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:biggrin: I was just wondering if having the band could screw around with my menstrual-cycle??? My periods have ALWAYS been regular... every 28 days. I had my first period since being banded on July 19, so naturally my next period should have been last Saturday (Aug 16). Well, I didn't get my period until yesterday :smile:. I thought for sure I was preggo!!! B'cause that's the only time I've ever been late is when I was preggo!! I know I got my period so I should just chill, but I'm never just late without a reason, and I'm just wondering why I was on time last month (I could've understood it a lil bit better then because of all of the liquid/mushie food causing sudden weight-loss), but now I am late? If anybody else has had this same thing happen, please let me know! Will this continue? Will I go back to normal? I'm kinda freaking out because I am not on any birth control and I don't plan on being on any for quite a while.

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You probably ovulated later than usual before your last period due to your restricted diet in the month prior. We stop ovulating when we don't eat enough (many models never get their periods because they don't eat enough to ovulate).

I'm sure it was just a one time thing and that you'll get back to your normal cycle moving forward.

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My GYN told me it could take 3 months to get back to a normal period after surgery. My periods have been super light since surgery. I have still started monthly, but that's because I'm on the pill. Now, instead of 4-5 days, they are only lasting 2-3.

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Even though the surgery wasn't as extreme as others, it's a major change for the body. My father (a retired OBGYN) suggested that I stop taking the pill about 2 months prior to my surgery to reduce the risks of blood clots. Plus he also said he went to a semiar and a doctor said that the pills affect is less if your BMI is over 35) I've been on the pill since I was 17. And now 21 years later, I'm off of it.I don't know if it's the not taking the pill or from my surgery, but my every 28 days is now every 6 weeks. I would like to stay off of it until about January, then start fresh again. It's not like I have a big sex life right now anyway. :(

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The dramatic change in your eating is probably what made you late. Losing weight rapidly can also make your periods come closer together, since estrogen is stored in body fat, and as you burn it off, that estrogen is released into your bloodstream. I've only had my band four weeks, and have a Mirena so I don't get periods anyway. But the last time I lost a large amount of weight and wasn't on hormonal birth control was about 12 years ago, and I was getting my period every three weeks. Now that SUCKED. :)

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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