PCOS symptoms?

So I’ve fallen off the fasting wagon now for the last couple of years and have gained a lot of weight. I’m at my heaviest at 267lbs and yes I’m very embarrassed and ashamed to admit it. It’s been a struggle, I lost my dad and other close people in the last two years and have turned to food as an emotional crutch. Before the weight gain I’ve always had normal cycles, normal ovulation, and relatively healthy hormones. As the weight crept up my cycles were much more sporadic. In the last two years, they’ve been hit or miss. Some months I’ll get my period, some months I won’t get a period at all. If I did get my period it wouldn’t be heavy. Then my period stopped all together and I didn’t menstruate for over 250 days. That is until recently I decided to start focusing on my health, exercising, watching my diet, and fasting a couple days out of the week. Well, since then, which has been like 4 weeks now, I’ve been bleeding every single day. The first few days it was just mild spotting, then for a couple days it was a regular amount of period blood, then some days after I’ll mildly bleed again, then I’ll think I’m done because I won’t bleed for like 12 hours, then it starts up again with mild spotting. I’m getting tired of it because I’ve now bled through so many underwear, clothes and sheets. I don’t know when it’s going to come on and I’m never prepared. Most days I wear a panty liner but it’s never enough. Yet the last few days it hasn’t been enough to wear a tampon. I put one in on Wednesday and it was so uncomfortable because I bled very little. Idk what’s going on but I do have an appointment with an endocrinologist in March. But I thought I’d ask here too in case anyone has been through this or know of what could be causing this.

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You say you changed your diet. It could be that your body is trying to get realigned after you missed your cycle for so long. If you can, you should get some blood work to make sur you iron levels are okay and continue making healthy lifestyle choices.

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I was diagnosed with something that could be compared to your description called Adenomyosis. Good luck with working out what it is with your specialist and I wish you all the best it’s not a pleasant thing to experience and it’s really challenging to get diagnosed. Every persons body is unique so could be something very different, but I hope it gets worked out soon.

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How old are you? I got my tubes tied when I was 30 and went off the pill and then my periods started getting heavier and heavier. By the time I was 50 or so I became severely anemic from flooding fir three days and then two more weeks of period. I had to take so much iron. I have never been happier than when menopause showed up. I think when peri menopause hits like that is when women usually get a hysterectomy, but I didn’t. That’s my story.

I think losing weight will definitely help.

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Sorry you are struggling.

I have not advice, just here to commiserate. Feeling like a failure because I’ve been trying to get back on the fasting bandwagon for a year now and fail every time I try (I used to be able to fast for 3 days without trying, now I’m lucky to make it till noon.)

Life has also been shitty here, and I discovered that one of the supplements I was taking increases estrogen, which made my whole system go haywire.

You could have them run your hormone panels and see what’s up there.

Otherwise, I’ve decided to start wearing my bite splint during the day to try and remember that I’m fasting… otherwise I’ll be a 42 year old mom hitting up the piercing shop to get a piercing under my tongue it’s supposedly painful and make eating uncomfortable, but I have 3 kids, so my tolerance is high.)

Also, if you are fasting, or actively losing weight via diet, fat stores hormones… so <sarcasm> you get the perk of going through puberty again and your cycles and skin can go crazy while your body acclimates.

DM me if you need to vent 💗.