Ask the doctors: Mahesh Choolani
The female hormonal profile gets affected during anorexia. If you know the exact weight at which your menses stopped coming, then you should target a weight of about two or more kilograms above that.
A: The female hormonal profile gets affected during anorexia. If you know the exact weight at which your menses stopped coming, then you should target a weight of about two or more kilograms above that particular weight. Also it would be good idea to follow up with a reproductive endocrinologist who would review and track the hormones within your hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis and, in particular, your serum estradiol levels which, have shown correlation with resumption of menses.
Dr Mahesh Choolani is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with the Choolani Clinic at Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre