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I'm a fourteen year old female with no breasts and no period. I feel so alienated and there is nothing I want more than to just have a normal body and not look like a skinny boy.  Since a young age, I have always been bigger than my peers, partially because of genes and partially because of my muscular swimmer body. I was bullied for my fatness and I would cry myself to sleep thinking about my fat thighs. So when quarantine started, I was eleven turning twelve, and I started working out and eating less and less to lose weight. By November that same year, I had turned twelve and had a bmi of eleven. I was admitted to the hospital and stayed there for almost half a year and gained enough weight to reach the bmi requirement of 17.5. I was happy and felt free, but I then started losing weight again as I felt increasingly uncomfortable with my healthier body. By july 2021, I was in hospital again with a bmi of 13, and I physically felt worse than I did at my lowest weight. For the next couple of months I became a revolving door patient, but in december I had enough and started recovering for my own sake. The first months were really hard but my work paid off and I felt happier and excited for the future. In june of this year I turned fourteen, and I finally reached a healthy weight. I had had discharge from my vagina for a couple of months, I felt small lumps under my nipples and I was growing hair in my armpits and around my vagina. I was excited to finally get my period and get breasts like my friends, but now four months later, nothing. I feel so hopeless and I just want to have breasts and a period. My chest looks like a boys and I hate it so much. I'm scared that I have done so much damage to my body that I will never have breasts or a period, and I am considering breast implants when I am legal because I can't deal with my current body. I feel happy in all other senses, I take antidepressants, I'm  doing well in school, I have friends and I swim once a week. My counselour at my ED clinic says that I will start puberty soon enough and that she's happy with my weight gain, but I can't help but feel sad over my underdeveloped body. I have grown in height, over four centimetres in a year, I have pimples, BUT STILL NO PERIOD AND BREASTS. I am so desperate and I need answers as to why they are not growing. In case this will help, my mother got her period at age twelve and has a large chest, my current height and weight is 166 cm and 50kg. Someone please see this and help a girl out. 

Thank you.

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Hi!

It is not uncommon for individuals who have experienced anorexia to have delayed puberty or experience changes in their menstrual cycles. Anorexia can affect the body's hormonal balance, leading to a disruption in the menstrual cycle and a delay in breast development.

Recovery from anorexia is a positive step, but it can take time for the body to fully recover and for hormonal balance to be restored. The length of time it takes for these changes to occur can vary depending on the individual's situation and the extent of the damage caused by anorexia.

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