Can anorexia cause long term infertility?
If your periods are irregular and sporadic, you are most likely not ovulating or have anovulation. A series of blood tests can easily confirm anovulation and diagnose the causes. Your BMI body metabolic index can be calculated from you height and weight information. Women with low BMI, (less then 20) have suppression of their hypothalamic and pituitary gonadotropins hormones, which regulate normal, ovulation, and ovarian hormone production (estrogen and progesterone). Your BMI (body metabolic index) can be calculated from your height and weight information. Women with low BMI (less than 20) have suppression of their hypothalamic and pituitary gonadotropins hormones, which regulate normal ovulation and ovarian hormone production (estrogen and progesterone). Anorexia nervosa can cause long-term or permanent disruption of hypothalamic hormones. This type of hypothalamic anovulation can often be reversed.
