw a doctor- he said that after quitting the pill your cycle can be "odd" for up to 1.5 years (despite the fact mine wasn't odd, it was entirely absent) and that he wouldn't run any tests for me until I reached that point. So I came back to Japan, saw a doctor here three weeks ago and she discovered I have polycystic ovaries. Not sure if I have full blown PCOS (the syndrome), and I hear that both can be mutually exclusive (eg you can have the syndrome without the cysts and have the cysts without the syndrome). I'm furious at the English doctors for not even checking for this when I was 17, or in December. The Japanese doctor gave me the pill just to make me bleed. Although I empathise with you that your doctor just wants you to have a "fresh womb" (ha!) it is important to shed the lining every now and then- and it's been a year and a half for me now!

I would get checked out for PCOS if possible. If you find that low carb helps you that may be tied into a symptom that often comes in tandem with PCOS- insulin resistance. I have always been skinny so I don't seem to have the weight gain problem some people have with it.

However, after getting distraught about it and worried that I would have to stay on the pill to regulate my hormones, I saw a great acupuncturist who I have been to for other problems. He diagnosed me with stagnant liver qi, which explains a few other health problems, and has been treating me for that. I have heard great things about acupuncture's ability to solve hormonal imbalances, so I highly recommend it. It's been a while since I've been back in the UK but I think that you can get acupuncture on the NHS for some things. Otherwise have a look at reviews for acupuncturists in Edinburgh.

Good luck!

How old are you? Very hard to give advice without knowing if you might be menopausal.

Just got the exact same diagnosis and recommended therapy from my gyno - no period for the last 12 mo. everything tested normal, thyroid, not premenopausal, doc agreed with me its due to training intensity and low body fat. She said that low estrogen will cause bone loss and recommended birth control pills! It did not make any sense to me!

Look into pcos I had same problems, mine was caused by insulin resistance I am not a dibetic I am not obese I am 34, I've eaten whole wheat bread all my life, I love sweets would cave cravings, I don't have them anymore they have me a pill that helps me break down the insulin,I've also lost weight hope this helps I know how I felt.

Please don't post if you don't know what you are talking about. Have you ever heard of osteoporosis? It is most common after menopause because your estrogen levels have declined. So low estrogen can cause bone loss and cause you to not have a cycle. In your situation, having low body fat or intense exercise regimens can affect your estrogen levels, thus lead to lack of menses. The treatment is training less, eating more healthy fat, and changing your ratio of muscle to fat And see if your cycle resumes or start birth control. Just because you reacted bad to one doesn't mean the same thing will happen. Also keep in mind that woman that don't have menstrual cycles that are also athletes are at higher risk of stress fractures...and women do not need to have cycles for the reasons mentioned ( they have continuous birth control now that skips monthly bleeding altogether.)... The lack of regular menses is a sign your body is stressed. It's a defense mechanism in which the body tries to prevent pregnancy because the body is overworked, or too thin, or stressed etc ( considering all other test are normal).