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Any ideas on why i'm spotting five days after the last day of my menstrual cycle?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Breakthrough: bleeding can be related to imbalance of estrogen and progesterone.

Dr Munshower and another doctor agreed

Answered 7/3/2014

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