There's a lot of talk about how many of you are using the absence of periods as a sign to start recovery, but as most girls (at least in Norway) are actually on the pill, this could be very misleading. Not only in the sense that you may still have it, but for me is was actually opposite. Let me explain. I have been skipping my periods for years by just continuing to the next pill set every month (not having a pill free week). This has worked fine for me, right until I got too underweight. At this point, my periods started coming every 2-3 weeks while still on the pill. I would think that these bleedings were not actual periods, but rather the intermediate type, but my point is that this made me think I was healthy. Which was totally wrong. My doctor told me that this was likely to occur since periods are coming when there is a decrease in hormone levels, but as I was giving my body a small dose by taking the pill every day, my body got confused and thought that I was taking a pill free week quite often. So please, don't take your periods as a sign of anything. What made me realize that my hormones were not right was that I experienced a lot of menopause symptoms such a dry skin, lack of libido, urge to go to the toilet all the time, irritability etc.
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I really thought I was not sick since I sort of bled "more" when being underweight since I could not skip my periods anymore by continuing to take the pills. 
