What is THAT?! (Warning: female TMI)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I cannot believe I’m posting this out in public, but I don’t want to subject even really close friends to this one, and sometimes you just gotta share. I thought MPSIMS was probably the most appropriate forum for this, although it may be a GQ, but if I was wrong please move it.

I guess this means I will never be able to attend a Dopefest without a paper bag over my head.

Really, I’m not kidding about that “female TMI” bit. Turn back now. Now, I tell you.

Okay, so this morning I started my first period on my new birth control pills. Had to change my prescription because I had crazy week-3 breakthrough bleeding on the old ones. It started last night, so I woke up this morning with cramps (something I’ve never really had on the pill), went to the bathroom to change tampons. So I’m a little careless, still kinda standing up doing this, half asleep, not really over the toilet. So the tampon comes out, accompanied by…

something.

Which flies like three feet and lands on my floor and a graded paper I just got back.

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WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!

It was maybe three inches long, red in color (obviously), and kind of… iridescent. Like one might imagine an alien egg sac to look, if you’d bled all over it.

!!!

And it was sticky.

I picked up the graded paper it was attatched to - only about an eighth of the egg-sac was touching the paper, yet it came up easily, stuck to the corner. I held it over the toilet and tried to shake it off.

No go.

Firmly attatched. Slimily. It does not look like anything that ought to live in this universe, let alone have come out of where it came out of. It’s quite flexible, it’s not dripping or anything (so my first theory, that it was a bit of cotton sloughed off by a tampon and stewed, did not seem to bear out), and it seems to, er, come in some shiny layers. Ew. I finally scraped it off and disposed of all involved materials.

Once it hit the water, it did not “bleed” as an absorbent material would. Actually, it was completely unchanged.

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Anybody know what it was? Anybody else birthing egg sacs? I don’t think there’s a need to be alarmed unless it happens again or something - I mean, I feel fine, I’m not in any non-normally-menstrual pain, except for the five years shaved off my lifespan by seeing an alien cocoon flopping around my bathroom.

That is all. I feel much better now. Please, opinions. Some more dreadful awful story would be appreciated, especially if much funnier. :cool:

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I’ve never had anything quite like that seep out of me during my period, (thank God) but my mother who asked what I was laughing at came into read, and she said she’s layed and egg-sac or two in her day, if that makes you feel any better. According to her, it’s perfectly normal, just a large clot of blood…and she’s a nurse, too, as far as credibility goes.

Hope nothing else frightening flops its way free on you any time soon. (Oh, and your description was priceless). :smiley:

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Being a Male, I’d just like to say…EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!.

If your worried about it, see a Dr.

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I, too, am at a loss for what exactly the…egg sac…might be. My guess would be a large blood clot, though it sounds as if it was…developed. Kind of creeps me out, because it reminds me of a fetus in its early stages…Gah! {{{Zsofia}}}

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was it mucoid? Maybe it was the stopper to your cervix.
Or was it really more egg-like? a blighted ovum, perhaps? but no, not if it was THAT big.
Maybe your SO has been performing some experiments while you sleep.
Happy dreams.

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I’d go with the nurse’s opinion. My first thought was congealed blood. And stuff:)

Men – they are such delicate flowers, aren’t they?

g

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Any chance at all that you might have been pregnant, and what you saw was all or part of a developing placenta and/or fetus?

What you are describing is eerily similar to what I saw when I miscarried at 9 weeks. The “shiny layers” you described and the cramping you experienced is what clinched it.

Hard telling, though. What with your recent change in BC pills, three weeks of breakthrough bleeding (isn’t that fun? been there, done that). I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Our bodies can do some freaky shit, can’t they.

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My vote is it’s just a big blood clot. Actually the build-up that your body makes in your uterus so that an egg would have a place to attach. (and not an alien egg) It just seems that all your’s came out at once, rather than a little at a time. Probably the BC pills you were on weren’t strong enough, and your body has been working overtime a little. That also explains the break through bleeding.

Everything is fine. Your body is working like it’s supposed to. Hope your pills work better next month!

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From now on this shall be known as Grasshopper’s Law:

Don’t open threads involving female TMI while eating spaghetti.

That is all. Sorry for this unhelpful post, but crikey, what was I thinking?

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I’ve had one a long time ago…quite gross, aren’t they? It’s just a huge clot, I think.

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My vote is big blood clot as well. See previous thread. Fairly common.previous discussion

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It just didn’t seem like a blood clot. I mean, I’ve never had any big ones, but it just didn’t look right. For one thing, wouldn’t a clot be dark red? This was more, um, mottled. And look, you know, clotted?

I was thinking it might be a miscarriage, but if it was then it couldn’t have been anything but about four weeks along, which accord to Deej wouldn’t match up. It’s just that the consistency was very strange and not like what I would expect out of a blood clot, although as I said I’ve never really had any of those.

Hey, you should have known better about the spaghetti.

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I never learn.

Whenever I see “Female TMI” in the title, I just cannot for the life of me, not look. It is like driving past a bad car accident. You just have to look.

Zsophia, I hope that I never meet you in person, because if I do, all I will see when looking at you is a slimy, iridescent, red layered alien eggsac.

Thank Og I am not a woman.

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Another nurse going with probable blood clot. I pass these lovely things every month, and they can look very, very strange.

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great… first the nose pearl, now the vaginal pearl.

the women on the board are just absolute jems!

i wonder what sort of discussion is going on mod wise on this thread.

“i’m not gonna read it… you read it.”

“i’m not gonna read it, i had to read the last one.”

“okay… paper, rock, scissors.”

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Well, I’ve had a few and my mom always told me that they were just the lining of my uterus or wherever that stuff comes from. No biggy. Just make sure they don’t fly off your tampon and get stuck on the ceiling…

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Flying clots the size of banana slugs…what’ll they think of next?

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DON’T WORRY Zsofia
its just the lining of your uterus that is shed during your period. The clots vary in size (if you look you’ll prob see small ones after you pee) Its nothing to fret about.
Its totally normal

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Blood clot.

If you ever have the joy of recovering from birth, you’ll start calling this one “junior.”

I passed one after pregnancy the size of an orange while I was soaking in the tub. Called my doctor in a panic. “Perfectly normal” he says. “Perfectly normal and you didn’t warn me!!!”

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BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA! That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day! I don’t know why.

Anyhow, maybe it’s Liver Qi Stagnation! Maybe not. Are you belching? Sorry, couldn’t resist being totally stupid and unhelpful. Don’t worry, Zsofia, you sound normal. Just paint a nice big smile on that paper bag and hold your head up high. :smiley:

And please, please explain why you keep your graded papers on the bathroom floor. That’s the part that’s got me all confused.

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