###Human: I have longer and irregular periods problem. What to do? ###Assistant: Hi. Ongoing through your history, you can have PCOD (polycystic ovaries). It is a congenital condition. It is genetical. You can get it from your parents. When you have a sudden gain in weight, the cholesterol is converted into estrogen hormone. When there is fat in the body more than average, it is converted to hormones. FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) stimulates follicle from the ovary. When the follicle is ready to ovulate, the FSH is suppressed by the estrogen hormone from the ovary. When the estrogen hormone comes from fat, the brain becomes confused, and the follicle growth stops at a smaller follicular size, and it will not rupture. On the next scan, you will see these follicles as polycystic ovaries. It is usually associated with obesity, irregular menstrual cycles, absence of periods for a few months and later there can be a heavy period with clots and fleshy masses or spotting on off and off. There can be a thyroid abnormality and prolactin problem indirectly. You will develop an extra pad of fat around the mid-segment of the body, especially in waist, thighs, and breast. There will be an absence of fat below elbows and knees. There will be an excessive hair growth, hair fall, a dark shade over the lower half of the face, acne, oily face, black skin over the back of the neck, inner thighs and undersurface of the breast. You may have a family history of diabetes. Regular ovulation will not occur during this problem, and you cannot get pregnant until it is treated. It increases the chance of early pregnancy abortions. But there is a solution. Your weight has to be weight (kilograms) = height (in centimeters) - 100. When you have a reduction of weight to normal range, then there is no requirement of medicines to get periods or to get pregnant, and pregnancy will be healthy. Avoid eating junk foods, fast foods, and red meat. Reduce taking snacks in between meals. Have a low-calorie diet with high proteins. Do regular exercise (especially for waist and hip area), aerobics, yoga, and brisk walking. Try to reduce two to four kilograms per month. When there is a loss of weight of five kilograms, you can see changes. You will not require medications and the problems during periods will resolve soon without medications. If you want to have regular periods till you reduce weight, you can have birth control pills cyclically from the first day of the periods for three to six cycles. It will regularize your hormones and periods.