A 35-year-old member asked:
how do you tell the difference between a period and vaginal bleeding?
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Dr. Wayne Ingram answered
Specializes in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Timing: Timing is everything. Menstrual periods have a cyclicity to them by coming at regular intervals on most occasions. They are darker red with usually no clots. Vaginal bleeding, depending on the source, is bright red, spotty. Or clotty.
Answered on Dec 24, 2016
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A 44-year-old member asked:
Dr. Michael Sparacino answered
37 years experience Family Medicine
See below: In general, your beriod should be cyclic and predictable. Excluding pregnancy, any other bleeding would be considered pathologic.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
Dr. Walter Kobasa answered
37 years experience Obstetrics and Gynecology
get checked: A speculum exam can tell the source of bleeding, and of course knowing the date of your last period.
A 35-year-old member asked:
Dr. Walter Kobasa answered
37 years experience Obstetrics and Gynecology
maybe same: A period is the shedding of the lining of the uterus. When the lining shed, the blood comes out the vaginal other sources of bleeding from the cyst ... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
Dr. Heidi Fowler answered
25 years experience Psychiatry
Menstrual bleeding : Is one source of bleeding. Women can bleed vaginally for other reasons as well.
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