I’m on day 2 of my period today and while changing the tampon this evening I noticed something I’d never seen before.
On the bathroom tissue was what looked like a routine blood clot. That’s normal for me, I can sometimes pass fairly large clots. But it looked strange so I took a closer look and what seemed to be two blood clots was in fact a membranous sheet of flesh colored material with a little bit of blood on two of the sides. I had mistaken it for the toilet paper at first, but it was really large, maybe 2 inches by 1 inch and about a centimeter thick. I poked at it a bit (gross, I know) and it seemed to be a pretty big sheet of skin-colored material.
Ladies have you experienced this? Is this just normal endometrium, just without the blood? Did I have an alien baby?
I indeed sexually active, I’m married. I use the NuvaRing.
Admittedly I thought I might have been pregnant two weeks or so ago and took a test, but it was negative. Would it be possible to have an early stage miscarriage even if I had a negative test?
Admittedly, when I saw the thing, my first thought was miscarriage.
It would definitely be possible. I believe that the way pregnancy tests work is to test the hormone levels in your urine. If your hormone levels aren’t high enough, the test won’t recognize you as pregnant. Likewise, if the hormone levels aren’t high enough, the pregnancy cannot be sustained.
To help you from freaking out, I’ve had this a few times before, and there was no chance of any pregnancy. Sometimes you just get some weird endometrial chunks. Isn’t it great being a woman?
That happened to me a week ago and there is no possible way I could be pregnant. Mine was a bit smaller than that though. I picked it up and messed with it for a bit to see if I could figure out what the hell it was, decided it was nothing important and washed my hands.
I know that is kind of gross, but you did say TMI in the title so I feel justified in sharing my grossness.
At the risk of hijacking this into a “the weirdest thing that fell out of my vagina” thread, about three or four weeks after giving birth there was this clump of straw-like stuff that just appeared in my knickers. It was night and I was in bed, there had been no rolling around in paddocks to account for it - I figured it was something to do with the delivery, but I still don’t know for sure.
Oh yes, the joys of being a woman.
Never had the fleshy thing. Can’t say I’m terribly disappointed by that.
Products of conception are usually pink and fleshy, endometrium is usually red and gritty. I’m not sure if that helps at all.
As long as you’re not bleeding really heavily, having unusual amounts of pain or are an emotional wreck, I’d say sit tight with a hot water bottle and try to use pads rather than tampons til the end of the period, so you can have an idea how much you’re losing.
The “joy” of womanhood…I’m still not sure where they managed to pull the idea of “femininity” from. It clearly wasn’t dreamed up by someone who had ever had a period or been present at a birth.
maggenpye- did you need stitches? Sometime the dissolvable ones don’t dissolve and the body spits them out, might that be what you saw?
The hormone is hCG. It begins to show up in your urine after about 3 weeks of gestation, and peaks at the tenth week. It will remain easily detectable for the rest of the pregnany IIRC.
Since I’ve never had my period that’s about all I can help you with.
Pretty much exact same thing happened to me once. I convinced myself it was a miscarriage of some kind. I wasn’t sure how to feel about it because I don’t want children, so there was this queasy sense of narrow escape, bringing on a wave of guilt.
To be quite honest, it made me feel awful and I hope I never experience it again.
But you seem to be dealing OK - hope everything is well for you.
Nah. The stitches were a separate issue (so to speak). They’d been put in wrong and had to be removed earlier than expected.
I figured it was probably a partially reabsorbed bloodclot, about 1/4 cup in volume. It has never happened before or since, so I haven’t really worried about it.
Well pink and fleshy describes it fairly well, so I guess I have my answer.
I’m not too broken up though, because as far as I see it this is my body just doing it’s job and disposing of something inviable. If it was more than 4 weeks old I’d probably be sad.
Strangely, it’s gotten my husband talking about having kids. He’s all gung-ho whenever I’m ready, which is cute.
That’s really freaky. Was it bloody or just the color of straw? It’d be hilarious if there was some freaky midwife out there who like, hid surprises in ladies just after helping them give birth. It’d be like crackerjacks.
Blah. I had something that looked like a couple inches of tiny umbilical cord, a couple of months ago. I sure hope there’s a way to interpret it as “weird endometrium”, because my boyfriend and I were using both the pill and condoms.
I had something pretty similar, although about two inches square and thinner, several years back, shortly after going on this pill before I got married. This was before it’d have been possible for me to have an embryo, unless it was the Virgin Miscarriage. As I had not been visited by the Archangel Gabriel beforehand, I figured it was endometrium of some sort and flushed it. It wasn’t even particularly bloody, which was the weird part.
If you’re only on day three of your period and you did have a miscarriage, I think there should be enough hcg in your urine for a pregnancy test to detect it.
The one you took two weeks ago was probably too early to detect much of anything.
(note: I’m not a doctor, I just play one on the net).
But the one I passed (years ago, pre-partial hysterectomy) was grey, so I dunno…