irregular "toms"

After surgery, has anyone had problems w/their period? I had one as soon as surgery was over, now I'm like 4 or 5 days late which never, ever happens. I know that your extra fertile during this stage, but #1, i'm spayed, #2) unless I'm going to have the next immaculate conception I've got absolutely nothing to worry about in that department. I've ready about periods being heavier than normal, but not having one at all, is that normal? Also, I'm having extremely bad anxiety attacks. Has anyone had this problem either? Maybe thier linked to each other. All I know, is that for the last 2 days in a row, I feel like my heart is going to pound right out of my chest. NO matter whether I'm sitting, laying down, walking, or anything. I know it's just anxiety becuase I feel like crying for absoutely no reason at all. I'm not upset, there is nothing wrong, but good gosh, I feel like I'm going to go crazy with all of this going on. Help me.lol

Penny, my surgery was 6/23 and I am still "waiting" for mine. Can't decide if he missed or is just way late. Last period started 4 days before my surgery. Guess my body is still in shock. I just know the scale hasn't move in a week and I was hopping this was the reason. Not sure now. I am sure it will all be fine. Sara

I was having anxiety attacks too! But I used to have more in the past and they were much worse. I also felt like my heart wanted to jump out of my chest. Especially when I was laying down. This last week was much better! It will go away! I also had my period last week, too. Everything will fall back in line eventually! Hang in there! 275/243/170

Well my experience with TOMS and loosing weight: I usually find ( i belonged to an atkins message board last year when i did atkins) and those who were regular became irregular and those who were regular became irredgular. OUR diets are very atkins like with the lo carbs, high protein and veggies to fill up after protein. I am not a regular person and mine came 5 days early, i had surgery JUNE 1. DONT know if this helps just be patient it will balance out in a few months. LISA

OUr poor little bodies hace some sortign out to do. We may be feeling much better at this point but our bodies have still goen through a lot and our tryinggn to sort everythgin down. Stress can create regularity issues and our bodies are recovering from quite a stressfull ordeal. I have a friends who has to have lots of surgeries... and she mentions that her periods are always like clockwork. But that after surgeries her body develops a new pattern for her periods. Be patient and enjoy not having to deal with it for a while. Paula

Thanks everyone for your responses. It sure is great to have people that I can talk to and depend on. I guess I will just wait a few more days and see what happens.

I also had mine right after surgery (a few days early even!) and it didn't come back on time. That's not unusual for me, but I wanted to start back on birth control pills (gotta wait a year to get pregnant, you know!) so I finally started back on Sunday never having had it. Our bodies are messed up, it's bound to happen! We're in starvation/conservation mode!

Mine came the week before surgery 6/28 but didn't come this month. As far as I concerned it could just stay away. I turned 50 this year and am very tired of messy with the thing. lol About a year ago it started coming every two months and then straighted itself out to monthly. Hope this is the end but I am not holding my breath. Thank goodness I am still losing.

Thanks everyone! It finally got here, I guess I just needed a little help, now if the anxiety attacks would just go away, I'd be okay.

Penny, I don't know if you saw my post a couple of weeks ago, but I was asking if anyone else had been experiencing hot flashes and night sweats since surgery. Period, menopause---it's all the same thing---hormone imbalance. Surgery will do that I subsequently found out. Especially accompanied by sudden weight loss. I finally could stand the night sweats no longer (and no one could stand being around me either!), so I increased my estrogen by .5---all is fine now. Want to go back to .5 as soon as I can. Doc said hormones start to settle down within a couple of months, so your periods should even out.