Check Out Possible Reasons Why Your Period May Have Stopped

1. Stress.

Severe stress can have a major affect on your periods.

 High levels of stress hormones such as cortisol in your body interfere with menstrual hormones surges, resulting in a cycle that's delayed – or that just stops.

Both mental and physical stress have the same affect on the body, says Dr Morton, and periods will return when the person is physiologically ready. "With mental stress, evolution is at work," she says. "It's something in the body and brain saying it's not ready for babies." This is likely to be so that you don't become pregnant in a threatening environment or when you are too thin.

2. Too Much Exercise.

Exercise is very good for the body but if you exercise too much, your hormones will be disrupted in a similar way to when you're stressed. "If you are an avid gym-goer or athlete and you have very little body fat, there is a good chance you will begin to skip periods and have anovular cycles," says Ms Shiran Irani, consultant gynaecologist at Spire Parkway Hospital in Solihull. "Even if you do have a cycle, you may have very light bleeds as the womb lining is thin."

3. Your age

 “Periods usually tend to become lighter with longer cycle length closer to menopause when they completely stop around an average age of 50 to 51,” says Kavita Singh, Consultant Gynecologist at BMI The Priory Hospital in Birmingham.

If you’re younger than that, it could still be your menopause that’s causing your periods to stop. A recent study from Imperial College London suggests as many as 1 in 16 women may experience their periods ending due to premature menopause.

4. Your contraception

The contraceptive injection for example has been reported to affect as many as 7 out of 10 women, who all reported their periods stopping for up to a year after they’d had the injection.

Once you stop the method of contraception, your periods should return to normal, although occasionally problems can persist for a few months afterwards