confused...spotting or not?

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confused...spotting or not?
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Tue, 03-24-2009 - 9:07pm

Ok, so, I marked on my chart today that I had light flow. With that said, I normally spot for a day then BAM! AF is here full force. Well yesterday I started spotting a lot. When I spot...TMI!! It's brown. Usually no pink or red just brown and my flow is always red I have never had any instances where I had red, pink AND brown together. Earlier when I marked light I did so because I had pink when I went to the bathroom. Now when I went to change my tampon it was still mostly brown with just a little pink and is back to almost spotting again.


My question is this: Should I still mark it as spotting until the flow picks up or should I leave it as like since I saw some pink. The pink spot was about the size of a nickel on my tampon after like 5 hours of being in there. Sorry if this is way TMI. I'm just confused...

I look forward to hearing what you all have to say.

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Tue, 03-24-2009 - 11:28pm

Brown is old blood. Not new fresh cycle blood.


A spot is definitely not the same as "spotting" to being a cycle.


Implantation spotting??? Has your temp dropped?


With EACH of my kids, I had enough "spotting" of pink/light red to think I had a period before I got a positive HPT about 2-8 days later (different with each kid).


How do you feel about the CH that FF gave you? Could be that you didn't O that early.

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Tue, 03-24-2009 - 11:52pm

I don't think I o'd quite that early but my temp did drop this morning. I can't tell if it's because the temp in the house has been colder lately or if it's actually AF coming on. Guess I'll have to wait and see.


The spotting that initially came on was quite heavy for spotting but that's all it was, was spotting then this little nickle sized amount of red/pink and now brown again. hmmm...


what would you mark it as on your chart? would you mark it as spotting even though there was pink/red in it?

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Wed, 03-25-2009 - 9:43am

Before I had my kids (meaning if I were TTC #1 w/ no previous knowledge of my pregnancies) I would have marked it as spotting and started a new cycle just like you did.


Now? Knowing that I had implantation spotting that amounted a VERY light period? I'd probably still be on the previous month's chart and taking an HPT.


So, it's a hard call!!! How do you "feel"? Did you have AF symptoms? Also, there is a phenomenon known as an implantation dip - a lowering in temps during implantation.

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Wed, 03-25-2009 - 2:10pm
thanks for the input! I woke up this morning to heavy flow so I went ahead a marked it which started me a new chart. I didn't feel like AF was coming. I didn't get sore boobs or my really foul mood like I usually do until like a day or two before AF arrived so I was hoping that was a positive sign... but no such luck. Oh well, on to the next cycle!
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Wed, 03-25-2009 - 2:12pm
ugh! I hate AF. But at least this one sounds like it's not too intrusive and bothersome!

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