Hypoxia and Medicine

Does anyone know if high altitudes can cause your period to come early?

I have been charting my temperature during my last 2 cycles because we're trying to get pregnant. From what I've learned, the luteal phase (ovulation to period) should stay pretty consistant from cycle to cycle, and the follicular phase (period to ovulation) is the one that will change when stressed or ill, etc. My last luteal phase was 12 days and this month I went up to the mountains and the day I got there I spotted and the next day my period started and my temp dropped, making this luteal phase only 9 days! I also have an ovarian endometrioma cyst that I am going to have removed and I wondered if that could affect my luteal phase since it was shown by ultrasound that I ovulated on that side this month. Thanks in advance for your help and I will ask my doctor when I have my appointment in March.

Public Comments

1. Yes it can because when I was flying back from California I got my period early, and my mom has told me when she was a teenager and her family when climbing in the Alps., she bleed a lot heavier and stuff. Hope that helps.
2. I'm pretty sure it can. I don't know what altitude you were travelling in, but when I went to Tibet my friend got her period at all kinds of crazy times. When she lived there for a few years, at one point she was getting it every two weeks. Not sure why, though.