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Appendix surgery and menstruation
I am from Lithuania.
I had appendicitis about ten days ago, but only it was but got surgery six ago since it was a rather complicated case. I am due on my period starting tomorrow, and don't know whether or not it could get affected. My period isn't very consistent, but it usually is early rather than late. I have not shown any symptoms yet, and that concerns me, since I usually have severe abdominal pain right before my period begins. I am afraid that it may begin and I might confuse that pain with something being wrong with my surgery, since my body has taken too well to be true to it so far. Can my period be messed up after I have appendix surgery?
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Adviceman is correct. It doesnt take much to throw a cycle off. Just coming down with a cold, or just getting over the flu has robbed your body of all its energy so there is none to make your cycle start and go do its thing. Worry and stress can delay or make it skip a cycle. Surgery is very traumatic and so the energy that would go to a cycle for you most likely is still involved in your healing process and growing stronger again. So if you tend to skip periods, then something like this will most likely affect your cycle and stop or delay it. Inconsistant periods are pretty normal for young girls going through puberty. It takes the body a while to get on the band wagon with all the new things its supposed to be doing and its only a matter of time. However once 18 19 and no regular period, it is then a matter of needing to see a Dr as something else may be affecting it. The only other time females may have very irregular periods is during the begginning of menopause. No one ever told me but when it started for me, it was just like it was for me at 14 when my periods were not regular monthly or lasted two weeks of spotting, only two days or skipped a month. I had periods and was on the end of getting it less and less regularly until I no longer got it at all. Not having a period does not mean you are pregnant. I will say that because so many girls assume when they have no period and they haven't been with a guy that mysteriously some sperm found its way in through layers of clothes, which is not possible.
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Short answer; Yes
I am not a doctor, but your body has suffered a trauma even if the surgery was done laparoscopicly. any time a body suffers a trauma the trauma can affect the entire body. That plus you were given a number of different drugs while the surgery was done.
One of the reasons the female is looked at as the delicate sex is because her body is delicately balanced. It does not take much to throw her of cycle. Over the counter medications, prescription medication to much stress even to much exercise can affect the menstrual cycle.
You may not get your period, this month, it could be l;ate and it may even be a very light period. If you are on any antibiotic, which I assume you may be. It is possible that this period and the next may not happen. If the third period does not happen then you should seek medical advice.
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