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Re: Child MenstruationFrom: Sera (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:20:13 -0500 (CDT)
At Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Nadia wrote: > >At Wed, 11 Sep 2002, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: >> >>My daughter (age 11) recently came home from school with about an ounce >>of muddy colored discharge. She had thought her cycle had started, and >>had inserted a pad into her underwear. When she changed out the pad >>after getting home, and put in a fresh one, there was no more bleeding. >>Over the next few days, we waited for the cycle to continue, but it has >>not. >> >>It has been a month now, and we expected perhaps for bleeding to begin >>again, but it has not. Could the bleeding have been something else? >>Since she is so young, I didn't really want to take her in for a pap >>smear, unless there was something serious to be worried about. > >Hi, first of all, i'm not a DR. My explanation is a possibility and >shouldn't be taken in replace of a DR's explanation as you know. >I started my period at age 11. I've had one every month since but i >know of women who started periods as young or in their teens and the had >their first one and didn't have one for months or years later. Sometimes >it doesn't mean anything is wrong. I was 12 when I got my first period and mine was kinda brown and didn't last more than a few hours. I got my next one three months later and it seemed to be much more normal. Since then I've been like clockwork. This is just my experience.
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