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What Do Slight Brown Spotting And Vaginal Discharge Indicate?

Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015

Question: thoughts pregnant or something else going on? last time I had my period was in February.my periods are very irregular usually last 5-7 days. I'm very sexually active...just recently last Tuesday I had spotting for 5minutes light to brown coloring I took a pregnancy test it was negative and couple days after slight spotting brown discharge. two days before that had intercourse and was painful. now yesterday exactly a week I had spotting again only about 5minutes really again same thing happened followed by cramping a few hours after that happened which didn't occur before. was planning on retaking the pregnancy test in a week to just check again if it didn't was making an appointment with obgyn just wanted to know your thoughts in the mean time .thanks

Answered by Dr. Mahesh Koregol (31 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Irregular shedding of endometrium

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

I read your query and I understand your concerns.

This is not typical sign of pregnancy. Implantation bleeding does appear like this but not so common.

This is seen when there is irregular endometrial shedding as seen in minor hormonal variation. This gets corrected by itself in next cycle. Dont worry about it.

Let me know if you need any more clarification.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj