Spotting week before AF every month - anyone else?

[MrsPTTC]

Mine is bright yellow when I take it too, and when I used to take Pregnacare conception it was the same. It's normal though. What's your appointment for hun? Lack of BFP, spotting? x

 

[MrsPTTC]

Icklebean, do you have something to share with us??????? Just seen your avatar!!! x

 

[daydream]

Ohh yay Icklebean! Details please!! Did you spot before your BFP??

AFM: Tested with FRER this morning and BFN. Definitely feel like I'm out. And I'm really discouraged this time. I was hoping that we'd get our natural BFP before going onto IUI, but I guess not. I'll test again Thursday morning before stopping the progesterone though.

Sigh. I guess I'll just have my few days of self pity before gearing up and getting excited for the IUI cycle.

 

[Icklebean]

im my goshy i sooo sorri i didnt wanna rub it in lol. yer Friday they told us his sperm is less than 1 mil and the forward moving is 20 percent so not god yet i was sitting there preggers. tested sat morning in utter shock but i kinda knew? yer i spotted but it stopped which hasnt happened before. oh soooooo over the moon! love u all and dont give up hope!!!

 

[Charlene_b_x]

im my goshy i sooo sorri i didnt wanna rub it in lol. yer Friday they told us his sperm is less than 1 mil and the forward moving is 20 percent so not god yet i was sitting there preggers. tested sat morning in utter shock but i kinda knew? yer i spotted but it stopped which hasnt happened before. oh soooooo over the moon! love u all and dont give up hope!!!

Congratulations!! Wishing you a happy and healthy 9 months!! Xx

 

[daydream]

im my goshy i sooo sorri i didnt wanna rub it in lol. yer Friday they told us his sperm is less than 1 mil and the forward moving is 20 percent so not god yet i was sitting there preggers. tested sat morning in utter shock but i kinda knew? yer i spotted but it stopped which hasnt happened before. oh soooooo over the moon! love u all and dont give up hope!!!

Yay!! It's always good to hear when people get their BFP! It gives us all hope!

That's so amazing that you were sitting there pregnant while they were saying you had no hope thrilled for you!

 

[Icklebean]

OHHHH THANK YOU LADIES I LOVE YOU ALL! he didnt say we had no hope just not much lol, the specialist told us it was impossible to conceive, i feel like going to pay him a lickle visit to prove him wrong whoop lol.

 

[MrsHY]

Will post a reply to everyone soon but just wanted to say congrats to icklebean!

 

[MrsPTTC]

Congratulations hun! Great to hear of a fellow spotter getting a BFP despite all odds! H & H 9 months hun, & stay in touch! x

 

[MrsPTTC]

Daydream, sorry about the bfn hun but you're not out just yet! X

 

[Smamfa]

Hi everyone. I would love to join in this thread. I am glad to see a thread about spotting because it is the ttc issue that I am spending a lot of time stressing about atm.

Here is my story so far:

At 35 I was ttc #1. I'd had spotting for years, I don't know how long because I'd never particularly paid attention. I'm pretty sure I used to spot a bit even on the pill.

At the time I really started keeping track I had simply ridiculous amounts of spotting - from around 5dpo!!! It wasn't much, but it was there.

I at first thought I had low progesterone, but that all checked out ok.

The first gp I went to at that time wasn't concerned - O.O how could you not follow up on someone getting 8 days of abnormal bleeding prior to af??? But unless you go to a specialist, in general doctors don't know much about it I found.

After more self-diagnosis I came up with the endometriosis theory - and when I got to see a specialist that was the first thing she said too. (I found reference to a paper on the net where the specialist was quoted as saying that 80% of spotting cases were due to endo.) Ultrasound showed nothing. She gave me a laparoscopy - found *minimal* endo which she removed.

After the op my drastic spotting reduced from 8 or so days to 2 days prior to af, and a couple of cycles after that I finally had my bfp! Yay! I knew I was preg days before I tested because I didn't have any spotting.

When I got my cycles back after my son they were awesome - NO spotting at all. Conceiving my 2nd was really easy - 2nd cycle trying I got utd (early mc), then 2 cycles after that and my 2nd son was on his way. I thought my fertility probs were all solved and behind me at this point.

Here I am now ttc #3 and I am a bit bummed that I have missed my 'fertile window'... my cycles were again great immediately after they came back. Then I was getting spotting, but only the day before af, which I was not worried by. But NOW, I am getting spotting again... nowhere near as much as before, but seeing a faint sign around 11dpo these days - grrrrr. And I have been ttc 6 months now (which I know isn't that long, but I am 40 now so I don't have all the time in the world.)

Anyway, that's my not-so-short story!

 

[daydream]

Ultrasound showed nothing. She gave me a laparoscopy - found *minimal* endo which she removed.

After the op my drastic spotting reduced from 8 or so days to 2 days prior to af, and a couple of cycles after that I finally had my bfp! Yay! I knew I was preg days before I tested because I didn't have any spotting.

Welcome!!

This is really interesting that having the lap cured your spotting and it didn't even show on the ultrasound. I wonder how common that is? I had an ultrasound and SIS and my doctor didn't mention anything about endo, but I wonder if that is my culprit? Progesterone hasn't helped my spotting at all, so I'm thinking it's something else.

I'm sorry you're getting the spotting again. Since you are 40, have you seen a FS this time around yet?

 

[Smamfa]

Thanks for the welcome daydream

I think endo will only show up on an ultrasound if it is MAJOR - I think my dr sent me for the ultrasound because if something did show up then she would have sent me somewhere else to have it removed because it would have been a much bigger op. Usually endo won't show up on an ultrasound (other things like fibroids will of course.) Endo can usually only be diagnosed (unfortunately - because although it is minor key-hole surgery it is still surgery) by laparoscopy.

The interesting thing about endo is that symptoms aren't that related to the severity of the endo - you can have really full on endo and no symptoms whatsoever, or minor endo and massive symptoms. I didn't have any other symptoms at all (no pain or anything), but even though my endo was really light it caused my body to do this huge spotting thing.

I have seen a FS, but it was before my spotting really revved up again, so I wasn't even concerned about the spotting at that point! I was more freaking out because of my age and I had had a wacky unovulatory cycle which threw me. All of my tests came back fine.

 

[Smamfa]

How much spotting do you get daydream? Do you have any other possible endo symptoms (clotty periods, pain? - not that I had these although I did use to get some clots.)

For me, I find that 80% statistic really interesting - there is a LOT on the net about low progesterone, but it sounds like endo is much more common (I guess it is just that the progesterone is an easy check, but the endo is not.)

 

[daydream]

How much spotting do you get daydream? Do you have any other possible endo symptoms (clotty periods, pain? - not that I had these although I did use to get some clots.)

For me, I find that 80% statistic really interesting - there is a LOT on the net about low progesterone, but it sounds like endo is much more common (I guess it is just that the progesterone is an easy check, but the endo is not.)

I get spotting for 4-5 days before my period starts. I usually just have clots for the first part of the spotting and AF starting. Once the full flow starts, I don't have much clotting. For pain, I just have significant abdominal and low back pain for the 3-4 hour period that I have the heavy start to my flow.

I think I may bring it up to my doctor to see what she thinks. I am going to talk about how I took the progesterone this cycle and had no improvement of my spotting.

 

[Charlene_b_x]

Ohh yay Icklebean! Details please!! Did you spot before your BFP??

AFM: Tested with FRER this morning and BFN. Definitely feel like I'm out. And I'm really discouraged this time. I was hoping that we'd get our natural BFP before going onto IUI, but I guess not. I'll test again Thursday morning before stopping the progesterone though.

Sigh. I guess I'll just have my few days of self pity before gearing up and getting excited for the IUI cycle.

Your not out yet! When I was pregnant I did get a bfp on a frer till the day after I missed my period. I personally don't find them that good I prefer superdrug own brand as they are more sensitive. Good luck!!! X

 

[Charlene_b_x]

Welcome smamfa!
I am new to this thread too! I'm trying to conceive my second child and am experiencing spotting from 7dpo till my period, this has been still I came off the pill a few months ago!
Hopefully we all find out the reason for our spotting soon! X

Hi everyone. I would love to join in this thread. I am glad to see a thread about spotting because it is the ttc issue that I am spending a lot of time stressing about atm.

Here is my story so far:

At 35 I was ttc #1. I'd had spotting for years, I don't know how long because I'd never particularly paid attention. I'm pretty sure I used to spot a bit even on the pill.

At the time I really started keeping track I had simply ridiculous amounts of spotting - from around 5dpo!!! It wasn't much, but it was there.

I at first thought I had low progesterone, but that all checked out ok.

The first gp I went to at that time wasn't concerned - O.O how could you not follow up on someone getting 8 days of abnormal bleeding prior to af??? But unless you go to a specialist, in general doctors don't know much about it I found.

After more self-diagnosis I came up with the endometriosis theory - and when I got to see a specialist that was the first thing she said too. (I found reference to a paper on the net where the specialist was quoted as saying that 80% of spotting cases were due to endo.) Ultrasound showed nothing. She gave me a laparoscopy - found *minimal* endo which she removed.

After the op my drastic spotting reduced from 8 or so days to 2 days prior to af, and a couple of cycles after that I finally had my bfp! Yay! I knew I was preg days before I tested because I didn't have any spotting.

When I got my cycles back after my son they were awesome - NO spotting at all. Conceiving my 2nd was really easy - 2nd cycle trying I got utd (early mc), then 2 cycles after that and my 2nd son was on his way. I thought my fertility probs were all solved and behind me at this point.

Here I am now ttc #3 and I am a bit bummed that I have missed my 'fertile window'... my cycles were again great immediately after they came back. Then I was getting spotting, but only the day before af, which I was not worried by. But NOW, I am getting spotting again... nowhere near as much as before, but seeing a faint sign around 11dpo these days - grrrrr. And I have been ttc 6 months now (which I know isn't that long, but I am 40 now so I don't have all the time in the world.)

Anyway, that's my not-so-short story!

 

[MrsPTTC]

Welcome Smamfa! Interesting about your endo! Nothing showed up on my U/S & I have no symptoms of that whatsoever so assume I'm clear - though maybe not! I would say spotting at 11DPO is completely normal though! As long as implantation has plenty time to occur which is would, then you should be fine. Unfortunately age is not on your side so maybe it'll just take a bit longer this time around because of that? x

 

[Soili]

Hi guys! Started a new cycle today, AF arrived as soon as I woke up, CD1! I hope I'll ovulate again and preferably not very late too I have another round of CD3 PCOS-related tests to do, so going on Friday.

Looking forward to some weight loss progress, now that AF is here. It appears that weight gets stuck a lot in luteal phase, never noticed before. Then again, I didn't even know about LP until recently

 

[MrsPTTC]

Sorry AF got you Soili but here's to another ovulatory cycle! Yes I think approaching AF you are a little heavier, possibly because of bloatedness x