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Help please! is an irregular period the major sign of pocs?

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Yes: Irregular menses are the major sign of pcos.

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Answered 8/18/2013

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

It can be: Reasons for irregularity include weight gain or loss, breastfeeding, alcohol use, eating disorders, marked emotional stress, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, cervical polyps, polycystic ovarian syndrome, excessive exercise & pregnancy. When a girl has just started menstruating & around the time of menopause periods can be irregular.

Answered 5/26/2015

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