Bringing Back My Period: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe hypothalamic amenorrhea, beginning with the untouched box of tampons and the many roads that led there — marathon, cycling and rowing training, netball, dance and fitness classes, military basic training, night shifts, eighty-hour weeks, grief, plant-based and keto diets that fell short, fasting, a weight-loss medicine that worked too well. Writers describe the diagnosis: being told it was the pill, early menopause or PCOS, frightening scans and blood tests, and the explanation that the body had switched off the cycle to save energy. Many were told it could not be this because they were not underweight. Recovery is described in its uncomfortable detail — eating more, training less, weight gain, the bone density scan — and its range of outcomes, from periods returning to cycles lost again, with some still waiting. Writers include teenagers and women in their forties, a personal trainer, a physiotherapist who missed her own signs, people recovered on paper from an eating disorder, and a mother whose period never returned after her baby. Later chapters cover fertility clinics, dietitians, needing a little help to conceive, and thinning bones.

Who it's for

For women whose periods have gone quiet, athletes and high achievers who suspect they are running on empty, and the parents, coaches and partners who want to recognise the signs.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 289 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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