trish
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Post by trish on Feb 28, 2007 9:27:18 GMT -5
have you started your period and the blood been a very strange color? Mine was kind of a pink lemonade color and I have never had that before. Is that normal??? Or another sign of endo???
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Post by ouchy on Feb 28, 2007 9:31:33 GMT -5
I think I've had that before, but then it progressively went to dark red. If you are worried, call your doc. I doubt it is a sign of endo and is probably hormone related and what the hormones do to the endometrium (lining of the uterus).
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Post by camille on Feb 28, 2007 9:40:53 GMT -5
The title of this thread made me laugh ;D
The color of blood is very important according to my acupuncturist. Mine always starts pink - I don't think thats abnormal. What I have noticed over the last 4 months or so of getting regular acupuncture and diet changes is that my blood has become a very vibrant red - almost a pretty color! A big change from the very murky icky thick brown. Acu. says it should be redder, thinner, it is a sign of a healthy uterus that is expelling everything it is supposed to!
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Post by ouchy on Feb 28, 2007 9:46:54 GMT -5
Yup!!! Same thing since I started my diet. Seems the healthier you are, the redder it becomes!
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Post by trish on Feb 28, 2007 11:50:46 GMT -5
I just had never had pink before...that kind of freaked me out. I alway have brown or dark red.
Gotta love being female!!!
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Post by angelas on Feb 28, 2007 13:18:08 GMT -5
I hope its ok to ask about the blood colour here - I haven't been able to find any other posts on it. There was mention of a brown murky colour... what about chocolate/black thick blood? I have tried to research it so many times and can't find much on it at all! My periods have been that colour from start to end for the past 6 months or so... a lot of black clots as well.
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Post by painpainpain on Feb 28, 2007 13:25:39 GMT -5
Same here...my clots are just black and horrible. My period sometimes starts with really bright pink blood and then it changes to dark red to black. Sometimes it ends with really bright pink blood. Is that normal? Last month I bled for 12 days. The gyno says it's the pill so I'll take his word for it.
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Post by angelas on Feb 28, 2007 13:43:45 GMT -5
Mine used to be the dark red to black... but now.. just black and thick... I seriously think its the endo... but I can't find anything that confirms it!
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Post by ouchy on Feb 28, 2007 14:03:55 GMT -5
One of my books has TONS of info on color of menstrual blood! I have to go to work in a bit, but I'll try to look it up and post on it! From what I have read, though, it's more hormonal than related to endo, bc people without endo can still experience the same things being described here. And I've read that blood clots usually have to do w/ ovulation problems, rather than endo. I'll post later.
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Post by painpainpain on Feb 28, 2007 14:30:51 GMT -5
Thanks ouchy, be really interested in hearing about that!
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Post by angelas on Feb 28, 2007 16:13:31 GMT -5
Me too! I'm so glad you have info on this!
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Post by shona on Feb 28, 2007 16:52:42 GMT -5
mine is usually dark red then brownish black and was told they were chocolate cysts.to do wi the endo.
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Post by ouchy on Feb 28, 2007 17:03:54 GMT -5
mine is usually dark red then brownish black and was told they were chocolate cysts.to do wi the endo. That wouldn't make sense, bc the "chocolate cysts" are on the ovaries, not in the uterus, so if they were breaking down and bleeding, it wouldn't come out as clots in your menstrual flow.
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Post by shona on Feb 28, 2007 17:23:52 GMT -5
its near the end of my period when it is this colour and yep they say they are on ya ovaries,doc didnt seem to know that much about it neither,.
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Post by ouchy on Feb 28, 2007 17:27:28 GMT -5
^I went w/ one of my friends to her reproductive endocrinologist appointment, and he, himself, told her in front of me that when cysts on the ovaries bleed, there is no way the blood from them can come through the vagina...because they are not inside the uterus or vagina. It makes sense if you look at a diagram of the anatomy.
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