If it is just today, then I would start to feel excited it could be implantation. If you get some brown more or less every day though, it's likely to be pre-af spotting, possibly caused by low progesterone, or some other condition. I have suffered from pre-af spotting from 5/6 dpo for eons and noone knows why! It's horrible because it gets your hopes up every month. The month I got my bfp was the one when I didn't spot! Hoping it is implantation for you! xxx
Hiya Magic!
Just wondering if there was anything you found that helped with the spotting, like is there medicine/supplements you can take or do doctors say it's not really a concern when ttc? I'll be meeting with my fertility specialist probably within a month and just curious if there is anything I should be asking about (besides possible progesterone cream/suppositories).
RustysWife, sorry to hijack your thread
!!! How are you doing, I pulled up your chart but looks like it hasn't been updated. Are you temping this cycle?
Hey hun!
Hmm, in answer to your first question, no! My doctor had me on progesterone supps for months, based on what I told him, not on tests. (Medicine is a whole different ball game out here lol!)
Sometimes I forgot to take them. Most of the time I spotted and sometimes I didn't, but there was no link between taking them and not spotting, so I went back to the doc and he agreed to test my progesterone levels after I pleaded! His view was that from my FF charts (I took them in) and what I told him, it was
definitely low progesterone and it would definitely be preventing me from conceiving (we were approaching 18 months ttc at this stage), so he thought the tests were superfluous.
No one was more surprised than him when my cd3 and cd21 tests came back normal! But I was actually already pregnant when the cd21 tests were done (although I didn't know it till several days later of course).
So it will always remain a mystery. It still happens, it's
always happened, but I have had 2 healthy babies. It took me ages to conceive but no one knows if it's the cause. A doctor in Portugal told me I had cervical lesions, a UK doctor told me it was a cervical infection & had me on antibiotics, others told me it could be an STD. All STD tests have come up clear, I have had billions of ultrasounds while preggers (they do them every month here) and no one has mentioned anything odd on the screen. I just don't know.
SOrry for writing such a long post which is ultimately unhelpful! Spotting is a nightmare because it can be caused by so many things (polyps, fribroids, endo, pregnancy, progesterone, stds, rough sex....) and doctors disagree whether it's actually a problem for conceiving or not. If you are worried, I would go and talk to a doc, but I would spend several hours on google first and go armed with lots of questions, and be prepared for no answers. Sorry. xxx
