Do you get spotting before AF / period? Come and talk to me here

Last cycle spotting started at 5dpo so it's not that bad. Also this is just very watery brown, not the thick sludge (grim I know) that I normally get.

Aw Pipbin that's early?

Last month was my first month on B Vits and the spotting started later but went on for longer I'm 3 dpo now so keeping an open mind.

Hope it works out for you :)

Argh. Spotting already today and I'm only 4dpo. Seems like the vitamin b6 has done nothing.

Thanks Highlove.
It was interesting actually- the first doctor I saw at the ACU dismissed my spotting and short luteal phase (8-10 days) out of hand, whereas when I had my IVF consult with one of the lead consultants (at the same ACU) he said the spotting could be indicative of progesterone falling more quickly than it should (especially given the luteal phase). However, when I told him my 7dpo prog result (65, and i'd been spotting quite a bit since 6dpo), he said low prog was unlikely to be the issue. So.., who knows??
With me there seems to be a variety of issues- late O, short LP, PCO, spotting, so it could be one of those or a combo of all of them, or something else entirely!
I hope your appt goes well, and of course am keeping everything crossed that the last Clomid course does the trick x

Hi Mrs, glad to hear things are moving forward for you. Have you talked to your IVF clinic about the spotting? Really hope you get lucky first go. We've given ourselves a cut off of this summer to proceed to IVF as that will be 18months for us. Am on probably my last cycle of Clomid with good Ov but no hint of a BFP but am hoping we might try injectibles and IUI for a couple of cycles...if no joy by June/July then we bring on the big guns, so to speak!! Am seeing my consultant this week to discuss next steps and planning to push him on the spotting AGAIN...

Amazing news farfall, huge congratulations. You must be over the moon!

Congrats farfallarocks - that's great news!
Hope things happen for you soon blondel
And bettergetamoveon - hope your luteal phase ends up being nine months long (!) - did AF turn up today?
AFM, after 18 months of perfectly timed sex without even a whiff of a BFP, blood tests, SA and a hycosy which showed no abnormalities - we're sacking trying to get pregnant naturally off and are progressing to IVF. My spotting (which always starts like clockwork around 5/6 dpo and is brown and sludgey (sorry!)) started on Weds so AF should be here Mon/Tues. I then start the pill (yes, the actual pill!) for 21 days before stimming for 10-14 days. I've got an enormous pile of drugs under my bed and four boxes of pre-filled injections in my fridge! I'm excited that we're taking a step in the right direction but daunted about self-injecting, the dreaded egg collection procedure and how I'll feel if it doesn't work first time. Oh well, it's now or never!
Good luck to everyone else x

Congratulations farfallarocks!

Oh dear, I should really proof read

Hi,

I also get spotting, usually for around 5 days before AF and for just once or twice a day. This has happened for the last 3 months or so. The good news is AF is due today and I haven't spotted this month at all! I don't know if it's a fliuke and I will spot next month but here are the things that were different this month:
I've now been on B vits for over a month - low dose + multi-vit at same time.
Drank Organic milk instead of my usual
Ran 7 days out of 10 nat the sstat of the cycle
Floored with flu like symptoms for a week during OV, didn't eat much that week (not that I recommend that)!
Teaspoon of Manuka Honey every morning (Cheap Aldi stuff). i doubt this made a difference though?
Have drank very little alcohol which isn't like me!

So who knows what has changed this month? I do know that too much alcohol/exercise/junk food or too little food combined with lots of exercise all affect my cycles.

On a last note, a few years ago I had brown spotting for most of the month, for months on end. Had no idea why. I wasn't on pill or anything. So specalists etc scanned me and the only thing they came up with was 'hormonal imbablance'. I was asked if we were TTC and we weren't, so I was given some pills (no idea what, but not good if TTC) and only took them for a month. After that my cycles were perfect and remained so for years. I went on to have DS couple of years later, we TTC him for 9 months.

So my AF due today, CD 26. THis is my new worry now as I only have an 8 day LP. At least the spotting seems sorted out at the moment

Thanks blondel I am actually almost 7 weeks pregnant at the moment, very early days but NOT a chemical at least which is important for me!

Best of luck with it all and I hope the GP has some answers for you.

Jeez! This whole thing is a minefield! We've been ttc for a while (18 months or there abouts.) I've turned to mumsnet because I was looking for tips and ideas. I've since used ovulation kits and learned a whole load of things I never knew about. I've got to the stage that I think we need answers, so hence the tests with the GP and a referral to the clinic.

To think when I was first having sex I was so paranoid, using condoms and the pill! I was worried about that one slip being all it took to have an unwanted pregnancy. Now I want it to happen nothing seems to work...

A chemical pregnancy sounds so cruel. I hope that things happen for you soon. x

blondel a chemical pregnancy is a very early miscarriage, before 6 weeks i.e. it can only be confirmed chemically via a test and not via scan as nothing would be visible.

Sometimes it happens very very early and people test before their AF was due, get a BFP and their period arrives on time or a few days late. Others (liek me) it happens a week or 2 weeks after AF due.

Like many others this is normal for me. I've just had blood taken on Monday (results due next week), I've got an appointment for a smear and day 21 bloods booked in. I'll see if they say anything. I just viewed it as a warning that AF was coming and don't remember a time when it didn't happen. In fact my whole AF can be that way at times!

Sorry for my ignorance but what's a chemical pregnancy?

Yes I started after BFP and will take it until 12 weeks I believe (I need to check and just taking it one day at a time!)

Thanks for coming back and sharing farfalla and congratulations

When did you start the progesterone? Did GP prescribe it after BFP?

I feel brave enough to post on this thread now.

I have had spotting before AF since I stopped the pill in Jan 11. It really worried me and sometimes would last 5 days before AF. This coupled with some dodgy/low progesterone readings sent me into a tail spin about short luteal phases.

I got 2 BFPs in June and then agian in September. I had had spotting before both and they both ended in chemical pregnancies.

I am now 6 weeks pregnant (and scan confirmed a heart beat yesterday, still very very early but NOT a chemical pregnancy this time at least). I had no spotting at all with this pregnancy before AF was due. I had some brown discharge at about 4+5 and thought things were heading in the same depressing direction but it stopped and HCG were rising so I think it was just implantation.

I think I did have a low progesterone problem when I came off the pill and it was partly addressed by acupunture, high dose B vitamins (100mg) and just time off the pill!

I am on clexane and progesterone for this pregnancy and we shall see (fingers crossed!) but I wanted to offer some hope to those with pre AF spotting. Good luck to everyone.

Ooh, I was just having a google on spotting and came back to this thread. That's fabulous news Whyso! Sending you lots of positive baby-vibes

Congratulations Why

Keeping everything crossed for you, keep us up to date

Hurrah for the BFP!

As you say, further proof that a BFP and spotting can go together.

I'm in TWW at the moment. On B vits this month & spotting due from tomorrow...

Don't want to steal any thunder but have spotted (get it ) that a previous poster on this thread has recently announced a BFP so hopefully she will return to reassure us all

Well I will keep my fingers crossed for you that it doesn't and you get a bfp too. If not, I hope you are able to find out if it is what's standing in the way and that it can be sorted.

Thats interesting ISpy thanks for that. Good to know that you got pg even with spotting.
Problem is that it makes me hold out hope that my spotting is not going to turn into AF, which I'm sure it is.

I normally get one or two days of spotting (brown discharge) then red blood (proper AF). When I was pg, the brown dicharge just carried on - it's only quite slight, bit of a mark on a liner and when I wipe- and after 5 days I did the test. Tbh, I really just did it to put to rest the weird niggly feeling I had that because I hadn't had any red blood I might be pg - and lo and behold I was! Didn't even wait for DH to get home before poas, as thought it would be negative and the spotting was just going on for a bit longer than normal before af.
It did carry on for about a week iirc, which hadn't happened before - didn't really increase in amount and then just stopped. It made me doubt I was 'really' pg though and don't think I believed it until I saw the little bean on the scan.

Has the spotting ever been mentioned by doctors etc?