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Brown Discharge?

LOL...me again...haha
anyways, today i have noticed alot of brown discharge mostly when i wipe and sometimes with like dark specks [its hard to explain], and its not really enough to wear a liner [but i do anyway because i expect that period should come soon] does anybody know what this is? has anybody eles had anything like this before?
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I am 17 and ive had periods for about six years now and last sunday me and my boyfriend had unprotected sex and now I have brown discharge in my underwear and when I wipe. im due for my period any day. ive been cramping the past 2 days and usually that means that my period has started or is going to withing the next day. Like I said its been 2 days and still no period. ive never before experienced the brown discharge and like I said ive had periods for about six years. Someone please help.
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i am really worried...ill start from the beginning...lol...since the age of 14 ive had irregular periods,i go 6 months without my period and then 4 months etc...once i went a year...i was told i didnt ovulate as much as other women and would probably need assistance getting pregnant as i dont ovulate much.I had a healthy baby boy when i was 24,with periods really irregular...now for the past year i havent had a period at all and about 6 months ago i noticed my undies were being horribly stained black/brown.I have not been sexually active for 7 years. I have to wear pads all the time or i might as well throw my undies away....my concern is that its coming from urine...could it be to do with my kidneys...PLEASE DONT IGNORE ME...IM SOCIALLY PHOBIC AND I DESPERATELY NEED ANSWERS ...Cheers...
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This exact same thing is happening, with the little specks and everything. It's been freaking me out. I started my period after it happened and today when I wiped a piece of skin was on my toilet paper. It was a little bloody and it REALLY scared me. Has this happened to you after the brown discharge? Does anybody know what this is?
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I just had sex a couple days ago with my boyfriend and we had unprotected sex but he said he felt a little bit go in and i usually have an irregular period so i didnt get it last month and yesterday i started letting out a brown discharge. what does it mean? Am i pregnant? How ling should i wait to take a pregnancy test if i had sex 4 days ago? Im only 18 is an irregular period normal.?
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I am 24 and I am having almost the exact same symptoms as you, but im also getting extremely nauseous, and sometimes to the point where I throw up. I am not pregnant, I have taken several tests and use protection as well as the pill. I have no idea what is going on but I also have a boyfriend and this is very embarrassing.
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Please let me know anything that will help!
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Hi I am 22, sexually active and my last cycle was last month. I am two weeks over due for my next cycle. I just started having a brown flaky discharge when wipe so I put a tampon in thinking my period was starting. Now the brown stuff that I would wipe off falls off if the tampon like flakes. Yesterday I had some light red coloring but it's now back to a dark brown. I don't have cramps but I do feel bloated and sometimes I get a slight pinch in my abdominal area or it just feels odd. I have also been light headed and have headaches but I drink plenty if water.
I don't have Insurence so I would hate to have to go to the doctors due to expenses.

Also had another question on when I do actually have cycles get to the point where it hurts so bad it makes me vomit and its only getting worst each cycle. And I don't know what to do about it.

Any help would be greatly anticipated!! Thanks!!
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I have been having pain like ovarian cyst pain and I think that is what it is. I was suppose to get a sono done and I had to reschedule bc things came up. I have started taking birth control again and I messed up on it, but only one pill and I am so not new to birth control. So I keep talking it and my mishap period was the same as all the others. I have been off for about a week/ a week in a half and this morning I woke up to pee and I wiped and I always look because I am curious and for some reason there was light/dark brown discharge and like very tiny little brown flakes and I was like what the hack. So I googled it and this is what I have found. Could you please tell me if you found out what was wrong please.
Thank you
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I have a dark brown slimish thing coming out and i havent started my period and im a virgin can anybody help me im freaking out cause im only twelve please help!!!!:/
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Has anybody got any answers to this?  I had this problem a while ago - brown, but sometimes red discharge for up to 2 wks before period, sometimes mixed in with what looks like bits of skin.  It went away for a long time, perhaps since I had a laparoscopy, but I'm not certain whether it coincided exactly with that or not as the lap was a while ago now.  Anyway, in the lap they found I had endometriosis.  So it's possible that this was the cause, removing it solved the problem for a while and now it's grown back again (??)  Again, not sure I've got this right and it's just speculation.  It's really annoying me as this month I've been having it for weeks and period is a few days late.  And I'm getting pain inside.  Not sure if skin is literally peeling off from inside my vagina (sorry if tmi, lol!) or if it just looks like skin.  

Sorry for the long post. Interested to hear if anyone has any answers, or any more info.
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I think its dry blood . I get it too . Mostly when my periods going off .
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Im 28.  I had been having regular periods since coming off the pill over a year ag. then we decided to have a baby and now my periods are being irregular.  for four months i had and then didnt have one.  now i havent had it for 2 1/2 months.  When i went to the doctor last month she did an untrasound and said i have polycystic ovaries but i do not have any of the symptoms of pcos.  i also had a negative hpt and blood test.  i disagree with not having any symptoms of pcos because after reserching it, i have many of them and found out it does run in my family.  So now i am having brown discharge that looks like it has pieces of something in it.  i took a hpt and it came out negative.   anyone have any ideas?  If anyone is in PA i also need a new doctor.
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I had a baby 5 months ago, I was on depo for 6 years before and never got periods I then came off it and two years later got period and then pregnant but I got depo 3 months ago and I had periods back but also experiencing brownish discharge for about 2 weeks now should I be worried??
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I just read your post about the drown discharge from may and i am having the same problem now. our of all the post i can relate most to yours. maybe you could tell me if you know any more info or what happened with you.
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I have just started taking Sprintec and I'm 18 but I just got off my period like 6 days ago and ever since I've had this light brown discharge with clumpy brown stuff in it. I'm not sure if anyone has an answer to what it is or knows how to get rid of it but if so please let us know it really bothers me.
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my periods was due today. i didnt get periods but today morning found some blackish white discharge. it was not watery. when i wipe only i could make out. can some one pls tel me if i am pregnant or it is anything else? i didnt want to take test now as i am scared of negative result.
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I've never had my period b4 and I'm 13 and today ive started having the brown discharge does that mean I'm gonna have my period soon
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I  am 26 and i have PCOS and have had unregular cycles and now im also have the brown slimy discharge and im not sure why. I had my period already.
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Hey Im 24 Im 2 months late and have the same discharge it was like a clump tho, all pregnancy tests are negative and I wasnt on the pill. I had abit of cramping in my stomach yesterday after the clump came out, please someone help me I really dunno whats going on
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I'm 23 years old, my periods are pretty regular.....usually getting them between the 24th and 26th of every month, however this month, on the 19th in the evening hours heading in the 20th I started spotting a very dark, thick  brownish almost black even type blood, I suppose just enough for a panty liner or less....

It also was accompanied with mild cramping on and off, lower back ache, nausea, dizziness, fatigue....

My usual periods start off (when on time) a darker type red color and usually gets heavier where it should be within 6 hours or so, also with pretty nasty cramps, breast tenderness, lower back pain....

I've had 2 ectopic pregnancies in the past, one of which I actually lost my right fallopian tube, I've had a blood filled cyst on my left ovary removed within the year as well.

Additional comments: I am on no birth control, there is a chance I could be pregnant, no successful pregnancies (the 2 ectopics i've had, had a 3 year gap between them, 5 years now since the first one)

Anyone with any advice on this would greatly be appreciated, thank you all for you time! Best of luck to anyone with there worries and concerns.  
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I'm 20 and I have the same thing too. I don't know it seems like blood but some what it's not. It's brown and it leaves stain. I never have this before which got me freaked out. I hope I'm not prego because one is enough for me already. I have this for 2 days now and it's really bugging me because I have to wear pads even though it doesn't flow like periods or not necessary. I have my period normally at the beginning of every month, so I hope this is just a normal thing.

* About the liver chunk like
I think I know what you guys are talking about, they look like jello right? Those chunks are blood and what you need to do is drink warm water until it goes away.
*The warm water helps it to melt or stay blood, instead of jello like....
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I havent started having my period yet but ive been getting brown stuff in my undies a few times a day (i had to change my underwear quite a lot) and I'm only 13 years old.
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I know what you mean i am almost the same i have the same stuff going trying to see over the internet what it might be is exhausting.I dont feel sick i just feel over whelmed with worry scared if i go to the dr he with tell me the bad news..I have had brown discharge for 2 years and my tubes have been tied for 13 years so definitely not from having a baby..this brown chunky stuff is new and also have pain in my left side near my ovary i am in mid cycle so could be the pain..if anyone has any idea please inform us..
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i'm 31 & have been having the same problem for about 5 months now-- i thought maybe it was a sign of uterine fibroids, so i went to local feminist gyne clinic and checked out fine -- not pregnant, either. she told me stress is actually the most common cause of menstrual irregularities like this, and a look at this board shows there are a lot of other women who have the same problem with no ostensible cause--because stress is invisible. Acupuncture was suggested, and i've got an appointment in a few weeks. i had to acknowledge that the truth is, i AM incredibly stressed, so at this point i'm willing to try anything that might help. acupuncture or no, what it seems like we all need to learn is how to take better care of ourselves, because women so often end up putting ourselves last on the list (i know i'm included in this category, and i don't even have any children, so i can't imagine what it's like for the moms out there).
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