Re: dark menstrual blood
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Wed Aug 30 20:39:08 2006
hi ladies,
my advice is see a specialist and demand a lap.
my periods were dark brown and black. it is only now after surgeries
and treatments that i am finally having a 'red' period.
good luck!
alexis.
At Wed, 30 Aug 2006, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>At Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Amber wrote:
>>
>>Hello, I guess I'm not crazy. My doctor told me that the dark blood was
>>no big deal and that it was because I'm in my late 20's and haven't had
>>any children. I've been fighting for 3 years to have a lap done to see
>>if I do have endo. I've gone to 4 doctors and finally one is listening
>>to me. Not one of them seemed to think the blood issue was a big deal
>>but to me it is. It just happened one day, I had normal periods and
>>then there was this dark old blood that wasn't normal and from there
>>after three years my symptoms have increased to horrible cramps that
>>pain medicine will not touch, nausea, and a whole list of other symptoms
>>that make my life unbearable. I knew they were wrong. I'm scheduled to
>>have a lap in the middle of July. Please wish me luck.
>>At Thu, 17 Jun 2004, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>>>
>>>At Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Stacy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>I've *always* had dark brown or dark red periods with black clots, but
>>>>I've also always had endo symptoms like from age 8 or so (I'm 33 now,
>>>>had my last lap three years ago). I have a friend who also mentioned
>>>>that maybe I don't shed all of the lining and it builds up and gets dark
>>>>because it's older blood. Maybe that's why it took us so long to get
>>>>pregnant? Who knows? But still, what does that have to do with endo
>>>>tissue outside the uterus (I had all sorts of colors removed, from clear
>>>>to yellow to red to brown to black)? I'm glad it's better now. And
>>>>imagine, I was concerned by the lack of cramps too!!! I suppose just
>>>>because it was different than what I had become used to for the past 20
>>>>some years.
>>>>Here's hoping your lap was as successful as my last one!
>>>>Stacy F
>>>>
>>>>At Fri, 9 Aug 2002, ls wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi Stacy! I too had dark brown periods for almost two years. My last
>>>>>period in July was all brown, I saw no sign of a normal red at all.
>>>>>Well, I had my 2nd lap two weeks ago (much endo removed along with 3
>>>>>endometriomas) and when I got my period this week (and my breakthrough
>>>>>last week) I had bright red! Imagine that! I will ask Dr. Reich at my
>>>>>follow up appt to see what this is all about. Maybe it has to do with
>>>>>the cysts - they are dark brown. That's the only way I could figure it
>>>>>to get on the outside. One other thing, my lap report says I had a
>>>>>significant buildup of lining in my uterus, maybe this has something to
>>>>>do with it (my periods were not normal the 3 month prior to the lap). I
>>>>>am bleeding like crazy this week. Who knows?! LS
>>>
>>>Hello my name is Cherisse
>>>I have been doing some research trying to find out some information to
>>>help me find out what is wrong with me , and i came accross this page
>>>maybe you can help me. I have drak brown blood when i have my periods,
>>>painful cramping where i can't even move sometimes and now i have been
>>>having discharge of tissue durring my period. My docter just pushes
>>>away the problem but i think that this is serious and it scares me! Is
>>>what you have called endomitriosis? and is that what my problem might
>>>be? I just want to gater as much information as possible to bring back
>>>to my docter so that she will do something about it.
>>>CM
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