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Why are there brown specks/flakes in my vaginal discharge? im on birth control.

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

That might be: bits of old, deoxygenated blood being cleaned out of the uterus.

Answered 6/1/2020

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