Embarrassed & Worried - Green discharge :(

[Kailani]

I've read that if you have greenish discharge you should see a doctor straight away, is it that serious?

Last night DP and I dtd for the first time in like...3 months? It hurt and was uncomfortable and it kinda felt like burning/stinging down there for a while after. Anyway, this morning when I went to the toilet and I wiped there was this gross green snotty discharge on the paper (sorry tmi), quite a lot and it's made me really worried - I was thinking of even keeping it and showing the doctor I've been getting some discharge recently, but not like this. All I can say is, I'm never dtd while pregnant again!!

Any idea what it could mean and if it's normal or really serious?

[BellyBelly]

Definitely sounds like an infection of sorts, definitely head in and get onto some antibiotics asap.

[Visitor7]

When I was pg with Emily I had a greenish type of discharge. I headed up to the birth suite and after examing me found that I had an extreme case of thrush. BUT, it could have been a lot worse, they were fearing that it was something nasty.
Definitely get looked at straight away.

[Kailani]

Wow, okay I will definitely get it checked Thanks Kelly & Jodi. I hope it's just thrush then and bubs is okay

[BellyBelly]

Sounds like it could be with the burning and stinging. Let us know how you go.

[MrsB26]

I had a similar thing with the green discharge and had it checked out but for me it wasnt anything serious, it was only very light green in colour. I showed my Ob and she took a swab but it was all good.
I also get a bit of a stinging/numbing sensation after dtd but i put that down to not actually dtd very often
Good luck and i hope its all cleared up soon

[Kailani]

I managed to get in to see a doctor and she did some swabs to send off for testing. It was the most painful internal I've ever had! I will get results on Tuesday. She said she doesn't think it's anything nasty but just making sure. Fingers crossed it's nothing serious

Thanks for the replies

[Visitor7]

Good luck, I hope it turns out to be nothing serious.

[Kailani]

Thanks for the advice and well wishes Turns out it is nothing to worry about, negative for everything, even thrush. I just have a large amount of "good bacteria" which is helping in producing lots of gross stuff lol. I haven't had anything like the amount and colour of what it was like last week after dtd so that's it, won't be doing it again for another 3 months! I am very relieved!!

THanks again! xox

[tutmae]

I just had a similar experience except the discharge was a very light yellow. No stinging and burning either. Maybe our bodies just like to keep us on our toes when we have a little one inside. I'm hoping mine is nothing, as I don't have any other symptoms. Just put it down to not having dtd in soooo long.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

(Chants football stylie)
It's green, it's green, it's green it's green it's green
IT IS GREEN! IT IS GREEN!

Yeah, I had the vaginal snot too in pregnancy (what a way with words I have!). It's fantastic! I'm sure there's a post from me from mid-June 2006 in the TTC chat area about green mucus for all the details (my pg journal first page too).

I'm so sorry I didn't see this earlier and you were worried for a bit. As far as I'm concerned, it's normal and fine.

[MrsB26]

Glad its all ok, as if we need anything else to freak out about during pregnancy