Just wanted to introduce myself. I am a serial spotter, pretty much have been since going off the pill in April 2010 which is when we started ttc. I spotted between 2-4 days before AF and went to the dr to have my hormone levels checked in March 2011. Dr said my progestesterone was 10.4, which indicated ovulation but it was on the low side of nomal. Dr said that clomid could possibly help but she wanted DH to have an SA first. That came back horrible and I remember bawling my eyes out on the way home from work because she said a natural conception was slim and we would need IVF with ICSI. His morphology was 98% abnormal and 2% immature, I recall his count being around 12 million, which I thought was low but she said that was not a big issue, it was the morphology.
The first week of April 2011 we had an appointment with a fertility specialist, which the 10 minute office visit alone was $180, so I knew this was going to be an expensive venture. He recommended a few vitamins and believe it or not, clomid for DH and also going off of his cholesterol medication for a short time to see if that effected morphology. We didn't get that far, we went on vacation later that month and returned home to find out that we were pregnant, due January 7, 2012. Our beautiful daughter was born on January 13, 2012 and will be one in exactly one week.
The difficult birth brought on some other issues, as I now have a rectocele and a cystocele (rectal and bladder prolapse) and I strongly believe that was from over two hours of pushing and forceps.
Now I will get to the current spotting issues......because with the return of AF, the spotting has also returned. My period returned two months postpartum, in March 2012. I now spot anywhere between 2-8 days before AF, averaging on the higher side of that figure. We know we want another child and due to my existing issues, we would like to have another sooner rather than later. I just made an appointment to see my OB/GYN and got in on January 15. But after reading this thread, and all the resistance that seems to come from the medical field regarding spotting and talking to the nurse at the dr office, I'm already losing hope. The nurse kind of had a "what to you want me to do about it"attitude and told me she could get me a prescription for birth control. I told her that might solve the spotting but hello, that totally prevents pregnancy, as I had already explained we were ttc. The she tells me well, you are only 30 and clearly not menopausal but you are still having a period so I doubt they will do any bloodwork. She tried to shove me off on a nurse practioner, who will probably not be able to help so I told her I wanted to see the dr. Now I'm wondering how this dr appt will go, since most drs dont see spotting as an issue.
I see that some women got a BFP even with spotting but just as many, if not more said that no spotting pretty much tipped off the BFP. When I got my BFP with my daughter, it was postive at 10dpo, which is when I usually started spotting but I didn't that day and got exited. Then 11, 12 and 13dpo I had the watery brown spotting. My hcg went from 21 on 10dpo to 81 on 12dpo but progesterone was 13. Dr prescribed progesterone and my spotting stopped, but honestly I think it was a coicidence that the spotting stopped the same day I started the pills.
Now it seems that my spotting is the nasty stringy brown cm for 4-8 days before AF (12-13day LP) but I will have bright red spotting after a bm at 8dpo (tmi). Sorry, this is so long. Thanks ladies.
I hope your cycles regulate soon. Are you trying anything to help? Not sure about LP always being the same but think it has to be a minimum of 10 days to help support chance of getting pregnant! 
Will greatly appreciate some feedback. Thanks! 
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