How exactly does bulimia affect fertility?
Friday, May 29th, 2009 at
3:39 am
Laura S asked:
I know it can but how exactly? Any doctors or just ery well informed people out there know? Is it hormones it affects?
I know it can but how exactly? Any doctors or just ery well informed people out there know? Is it hormones it affects?
I mean when the bulimic individual is not underweight at all.
I understand why anorexics lose their periods because they are so underweight they simply don’t have the resources but if you are at a “healthy” weight I just can’t understand how they would be affected.
Please help if you can
Thanks!
Tagged with: Bulimic • Fertility • Periods
Filed under: Eating Disorders
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Even after returning to what is considered an ideal weight, more than half of these women experience a reproductive disorder….no menstrual bleeding and irregular periods. The problem is low levels of luteinizing hormone, it controls the cyclic patterns of the secretion of estrogen and progesterone. Even bulimics with regular menstrual bleeding have deficiencies in circulating regular hormone levels. I hope this information helps you.