For Women Only...

[TeacherMommy 35]

Did surgery mess up your cycle at all?? I started my period just days after surgery although it was about 1 1/2 early. I contributed it to stress on my body.... Now I am supposed to be starting my next cycle, but I'm 4 days late. WHO KNOWS??? I hate to post such personal things on here, but I couldn't find any research on it. If it doesn't start soon, I will just call my GP. Just curious if any other women had anything similar.

[Nicole Cloud 39]

I had the same problem I started a few days after surgery and it was weird for me because I was already irregular, but as the months go on it starts to get back on a regular schedule just be prepared because mine just started late and jeez I was not ready for that but yea totally normal Lol

[Forsythia 882]

I'm decidedly regular. No issues with shark week coming early or late since my sleeve.

[WL WARRIOR 692]

I started five days after surgery, which was 10 days early from my regular cycle. My cycles have been quite regular for the past 3 years, so this puzzled me as well. I had to go through a detox program 13 years ago because I was addicted to prescription painkillers. It was a terribly stressful experience. I didn't have my period for two months. When family members have died, it also made me go without a period for a month. It just seems odd that surgery (which is also stressful) makes me have my period

so early. Nevertheless, I do believe that extreme stress messes up your cycle.

When I was in my last year of college, I had a living situation in which I shared a small house with eight other people. There were five of us girls sharing one bedroom. Within 5 months, all five of us had menstral cycles during the same days of every month. I always found that very odd.

[woo woo 872]

Is there any chance you could be pregnant? I have heard the fertility shoots up just after surgery. Not to scare you but that was the first thing that came to mind.

[TeacherMommy 35]

I would love to be preg although it's too soon... I'm "old" and if we are going to conceive again, it needs to be soon!!! I'm not preg tho, unless something happened in the middle of the night while I was asleep... LOL

[audefacere 45]

I started my period during my pre-op diet even though I'm on the depo shot which prevents my period all month long. Its weird but I'm chalking it up to my body going through so much change in a short period.

[Introvert 53]

Ok everybody, calm down... Lol My nurses warned me beforehand that cycles become irregular after the surgery but will return regular. Just like a lot of us have become hypersensitive/moody because of the hormonal changes in our bodies. Also extremely low fat diets will throw off or delay periods.