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For what reasons do women experience spotting before their period?
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Breakthrough bleed: Many kinds of breathrough bleeding can occur. Spotting right before a period is usally Progesterone breakthrough; mid-cycle spotting is often estrogen breakthrough.
Answered 6/30/2014
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