For the Women: Did your "cycle" change after WLS?

Marny B.
on 9/2/11 2:11 pm - Canada
I am getting a tad frustrated lately as "Aunt Flo" just won't leave me the heck alone.  My cycle keeps getting shorter and shorter.  I am now at 15 days between cycles, and highly annoyed.  Each period seems to last 6-7 days.  I was 31 days like clockwork, all my life.  Has anyone else experienced such drastic change?  I am going to mention it to my Dr. on Thurs, but jeeesh...go away already!  :D

Referral Sent:  March 19, 2010
Surgery date with Dr. Denis Hong: December 9, 2010

    
    
          
                                                        

flyingwoman
on 9/2/11 3:46 pm
heck yes... I got a cycle! Or at least a semblance of one. I have been amenorrheic for near a decade since I came off BCP due to my PCOS. In the last three months, my period has returned, been heavy and crampy and... uck.

As you lose weight your fats stores release estrogen, more estrogen can mess up your cycle for a while. Not anything to worry about, but annoying as hell. It should calm down as you get closer to goal and the weight loss slows/stops.
look_out_world
on 9/2/11 8:24 pm - Canada
 Pfffffffffffffffffft!  3 Times so far this summer!  Hell ya it's changed!!! UGH  Major cramping too!   Oh ya, and mooooood swings! lol  
         
Joanne1976
on 9/5/11 2:18 pm - Parry Sound, Canada
TOTALLY F'd UP!  I have been to see my doctor a few times because I can't control Aunt Flo.  I am on the birth control patch and it doesn't seem to matter...ole Aunt Flo barges in any old flippin time!  She thinks it will calm down..our bodies have just been through a lot.  In the meantime....I'm goin' nuts!  LMAO!! 
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