CAN COCAINE CAUSE A IRREGULAR PERIOD? (menstruation)

I have been using marijuana & cocaine on the weekends and sometimes week days for about a year. and I have been on vacation in the u.s for a week and a half now (not doing any drugs). I haven't had my period all of june and it's now July and I still haven't gotten it , I'm young and worried of pregnancy , im wondering if me doing drugs and stopping for a week and a half would be the reason I haven't gotten my period yet

I agree with everything you are saying about addicts, it is a disease, BUT it is a self inflicted disease.
We are a family with 2 members that have/had additions.
1 we lost to heroin 14 months ago at age 38 and her Mother and all members of her extended family gave all help and support possible for over 20 years. She would be good and full of regret, and determined for a while, but would then disappear for weeks on end and start using again, only to return when she was in trouble with her suppliers or so ill she was unable to look after herself. WE DONE EVERYTHING WE COULD TO HELP, WE TOOK ALL ADVISE AND WE NEVER EVER JUDGED HER OR RIDICULED HER. All this had a devasting effect on the whole family, but most especially her mother, and she died within 2 months of her daughter, obviously from a BROKEN HEART... I have suffered the loss of 2 family members My SISTER and her daughter and our lives are in turmoil..
The 2nd family member My Nephew ( another deceased Sisters Son) is another drug user, and he has lost his mind to this EVIL. he is walking around, thinking everyone is conspiring against him, and most especially the Police, and ANYONE outside of a few very close family members, he has voices in his head constantly and he says these voices are showing him the most depraved things imaginable. he talks and argues with them all the time, and we now have real difficulty even communicating with him. The mental health team he is under cannot help, he will not attend meetings or let them into his house ( as they are part of the conspirators ) His life is in turmoil, and he calls me constantly through the night to tell me what these voices are saying and the images they are showing him. I have NOT slept a full night for over 5 years, and neither has my husband, because of the phone ringing. I am too scared to leave the phone in another room and not answer, as he has just me and his sister ONLY to talk to, I have talked him out of suicide so many times now I have lost count, he says he is unable to view these images and hear these voices anymore, and his house is full of graffiti that he swears these voices have done.
I go some days after such threats and find rope hanging like a noose from the staircase, or electrical cord that has been stripped where he has tried to electrocute himself. So please don't imply that sympathy, hope and help are all that is needed to get someone through this problem. IT IS NOT, I am very pleased YOU WERE STRONG ENOUGH to do this WITH THE HELP AND SUPPORT YOU EVENTUALLY RECEIVED.
But it is down to the individual, and the determination and the WANTING to get clean.
The PAIN you addicts cause to others, the loss of OUR lives, the tears, the help, the years you have taken from US, BECAUSE OF YOUR SELF INFLICTED DISEASE is beyond imaginings, and it appears you are still seeking sympathy for your plight with your situation.... Please spare me this at least, I know the pain and suffering we have I have lived this along with my Sisters for over 20 years, and still suffering today

Yes it does.

Bravo! Well said. You do understand the matter and most importantly, you're so right about what's the real solution to any kind of addition: HOPE, not hate. Neither is discrimination or blame. Just because it really can happen to any of us. Without exception.

thank you for this. 

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You'll look more credible and less like a recovering addict if you use proper grammar and punctuation. I'm one of the people you were referring to that have never been in the addicts shoes nor do I ever want to be. Your story was sad but keep in mind as much as we want to have warm soft hearts and be with the addicts every step of the way, it was their choice in a world that's a hell of a lot better then some people and children in third world countries that don't even have clean water to drink. Even they know not to start doing drugs so comparing apples to apples here, it's just as much about the hand you're dealt as how you play your cards. The topic of this article was simply to find out if cocaine causes irregular period patterns, we both clearly went a little far off topic but that's okay. Everyone needs to see it. Hundreds of years ago drug addicts were categorized and taken to death with the rapists and murderers as they were seen as leapors of society. We've come a long way, however out of the 10x higher population on earth in the last 100 years, we have over 100x the drug addicts walking around today then in the year 1915 and it's disgusting. Your mom told you not to do drugs, and if she didn't your public high school guidance counselor did even if she was banging a couple students. Haha. Don't do drugs kids, the only reason I decided to google this was because my friend said girls enjoy cocaine because it makes them skip periods.

"It can happen to anyone of us with no exception"? Really? I don't think so. That's like saying anyone of us could lose every dollar we own gambling with no exceptions. There's plenty of people in the medical field abusing prescription meds but there's also plenty that have access to millions of dollars in pharmaceuticals that are trustworthy and clean. The ones with their hands in the cookie jar will soon stick out like a raver at a cocktail party.

gynaecologist is the U.K. spelling :)

It is true. I almost took a home pregnancy test bc it was so late. And then I started

I have been so depressed and when I take coke I feel like nothing is on my shoulders and I can battle anything. I can only tell my husband my feelings and the situation I am in if I take coke. We have been trying for a baby for well over a year and I have given up I had regular periods before I started taking coke and drinking but now I haven't been having them at all really. I have PCO too which makes me feel like a failure and that I can't give my husband and myself what We are living for. I looked on this site to see wether it was the drugs or just the stress or even the PCO That had stopped my menstrual cycle but I feel that everyone is against my actions and don't want to help me stop.. I tried to kill myself two days ago because of all of this.. All I want to know if if there is any hope for me at all or if i should just give up because that's how I feel now...

Maybe you are pregnant i was on coke heavy until 1 month i missed my period then i found out i was pregnant i was definitely moving to fast and living the fast life but this was my first time bein pregnant i feel like god was tryna slow me down because out of all this time i get pregnant wen i start using coke i guess things happen for a reason

I don't think this is a medical doctor, purely because of the type of typing on a health page. Regular use as mentioned above can of course effect your health and the health of a child. Furthermore, with most of the 'cocaine' people use comes all sorts of impurities as well as other substances it has been cut with. Furthermore, prolonged cocaine use rarely comes on its own, it'd be rare to find someone was only a regular cocaine user, other drugs including alcohol, opiates and other downers could be used in conjunction with. So purely saying cocaine use is a single factor to health on this particular context could be misleading (though the statement should certainly not be discarded). Assuming cocaine was pure your body can metabolise it reasonably quickly, which is why the prolonged use would be more of a sticky issue, like the nurse above says. Single usage of cocaine can affect you to some extent, depending on the amount and the purity. With a considerable lack of evidence because of the ethics behind creating such conditions where you could find out for sure and that many people who use cocaine are poly drug users, it'd be hard to definitely say it significantly effects menstruation cycles. This study seems pretty interesting if you'd like to read a little more about it.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9103482/

- Final Year Addiction, Psychopharmacology and Mental Health Student.

Similar thing happened to me, did quite a bit last month. I had bleeding for about half a day the time my period was due, and completely stopped. Weird because I normally have very regular, heavy periods (even when I had unprotected sex with my bf). I was worried I'm pregnant but highly doubt it, I think it's because of all the coke.

Wow you think people don't know that. You're a f*****g tard.

Thank you!!! This def helps