To ask what is all over my pillow?

[Milany]

I can't figure out how to upload photos. 😕

My pillow was unmarked when I went to bed. This morning I woke up and they have brown marks but I don't know what they are. It was still under my head. It's happened a few times.

They look a bit like when you spill hot chocolate on your top, don't realise for a while and smear it around when you're trying to wipe it. That happens to me a lot!

They don't smell.
It's not food or drink as I don't eat in bed.
It's not hair dye as my hair is pink.
It's not make up. It's the wrong colour and I washed my face before bed.
It's not fake tan because I don't use it.
I didn't have a nose bleed or anything like that.
It's not dribble 😆 because it's definitely brown.

It's definately ON the pillowcase as opposed to something coming from the pillow iyswim.

I don't wake up with anything on my hair or face.

I am perplexed and a bit concerned.

Ear wax?

This would be my guess too.

This started happening to me a couple of years ago. I had a perforated eardrum.

Have you got a stuffy nose? I had a post nasal drip and when my nose was runny/stuffy it would basically mix with my saliva and I'd drill while asleep 😬🤮. That was brown tinged which surprised me.

Ear was or maybe spots of blood. Do you have any spots that might have bled in the night?

Blood tainted saliva from a bleeding gum margin? Do you thoroughly clean your teeth and spit slightly stained paste?

Lymph from a slight ear infection?

Have you recently had a cold/do you feel you're becoming unwell? Could be earwax or snot, DD recently had the same and it was the remnants of an ear infection

I would guess your gums are bleeding and you are dribbling saliva in the night and it is blood (blood is usually brown in colour not red when it stains other fabrics)

I'd say blood stained saliva

@Lm5620 errrm. Might be worth its own thread

@Lm5620 think you should start your own thread because I was seriously wondering where that was heading for the OP! 😂

Definitely dribble. I've eaten a curry or a spaghetti bolognaise for dinner and despite a thorough tooth brushing if I've slept the sleep the dead with my gob open then it's taken some residual stain with it. I'm quite the catch.

Have you eaten something heavily pigmented for dinner?!

Ha me too! Shame it's been deleted!

Sounds like blood stained saliva as upthread, dh had this for months - if you also snore, or think you are clenching your teeth at night I would get checked by a gp.

In dhs case he had sleep apnea and now uses a CPAP machine which has solved it all.

Ear wax

@BoganKiwi I know! Was gutted that it had been deleted by the time I'd typed my post! 😂

My vote is bleeding gums too.

Agree with blood stained drool. My dd gets this on her cot sheets when she’s teething.

I thought the last sentence was going to be 'so do you have teenage boys in the house?'

@BoganKiwi

I thought the last sentence was going to be 'so do you have teenage boys in the house?'

🤣🤣🤣

Blood or dribble.

It's not dribble 😆 because it's definitely brown.

I’d say bleeding gums as per a lot of PP.

Blood from somewhere, if it’s really dark it’s old blood, not fresh, maybe from your nose

Do you wear an eye mask to sleep in? I had this for ages, but it was a navy colour appearing on my pillowcases. It wasn’t until it happened in a hotel that I realised the only common denominator was my eye mask that I occasionally used 🙈