This is to all you ladies out there.........it has been well over a year and a half since my last menustration so I thought okay I am now in menopause but lo and behold nope.........I started again last night. My question is has this happened to anyone else after thier lapband? I have only lost 33 lbs since May of this year so it isn't like I have dropped a considerable amount of weight. I know weight loss and gain can affect your hormone levels but .......geeeeeeeeeez.......anyone out there have an answer for me??? Thanks. :cry

Weight fluctuation of any type can significantly alter hormonal balance, but since this has been going on for over a year, and you've only been banded a few months, I'd be looking for other aggravating causes, weight loss can certainly have compounded the issue, but it sounds like something else is going on already. Stress, gynecological changes, hormonal changes, environmental factors, etc... a lot of things can cause dysmenorrhea (problems with menses), I'd have a gyne visit asap to rule out physical/hormonal changes first.

It is possible that your wieght we affecting your cycle, and the 33 lbs you dropped (congrats) got things kick started again. I would say you should talk to your doc about it though just in case.

This might not be the same but after my banding my friend came over a week early and was NOT pleasant! My nutritionist told me it was probably hormone levels and hopefully everything would even itself out...major congrats on the 33lbs gone!!!

Katie

Magnolia, don't mean to throw a scare at you, but are you using any form of birth control? Those "change of life" babies do happen.

This weight loss has definitely got to effect hormones.

I had a radical hysterectomy with both ovaries removed in 1996. I wore a hormone patch until 2000 when I developed a DVT. The year following, I had nightmare menopause symptoms - hot flashes, nightsweats, nausea for nearly a whole year. I thought I was gonna die it was so abrupt and severe. It finally leveled off after that first year or so and lately, since I've lost over 60lbs, I have started having those darn hot flashes again out of the blue. I had so hoped I was over that, but apparently there are still hormones somewhere acting up.

That 'change of life' baby thing scares me to death.. lol.

thanks everyone................no worries about a change of life baby............

Estrogen is stored in fat, so it is very common for this type of thing to happen with weightloss.

Hmmmmmmm is that why this past year I have been growing hair in not the usual places??? geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez what else do I have to look forward to? LOL