Tell me about spotting...

Lovely topic I know :lol: but I am curious.

When you "spot" before you get your period, is it just like a really light bleed? Or is it more like a fleck of blood or a teeny tiny clot/tissue when you wipe?

The reason I ask is I am CD34 today. When I wiped this morning I had teeny tiny clot of red blood/piece of lining. Just one. Nothing since. No cramps.

My period usually starts as a light bleed for the first half day or so then continues to a full bleed. So this is different. Unusual.


Thanks in advance :)

light bleed, not like that.

For me, I 'spot' a day or two before AF. My spotting consists of brown tinted mucus, sometimes a very light pinkness on the toilet paper.
A friend of mine would have clear mucus with a streak of red through, kind of veiny-looking (yes, she showed me a photo of it after a few vinos!)

I don't get spotting before. I get it after. So when my period comes (Yesterday if your really interested) It comes in the morning and is Heavy... By day two it has slowed down... Day 3-4 is just some spotty blood on the liners. And they really look like spots :P

For me spotting is usually a little bit of old blood when I wipe and if I do get it, it's a day or two before AF arrives...

I started spotting Tuesday :( I usually start spotting for anything up to 4-5 days before actual AF comes. I hate it, just makes AF seem like she's staying for days!
So I have been wearing panty liners and there is the tiniest amount of red blood, but mostly pink tinged when I wipe. Still no proper AF yet, but today I am 15DPO, so spot on.

For me spotting is very, very light bleeding. Usually old blood mixed with mucous (creamy, sometimes ewcm). It usually happens for me half a day to a day before AF hits in full force, and for one or two days at the end of AF.

For me, spotting is browny mucous which is a spot here and there. I usually get it at the end of a period, rarely at ovulation.

Spotting for days before AF can be a sign of low progesterone, apparently.

Excuse the poor sentence structure.

Thanks everyone!

Haven't had anything since so who knows :dunno:

I guess AF will show in her own sweet time (probably when it's least convenient!)

Tash, don't worry about your sentence structure. Too bad it was not. ;)

Curious, I am, as to when to test, you will....

Be patient I must....strong i am with the force, but not that strong.

The weekend.

Then, may the force be with you

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Spotting for days before AF can be a sign of low progesterone, apparently.

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Oh no, I ALWAYS spot for a few days before and after! :( I'm sure I had progesterone checked before I went on clomid. They definitely would have tested , wouldn't they???? How do you treat that? I've seen 2 GP's and seen a gyno.

N2L, good luck! Hope AF doesn't show!!

Thanks! I did a test at 10dpo (cd24) and another at cd 28 - bfn :( so it is unlikely. I had light bleeding at 3-5 dpo, then that spot the other day... I think my body is just getting back into (or out of) gear after IVF.
I need AF to start another cycle...

Oh yeah Tash....thought you should know.... Vader is your father.

Does that make me Princess Leah? Coooool. Pashing on with Han Solo. yay!

Bugger about the BFNs :(

Tasha- I'd get acupuncture. It works on multiple things at once

Thanks tashybabe, I just called my gyno and the receptionist looked up my files. My progesterone was tested last year and it was all fine.
I am going to see a naturopath that has been recommended by friends, hope it works!