Question???

Has anybody had irregular menstrual cycles, had the surgery and gotten pregnant? I haven't been diagnosed with anything except being overweight so I haven't been able to conceive. So I'm wondering if anyone else had the same thing and end up pregnant after surgery??

weight can affect your ability to conceive but i know a bunch of overweight women who conceived without issue. myself i've always been irregular because of PCOS but i knew that going into this. my weight didn't help any but i've been irregular all my life and still needed fertility assistance to ovulate and get pregnant. 30 weeks presently. not sure if that's what you're asking. the take away is that while being overweight can hinder the process, it doesn't typically make you infertile unless there's another underlying issue that hasn't been found by your doctors.

Yes lots of overweight women have conceived. My issue, being overweight is producing too much estrogen which does the same things as birth control. But what happens is the lining of my uterus builds up and causes me to have a cycle for forever. So then I have to take birth control to control that. And of course I'm not going to get pregnant taking birth control. So I guess what I'm asking is did anyone become regular and conceive after surgery.

ah okay that makes more sense. sadly my situation didn't resolve itself with weight loss :/ hopefully someone else has had better results

The year before I had surgery I only had one period. The month I had surgery I stared about a week after my surgery and I have been regular sinse. So it regulated my cycle but we haven't started trying to get pregnant yet but I ovulate every month.

I was never formally diagnosed with PCOS, had some of the symptoms but never enough at the same time to qualify for the diagnosis.  But I NEVER had a regular period pre-op and I was 37 at the time of surgery.   I would have 1-3 periods a year unless on birth control or given progesterone to induce a period (but that didn't induce ovulation).  To get pregnant with my boys I took clomid and it did work but I didn't use birth control for more than 12 yrs and only got pregnant with the clomid.

I went on birth control as required post op and then did get a period from the bc.  I stopped the bc last summer, got pregnant instantly!  Miscarried at 6 weeks and got pregnant again instantly--baby girl was born last week and I got my tubes tied!! Since I am assuming even at 40 that I am now very fertile and I didn't want to go back on hormonal birth control and our family is complete with 2 boys and a girl!  So yes just loosing weight can reverse things!

I am on my second post op baby.  I did have to use Clomid with my first pregnancy after WLS but my second was just me and my husband and 30 days without birth control.  Pre-WLS and after, my periods never straightened out, but I was able to get preggo with a little help.

GOOD Luck!  Stacey