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What does it mean when your period comes early?
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Menses: Some reasons for early periods include fatigue, anxiety, stress, marked weight loss or gain, significantly poor nutrition or intensive exercise.
Answered 11/15/2015
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Early periods.: Reasons for an early period can include endometriosis, emergency contraceptives, changes in hormones, polycystic ovarian syndrome, chemotherapy for uterine cancer, perimenopause, eating disorders, intense dieting (especially w high carb diet), marked weight gain, significant over-exercising* anovulatory periods.
Answered 11/3/2013
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