Light period?

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Registered: 08-05-2003
Light period?
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Sat, 09-06-2003 - 11:13pm
If anyone can help it would be great. My cycles are always regular(28 days). My last cycle started on 7/25. On the 16th I had some brownish discharge, then the 20th had a little bit of blood when I went to the bathroom but that was it. I should have started on 8/22 but didn't. All my HPT were -. I went to my ob when I was 7 days late and she did a pap smear and it came back normal. She didn't say I wasn't pregnant, but didn't say i was. She just told me to test each week I was late. Anyways on 9/01, 11 days late I got what I thought was AF, but it only lasted 4 days, but it was spotty to very light then spotty again. Then I thought well maybe I ovulated late and that's why my AF was late and very light. Then today, almost 2 days after I ended I started very lightly spotting or bleeding again, I'm not sure what to make of this. I'm already confused if my ovulation is going to be messed up because I was late, but now since I barely had AF I don't know what to think. Will my ovulation be messed up this month or what. What is up with all this bleeding. Can anyone tell me what is going on and if I should still ovulate since I didn't have that much bleeding. Baby Dust to evryone.

Heather

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Registered: 08-05-2003
In reply to: hstg
Sun, 09-07-2003 - 11:39am
Does anyone have any advice or what is going on here?
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Registered: 06-02-2003
In reply to: hstg
Sun, 09-07-2003 - 12:48pm
Heather,

I don't really have any suggestions for you...but wanted to bump your message back up to the top, so hopefully others would see it! I guess my suggestion would be to give a call to your doctor and see what s/he suggests you do. I'm not trying to get your hopes up, but my neighbor actually tested negative a few times with HPTs and actually turned out to be PG! (I don't know what brand HPT she used or why that happened though...) Are you recently off BCP? (That may be why your cycle is weird this month....) Also, sometimes stress can make your cycle a little wacky as well. Sorry I don't have more to offer you. Hopefully someone else has a better answer. Good luck to you!

-Amber

TTC#1 C9, CD27, 7dpo-ish

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Registered: 08-05-2003
In reply to: hstg
Sun, 09-07-2003 - 1:26pm
No I've never been on bc so I'm not exactly sure why this is happening.

Heather

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Registered: 08-05-2003
In reply to: hstg
Sun, 09-07-2003 - 3:05pm
I'm just wondering if my ovulation will be messed up this month since I was 11 days late and my AF or if that's what you want to call it was very spotty to light for 4 days. I skipped a day of nothing then for one day was spotting again. I know spotting really isn't suppose to count for the first day of AF but I never really had a day of bleeding either. What does this mean I'm so confused. Please Help.

Heather

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: hstg
Mon, 09-08-2003 - 11:30am
I really can't give you a definite answer, but I know your frustration. My last cycle, I went 49 days without a normal period. I spotted off and on and had a day or two of bleeding for three weeks. I thought I ovulated a little over a week ago. I had a positive OPK and fertile CM, but AF showed up on Friday. It's not heavy like I normally am, but it's enough to call a normal AF. It's so frustrating to not know what your body is doing. I still don't know what caused my weird cycle, but I am paying extremely close attention to my cycle now to make sure everything is ok. It took me a long time to conceive my first child, and I am afraid I may not be ovulating every month. :-(

I am happy to have a normal AF so I can start fresh, and know where I am in my cycle.

Sharon