Re: dark menstrual blood
From: Monica (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Aug 30 20:43:28 2006
After a year and a half, I am back to my dark brown and black periods.
They only last three days, but they are pretty intense again. Pain is
not normal! Do not allow yourself to be dismissed! Good luck and let us
know!
--
Monica
At Wed, 30 Aug 2006, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>
>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:
>>
>>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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