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Can stressing out cause your period to come late?

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Observation: Stress, weight loss, medication, exercise, and other benign things can cause menstrual irregularity. If your cycle does not resume a normal patterns soon, a pregnancy test or visit to your gynecologist would be in order.

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Answered 3/14/2015

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