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Can brown discharge delay your period? is brown discharge for 5 days also a period?
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Brown is Blood: Yes. Brown is older deoxygenated blood.
Answered 3/3/2016
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Brown discharge: Brown discharge does not delay your period. It actually is a period -- just older, deoxygenated blood.
Answered 12/19/2013
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