Brown spotting, very abnormal... :(

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Registered: 09-06-2008
Brown spotting, very abnormal... :(
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Sat, 09-06-2008 - 10:00pm

First off I'm on Ortho Evra and have been for about 2 years, before that I was on seasonale for a year. Even with the patch, I'm supposed to pretty much skip my period due to some issues I've been having since I started my period 8 years ago. I do have one every 3 to 5 months by choice though and it is ussually very heavy and painful, it always has been.

4 months ago I had brown spotting a week, i decided to not put a new patch on and just have a period thinking thats what my body wanted. It started within hours of removing the patch, it was extremely heavy and had a lot of clots(which i've never experienced), and it lasted about 4 or 5 days.

About a week ago I had brown spotting again, this time it was a lot lighter and it stopped after 4 days. Two days ago I woke up and I spotted bright red for an hour and it went back to brown, then stopped. And a few hours ago I started spotting red again but this time it's a little heavier, it lasted a few hours and now I've been back to the brown spotting ever since.

I haven't had sex in 2 months, I did take a preg.test just in case I got thrown into that 1% BC doesn't cover and it was neg... I was under a lot of stress and was really depressed the first time this happend so I blamed it on that, but this time I'm fine so I'm not sure what is causing it.

I went to the doctor over pains I was having in my side a year ago and they said I had an enlarged uterus but after a sonogram they said nothing was wrong and sent me home. I still get the pains in my right side, right below my rib cage every so often though... i'm not sure if it's related or not.

I have a doctors app. in a week but I just needed an opinion from someone, i'm not sure if I should try to see someone asap or not. I'm not sure if this is breakthrough bleeding, i heard it ussually doesn't happen after a couple months and It never happened when i first went on BC.

It's kind of scaring me a little bit.

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Registered: 07-26-2006
Tue, 09-09-2008 - 10:24pm

Hi there,

Has your doctor ever considered endometriosis, or adenomyosis? Adenomyosis can cause an enlarged uterus. The heavy bleeding you are experiencing when you aren't on birth control, and now spotting not being controlled by it, do suggest a problem there, and I suggest you get a second opinion with a good gyn.

 

 

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Registered: 09-06-2008
Tue, 09-09-2008 - 11:18pm
I had a sonogram and they ruled out endometriosis, i haven't even heard of adenomyosis though. I live in a different state now so I'm going to a completely new doctor. I plan on sitting down and giving them the simple break down of everything that has happend. Right now i'm STILL spotting, it's been going from thick brown to dark red, jsut back and forth. It's really starting to become a hassle. I was supposed to get a coloscopy because of an abnormal pap smear i had a year ago.. financial situations, moving, and school hasn't given me an opportunity to go and take care of it until now, and since it's been so long I pretty much have to start over from square 1 and let the new doctor determine what to do I guess. I'm really hoping that that isn't the cause of my problems though..