ughhh this is gross but i have to ask!

 so i am in the super obese category, according to BMi charts, and my periods are months apart. for example, i am on my period right now and my last one was during the week of january 20th. thats 7 months! it's always been like this, but what im worried about is when i have my period (heres the gross part) i push out huge, jelly -like clumps of blood. one was so big once it actually almost fit the palm of my hand,almost. but its literally like i dumped chunks of canned cranberry sauce in my underwear. 

so i guess my question is does anyone else get this? 
 i have never been to the obgyn but i am planning to real soon. im bracing my self for "you can never have kids" but i think it's obviously just my weight.

thanks!

Keep your head up I am in pretty much the same situation as you. I was diagnosed with PCOS very recently and I am considered to be super obese too. I would like to tell you though I have a beautiful 3 year old son. I concieved during a time where I had been losing a ton of weight and was about 185 lbs so losing some weight would definately give you a greater chance of concieving. Definately go to see an OBGYN though they will get you on some sort of birth control and eventually it will even your hormones out and you should have a more "normal" period. I think that the reason your periods are so bad is because you have them so far apart there ends up being like this huge build up. Just keep your head up!

Wow, I am glad to know that I am not the only one with this problem. I actually just got my period at the end of july and it lasted until about september 4th.  And i had to literally push/deliver the bloodclots too.  It is so gross and worrysome.  I called me doc and she gave me progesterone to stop the bleeding because i am slightly anemic so loosing that much blood is deff. not good.  needless to say the period came back after i was done the one week supply of them and was on my period very heavily for my surgery but no big blood clots.  ur not alone on this one i know how it feels!! 

I was told when i was 19 that i would not be able to have kids on my own without some form of fertility drugs, at that time i was diagnosed with PCOS.  When i was twenty i went back for my annual and she put me on birthcontrol to regulate my cycle so that when i was ready to get pregnant it might be easier if the bc could get my periods regulated. anyway, i took them for a month and then forgot to pick up the refill from the pharmacy and guess what i got pregnant.  So, there is hope there is even more hope with the weight loss.  have you had your RNY already?!

-tori

 wow thanks for responding! it so odd what happens to our bodies!
i haven't had surgery yet! hopefully in 2010! 

Hello.  Looked like I had written this post for a minute.  
I, too, was diagnosed w/ PCOS in 2005.  I was also diagnosed w/ endometriosis @ 15.  Sounds like you may have one or both.  After my surgery, I have my monthly friend, monthly.  I had never had that before w/o the help of BC.  Your dr will probably put you on Metformin and BC to help regulate your cycle.  The Metformin made me sick & I did lose 25 lbs in the process.  So, that's a plus.  Are your periods painful?  Mine are VERY painful even now.  I believe that I still have PCOS, but w/o the insulin resistance.  I can tell when I have an ovary that has turned into a cyst.  There's a lot of pain associated w/ it.  I have dealt w/ this since I was 15 and I will be 36 next month and I've had 2 children & we've adopted one also, and yes they told me that I was infertile.  Especially since when there was 13 yrs in between my pregnancies.  So, don't listen to them if they say you won't have children.  Only GOD knows and it doesn't hurt to talk to Him either.  
Be blessed & good luck.
Shana

I was diagnosed in 2003 with PCOS and was having the same problems with my periods...sometimes months apart and sometimes years apart.  If you aren't worried about birth control currently ask your gynecologist about regulating you with provera.  My gyn has me take provera from the 20th to the 30th of each month and my period starts like clockworks on the 1st or 2nd depending on if there are 31 days to the previous month or not.  I have not had the softball sized clots in close to 5 months!  Obviously being overweight or super obese as we both are, that is alot of our problem and it will clear up once we have surgery.  Also alot of the fertility issues are known to clear up after surgery.  Make sure your gyn knows that you are planning on having surgery so she can either put you on the pill or on the provera with you using a secondary birth control option as most surgeons do not want you getting pregnant until at least 18 months after your wls.  Good Luck.

OMGosh are you talking about me? Only diff is that I now get mine monthly. I was having them every 15-90 days with light to HEAVY bleeding. I went through IVF and have 4 year old beautiful twins. I had my tubes tied because it would be my luck to get pg on my own even though I tried for over 5 LONG yrs.

Now I get mine every month with my tubes tied but I have the clots like you have discribed. I also have cysts that are so painful sometimes I curl up into a ball and cry. I plan on seeing my GYNE soon.

I understand what you are going through, because I am going through the exact same thing.  I have asked my PCP and this is what I was told:
Since it has been so long since you have cycled, you have built up sluff of your endometrial lining, and it is now sluffing off.  I was told that there is nothing to be worried about, as long as your paps come back normal.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes!
~Brandi

I used to get this monthly - I have PCOS and endometriosis.  I have been on continuous yasmin/yaz to control since 2001. 

I used to get excrutiating pain and load up on NAIDS like M&Ms for 3 days a month.  Then I'd suffer from anemia.

My gyno would rather me not get a period at all now.