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Heavy dark chocolate colored blood on first day of period (normal?)
I have a 24 year old daughter, she has never had a pap smear nor a pregnancy. She has always had normal periods until last month. Last month was very thick and clotty, she only bleeds 3-4 days each month. Today, one month since the thick bleeding she started a period again. It is heavy dark chocolate in color for her first day of bleeding, should she be concered, is this normal?
Thank you. Yes, she will getting her first pap smear Jan 6 because I was able to add her to my insurance as of Jan 1.
She really needs a pap smear. Not because the clumps or the color are worrisome -many women have them at one time or another and that CAN be (not always is) perfectly normal. But because it just needs to be done. Without a routine pap smear she is susceptible to missing signs of cervical cancer until it's too late. And while it may be easy to think cancer is only for older women.. my sister got cervical cancer at 24, my mom at 28. HPV isn't the only cause of cancer so even if she is a virgin, isn't sexually active, or has had the HPV vaccine it's vital to get regular check ups. If cervical cancer is caught early enough it's possible to just remove the cancerous cells and leave the rest of the cervix and uterus intact, allowing a women to still be able to carry a baby. But if it's left to chance then you chance never being able to be a mother or having cancerous cells spread.
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