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Amenia
Diagnosis
Your doctor will ask you about:
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The date of your last menstrual period
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Whether you are sexually active
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Your birth control methods
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Your pregnancy history
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Your eating habits, rapid weight changes, obesity or extreme underweight
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Your typical monthly menstrual patterns (regular cycles or irregular cycles)
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The age when your mother entered menopause (many mothers and daughters enter menopause at about the same age)
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Amenorrhea
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
Amenorrhea is the name given to the condition when a woman fails to have menstrual periods. The condition is known as "primary amenorrhea" when the... Read more »
Amenorrhea: primary
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation. Menstruation is a woman's monthly period.Primary amenorrhea is when a girl has not yet started her monthly... Read more »
Secondary amenorrhea
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Secondary amenorrhea occurs when a woman who has been having normal menstrual cycles stops getting her periods for 6 or more months.Amenorrhea is... Read more »
Menstruation: absent
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Missed periods; Lack of menses; Periods - missed; AmenorrheaPreventionReferencesMaster-Hunter T, Heiman DL. Amenorrhea: evaluation and treatment. Am... Read more »
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