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Re: Clotting/ brown discharge
From: Melanie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun Dec 18 10:42:35 2005
Thanks for taking the time to write all this very good information!
:)
At Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Sudsey wrote:
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>Clotting is not so abnormal though yes the freskish nature of it makes
>ones mind do tricks thinking this isn't right it's not normal.. Clotting
>the body's normal way of taking care of you by controlling
>bleeding..Many causes are a tilted uterus, polyups (little fig type
>things that hang down in the uterus) and hence trap blood, another cause
>is bleeding to heavily and not enough blood passed in time to stay
>unclotted..Blood pooling inside the uterus it is mixed with other cells
>too..The brighter the bloods color the quicker it's left the uterus the
>darker brown is older blood, usualy the blood is accumulating faster
>then the body can expell it.. Also playing into this ladies is the size
>of ones uterus, the uteru's ability to contract to push the blood
>out,diameter of the cervical cannal. polyups and adhesions play into
>this as an obstructive barrier for the flow/ and contracting of the
>uterus.. Even women without Endo have clotting many of these women have
>had multiple pregnancies where the uterus went from the normal size to
>pregnancy size and never shrank to it's pre pregnancy size hence the
>pooling in a larger uterus..Adenomyosis is another cause but not to jump
>ship in the mind set I must have that b/c I clot it's just one of the
>many causes..Hormones are another cause.. If you have not shed the
>uterine lining that can induce the thicker lining to when you have a
>period after prolonged suppression you'll more likely have those strange
>tissue like appearance clots..Gaining weight, loosing alot of weight
>also appear to play into it..
>Clotting is at this time not made a direct corrilation to Endometriosis
>but I'd think safer to say it's more the treatments and hormone
>imbalances often induced by Endo that makes it more likely with Endo
>women.. If you have had a lap and adhesions formed they make it harder
>on the uterus to contract in it's normal fashion and hence ladies weird
>pains and pulling and what not.. C-section the uterus itself is cut and
>scar tissue can form and sections with such aren't going to contract as
>they did before the c-section..
>I have had 5 children and 2 c-sections I have clots the size of
>softballs at times and it's just pooling from the heavy bleeding and
>often times it's if I've been sitting for any length of time or at night
>and get up to have them move down in a rather painful fashion..I also
>have the brown blood then bright red then brown for the whole second
>week of my periods like it can't make up it's mind if it's gonna stop or
>not..
>Of course when it all began I thought something was terribly wrong..
>It's not a pleasant experience b/c it can look like you just lost a huge
>section of your insides and it's not what we think of when we see a cut
>on our hand clot where it's not mixed with uterine lining cells it's
>just blood clotting but periods have mixed cells within that give that
>often raw liver appearance or fiberous like appearance to it..I would
>tell your Gyn though it never hurts to have them explain this to you
>either but I bet my life they will most likely give some of the same
>answers to this...
>Hope this helps those new to the whole clotting brown blood factor of a
>womens world..
>Hugs
>Sudsey
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