Strange bleeding; and how soon to test?

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Registered: 07-30-2003
Strange bleeding; and how soon to test?
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Wed, 07-30-2003 - 9:53am
Hello, this is my first time posting here. I hope I'm able to receive the answers (advice) I'm looking for. :)

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. :(

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Registered: 05-14-2003
Wed, 07-30-2003 - 10:03am
Hey, thats weird that you said you had what was like a urinary tract infection. Me too. It just went away on its own. I think that you should either A. try and wait for the bleeding to stop and then take a test, or B. go and see a doctor to get a blood test. I guess it just depends on how long the bleeding last. I hope that was of some help.

Best Wishes!
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Registered: 06-27-2003
Wed, 07-30-2003 - 8:09pm
i seem to be going thru the same thing with the bleeding, it's not like a period but it's spotting, i only do this in the morning, is it constant with you? another thing is i have noticed that many dr. once they get a neg result they seem to think your crazy. i would advise that you take a preg. test using your first morning urine. my last pregnancy, i went to a clinic and took a test and it was neg. then i tried another clinic and that test was positive. some tests are more sensitive than others.
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Registered: 07-30-2003
Thu, 07-31-2003 - 11:55am
Yea, I only seem to have it in the morning, or sometimes very light when I use the bathroom throughout the day. I took a test last night and it came out negative. I plan to take another test this weekend...I'm going to use your advice and test in the morning.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 07-31-2003 - 12:53pm
i wish i could lend some advice to you, but i can relate w/ you b/c; my period is late as in i should start my new pack of pills today, like you I am very regular (stress or things have not effected my period) I am also on bcp's, i took a preg test Monday evening and it was neg., so I figured I would give it to today to take another or call dr office, well about three weeks ago on a Saturday morning I had very little but it was spotting and just lasted that morning, i really did not give it too very much thought b/c were are not trying but then if we are preggers it would not be a bad thing either, since we are were going to start at the begining of the year anyway, well now my period is late like a week, my breasts are so sore and tender, I dont know if what happen earlier this month was "implantaion bleeding", and then i went to the restroom to urinate and when i wiped there was just a faint but brightish pink yesterday morning and this morning, but has not happened in the morning, then this morning when i used the bathroom first thing my urine was bright yellow, (i have never seen it that color in all my 29 years) so I called the dr office and spoke to the phone nurse and i was told that if i was not expericing "my normal" bleeding and had not had a "period" that i would "normally" have on the bcp (she said that some woman do not have a period at all or just ever couple of months depending on the bcp they take) so since it is definelty not what you call normal she told me to have a blood test b/c a urine test weather it be a lab or hpt may not indicate a true result for certain people for up to 2 to 3 weeks and instead of waiting to do that... so i dont know if that was any help of not but know that atleast you are not the only one expericing it....