female only Ladies: WLS/Breakthrough Bleeding/Seasonale

[TexasRose 0]

My band surgery was in September 2005 and I have been on Seasonale brand birth control for 2 years. I have lost 95 lbs in 10 months. After my last period, I had a week with no issues and then started breakthrough bleeding.

The breakthrough has been going on for 3 weeks now from extremely light to somewhat moderate. How annoying! I have 9 more weeks of pills before I should be on my cycle and I do not want to continue this breakthrough for that long.

Has anyone experienced this after a big drop in weight?

Any thoughts? :eek:

[3loves 0]

I went off the Seasonale earlier this year. I did, from time to time, experience the break through bleeding. The longest it lasted was 2 wks. I think it's our bodies way of telling us that it needs to have a cycle. I went off of it b/c we want more children and I was concerned it may have an impact on eggs & such....only a rumor I've heard from word of mouth and can't get any health care professional to back up this claim. Let me tell you though, I HATE my TOM and every month I ask myself why I'm not taking the Seasonale. I tell myself I'm doing the right thing. :eek: Hmmm....maybe not.....I don't really know for sure.

I was banded on May 26, 2006 so the band/weight loss did not have an impact on the Seasonale. It will be interesting to hear other responses on this subject.

[Wheetsin 714]

Weightloss definitely impacts your hormone levels. BCP definitely manipulate hormones. The connection between the two could be none, or could be all - only your doc can say for sure.

I haven't experienced anything hormonal (that I can tell anyway) with my weightloss, but I'm not on BCP, either. However I was on BCP during my weight gain, and had to stop taking them because I starting getting completely spontaneous superficial thrombophlebitis -- in really weird places.