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Period twice in one month, the second period is dark brown blood, should i be worried?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

One of those is: Probably break through bleeding. Blood that is old and deoxygenated can be brown.

Answered 12/20/2016

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