Strange bleeding; and how soon to test?
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| Wed, 07-30-2003 - 9:53am |
I'm finding my situation to be a bit hard to explain, but I'm going to try to make sure it makes as much sense as possible. (I apologize if this gets a bit lengthy!)
My cycles are somewhat regular, but it's been awhile since I've skipped months. (The last time was in January, and I skipped two months.) If I remember correctly, my last period was around June 20th. This month I'm a little over a week late. Since I have an active sex life with my finance I'm starting to get a bit worried as recently we've been having unprotected sex. This might be irrelevant, but a week prior to discovering being late I've had pains that I thought were a urinary tract infection, but just went away on it's own. So I suppose that wasn't the problem.
A day or two after discovering I was late, I spotted once, (a brown shade) and then nothing for the rest of the week. Over the weekend I've been bleeding very lightly. I don't think it's my period because I've never had light periods before, or had any that had such a light/bright colour. (Even when under stress my period has never changed.) I've never kept tabs on my cycles, so I'm a bit unsure if it's too late for implantation bleeding; I'm also unsure if that's supposed to go on for more than a day or so.
Well, last night I thought it all went away since I noticed nothing when I used the bathroom before going to bed. Thinking that everything was okay, we had sex. (Bad, bad...I know!) Afterwards I noticed that I was infact still bleeding. But it's strange because I didn't bleed any further while I slept. I bled this morning while using the bathroom and haven't seen anything else since then.
I'd like to test as soon as possible, but I'm unsure as to how soon I should do so. Should I wait until this weird "period" dies down? Or do I need to wait a little more since I recently had sex? Could it be implantation bleeding?
I'm so confused with all of this. :(

Best Wishes!