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Period a week early but brown discharge when it was supposed to come? normal?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

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Sounds like your : Hormones may have been a little out of whack this month. The brown discharge was likely older, deoxygenated blood being cleaned out of the uterus.

Answered 10/27/2013

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A member asked:

Period a week early but brown discharge when it was supposed to come? normal?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

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