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Can Stress Induce Your Menstrual Cycle?

By Shannon Koehle
Created 04/13/2010 - 10:34

I'm on a birth control pill so I should not have my period right now, but I do. So I was wondering if stress and anxiety can cause a stress-induced menstrual cycle.

I know women can have stress-induced missed periods, but is the opposite true as well?

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