Metallic Smelling Discharge

[yellowbuttons]

Hi All,

This is my first pregnancy, hubs and I are very excited since we've been trying for a while.

I'm six weeks along and have been having tiny amounts of discharge the past week, clear and not much smell, no blood which I take to be a good sign. Tonight though, just before my shower I noticed that there was slightly more discharge than normal (but still quite a tiny amount, not enough to soak through my undies) and it had a metallic smell. Does anyone know what this is?

I've also got cramp-like pains at the moment so my mind is going into overdrive worrying over this

Please help.

 

[yellowbuttons]

I should probably add that I have a UTI but then I've had it since last week and have been on antibiotics for it since Monday and this is the first time my discharge has smelt metallic.

 

[Clover Jane]

It could be your sense of smell has changed, rather than the smell of your vaginal discharge.
Our senses of smell do tend to become distorted- not just more sensitive but actually distorted- during early pregnancy, which accounts for a lot of food aversions and nausea.
Right now, a lot of food just smells like garbage to me. Like rotting garbage. Like crap.

I keep having to remind myself that my husband is not actually in the kitchen broiling rotten food or frying up feces (which is how it smells when he cooks a hamburger).
It's just that my sense of smell has gone absolutely haywire for the time being, as it has done in all of my pregnancies.

I wouldn't worry about it, if I were you.

 

[nm123]

I smell different - both in my ladybits and my armpits! Its a little bit like rubber or tyres... Very odd indeed.

 

[Clarina1980]

Could be the antibiotics messing with things. Quite often they cause thrush, maybe you're getting it.

 

[g1zm0h]

I agree, it could be your antibiotics that are causing the change in smell. Does the paperwork give you any ideas? I read online that some antibiotics can leave you with a metallic taste in your mouth, so I suppose it's quite possible.

 

[yellowbuttons]

Thanks ladies, you've all been really reassuring.

I've not had anymore metallic discharge since last night (even though I constantly feel "wet" down there, tmi? sorry) so I'm quite relieved!