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To think mid cycle bleeding is common

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 11/11/2024 20:35

Hi, I have been suffering from midcycle bleeding for 3 or 4 months. I get pain on my left side, which feels like a dull ache. It goes around to my hip and lower back on the left side. The bleeding is light, and only when I wipe and pinky red coloured. It is intimittent stopping and starting again over about 2/3 days. I am also constipated. I am 39, no pain during sex and no vaginal dryness.

What could this be? Has anybody experienced similar symptoms?

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 27/11/2024 14:34

I wish I had not read my medical record, the wording is very alarming, a tick box exercise. They have to rule out cancer but seeing "urgent fast tracked referral for suspected gynecological cancer" does not help. It does say cancer safety netting too, and gp has written "endometriosis?" I get they have to rule everything out, but the way it was worded made me feel sick.

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Anotherworrier · 27/11/2024 14:33

@Fakinguntilyoumakeit Oh and I always have quite a bit of pain because of PCOS

Anotherworrier · 27/11/2024 14:32

Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 27/11/2024 14:22

It is a colposcopy, not a colonoscopy. Similar names, but very different tests. I think i misspelt it as well, sorry!

Thanks, did they fast track you? Did you also have pelvic/back pain?

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Oh sorry!! Yes, you know what? it was a while ago but I think they did. Because it got burnt off very quickly and I remember saying there’s a growth on my cervix but they had some more tests to do.

These symptoms are ones that raise red flags but even in the majority of cases where people are referred under the two week rule very few are diagnosed with anything sinister.

I think they’re being through and ruling stuff out, thank God for our.NHS! I know it’s scary but please try not to worry unless the time comes that you have to!!

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 27/11/2024 14:22

Anotherworrier · 27/11/2024 14:19

Why are you having a colonoscopy? Are you having bowel problems?
The ectropion is nothing to worry about, that’s what I had, it is harmless and usually just burnt off.

It is a colposcopy, not a colonoscopy. Similar names, but very different tests. I think i misspelt it as well, sorry!

Thanks, did they fast track you? Did you also have pelvic/back pain?

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Anotherworrier · 27/11/2024 14:19

Why are you having a colonoscopy? Are you having bowel problems?
The ectropion is nothing to worry about, that’s what I had, it is harmless and usually just burnt off.

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 27/11/2024 14:10

Just an update. I have cervical etroption, and that together with my ongoing left pain and other symptoms the gp thinks may be endometriosis. She has put in an urgent fast tracked referral today. This is for a coloscopy appointment to take place within 2 weeks, then 2 weeks later there is a back up routine gynecology appointment to discuss possible diagnosis. I am to have an ultra sound scan too, not sure if that will take place with the coloscopy. Basically 4 weeks from today I will have some sort of diagnosis.

Should I be worried? Anybody been through this? I'm assuming they're just ruling everything else out, and the fast tracking is for precaution?

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 14/11/2024 09:12

Thank you, I was just saying to dh this morning that it feels like something is part twisting at time. It feels really deep in my pelvis next to hip low down. Only, it is on the left side for me. It will be a dull ache usually, then all of a sudden it feels like nawing pain, almost like a tiny monster biting feeling!

My Mum had a cyst that was feeding on her period blood meaning she didn't menstrate, and thought she was pregnant. This was in the late 80s/early 90s. The pain got so severe, she demanded they investigate when the hospital were about to send her home Woth paracetamol. It ends up that she had a cyst that was the size of a watermelon, and it had started to decay. 😱If she hadn't have refused and left the hospital, it would have ruptured and killed her. Thank god the doctor felt no masses, and I'm not bloated or anything like that. I'm still getting a regular period. The doctor said it was good I was ovulating, so I'm taking that as a positive sign too.
I am due on my period on the weekend, so hopefully everything will be normal with that this month.
It is such an annoying and stubborn pain on the left, and I just know it is something. Even the gp said there is a million things it could be, and we just have to do the cervical kit, and the scan on my stomach, and to arrive with a full bladder.
My stomach is soft, and not tender. It doesn't hurt when examined, so the pain feels too deep.

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AuntieObnoxious · 13/11/2024 22:07

This happened to me each month, 1/2 way through my cycle, for most of my child bearing age. Right side always for me though. I’d probably get it checked by a doctor though just in case.

RaisinforBeing · 13/11/2024 22:04

I’ve had this in my 20s and had a scan and I had a polyp which was rubbing against the womb lining and bleeding sometimes. I had it removed with a minor procedure and it was fine. .

Barney16 · 13/11/2024 22:03

The pain sounds very similar to pain I had from an ovarian cyst. They can twist, if that happens then pain is excruciating. Mine was on my right side, doctor told me they are more common on the right side because there is more room. Doctor also said majority of ovarian cysts are benign. I also had spotting ( but I'm much older than you) that was from a polyp.

quiteathome · 13/11/2024 21:59

I had that for a while. Scan showed thickening of the lining of the uterus due to age. Had a coil put in and it has stopped

Anotherworrier · 13/11/2024 21:53

Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 13/11/2024 18:18

Just to update i have been to the gp today. I have been referred for a scan. I had a routine pap smear done 6 months ago, but the doctor has ordered a kit, and is going to check my cervix next week. I am guessing a more comprehensive test maybe? I should have asked, but I was anxious.

All sounds really normal if I’m honest. Same thing happened to me and at least four other women I know. At the moment, you can relax, no real cause for alarm.

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 13/11/2024 18:49

Thank you. Oh, that must have been so scary! I haven't had any spotting today thank goodness, but the pelvic pain is deep in the left and around my hip and radiating across my back. This has been quite constant today. It isn't severe, more of a dull ache and niggling which feels deep. The doctor couldn't feel any masses or anything, there was no tenderness and no bloating. I also don't have pain during urination, hopefully good signs.

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 13/11/2024 18:47

simba30 · 13/11/2024 18:34

This happened to me but it turned out to be my copper coil. Randomly started bleeding mid cycle about 3 years in. Got it taken out, problem solved! Could this be an option? I to was convinced it was ovulation bleeding.

I don't have a coil, and not on birth control.

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ValentinesDayCryingInTheHotel · 13/11/2024 18:36

I’ve had ovulation spotting since about 33. I am 39 now.

Never had any bleeding while pregnant (twice), not even a drop of blood. So figured it was hormone related.

I saw GP, had a scan and I’ve separately had a smear, with “abnormal” cells that needed checking further but turned out to be nothing.

mine is with the EWCM too. Has got heavier/more as I’ve got older. Also wondered if im approaching perimenopausal age!

i was just told everything was ok and it was never followed up so assumed hormones.

i get awful migraines too and fuzzy heads/dizziness at both ovulation time/period time, and it’s a million times worse if I binge sugar. Which I think whacks my hormones out more!

so I’ve always put it down to bogstandard ovulation spotting.

Hope everything ok for you OP and I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about

simba30 · 13/11/2024 18:34

This happened to me but it turned out to be my copper coil. Randomly started bleeding mid cycle about 3 years in. Got it taken out, problem solved! Could this be an option? I to was convinced it was ovulation bleeding.

VegTrug · 13/11/2024 18:26

Never ever had mid-cycle bleeding and I'm 40.

coffeesaveslives · 13/11/2024 18:22

They just have to rule out any pre-cancerous changes or problems with your cervix (like an ectropian) - it's very normal.

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 13/11/2024 18:18

Just to update i have been to the gp today. I have been referred for a scan. I had a routine pap smear done 6 months ago, but the doctor has ordered a kit, and is going to check my cervix next week. I am guessing a more comprehensive test maybe? I should have asked, but I was anxious.

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 13/11/2024 10:43

Oh, sorry about typos, it isn't letting me re-edit. I have my youngest dc off school sick.

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 13/11/2024 10:37

Just an update to say I have an appointment this afternoon with a GP who specialises in women health, and reproductive systems. Hopefully I'll get to the bottom of this! I suspect a hormone imbalance at the very least, maybe endometriosis or something sort of cyst, we will see what happens. I feel pleased to have an appointment with this doctor, because she is lovely, and easy to talk to as well.

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Anotherworrier · 12/11/2024 19:13

Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 11/11/2024 20:40

I have never missed a smear, last one I had was at the start of the year. My Mum had benign ovarian cysts, one was large, and had to be surgically removed, incase it ruptured. Could it be something like this? I am not sure if this is genetic. I am fine the rest of the month, these issues seem to only be happening midcycle.

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It could be anything. It happen to me and I had a common growth on my cervix and they burnt it off.

Get it checked, it’s likely nothing but just be safe.

ThatCosyKoala · 12/11/2024 19:10

I had bleeding between periods many years ago and was told I had an infection It went away with antibiotics

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 12/11/2024 18:44

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 12/11/2024 15:30

Once I had a gynaecology referral things progressed quite quickly. The GP may want to do some blood tests first but do push for a referral too.

Thank you, I will. I'm due on my period this weekend. I have had pink spotting most of today. I don't know it is pms spotting, and that my period is coming early or something. I'll ring doctors first thing in morning. It feels like my cycle has been super short this month.

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Fakinguntilyoumakeit · 12/11/2024 18:41

coffeesaveslives · 12/11/2024 15:33

Vasectomies can fail.

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He had it checked, it was done about 2 years ago.

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